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How to get Fiddler to show Azure Service API requests
How to get Fiddler to show outbound requests such as to the Azure Service APIs: Add the following into your web.config: <system.net> <defaultProxy> <proxy…
Where’s the SQL Server Configuration Manager in Windows 8?
The SQL Server Configuration Manager is helpful for stopping/starting the SQL Server Services on your machine and also making sure all of the appropriate connection protocols are enabled. In…
OneNote Page to PDF without Footer
A very useful feature of OneNote is that you can Export or Save a page (or section) as a PDF. I use this for generating invoices for my clients but there are lots of ways quickly turning your…
Getting Started with Azure Files Preview
Azure Files allows Virtual Machines (VMs) in an Azure Data Center to mount a shared file system and then these VMs will be able to access these files using standard Windows file APIs (CreateFile,…
Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Http.WebHost'
We ran into this error when deploying a solution from the build server: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Http.WebHost, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,…
Microsoft Build (MSBuild) 12
Did you know that you can install MSBuild to your build and deployment server individually without needing to install Visual Studio? You can get MSBuild 12 – aka Microsoft Build Tools 2013 – from…
Update Nuget.exe in.nuget package restore folder
When upgrading to the latest version of MVC with a build server using Nuget package restore, you may get these errors indicating that Nuget is out of date: The schema version of 'Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc'…
Web Application Project is configured to use IIS. Unable to access the IIS metabase.
On a new install of Visual Studio 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2 I ran into the following error when trying to open a Visual Studio Web Application project: Even though I am an administrator on…
OneNote: Do not show Send To OneNote tool in TaskBar
OneNote has a Send To OneNote tool which can be helpful but also adds an icon to your TaskBar. I don’t use it enough (especially on my desktop PC) to always have the Send To OneNote tool running…
Install OneDrive on Windows Server 2012 R2
Go to https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/download/ Choose PC/Mac from the Device drop down: Then click on the Download for Windows 8 (even though Windows Server 2012 R2 is Windows 8.1 this…
Reference assemblies for .NET Framework v4.5 were not found
Setting up a build server on a new install of Windows Server 2012 R2 and ran into the following warning when building the projects: Warning MSB3644 - The reference assemblies for framework…
Vault Login Failed: The server uses a protocol that is not supported by this client.
Installing CruiseControl.NET on a new server and ran into an issue with CruiseControl.NET pulling from the Vault server. I found the following error in the CruiseControl.NET Log: [PROJECT:ERROR]…
Your current security settings do not allow this file to be downloaded.
When running a new Windows Server 2012 R2 server install, Internet Explorer is locked down and you will end up getting prompted multiple times when visiting sites and most likely you will not be able…
Where does IAppBuilder.UseWebApi come from?
I was converting a self-hosted ASP.NET Web API application from Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Self Host to use OWIN Self Hosting. Everything went find until I tried to add the route configuration to…