Windows 8.1 introduces a unified search. Files, Settings and the Web (via Bing) are searched from the Search Charm or Start Screen. This is a marked improvement from Windows 8 which forced you to search each Files and Settings independently. This meant remembering an extra keyboard shortcut when you wanted to open a Control Panel item.
EF6 Exception: The specified LocalDB instance does not exist on brand new project
- rory woods on 28 Aug 2014
On a new EF6 project I was getting an exception when first touching the context:
A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 50 - Local Database Runtime error occurred. The specified LocalDB instance does not exist.
Updating AD FS SSL certificate on Windows Server 2012 R2
- rory woods on 04 Mar 2014
Information on running Active Directory Federation Services on Windows Server 2012 R2 is still scant. Both TechNet and blog posts usually refer to IIS. However, ADFS on Windows Server 2012 R2 (I’ve seen people call it 2.1, 3.0 but don’t know the official version) does not make use of IIS. Instead, it runs directly on the http.sys kernel-mode driver built into Windows.
Integrating New Relic with Windows Azure Web Sites
- rory woods on 10 May 2013
Not days after New Relic told me they had no solution for monitoring of Azure Web Sites Scott Hanselman blogs about how he set this up. However, when I executed my usual git push azure master the deployment threw an error:
WCF/Web projects start when debugging any project in solution
- rory woods on 10 Jan 2013
Sometimes it’s the simple things. A common scenario is a Visual Studio solution with two Web Application projects, or a Web Application project and WCF project. While I often need to debug the primary web project, the other is rarely used. By default Visual Studio will start up both when debugging. I finally dug into this and found the easy (always is) solution.