a developer's notebook
In Azure portal, if your account contributes to other azure subscriptions, you are allowed to switch from one to another using a drop-down menu at the top left corner. Problem is that by default the name used in Azure Active Directory is “Default Directory” which seems a little confusing. In order to change it to something more meaningful you can use the old windows azure portal,…
These are some quick notes on how to configure an SQL Server to Listen on a Specific TCP port. Open Run Command line and type: SQLServerManager12.msc for SQL Server 2014 SQLServerManager11.msc for SQL Server 2012 SQLServerManager10.msc for SQL Server 2008 and press Enter. To assign a TCP/IP port number to the SQL Server Database Engine In SQL Server Configuration Manager, in the console…
When you launch a web project in Visual Studio, by default is uses the 32-bit version of IIS Express. To change that you can enable the 64-bit version through Options. So, head to:
In Windows 10 Quick Access may happen to stop working properly and when you try to add a new entry, you can come the following message:
1 | The docfile has been corrupted |
In order to fix it you can open Command Line and execute the following:
1 | del %appdata%\microsoft\windows\recent\automaticdestinations\* |
Or in your Windows Explorer you can go to
1 | %appdata%\microsoft\windows\recent\automaticdestinations |
and delete its content.
In Azure all hosted sites have URL Rewrite and ARR (Application Request Routing) modules installed but the proxy functionality is disabled by default in ARR. So, when you create a simple rewrite rule like the one that follows:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | <rewrite> <rules> <rule name="ProxyAdmin" stopProcessing="true"> <match url="backend/api(.*)" /> <action type="Rewrite" url="http://api.yourdomain.com/api/{R:1}" logRewrittenUrl="false" /> </rule> </rules> </rewrite> |
where, for example all the requests like http://www.yourdomain.com/backend/api/… should be served by http://api.yourdomain/api/… will result in a 404 (Not Found) status code with the following message:
1 | The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. |
To…
In Azure it is very easy to upgrade from one pricing/performance tier to another in a matter of clicks, but some processes are not instant. Upgrading your SQL Database may take some time and through the portal the only info you can get at the moment is that an update is in process. Azure SQL Database provides progress information on management operations (like CREATE,…
SQL Server management studio allows you to have Database Diagrams to graphically show the structure of the database. In addition, you can create and modify tables, columns, relationships, and keys. Plus, you can modify indexes and constraints. While trying to Create a New Database Diagram you might come across to the following error:
ServiceStack has recently announced that will go commercial from version 4 and on. Although it is a very useful library that worth paying for you might not want to go straight ahead to acquire a license. One option is to downgrade to version 3.9.71 which is free to use and decide later if you want to buy a license or find a better alternative. In…
When you want to completely delete a directory and it has files with long names in it you can use ROBOCOPY Let’s assume you want to delete a folder under the name dir_to_delete from a command line you can do the following:
1 2 3 4 | mkdir empty_dir robocopy empty_dir dir_to_delete /s /mir rmdir empty_dir rmdir dir_to_delete |
This can happen when developing with NodeJS and node_modules folder contains a very deep file structure.
When setting up a new wordpress site there might be some things that you can forget, so let’s write them down as a problem-solution. WordPress requests FTP credentials to install any new theme, plugin. You might have forgotten to set permissions on your site folder, so you need this command:
1 | sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wordpress-site |
This will set up the ownership properties, recursively, to…
