If you don’t want to turn UAC off, don’t want to jump through hoops when running a command with administrator privileges, and non of this right-click-run-as-administrator or create-a-shortcut-ran-as-administrator nonsense, you’re in a bit of trouble. As far as I know MS didn’t provide any means to run a command with administrative privileges from …
This simple VBS script binds to a AD group and enumerates it’s members: Option Explicit Dim strMember, strDNSDomain, strContainer Dim objGroup, objRootDSE Dim arrMemberOf, strList, arrGroup ' Bind to Active Directory' Set objRootDSE = GetObject(„LDAP://RootDSE”) strDNSDomain = objRootDSE.Get(„DefaultNamingContext”) ' Bind to a group Object ' — By ldap path 'strContainer …
I you constantly use Trace.axd on your ASP.NET there is one handy Firefox add-on just for you 🙂
Here’s a link worth saving: Silk Icons, it’s a very nice set of icons published on Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Thx Kuba for this link. By default I use VS Image Library ;), and from time to time I look for icon set that is free (or at least …
When you start working with MSI packages and try to tune them down, you’ll soon end up with a mess in registry that will interfere. This little tool can help to clean this mess. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301
While trying to find a way to probe CPU temperature in some simple way, preferably form VBS and WMI. My friend found a nice tool that help you browse WMI classes and generates simple VBS, C# or VB.NET code. WMI Code Creator v1.0 Unfortunately while Win32_TemperatureProbe has CurrentReading prperty, it’s …
The TcpTrace by Simon Fell, is one of those tools I can’t live without. It’s a proxy for TCP connections that shows actual content of messages exchanged between hosts. It always come handy when you need to see an actual Web Service call content or just check those HTTP headers …
There are times when you have to integrate with a system. You do everything as documentation said you should, you run your integration test and… fail, …miserably, …with non-informative exception and no clue whatsoever. You tell the „other guys” that either their system does not work as expected or the …
You’ve always have some junk or temporary files laying around. Everybody sooner or later have to figure out they’re own way to archive them or just store them temporarily in some other place that your project main dir, your hard drive main dir, or desktop. I’ve seen a few practises …
A few years back I had a very though project, out team had to release a new version of the intranet portal based on junky and very ugly code that we did inherit after previous company. We have been the 3rd team working on the release, we did manage to …
