Reference
A collection of articles on various topics that interest me. Written mostly in order to document my own solutions to problems, and published in the hope that they may help others save some time.
2010
Using WP Super Cache with IIS 7
If you are lucky enough to have attracted some traffic on your WordPress blog, you may find yourself stuck with an overloaded web server that gets bombarded from links on Google, Digg or Twitter.
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SQL Management Studio Express Install Fails with Exception
When installing SQL Server Management Studio on top of an existing SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 installation, the setup program may fail with an exception.
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Uploading docx, pptx, xlsx and other Office formats to MediaWiki
Enable the upload of Microsoft Office document files to MediaWiki without modifying any source code.
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Custom View Engine for Localized Views with ASP.NET MVC Razor
This article describes how to localize ASP.NET MVC page views and partial views by providing separate Razor templates for each language. Used in combination with localization through resource files and metadata, this approach leads to a cleaner project structure and allows for localizing a web page without having to recompile. However, it comes at the cost of some duplicated markup.
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Custom Display and Editor Templates with ASP.NET MVC 3 Razor
Much has been written on how to create custom templates for ASP.NET MVC 2 and earlier versions, as well as the default MVC view engine. Customizing the default templates in MVC 3 using the Razor view engine is just as easy, but not exactly obvious if one doesn’t know where to start. This article provides some quick example code for replacing the default custom templates for Object view models.
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Installing Windows 7 on Fujitsu ST5032 Tablet PC
Fujitsu's ST50xx series of tablet PCs ships with Windows XP Tablet PC Edition out of the box. This article describes the installation of Windows 7 and lists the few missing drivers and applications that have been tested successfully.
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MySQL default-character-set is Deprecated in Windows Event Log
Current versions of MySQL 5.1.x appear to ship with an outdated default configuration file that generates the warnings in the Windows Event Log.
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OnDraw, OnDrawAdvanced in CComCompositeControl ATL Controls
When derriving ActiveX controls from CComCompositeControl the virtual functions OnDraw and OnDrawAdvanced are not being called.
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Disabling SBSCore Service on Windows Home Server
The Small Business Server Core Services (SBCore) that come preinstalled with Windows Home Server prevent the server from effectively running Active Directory, joining an existing domain and sleeping for prolonged periods of time by periodically shutting it down or restarting it. The service itself cannot be disabled in the Services Manager, and it will restart itself if the process is terminated through Task Manager.
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Local SMTP Mail Relay with IIS 6.0
Allow your IIS hosted web sites to send emails via local SMTP relays.
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