Wednesday, August 31, 2016

MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting them to play nice: The extras, Part I

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I've recently been trying to set up queued publishing of data in my company within our internal applications so that we can publish that...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Unable to add multiple listen rule keys or subscriptions to a Topic in an Azure Service Bus in an Azure Resource Group template

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I recently ran across a problem wherein I was unable to add multiple Listen rules for my applications to my Topics in Azure Service Bus with...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Getting verbose output from an Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock in PowerShell

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It's often very useful to invoke commands on other machines, e.g. in deployment scripts. It can be even more useful to have logging of w...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Avoiding Windows Service startup timeouts in your code

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check this out: https://www.devopsonwindows.com/avoid-windows-service-start-up-timeouts/
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Finally ... how to debug the startup of a Windows Service application

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Do what this guy says:  http://einaregilsson.com/run-windows-service-as-a-console-program/ Pasted here for posterity, here's the examp...
Wednesday, August 03, 2016

WADK Deployment Tools on Windows Server 2008 giving error "The program can't start because api-ms-win-downlevel-advapi32-l4-1-0.dll is missing from your system"

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Got this error at an extremely inconvenient time when trying to write some automation scripts for Windows Optional Features using the DISM m...
Tuesday, August 02, 2016

MSDeploy: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.

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Our company has started deploying all of its numerous web applications via automated (or at least scripted) deployment with MSDeploy. This h...