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Author Archives: erictummers
Shrink MS Word document
A docx document of Microsoft Word is actual a zip archive. You can open it and see why some documents are so large yet contain only a few pages. First drill into the folders to find the file that is … Continue reading
Powershell pipe to copy files that match a xpath query
I’m a powershell newb. There I said it. Now let me learn. Here’s what I created after some google searches. Go through all files in a directory Filter on xml files I think this can be added to the Get-ChildItem … Continue reading
Week 26 roundup
Last week recap and links: Travel by drone, think google streetview with drones Octopus deploy has a library you can download step templates from an use in your deployments How to scale Azure Websites globally with Traffic Manager, Scott shows … Continue reading
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Tagged octopusdeploy, roundup, traffic manager, Windows Azure
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Solve concurrency database issues in nServicebus
When we configure nServicebus to run with multiple thread (MaximumConcurrencyLevel) sometimes duplicate records are inserted. This happens when the endpoint has been down for maintenance and the queue has filled up with messages. Repro This is not ideal, but can … Continue reading
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Tagged Code, concurrency, database, deadlock, lock, nservicebus, xunit
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MSBuild OutDir per project in solution
We use a dedicated project file for building our solution/projects. The automated build sometimes complains about failing unit tests due to incompatible assembly versions. By building every project to their own OutDir we solved the issue. MSBuild tasks Install the … Continue reading
.NET Development by Eric 