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Alternatives To .Net Reflector(www.adrianbanks.co.uk)

submitted by adrianbanksadrianbanks(95) 1 year, 2 months ago

There are many alternatives to RedGate's Reflector. This is a summary of 12 current and up-coming alternatives, covering both free and commercial versions. read more...

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Temporarily Disabling ReSharper(www.adrianbanks.co.uk)

submitted by adrianbanksadrianbanks(95) 1 year, 11 months ago

ReSharper can be temporarily disabled from within Visual Studio without having to restart. Very useful for those times where ReSharper is being a resource hog and you just want to get something done. read more...

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YQLAutoTagger Demo(isithackday.com)

submitted by adrianbanksadrianbanks(95) 2 years, 6 months ago

Automatically extract keywords from text using Yahoo's term extraction. read more...

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Extracting MSI Files (Revisited)(adrianbanks.co.uk)

submitted by adrianbanksadrianbanks(95) 2 years, 6 months ago

How to extract the contents of an MSI installer without installing it read more...

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MSDN Lightweight View(adrianbanks.co.uk)

submitted by adrianbanksadrianbanks(95) 2 years, 10 months ago

Similar to the low bandwidth view, MSDN currently has a beta of the new lightweight view. This is streamlined for speed and also includes features such as quick links to change version of .Net and the language of the examples. read more...

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SQL Server SP3 and kb959016(adrianbanks.co.uk)

submitted by adrianbanksadrianbanks(95) 3 years, 5 months ago

One of the bug fixes in SQL Server SP3 released last week was to fix a strange condition where deleting rows from a table using an IS NULL condition on an image data type did not delete rows when there is a foreign key pointing to the table. read more...

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Useful Diagnostic Tools(adrianbanks.co.uk)

submitted by adrianbanksadrianbanks(95) 3 years, 10 months ago

I recently visited a customer site to diagnose some problems with an application deployed on a server. This is the set of tools I took with me. read more...

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Accessing Network File Shares From A Command Prompt(adrianbanks.co.uk)

submitted by adrianbanksadrianbanks(95) 3 years, 11 months ago

If you've ever tried to access a network file share in a command prompt by simply using the cd command, you'll know that it just complains that "CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories". Well, there is a way to do it (two in fact). read more...

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Box Selection In Visual Studio(adrianbanks.co.uk)

submitted by adrianbanksadrianbanks(95) 3 years, 11 months ago

Use the mouse to select text in Visual Studio by drawing a box instead of selecting all of the line. read more...

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Preventing Accidental Schema Changes To The master Database(adrianbanks.co.uk)

submitted by adrianbanksadrianbanks(95) 3 years, 11 months ago

If you have ever run some SQL within SQL Server Management Studio only to realise that you've run it against the master database by mistake, you'll know that it can sometimes be hard to undo the damage. A simple way to stop these accidental changes is to create a database trigger that will prevent any schema changes to the master database. read more...

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