by Joe Zhou

Last week, I tested a Windows application one of my colleagues wrote. I was told before my test that it was working in the development environment. However, when I attempted to run it, it threw an exception every time  that says:
“Error: The application has failed to start because the side by side configuration is incorrect please see the application event log or use the ...

by Derek Du

After my last blog post about using Cert-based Message security for WCF web service, we started to look into using Windows Authentication for a different system that also sits behind a load balancer/SSL handler. Windows Authentication provides a much easier integration option – the client side can simply provide a domain user account to be authenticated, whereas in Cert-ba...

by Jacky Xu Sometimes we need to check some debug information, but do not want to create a log file. We can use a tool named “debugview.exe” to monitor the debug output. 
The tool is developed by Sysinternals. And you can download it from the Microsoft website. For a .net developer, it is very simple to get a program’s output debug information. Try this:
Debug.WriteLine...

by Joe Zhou

It is essential for a .NET web developer to be equipped with knowledge about event logging and diagnostics. It remains true when it comes to Windows Azure, even though nowadays Azure developers can get away from configuring IIS and dealing with VMs most of time. Here are the steps to download log files without using FTP. I will use PowerShell instead.
 
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by Jacky Xu
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by Emma Tsai
As a business analyst, I not only work with clients to get the requirements, but also perform functional testing for software applications. Sometimes, I need to work with SQL server to do database query and compare the results while testing. Recently, I found using Windows functions to perform data analysis computations in SQL server is pretty handy.
Basically, Windows aggregate funct...