While using NuGet for installing, updating and maintaing libraries into your projects, you would have encountered following error: Failed to initialize the PowerShell host. If your PowerShell execution policy setting is set to AllSigned, open the Package Manager Console to initialize the host first. Following error was encounted when I…
Microsoft OS (XP or later) and .NET provides finest way to secure your data for storage and in-memory. This can be accomplished using following classes from Data Protectection API * ProtectedData * ProtectedMemory Above mentioned classes can be found in System.Security.Cryptography namespace. Also known as part of DPAPI, they are…
You would have used ClickOnce deployment / publishing technique for your projects at some point. If not then I would recommend it as it serves as web based installer / setup with minimal configuration and very easy to learn / maintain and push updates. You can publish your project and host the deployment…
Recently one of my family member ran into trouble when trying to fill an admission form online. As part of this form filling process, we had to upload scanned copies of previous study's merit sheet. We got it scanned but the scans where big in size. One of…
I guest most of us are using cloud storage for taking backup of our precious data. No you say? Then my friend you will be in big trouble soon and you will repent for this act. I have lost few of my precious data in past because of this mistake…
Not a long post but very handy query that can be used when you need to know the installed SQL Server product's version, edition, flavour, server name details. SQL Query to get version details for installed Microsoft SQL Server: SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('productversion') AS 'Product Version&…
The date time of your PC (specific for windows) sync with one of the listed NTP server. This time sync happens every 7 days and with time.windows.com by default. You can also manually sync or update your time. To do that: Click on your system time > "…
WPF Application developers would be experiencing or would have observed that after updating MVVMLight Toolkit package to Version 5.0.0 or 5.0.1, RelayCommand - CanExecute() mechanism is not working anymore. This issue is been already reported by MVVMLight user on codeplex as Issue# 7659. As explained by…
