Kiran Kumar Bheemarti

Installing VS 2013 slowed down the internet speed?………Check your network adapter settings

2013-11-18T19:46:00.001-05:00

I have installed VS2013 on my home machine recently and noticed a significant slow down in the initial page loads of the all websites, luckily for me this is the not the first time something like this happened and I knew exactly where to look for the issue. The issue was additional virtual network adapters added by VS 2013, VPN clients and Virtual machine host like (CISCO, VMware etc.,) also do the same. There is a default sequence between these adapters and when one of the virtual takes precedence over your physical network adapter you will notice a network slow down, I may be wrong here but at least that was the case with my machine and more than once I was able to fix it by changing the adapter sequence. (moving the physical adapter to the top of the list).

Here are the steps (For windows 8, usually same steps for Windows 8 and below).

Right click on the Ethernet icon in the tray and select “Open Network and Sharing Center”

Select “Change adapter settings” on the left panel

You will see the list of Network adapter your machine has here but there is no sequence setting, actually it is hidden under advanced settings, menu for which is also hidden (I don’t get it why), hit “Alt” key and you will see the menu

From menu that showed up on “Alt” key, select Advanced->Advanced Settings

Here you will see the sequence in the top part of the window and you will be able to adjust the sequence using the UP and Down arrows, make your physical adapter as the top one and you will be set

--Kiran Bheemarti

Lambda magic string reversal function

2013-02-21T16:58:00.000-05:00

I know there are many ways to reverse a string in C# like convert to List<> and use reverse then do String.Concat or do a CharArray and do a reverse on it and then stitch your string back, I wanted to try out lamba's and lamba's are awesome, here is the snippet if you care.

static void Main(string[] args)
{
String str = "ThisIsAnInputString";
String str2 = String.Copy(str);

int i = str2.Length-1;
str.ToList().ForEach(s => {str2 = str2.Insert(i, s.ToString()).Remove(i + 1, 1);i--;});

Console.WriteLine(str);
Console.WriteLine(str2);

Console.Read();
}

Blend 4 start up crash fix

2012-09-17T15:49:00.001-04:00

I was able to use Blend 4 after installing but closing it and reopening would always end up in start up crash, after searching through forums and Microsoft support found out it was the VS 2011 Developer Preview doing it. Here is the fix for it.

http://connect.microsoft.com/Expression/feedback/details/690246/blend-4-crashes-on-startup

--Kiran Bheemarti

URL Rewrite to default web application

2012-09-13T23:08:00.001-04:00

For what every reason if you are hosting a web application not at the web site level but as a application under the web site (See screenshot 1), but your domain (e.g., www.site1.com) takes the user to Web Site (e.g., Default Web Site in screenshot) and you want to redirect all calls to Default Web Site to /Site1/*.* you can achieve this using URL Rewrite feature of IIS 7.0

Screenshot 1

Here is the setting you need

Web.config equivalent of the above

Using regular expressions for matching url gives us more power than using wildcards, regular expression ^((?!Site1/).)*$ matches all incoming URL requests to the “Default Web Site” but the one’s which are of format www.Site1.com/Site1/*.* , note : URLs of format www.Site1.com/Site1/*.* are already of desired format and we want to avoid matching them else we will get into infinite URL redirect loop, easy way to finding errors like these is “Failed Request Tracing” in IIS here are the steps to set up “Failed Request Tracing”

Details on how to match strings without a certain sub string using Regex : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/406230/regular-expression-to-match-string-not-containing-a-word

Enable Tracing under IIS in Windows components

If you already installed URL Rewrite it will not automatically show up in Failed Request Tracing options, you should go to Add/Remove programs and repair “URL Rewrite 2.0”

Once you repair it (if you have to) here are steps to set up failed request tracing

Select Web Site in Connections for which you want to turn on tracing, double click on Failed Request Tracing under IIS section

You have option to turn on tracing for all content or particular URL you want to debug

Give the range of status codes you are interested in

Turn on the features you want to trace, I am deselecting all but URL Rewrite here.

With the above setting all requests like www.Site.com/*.* will be redirected to www.Site1.com/Site1/*.*

If there are other web applications under Default Web Site and you want to transfer all request at web site level to Site1 and other requests to other web applications should be handle as normal here is the setting to do it

All requests of format www.Site1.com/*.* will be directed to www.Site1.com/Site1/*.* but all requests like www.Site1.com/Site1/*.* and www.Site1.com/Site2/*.* will process as normal and will not go through Rewrite action.

--Kiran Bheemarti

SOAP UI : Fastest way to test web services....Awesome tool

2011-02-18T23:12:00.000-05:00

--Kiran Bheemarti

My C# Quine

2011-01-26T23:44:00.001-05:00

I saw a java quine in HackerNews today, felt like writing my first quine in C#, here is an attempt of it.

Quine(){var s="Quine(){var s='''';Console.WriteLine(s.Insert(16,s));}";Console.WriteLine(s.Insert(16,s));}

It’s about 106 chars long  of course with anonymous methods, delegates, lambda expressions, new var types C# writes a whole lot of code behind the scenes, Thanks to C# I totally love coding in C#

--Kiran Bheemarti

Automapper sample

2011-01-19T01:44:00.001-05:00

Automapper is really awesome tool to map similar objects, especially useful when you want to copy the EF entities to WCF Serializable entities to avoid exposing the loaded EF entities. Here is a sample I worked out to try it out.

