TIL - Solving Out of Memory exceptions in .NET

So yesterday I was playing about with a high memory VM in Azure and I wrote a little app to swallow the server's RAM whole.

Only thing is that it stopped running and didn't swallow the server's RAM whole.

So I changed the build to x64, but no dice.

After a bit of googling, it turn out that by default there is a limit that needs to be defeated, the 2 GB limit and it can be defeated by adding the following to the config file.

<configuration>
 <runtime>
  <gcAllowVeryLargeObjects enabled="true" />
 </runtime>
</configuration>

TIL - Create Scheduled Tasks with parameters using schtasks

Today I had to create a couple of schedule task to run this application I wrote, the problem was that when I did this:

schtasks /create /sc daily /tn "Application" /TR "'c:\Program Files (x86)\Application\Application.exe -t'" /ST 00:30:00 /RU user /RP password 

It created a task but then when it started, it would not actually run nor stop, so after a bit of googling and a few tries i came up with this

schtasks /create /sc daily /tn "Application" /TR "'c:\Program Files (x86)\Application\Application.exe' -t" /ST 00:30:00 /RU user /RP password 

Note how the command, in bold, is surrounded by single quotes and the whole, i.e. command and parameters is surrounded by double quotes, so this will run Application.exe with parameter -t @ 00:30 everyday

Hope it helps.

TIL - Copy References in GAC to output folder

A while back I had this problem, looks like there is a simple solution:

<Reference Include="DocumentFormat.OpenXml, Version=2.5.5631.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
 <SpecificVersion>False</SpecificVersion>
 <Private>True</Private> <HintPath>..\..\..\OpenXml SDK 2.5\DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll</HintPath>
</Reference>

Setting <Private>True</Private> ensures that the reference is copied to the output folder, looks like setting it to Copy Local, just doesn't do the trick

TIL - Send CTRL + ALT + DEL to Remote Destop Connection

I needed to change my password on the test domain today but I only log on to the test domain through a remote desktop connection, so in order to do a CTRL + ALT + DEL on the remote desktop, I did:

CTRL + ALT + END