If the HTML file is in Solution Explorer, then right-click and select “Open With”. Otherwise open it with Open File dialog, but click the small dropdown arrow in the Open…
Month: August 2015
ASP.NET: The data protection operation was unsuccessful
the data protection operation was unsuccessful. this may have been caused by not having the user profile loaded for the current thread’s user context, which may be the case when…
Microsoft's Windows 95 is 20-years-old today
When Microsoft kicked off work on Windows 95 way back at the beginning of the 90s, the company wasn’t to know how much of an impact it would have on…
Visual Studio 2015: upgrade all NuGet packages at one time
Open the Package Manager Console and use the Update-Package cmd-let to update all packages. If this doesn’t work, you have other two solution. Always in Package Manager Console you type…
How to truncate log file in SQL Server
In SQL Server data is stored using two physical files: (.mdf) extension which contains the data. (.ldf) extension which contains log. Log file size increases very rapidly and depend on…
UWA: This application can only run in the context of an AppContainer
Run it from VS (with or without debugging). This will actually install unpackaged version of your app, so you will see it in the start screen. Create a package to…
Microsoft now has six million Windows Insiders
In a video posted earlier (see it below), Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella once again accepted the challenge of former NFL player Steve Gleason, who suffers from ALS, and poured a bucket…
Console Progress Bar with C#
The progress of these applications with a simple incremental percentage display. I’d create a generic method which would display an ASCII progress bar
Universal Windows app samples
On GitHub Microsoft have published a lot of examples for Universal Apps: the link is https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples This repo contains the samples that demonstrate the API usage patterns for the Universal…
Windows 10: Changing Paradigms
Windows 10 is the main discussion topic in the online development communities. This new operating system that is currently in the technical preview (and available through the Microsoft insider program)…
Windows 10 uses peer-to-peer networking to distribute updates by default
Now that Windows is a service (WaaS), which means it will constantly be updated rather than have big regular updates, Microsoft has put some features in to Windrows 10 to…