Thursday, June 30, 2016

Visual Studio/Windows 10: Running Visual Studio (or any Application) as Administrator on Windows 10 every time the Application is invoked

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On certain projects Visual Studio needs to be run with Administrative privileges. As of Windows 10 it is possible automatically run Visual S...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

SETX: Permanently setting a Windows System Environment Variable from the Command-Line

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For two decades I have used SET from the Windows from the command-line to display environment variables and to temporarily assign environmen...
Friday, June 24, 2016

CURL for Win64: Download, Installing and using CURL to test RESTful Web Services

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This posting demonstrates how to acquire, set up and run CURL, a command-line utility that allows RESTful web services to be tested and exer...
Friday, June 17, 2016

Are you running 32-bit Windows or 64-bit Windows?

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Pre-Blog Posting Pontification and Soapbox Tirade FYI: If you have Windows 10, 32-bit you can only run 32-bit Hyper-V which means you ca...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

C#: Singletons (Static classes) Old School versus Really Old School

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I have been asked during interviews how to implement a singleton using C# and how to implement a static class using C#. I started coding in ...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Visual Studio Unit Tests: Assert.AreSame versus Assert.AreEqual

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In the posting " Visual Studio: Developing Unit Tests " an overview was given on creating unit tests with Visual Studio. In that p...
Monday, June 13, 2016

VirtualBox: does not support 64-bit Guest Operating Systems on Windows 10

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The problem I encountered was, on a Windows 10 64-Bit system where Oracle's VirtualBox would not support running 64-bit guest operating ...