This light looks nice and performs its function well when installed, BUT this is a terribly designed product from a physical/installation point of view. Installation Tip Remove the heavy metal and glass part from the main unit during installation it makes it easier to see/access those TINY LITTLE SCREW HOLES when attaching to the Continue reading REVIEW: Philips Hue Impress Outdoor Wall light
TLDR: here is the URL to download the English (en-US) MSI installer for SQL Server 2022 LocalDb: https://download.microsoft.com/download/3/8/d/38de7036-2433-4207-8eae-06e247e17b25/SqlLocalDB.msi For (my) future reference: here s how I found it If you want the installer for other languages (e.g. German (de-DE), Spanish (es-ES)) then look in the Manifest_Media_Express XML file for that language.
TLDR: VPNs sometimes don t work on EE s mobile network due to IPv6. This blog post contains a ready-made device profile that forces IPv4 on EE s mobile data network. I set up a L2TP/IPSec VPN on my Synology Diskstation to be able to connect to the home network when out and about. While this works fine Continue reading SOLVED: Connecting iPhone to L2TP/IPSec VPN on EE
It’s annoyed me for some time that the player size option in YouTube has become increasingly hidden away, and is forgotten every time you restart your browser. Thankfully the option is stored simply in a cookie (wide=1), which is easy enough to set so that it is reasonably permanent without using any browser plugins or Continue reading How to get YouTube to permanently use the larger video player…
There have been a number of posts on this already by Scott Hanselman and Rick Strahl, but I needed a simple way to detect if .NET 4.5 was installed from somewhere basic like a batch file. I’m not sure where I came across this but it works well for me. The solution is to query Continue reading Detecting if .NET Framework 4.5 is installed
One of the regularly requested features for AppHarbor is a way to get full backups from SQL Server databases there. The official line so far has been to use the AppHarbor-SqlServerBulkCopy tool to bulk copy the data from the hosted server to a local copy. This requires you to have an empty target database into Continue reading Backing up AppHarbor SQL Server databases using BACPACs
A simple command to add to your Visual Studio External Commands menu that will do a sanity check of all your views (and plain old ASPX pages for that matter): It calls the aspnet_compiler tool on the current web project displaying the results n the Output window: To set this up, go to Tool Continue reading Build Views command for Visual Studio
I ve had this happen a few times now, not sure what causes it, but iCloud Photo Stream occasionally stops syncing on Windows 7 for me. The way I have fixed it is to reset iCloud by: stopping the Photo Stream process ApplePhotoStreams.exe using Windows Task Manager renaming the %APPDATA%Apple ComputerMediaStream directory (i.e. C:UsersusernameAppDataRoamingApple ComputerMediaStream) log out and…
I had an odd issue where SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2008 R2 would start up, display the following error message, then exit: Package Microsoft SQL Management Studio Package failed to load Using SysInternals Process Monitor tool to monitor SSMS.exe it seemed that it was looking for the following registry key but not finding it: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftMicrosoft Continue reading…
Here s an ASP.NET MVC HTML Helper that helps in the following scenario. Let s say you have a partial that can be included a number of times in a view but has a bit of common code that need only be included once. Typically that bit of common code would be some script. In ASP.NET such Continue reading Once helper for ASP.NET MVC