Contents tagged with Miscellaneous
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Managing ASP.Net Membership Users and Roles
ASP.Net Membership was first introduced in ASP.Net 2.0 and is relatively easy to implement in your web application. As it has evolved there have been changes that add more features and extensibility but have obscured some of the basic tools needed to easily manage it. The ability to easily add users and roles to an initial implementation is one task I recently encountered that is difficult
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Improve your online presence
For years, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has been a buzzword throughout the Internet community. Companies have spent large amounts of money and used all sorts of tactics in an attempt to rank high on targeted search page results. SEO is certainly one factor that is helpful in driving new business to your site. But have you considered the user experience?
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Completely uninstall MySQL from Windows
Some time ago I was running a few tests in my lab environment against a current version of MySQL. A few months later I needed to access it again but I forgot my root password so I wanted to start from scratch. Easy enough, right? Just go to Add/Remove programs in the Control Panel and uninstall MySQL.
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What the Marine Corps taught me about customer service
I am a big supporter of all those who are serving or who have served in all the branches of the United States military. As a former Marine I understand what they have been through and all they have sacrificed for their country. With Veteran’s Day right around the corner I want to take a step back in time and focus on a non technical topic.
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Perform a clean startup of Windows the easy way
From time to time you may experience issues with a program not working as expected on your Windows computer. To assist in troubleshooting, Microsoft has included a tool that many have forgotten about even though it has been around since Windows 98. The tool is called System Configuration and is accessed by typing msconfig in the start menu. You will note that making changes to any of the options in the utility will require a restart of your system to take effect.
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IIS8 Memory Improvements
There is a lot of buzz in the Internet Information Services (IIS) community about IIS 8, the version of IIS that is included with Windows Server 2012. While there are plenty of new features in IIS 8, for this writing I am going to focus on the memory improvements that you will see for the application pools. Memory is a key resource on an IIS server as it is often the first limiting factor if you planned your CPU and disk requirements appropriately.
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Default mail program is not configured
I came across an issue recently where someone was trying to email a document from a program and getting an error that a default mail program is not configured or that the mail program was unable to handle the request.