You can download Automapper from codeplex, it’s a simple single dll, which you can add to your project, set up few Mappers and you are done, you can copy entities to and from.

http://automapper.codeplex.com/

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using AutoMapper;

namespace AutoMapperSample
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            SetMapping();

            var class1Obj = new Class1()
                                {
                                    Male = true,
                                    Name = "Name",
                                    Number = 3,
                                    Cls3 = new Class3() {CurrentDate = DateTime.Now.AddDays(10)}
                                };

var class2Obj = Mapper.Map<Class1, Class2>(class1Obj);

}

        private static void SetMapping()
        {
            Mapper.CreateMap<Class1, Class2>()
                .ForMember(cl2 => cl2.FullName, cl1 => cl1.MapFrom(n => n.Name + " " + n.Name))
                .ForMember(cl2 => cl2.Male, m => m.ResolveUsing<MaleResolver>().FromMember(cl1 => cl1.Male))
                .ForMember(cl2 => cl2.Cls3CurrentDate, m => m.AddFormatter<DateFormatter>());
        }
    }

    public class Class1
    {
        public Class3 Cls3 { get; set; }

        public int Number { get; set; }
        public String Name { get; set; }
        public Boolean Male { get; set; }
    }

    public class Class2
    {
        public String Cls3CurrentDate { get; set; }

        public int Number { get; set; }
        public String Name { get; set; }
        public String Male { get; set; }
        public String FullName { get; set; }
    }

    public class Class3
    {
        public DateTime CurrentDate { get; set; }
    }

    public class MaleResolver : ValueResolver<bool, string>
    {
        protected override string ResolveCore(bool source)
        {
            return source ? "Y" : "N";
        }
    }

    public class DateFormatter : IValueFormatter
    {
        public string FormatValue(ResolutionContext context)
        {
            return ((DateTime)context.SourceValue).ToLongDateString();
        }
    }

}

--Kiran Bheemarti

Cherohala Skyway.......

2010-10-12T07:55:00.000-04:00

JQuery Fundamentals Book

2010-10-07T01:55:00.001-04:00

Found this JQuery Fundamentals book free online http://jqfundamentals.com/book/book.html it’s all on a single page so you can use http://www.web2pdfconvert.com/ to convert the page as pdf (e-book) and download for free.

-- Kiran Bheemarti

Whole bunch of new releases from Microsoft

2010-10-07T01:28:00.001-04:00

Check out Scott’s posting on new releases http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/10/06/announcing-nupack-asp-net-mvc-3-beta-and-webmatrix-beta-2.aspx, most interesting is NuPack, more info on NuPack here http://devlicio.us/blogs/rob_reynolds/archive/2010/10/06/the-evolution-of-package-management-for-net.aspx

--Kiran Bheemarti

Facebook is down

2010-10-06T00:38:00.001-04:00

Wondering where will you share with your friends that Facebook is down

--Kiran Bheemarti

Just used the most useful feature of Google Voice (Freedom with numbers)

2010-10-04T00:21:00.001-04:00

Changed my Home phone number today and realized the advantage of Google Voice, although I knew it right from the day I registered for a invite from Google Voice, today I used for first time, two advantages, 1) I gave a damn to try to port from old home phone number from previous carrier to new one (Saved 40 bucks right there, thanks Google!!!) 2) Don’t have to mail all my friends my new home number

--Kiran Bheemarti

Great documentary about planet earth and current conditions

2010-10-01T02:14:00.000-04:00

A must watch.......

--Kiran Bheemarti

String formatting cheat sheet

2010-09-30T18:42:00.001-04:00

I found this nice cheat sheet, nice to have printout for fast look up on String formatting on www.dylanbeattie.net/cheatsheets

--Kiran Bheemarti

Balsamiq Mockups - Review

2010-09-30T01:09:00.000-04:00

Balsamiq is a fastest easiest way to do some awesome mock ups, check this tutorial on using Balsamiq......

--Kiran Bheemarti

Try Taskforce with your Gmail Account

2010-09-23T18:27:00.001-04:00

Taskforce is similar to Google Tasks inside your Gmail, but after giving few trials I was turned off from Google Tasks, Taskforce is very interesting sleek and neat add on to your Gmail. Currently its in invite only beta phase, register to get an invite here. Once you get an invite and you register on Taskforce with your Google account, you will down chrome extension or Firefox add-on provided on their site http://taskforceapp.com/pages/download, once done log out of your Gmail and log back in, you will immediately notice a Add on top right of the window.

You can also do forwarding setup and filters so that incoming mails can be added as tasks to Taskforce automatically. Setup instructions here. You can also add tasks from the control you can see “New” in the window above, or you can add tasks from the mail, if you open any mail you will notice few additional button on the top of the mail related to taskforce which can be used to add tasks, overall so far so good pretty satisfied with the app.

