Sourced directly from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/691716/running-cmd-commands-via-net ...but I like having the code here as well.

 
// Kills a process
<span> </span> private static void ExecuteCommand(string command)
{
try
{
// create the ProcessStartInfo using "cmd" as the program to be run,
// and "/c " as the parameters. &gt; tell the command to execute the command that follows
System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo procStartUpInfo =
new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("cmd", "/c " + command);
// The following commands are needed to redirect the standard output.
// This means that it will be redirected to the Process.StandardOutput StreamReader.
procStartUpInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
procStartUpInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
// Do not create a window.
procStartUpInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
// Now we create a process, assign its ProcessStartInfo and start it
System.Diagnostics.Process proc = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
proc.StartInfo = procStartUpInfo;
proc.Start();
// Get the output into a string
string result = proc.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
// Display the command output.
Console.WriteLine(result);
}
catch (Exception objException)
{
Console.WriteLine(objException);
}
}
 

Technorati Tags: .net, cmd, command, Development, Windows

• To install/uninstall manually, which i find helpful to do from the bin folder of your project use the following commands:
  • INSTALL: %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtil.exe [the name of the executable]
  • UNINSTALL: %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtil.exe -u [the name of the executable]
• To Debug a windows service add the following code to your Main method
  
static void Main(string[] args)
{
#if DEBUG
System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();
#endif

  ServiceBase.Run(new Service());

  }


• To create an installation package for a service: ....I will come back to that - no time to put it together today

Technorati Tags: Development, services, visual studio, Windows

1. Set windows Firewall to have a exception for the remote connection : computer >> admin templates >> network >> network connections >> windows firewall >> domain profile >> windows firewall: allow inbound remote desktop exceptions
2. Set the remote desktop services to allow connections: : computer >> admin templates >> windows components >> remote desktop services >> remote desktop session host >> connections >> Allow users to connect remotely using remote desktop services

Technorati Tags: Configuration, GPO, group policy, remote desktop, Security, Windows, windows 2008 r2

http://weblogs.asp.net/gunnarpeipman/archive/2010/04/02/measuring-asp-net-and-sharepoint-output-cache.aspx

Basically you need to setup the following performance counters in windows:

• Total number of objects added
• Total object discards
• Cache hit count
• Cache hit ratio

Technorati Tags: ASP.NET, IIS, Windows, windows 2008 r2

• Install .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 in the features applet
• Copy the installtion media contents to a folder on the computer (c:\install)
• Download the WSS x64 SP package and the MOSS 2007 SP2 x64
• Delete everything inside Updates folder in the install folder you setup.
• Open a command prompt,  change directory to the folder you put the downloaded patches, and run the following two commands: 
  • wssv3sp2-kb953338-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:[Path to installation bits]\Updates /quiet
  • officeserver2007sp2-kb953334-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract: [Path to installation bits]\Updates /quiet
• Delete the wsssetup.dll filein the updates dir. This is a very important step so please don’t miss it.
• If you also need the Cumulative Updates to be applied when install SharePoint, download the latest Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update packages and extract them into Updates folder like step 4.
• Your slipstream build of SharePoint Server 2007 is done!
• Go and install it on your Windows Server 2008 R2 box, after the installation, the site version will show 12.0.0.6421 or possibly a higher version.

Please reference Jei Li's post for furthur instuctions.  I only posted all the steps here because things have a mysterious way of dissappearing or not appearing at all on Microsofts site.

After doing all of this everything seems to be fine...seems to be  

Links

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261890.aspx
• http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/10/02/install-sharepoint-server-2007-on-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx
• http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b7816d90-5fc6-4347-89b0-a80deb27a082
• http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=79BADA82-C13F-44C1-BDC1-D0447337051B&displaylang=en

Technorati Tags: Configuration, server, SharePoint, Windows, windows 2008 r2, x64

I was undecided on whether to install VMWare ESXi or Windows 2008 Hyper-V server. Based on the title of this article you can probably guess which route I took. I didn't decide to do this simply because I think Microsoft's virtualization platform is superior...I chose it simply because I use VMWare ESXi and ESX at work and was interested in seeing the capabilities of this free product in comparison.

After configuring the server with RAID 0 (faster and this is test) I popped the disk in and started installing. Truth be told the installation was a breeze...so much so in fact that I started the install, watched a soccer game and when I came back it was ready for me to login. I was a little confiused at first because at no point did I provide a username and password for the admin account but it prompted me at the login screen. Didn't take long to figure out it was Administrator/-blank- to login.

