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IIS, Microsoft, Technology, Web, Web Development, Windows

Installing MS Web Deploy on different port

Web Deployment is a tool from Microsoft to simplify migration, management, and deployment of IIS web servers, web applications, and web sites. When you install Web Matrix it is installed by default. When installed it listens on port 80. If…

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad
March 14, 2012

Microsoft, Technology, Virtualization, Windows

Installing Windows 8 Consumer Preview experience

Few months back Microsoft launched Windows 8 Developer Preview. Majority of people try to install beta or pre-launch versions on virtual machines. So did I, but there were lot of issues in installing Windows 8 Developer Preview and I posted…

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad
March 2, 2012

Database, Microsoft, Oracle, Technology, Windows

Allowing Oracle ports in Windows Firewall

If you plan to install Oracle Database XE onto a computer running Windows Firewall, which was first introduced in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, and then connect to it from another computer, check…

Microsoft, Technology, Windows

Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Windows 8 Consumer Preview is now available for download.You can either use a setup or an ISO file to download and install. Setup file can be downloaded from: and ISO can be downloaded from: I’ll try to install…

Microsoft, Oracle, Technology, Windows

Install Oracle XE 11g on Windows 64-bit

Here’s the Oracle Database 11g Express Edition step-by-step installation on Windows 7 64-bit. Please bear in mind Oracle provides only 32-bit version of Oracle XE. When you download the software from Oracle, you’ll need an account and you’ll need to…

C/C++, Microsoft, Technology, Windows

How to check if DLL is compiled as 32-bit or 64-bit?

Open visual studio command prompt. Use this command: dumpbin /headers C:\path\name.dll At the very beginning, you will find “FILE HEADER VALUES”, the first value will have a “(x86) ” for 32 bit and “(x64)” for 64 bit.

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad
November 30, 2011

IIS, Microsoft, Windows

How do I: check if DLL is loaded

A few days back I developed an ISAPI filter and when I installed it on the IIS server and tried to test it was not running. To troubleshoot I thought how would I know that DLL has been loaded by…

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad
October 20, 2011

Microsoft, Technology, Windows

Windows 8 installation error: HAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

I downloaded the Windows 8 Developer Preview from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home/ and tried to install on Virtual PC, but got the following error. Your PC ran in to a problem that it couldn’t handle,and now it needs to restart. You can search for…

.Net, C#, Database, Microsoft, MySQL, Technology, Web, Web Development, Windows

Xdebug in WebMatrix

Xdebug is a very popular PHP extension that helps with debugging and profiling of PHP scripts by providing a lot of valuable debug information. Microsoft WebMatrix is a development tool for building web applications. When WebMatrix is used to build or modify a…

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad
August 11, 2011

Microsoft, Technology, Web, Web Development, Windows

Using Response.Redirect in try…catch block

black and gray laptop computer turned on doing computer codes

Use overload Response.Redirect(String url, bool endResponse) if using in try catch block.

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad
July 12, 2010

Microsoft, Technology, Web, Web Development, Windows

REST Web Services calls with C#

It’s really easy to call REST based web services from C#.Net. Let’s see how to do it. We’ll be calling Yahoo Web Services as an example here. Make REST Calls With C# The .NET Framework provides classes for performing HTTP requests.…

Microsoft, Technology, Windows

XML with C#

The .NET Framework provides excellent support for XML. Combined with the databinding support of WinForms and ASP.NET applications you have an easy and powerful set of tools. ASP.NET 2.0 takes databinding another step further by providing the DataSource control which lets you declaratively provide data access to data-bound UI controls.

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad
June 30, 2010

Project Management, Technology

How to improve quality of your standard?

Develop a consequence for each quality standard and evaluate it as a regular part of your project postmortem.

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad
March 26, 2010

MySQL, Technology

Many-to-many relationship

When designing an application or database, also consider other scenarios and pros and cons of the approach being adopted, not only one scenario. In other words if one approach is solving your problem then also consider what other problems we can face due to it, and prepare for those as well.