Debugging IIS w3wp.exe process

When debugging  IIS and taking a while to look at your code, you may sometimes get this message

To fix this simply switch off the ping enabled setting in your IIS, application pool, advanced settings

Microsoft AVI code (.NET App Performance monitoring)

Perhaps the most wrongly named application I've had to remember the name of recently, used for monitoring .NET application performance...

http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/avicode.aspx

Microsoft PDC Archive

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/PDC

Binding to a constant in XAML WPF

Example...

Add this to your controls namespace declarations

xmlns:MyNameSpace="clr-namespace:MyNameSpace;assembly=MyAssembly"

then use it as follows in your markup

ToolTipService.ShowDuration="{x:Static MyNameSpace:MyClass.MY_CONSTANT}"

Multithreaded testing with MSTest.exe in Visual Studio

To set the unit tests to run in MTA mode, add the MTA mode attribute to the Execution element as shown in the following example:


<Execution>
     <ExecutionThread apartmentState="MTA" />
</Execution>

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/irenak/archive/2008/02/22/sysk-365-how-to-get-your-unit-tests-test-project-in-visual-studio-2008-a-k-a-mstest-run-multithreaded.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404663.aspx

Enabling all disabled triggers in SQL Server

select 'ALTER TABLE ' + o.name + ' ENABLE TRIGGER ' + s.name
from sys.objects o
inner join sys.triggers s on s.parent_id = o.object_id
and s.is_disabled = 1