Recently, I got a strange issue when trying to delete an Azure Active Directory I created: it kept asking me to “Delete all Enterprise Applications” even the Enterprise application list is empty after I clicks the suggested link. After filing a support ticket and trying many different suggested things, finally a solution worked for me …
Microsoft Graph Engine is a distributed in-memory data processing engine. It’s an open source project but the official instructions claim that for Linux, it only supports Ubuntu 16.04. But what if you’re using other distributions of Linux, like Red Hat? Well, it’s possible but it does take quite some effort to build the source. Let’s get …
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.NET Core offers.NET developers a great way to create cross-platform applications. If you want to create a web app with some database support, most likely you will use Entity Framework (EF) Core and ASP.NET Core. In this blog post, I’d like to give you some tips if you choose to use MySQL. 1. Db Provider …
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I have always been hesitated to write this post but since I’ve been fortunately enough to have great career mentors and I recently got to a new career stage, I’d like to share some of the career tips that benefited me over the years: Before you get to senior level, there’s only one tip: Get things Done, well, …
You’re writing unit tests with Visual Studio and you want to verify that you’re throwing the correct Exception. You could use ExpectedExceptionAttribute class but it only allows you to verify the type of the Exception. You might want to verify other properties so you decide to create a subclass of ExpectedExceptionBaseAttribute, which allows you to have …
To accomplish this, I have tried different approaches: posting WM_PASTE, SendKeys sending ctrl-v… None of the method seems to be working so well. A friend from work suggested trying WM_COMMAND. Since Spy++ doesn’t work with cmd.exe, we had to use brute force to find the correct WPARAM for pasting. The result is really simple, just one line code with C++: // hwnd …
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The scenario is you have an application which was installed through MSI. And you only know the application name (in this case, the beginning part of the application name). Using msiexec command requires you to know the product GUID but the application might have different GUID for its different version. So here is the solution I …
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In order to search for any Control Panel item, you should not use “Classic View”. As an example, if you want to turn off UAC (not recommended though), you search for “uac” with the normal Control Panel view and the option should come out. The good news is the issue is fixed in Windows 7, …
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Other than being a software developer, I am also a magician. Check out this blog post (you will probably have difficulties understanding some of the magic jargon if you are not a magician): http://nnylfmit.blogspot.com/2009/06/no-way-jose.html.
Nowadays, we have different choices of script languages in Windows: VBScript, JScript, PowerShell script, etc. Coming from the old DOS world, I still prefer a simple batch (.cmd) script. Say we have a simple sql query and we want to run it every 10 minutes and save the output to a file. We can simply have …
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