Signup for invite and have fun.

Kiran Bheemarti

How to Track and (Potentially) Recover Your Stolen Laptop or Android wit...

2010-09-23T00:03:00.001-04:00

Saw this cool posting on Lifehacker, check out the video its neat idea.

Kiran Bheemarti

Why do update if there is nothing to update

2010-09-22T23:56:00.001-04:00

I keep getting this mail from AddThis service which I subscribed for adding Share feature on my blog, I know we get cool stats by AddThis, that if any one ever share any of my posts but with low traffic on my naïve blog I doubt anybody ever share any post, but I still do get a mail regularly from AddThis saying “No updates” I wonder why send a update mail if there is nothing to update probably marketing decision on their end, I know I can unsubscribe from the mail still was wondering why do these mails in the first place. (Btw this post has nothing against the features AddThis has to provide, I am very satisfied with their service).

Kiran Bheemarti

120 GB USB External HDD for only $24 (lowest I ever saw)

2010-09-22T00:05:00.001-04:00

120 GB External HDD for only $24, I know 120GB is not much these days but $24 is the lowest price I ever saw. Grab it if 120GB something interests you.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136606&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3705318&SID=skim1043X499650

Kiran Bheemarti

HTML5 : Up and Running

2010-09-21T12:47:00.001-04:00

Read this book for free here on Google Books.

Kiran Bheemarti

Why one should never select typical installation and always go for custom

2010-09-19T04:06:00.001-04:00

Today I rebuild my work machine and was installing VS2010 went to custom installation mode and deselected C++ as my chances of working with C++ to little to none, amazed to see a almost 2GB drop in Disk usage by unchecking C++ components, after all Visual Studio is our beloved Software image what would be the case with all those freeware's that come with tons of toolbars, antivirus app which do nothing. Lesson here is (of course we all know by now) never ever choose defaults while installation if a option is provided always to to Custom and see details.

Kiran Bheemarti

Getting Started with WCF REST

2010-09-17T18:21:00.001-04:00

Microsoft released a WCF REST starter kit and bunch of Screencasts to get us started with REST using WCF, once you install the starter kit new WCF REST project templates will be added (Although it did not happen on my VS2010 studio, I am still figure it out will follow up with another post once I do). But after you install the Starter Kit you can browse to the installation directory and you will see bunch of sample projects using WCF REST in there.

Links

* Starter Kit Download

* Developer’s Guide

* Release notes

* Screen Casts

* Try downloading Litware Training Mashup its a good place to start

* Nice Blog post to read on WCF REST

* Just in case if you are interested “Performance Comparison of WCF with Existing Distributed Communication Technologies”

* Another Screen cast “Getting Started with WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2”

* I am listing this video kind of last but it is a great video to watch, only listing it last as the link is currently broken in Channel 9 hoping the link to be back or if I find an alternate one will post later http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL35

* Finally if we are hosting our Business on WCF REST we also need to lock it down security wise, codeplex has a good book (FREE) to download and read on Web Services Security download it here

--Kiran Bheemarti

Getting started with TDD using Rhino Mock

2010-09-16T03:23:00.001-04:00

If you are aware of what is TDD and never got into TDD for writing tests is time consuming and comes with its own set of issues and drawbacks give Rhino Mocks a try, there is a Rhino Mocks intro video which is really cool, you will get to see a TDD approach development. One thing though the person in the video codes like a machine he really demonstrate the power of ReSharper in the video for a while you might think you are running the video in 2x or 4x but no he just codes like a machine.

--Kiran Bheemarti

Online development environment

2010-09-15T22:34:00.001-04:00

Coderun is a neat idea, online IDE, not that we can ditch our desktop IDE’s and switch to online IDE but it’s a cool idea to write some code online from any public desktop and share it easily with integrated Social network sharing in the IDE, I did not see any project templates in CodeRun IDE to do Console app which in my view would be awesome to write small snippets and test online and share easily.

Try : http://coderun.com/ide/

--Kiran Bheemarti

Deploy your applications in seconds

2010-09-14T01:47:00.000-04:00

Kiran Kumar Bheemarti

Installing VS 2013 slowed down the internet speed?………Check your network adapter settings

Lambda magic string reversal function

Blend 4 start up crash fix

URL Rewrite to default web application

SOAP UI : Fastest way to test web services....Awesome tool

My C# Quine

Automapper sample

Cherohala Skyway.......

JQuery Fundamentals Book

Whole bunch of new releases from Microsoft

Facebook is down

Just used the most useful feature of Google Voice (Freedom with numbers)

Great documentary about planet earth and current conditions

String formatting cheat sheet

Balsamiq Mockups - Review

Try Taskforce with your Gmail Account

How to Track and (Potentially) Recover Your Stolen Laptop or Android wit...

Why do update if there is nothing to update

120 GB USB External HDD for only $24 (lowest I ever saw)

HTML5 : Up and Running

Why one should never select typical installation and always go for custom

Getting Started with WCF REST

Getting started with TDD using Rhino Mock

Rhino Mock Links :

MbUnit Links :

Dependency Injection (StructureMap) :

Online development environment

Deploy your applications in seconds