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TL;WR:  http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-the-Big-and-Ugly-Plymouth-Logo-in-Ubuntu-10-04-140810.shtml If you've had Ubuntu for...

To change the password complexity requirements on Windows Server (2008 at least) (for whatever reason), do the following : Start -> Run ...

This is an annoying and almost entirely useless error. It can be caused by any number of things. However, in my case today, it was caused by...

I've recently had some trouble getting WiX custom actions to work, and after searching around for a while, I found this article . It giv...

I've lately been trying to update my WiX installers to perform custom actions so that I can do some security configuration of my applica...

Due to budget and other constraints, I'm unable to get my hands on the latest and greatest software for running a WCF application I'...

I recently stumbled across an article stating why we shouldn't use the 'using' keyword with WCF services, and I found it rather ...

There are a number of means of authenticating users, and one of the most secure is via a certificate. This article on CodeProject provides ...

As any sensible developer of a large scale system knows, security is paramount. Therefore, encryption of sensitive data is an absolute must,...

One of the quickest and best ways to debug issues with the services you're developing is to log and trace all activity with WCF along wi...

I've been testing out some web services I've been working on extensively on my own machine, but the time has finally come where I wa...

I've recently discovered the Mono.Options library (available via NuGet) that lets you easily parse arguments passed into a program. Unfo...

As part of my recent foray into creating various Windows services, I've come across the need for logging (like all serious apps do) and ...

I'm creating a net.tcp-based WCF web service for use with my current project, and so far the learning curve hasn't been very shallow...

WCF comes with a bunch of handy configuration tools.  You can find an introduction to them on the WCF configuration tools page on MSDN . Onc...

As most people who deal with .NET are aware, C# (and also VB.NET) have Properties and Events.  In the case of properties, there are property...

Lately I've been getting the error message : error MSB4018: Microsoft.Build.Shared.InternalErrorException: MSB0001: Internal MSBuild E...

I guess Eclipse has made it much easier in recent versions of Eclipse and CDT to debug multiple processes and have the debugger follow child...

Ok, it's not actually broken, it just doesn't work the way I wanted (or expected). Apparently, there's a very good article on w...

I finally learned how, and it's thanks to an awesome question posted on stackoverflow.com  .