Musings on Information Technology - A view from the trenches

Too long to explain, oh yes, it was SharePoint related, but I learnt today about various options for formatting Guids available in the frame...

I used to be a fan of the Enterprise Library, but lately I've found myself using Log4net instead, which is not bad. We wanted to log f...

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 /...

This is the method that we use to remove users from groups in Sharepoint 2013 It's a bit more convoluted than it needs to be as for so...

In a previous post I described how to change the version of MSI installers created with WiX. This post discusses a way of linking the vers...

A while back I had this problem , looks like there is a simple solution: <Reference Include="DocumentFormat.OpenXml, Version=2.5....

I have a set of unit tests that need an xml file to work  and I despite me using the DeploymentItem attribute the test was not working. Tu...

I must confess that in the past I used to do this manually or not at all (loud gasps) as I've never had a fully functioning CI environm...

From a command prompt, run with elevated permissions: msiexec /x {ba5eba11-deaf-beef-ce11-ca5e1337c0de} /qn where  {ba5eba11-deaf-beef-c...

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 ord...