Registry on Marko Apfel

Ensuring unique CIDs for MSDTC in BizTalk installations

Wed, 01 May 2013 11:31:00 +0200

Situation

By installing BizTalk in a distributed environment it is essential, that the MS DTC (Microsoft Distributed Transaction Controller) have an unique CID. Notably by cloning machines in a virtual environment this is often not the case, if the customizing after cloning is too simple establishes. A lot of system guys don’t care about this IDs – they only change the SIDs of the systems.

"Failure has occurred while loading a type."

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:08:00 +0200

Motivation

During programming suddenly this error (Failure has occurred while loading a type) was thrown by accessing a artifact of a referenced library.

In such cases I take the assembly fusion logger fuslogvw to search for problems of loading assemblies. Sometimes an old version from a not expected folder is binded. But all bindings were correct.

Correcting wrong AssemblyInfo Copyright and Vendor-information

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:53:00 +0200

Initial situation

Normally all of our installations are registered to the company name.

But now we have the effect that some (developer) tool seems to overwrite this registry entries. That results in the following:

Clear list of recent repositories in Git Extensions

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:12:00 +0100

Orphaned and wrong specified repositories in the recent list are annoying. Straightaway I does not found an option to clean this entries. And also not the persistence place for that.

So it was time for Process Explorer.

Explorer context menu to create a blank Visual Studio solution

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:25:00 +0200

Starting a new Visual Studio solution through the IDE is often too complex and time wasting.

Other programs allows per default to create a blank document with the explorer context menu. Why not offer this functionality for Visual Studio?

Caching of toolbar names in ArcMap

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:06:00 +0200

For little GUI-changes in own ArcMap-customizations normally it is enough to start the application and look that every entry is visible. Especially for refactoring of an own toolbar it was still enough to verify that the toolbar is already shown in the choice-list.

WinXP search problem

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:07:00 +0200

When you search for files that contain text by using the A word or phrase in the file search criterion, the search results may not contain files that contain the text that you specified. For example, .log, .dll, .js, .asp, .xml, .xsl, .hta, .css, .wsh, .cpp, .c, or .h files, or files with no file name extension, may not appear in the search results even if the files contain the text that you specified. This problem may occur even if you specified the file name or type in the All or part of the file name box.