Monthly Archives: August 2011

C#: Removing textbox password char

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Alex Shlega

It turned out that removing TextBox password char programmatically is not an absolutely trivial task. You can’t set password char to ‘ ‘, neither you can just clear it somehow once it has been assigned. So, even though it seems … Continue reading →

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Dynamics CRM: The security timestamp is invalid because its creation time (‘ZZZ’) is in the future. Current time is ‘TTT’ and allowed clock skew is ’00:05:00′

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Alex Shlega

When using SDK to access Dynamics CRM server, make sure to synchronize the clocks. For some reason, the clocks on my workstation were about 8 minutes late, so I got this error right away. BTW, it does not really matter … Continue reading →

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Dynamics CRM: How to fix 25472 errors in less than 5 minutes

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Alex Shlega

Well, it seems I had terrific productivity today. After all, I managed to fix 25472 errors in less than 10 minutes:) Continue reading →

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Bringing SCOM APM / AVIcode to the development teams

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Alex Shlega

System Center UI/functionality is not that familiar to the developers to feel comfortable with those tools. Development folks are used to the Visual Studio and other dev tools. At the same time, if there are people interested in APM data from the troubleshooting perspective, those are likely developers.

So, what if we wanted to bring APM data right to their world? Continue reading →

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SCOM: Using SCOM 2012 Beta to collect .NET callstacks in AVIcode style

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Alex Shlega

.NET APM in SCOM 2012 Beta seems to have many of the features of the previous AVIcode version (5.7), but some of them are hidden. In this video, I am going to demonstrate that we can still collect callstack information, though it requires a bit more efforts to configure APM that way. Continue reading →

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.NET: What happens inside ConcurrentQueue.TryDequeue

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Alex Shlega

I was looking for some information on ConrurrentQueue and found this article by Justin Etheredge. It’s a nice explanation of how everything works there. What still bothered me after reading through Justin’s post is why there is an “Enqueue” method, … Continue reading →

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AVIcode: System Center AVIcode Configuration Assistant

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Alex Shlega

AVIcode Configuration Assistant is not a service(though we can offer a service, too), neither it is a miraculous application that can configure AVIcode without human intervention (nothing can beat our consultants in that). Continue reading →

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Telerik JustDecompile: will it match the standards set by .NET Reflector?

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Alex Shlega

.NET Reflector had been shining until it became a commercial product early this year. And, then, the world became dark.. Is there a new star rising? JustDecompile from Telerik

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Android: Get your gmail back after changing the password

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Alex Shlega

Just thought it might be worth sharing. There are days when you are just doomed to do something unusual. Apparently, when you do it, that creates some amount of confusion. This time, something told me that I have to change … Continue reading →

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