Design, Source and Split tabs are missing in Visual Studio 2015?
If the HTML file is in Solution Explorer, then right-click and select “Open With”. Otherwise open it with Open File…
August 2015
ASP.NET: The data protection operation was unsuccessful
the data protection operation was unsuccessful. this may have been caused by not having the user profile loaded for the…
Microsoft’s Windows 95 is 20-years-old today
When Microsoft kicked off work on Windows 95 way back at the beginning of the 90s, the company wasn’t to…
Visual Studio 2015: upgrade all NuGet packages at one time
Open the Package Manager Console and use the Update-Package cmd-let to update all packages. If this doesn’t work, you have…
How to truncate log file in SQL Server
In SQL Server data is stored using two physical files: (.mdf) extension which contains the data. (.ldf) extension which contains…
UWA: This application can only run in the context of an AppContainer
Run it from VS (with or without debugging). This will actually install unpackaged version of your app, so you will…
Microsoft now has six million Windows Insiders
In a video posted earlier (see it below), Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella once again accepted the challenge of former NFL player…
Console Progress Bar with C#
The progress of these applications with a simple incremental percentage display. I’d create a generic method which would display an ASCII progress bar
Universal Windows app samples
On GitHub Microsoft have published a lot of examples for Universal Apps: the link is https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples This repo contains the…
Windows 10: Changing Paradigms
Windows 10 is the main discussion topic in the online development communities. This new operating system that is currently in…
Windows 10 uses peer-to-peer networking to distribute updates by default
Now that Windows is a service (WaaS), which means it will constantly be updated rather than have big regular updates,…