This all seemed a little too good to be true and I quickly found out that it was...after downloading and installing the Hyper-V Manager MMC into my vista machine I found I could not connect to the server. found this odd as the very purpose of this server is too allow connections. Turns out there were a few steps I had to do:

1. I had to add my user account (the vista one) to the server in order to pass my creds through.  I believe that once you have connected to it you can turn this off via the Hyper-V settings panel.
2. I had to turn off the server's firewall (I know, I know this is a bad thing but its a test box that will never see the outside world so...).  You can use the following command netsh firewall set opmode disable
3. I was able to connect to the server...BUT when I tried to create a machine I would get an error about Access Denied.  So I added myself to the Administrators group on the server.  At this point I can now use MMC to do most admin work on the server from my Vista client
4. I then started getting the following when trying to connect: Hyper-V Access Denied. Unable to establish communication between ‘SERVER’ and ‘CLIENT’ .  Funny thing is it would let me create a virtual machine but I could never seem to connect to it.  This one was quite confusing so I turned to my trusty friend Google to help me resolve this...I came across a blog post of one Adrian Dimcev here and it had the solution I was looking for.   Word for word heres the instructions from his site:
   • Click Start, Run, type DCOMCNFG. Click OK.
   • Expand Component Services, expand Computers. Right-click on My Computer and click on Properties.
   • Click on COM Security.
   • In the Access Permission area, click Edit Limits.
   • Select ANONYMOUS LOGON in the Group or User Name area. Then set the Permissions for ANONYMOUS LOGON to Allow for Remote Access.
5. After the previous breakthrough I got the following error (oh joy)  : The application encountered an error when attempting to change the state of the 'machinename'.  The hypervisor is not running....WHAT????? Ummmm yes it is......
   Ok turns out there is a very good reason for this as explained here in this Microsoft article.  All I had to do here was enable hardware-assisted virtualization in the BIOS.  After doing that it I was able to create my first machine in this environment == Ubuntu 9.

After reading a little further on the internet it seems that my setup at home (using a workgroup) is not the best way to do this and is partly to blame for some of mine and other peoples issues.  All in all the installation was a success but seems a little more confusing than installing ESXi.  Either way my environment is up and running.

Technorati Tags: hyper-v, Linux, server, virtualization, Windows

Technorati Tags: Configuration, gac, gacutil, visual studio, Windows

Whew...its been a long week and its only Thursday. This years conference was much the same as last years with the exception of being held in various portions of the Mandalay Bay convention center as opposed to on one floor. This made for lots and lots and lots and lots of walking. But I'm still young (yes i am) so it makes for good excercise to walk off all the food they shovel in your mouth.

Most of the sessions I attended were really good with the exception of a couple. I wouldn't blame the speakers because these problems were mostly due to technical issues like the computers not working, the projectors broken or feedback in the presenters microphone sort of thing. All in all there were some great things presented this week.

Some of the sessions that really stuck out were:

Kimberly Tripp - Index Internals and Usage
This was a great session that talked about thins like SQL Server Statistics, Query Optimization, Types of indexes, diminishing returns on performance, etc. Of all the session I think this one stood out the most and because it is probably the most relevant for me right now being one of the "SQL Server DBA" for my company (Christie Digital). I say it that way because its a committee based DBA

Rick Strahl - Using WCF for JSON and REST Services with ASP.Net

Great session....last one of the conference for me so it really sticks out but essentially this covers the next gen replacement for ASMX or first gen webservices in the .NET Framework.

John Papa - Practical Strategies with the Entity Framework

For me this was an introduction to the Entity Framework that was released in VS 2008 SP1. John did a great job of quickly introducing the technology and getting on to the meat and potatoes of what we were there to discuss. There was a good discussion on how to use the IDE to build the data mappings and what happens after you make changes to the backend server, which coinceidently can be any data source...not just SQL as Linq to SQL supports.

Things I would change...(and only because its my blog and I can say whatever I want!!!)

...the time between sessions was ridiculous...one hour or in some cases and hour and a half is just way too long. They could have added an extra session or two to the day. I realize they want you in the expo hall but they could have extended the day to facilitate that or leave it open all day and then some people may skip a couple of sessions here and there to go and see what the vendors are offering. this was my gripe last year and its my gripe this year. Its probably going to be the thing that keeps me from going to this in the future.

...provide video or podcasts of the sessions so we can take in the whole conference...even the sessions we didn't get to go to. I see there point about this being intellectual property and the speakers are consultants and this is their livelyhood but I mean if they are willing to teach this at a conference...and we pay to see it...shouldn't we be entitled to review this information after the fact? Maybe they will supply it on their site (i heard they were recording the sessions this year).

...ease up on the food. Damn, there was too much...I ate too much...I felt stuffed the whole time...I guess this is really my fault! Okay dont change that

Technorati Tags: .net, ASP.NET, conference, Development, SharePoint, SQL Server, sql server 2005

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion, once there create a DWORD value named "DisableCacheViewer" and set it to value 1.

Easy!

Technorati Tags: .net, Configuration, gac

Here is how I got my SQL Express to remotely respond to SQL Management Studio.

In SQL Server Configuration Manager:
Under SQL Server 2005 Network Configuration:
Protocols for

• Enable Shared Memory
• Enable Name Pipes
• Enable TCP/IP

Under SQL Server 2005 Servers

• SQL Server (ServerInstance) Properties

Log on as: Local System (have to restart)
SQL Server Browser

• Log on as: Local System (may have to enable this service first in the Services MMC applet)

And with that, you should be able to remotely connect! Hazzah!

Technorati Tags: Security, SharePoint, SQL Server, sql server 2005