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Clean the Windows Installer Folder
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How to make a self extracting archive that runs your setup.exe with 7zip -sfx switch
The scenario When you use the default Microsoft Visual Studio Installer (yes, it is back as an extension for VS 2013 – Visual studio Installer […]
Terrible Performance of SQL Server Linked Server query over WAN
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MVC Razor View escape character
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IIS Express and windows authentication
How to control the IIS Express Authentication settings To set the windows authentication parameters for you MVC applicaiton there are two ways to do this […]
How to activate Windows Server 2012
Issue Windows Server 2012 will not activate when you try to use the UI to activate a license key. Solution Open a command prompt and […]
Azure Web deployment task failed. Make sure that the process (“Web Management Service”) is started on the remote computer.
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SSIS Convert between datetimeoffset and datetime
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Google Hangouts showing phone number not contact name
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