My first blue screen on Windows 8
It took a while, but now I finally accoutered a blue screen in Windows 8: No more VGA graphics and crash dump details. The new BSOD supports different languages.
Month: December 2011
How to change the Request.QueryString in C#
If you want to post back to the same page, only adjusting the query string parameters, you can use the following code: using System; using System.Collections.Specialized; using System.Web; namespace WebApplication1 { public partial class _Default
How to preserve leading spaces in a DropDownList in HTML and C#
If you want to show a hierarchy of data in a DropDownlist by using spaces in front of each item, then you will find that normal spaces don’t work, instead use and Server.HtmlDecode().
Find large files on your Windows 7 file system
WinDirStat A very nice tools that can be used to find large files on your file system. http://windirstat.info/download.html It’s actively developed and open source. It’s multicore: Nice visualization: I have to
How to use SqlBulkInsert for a many to many relationship in a Entity Framework 4.2 model with C# 4.0
Let’s say your product has a many to many relation between products en customers, then the the Entity Framework 4.2 model would look like: A night process imports customers and the products they
Microsoft SQL Server DBCC reseed does not take into account the existing ID’s
A colleague of mine (Mattijs ter Heijde) created a simple script to verify Microsoft SQL Server DBCC RESEED does not take existing ID’s into account, here’s the T-SQL Code: create table #test (id int not