Tips and tricks – Page 3 – Bruce Ng's software development blog

Web Service Host for WCF doesn’t work

If you open a WCF Solution that uses a web site to host the WCF services and the services cannot be browsed when opening using a web browser (showing HTTP error 403.1 not found), try turning on HTTP Activation feature.

On Windows server, go through server manager.

On Windows desktop, search for turn Windows features on or off, Under .NET Framework Advanced Services -> WCF Services -> HTTP Activation. Check HTTP Activation to enable it, and click OK.

This really wasn’t apparent at first and I thought there was some issues with the config files.

Show textfield as multiline text in Unity Editor

Simply add the following directive right above the public property

[TextArea(numberOfLines, numberOfColumns)]

public string MyProperty;

Connect from host to VM in VirtualBox and allow Internet in VM

In order to do this, setup 2 network adapters for the VM, first one use NAT so the VM has access to the Internet through the host.

The second adapter is set to Host-only.

in the VM, run ipconfig and use the IP address of the VM under the host-only network to access from the host.

Use the default gateway to access host from inside the VM

API Reference for NHibernate

While trying to figure out how a method in NHibernate works, I looked for the API Reference and couldn’t find it.

Turns out, NHibernate is a port of Hibernate for .NET framework, so you can find all the API reference in Hibernate API reference.

At least they could have included a link on their website, this probably wasted a lot of everyone’s time.

Create custom error pages in ASP.NET

Apparently there are lots of hoops you need to jump through to create custom error pages in ASP.NET

http://benfoster.io/blog/aspnet-mvc-custom-error-pages

Techniques to troubleshoot issues

Isolation, if a large change was done that caused the issue, break the large change into smaller changes

Start with the previous working version, add changes one by one until one stops working to isolate the problem.

Redirect all http to https, remove unwanted http headers

Use IIS URL Rewrite module, install it first, then configure it either through the IIS Manager UI or web.config file.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/varunm/2013/04/23/remove-unwanted-http-response-headers/

Node is not found in Ubuntu

When running nodejs application on ubuntu

this is because the package manager named the application nodejs instead of node

make a symlink from nodejs to node and it should work

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

VirtualBox Guest OS not recognizing extra space after VDI resize

if there are snapshots, merge back first before resizing

or resize all the snapshots plus the current vdi to same size, then delete the snapshots(might not need to delete?)

Flush the user cache, reset settings for TFS and VS

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/willy-peter_schaub/2010/09/15/if-you-have-problems-with-tfs-or-visual-studio-flush-the-user-cache-or-not/

Delete the contents from the following folders
C:\Users\<<Your Alias>>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation
C:\Users\<<Your Alias>>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio
C:\Users\<<Your Alias>>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VSCommon
Go to the Visual Studio IDE folder in command prompt and Run the following command “devenv /resetuserdata” from the Visual Studio IDE folder.
Typical location for 64 bit: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE
Typical location for 32 bit: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE