For example:

To combat the potential for an exuberant amount of useless data being returned from this kind of query, you will need to wrap your XQuery statement within an another SELECT statement. E.g:

SELECT
[SubmissionID]
,	[SubmissionDate]
, [xdata]
FROM (
SELECT
[SubmissionID]
,	[SubmissionDate]
,	[XmlData].query('for $g in (/Submission/google_campaign_tracking)
where contains($g, "MyText")
return $g') AS xdata
FROM [MyDatabase]

ORDER BY submissionid DESC
) A
WHERE CAST(xdata AS VARCHAR(MAX)) != ''

The cast at the bottom is important! So what you end up with is:

I got this tip from Microsoft’s MSDN forum

So they gave us a call and we looked into it. After going through the usual steps in debugging an issue, we couldn’t find a reason for this to be happening. But after some Googling on the issue “JPEGs not showing up in IE”, we found something that pointed us the right direction.

It turns out that IE can only process/show JPEGs that have the color profile of sRGB. All the other browsers take into account the possibility of an image with a profile different to RGB.

To fix the problem is simple. Open the image in Photoshop and change image mode to RGB and save the file. Voila! it now shows in IE.

Also we noticed that the file size of a Pantone JPEG is significantly bigger than the file that was created with the sRGB profile. Something to look out for.

I hope this helps someone.

• SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark – http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.html
• V8 Benchmark Suite Version 6 – http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/benchmarks/v6/run.html

Cool Runnings!

How-to:

1. Install IIS on the VPN server with all security settings marked for installation
2. Use a valid trusted SSL certificate (E.g: verisign, Geotrust etc)
3. Assign the cert to the website with the same domain name (CN), or assign the host name to website with cert already setup
4. Install Routing and Remote Access using the “Add Role Wizard” in Server Manager.
   1. Select the Network Policy and Access Services check box, click Next, and then click Next again.
   2. In the Select Role Services dialog box, under Role services, select the Routing and Remote Access Services check box.
   3. Click Next, and then click Install.
   4. In the Installation Results dialog box, click Close.
5. Configure Routing and Remote Access
   1. Load the Routing and Remote Access (RRA) MMC and run the wizard to enable it ( - Select Custom -> VPN (if you are using only 1 NIC) from the setup wizard
   2. Once the configuration wizard is finished, click “Start service“
   3. Right-click on the server node in the RRA manager, and select Properties.
   4. Click the IPv4 tab and under the “IPv4 address assignment” section, select “Static address pool” and enter in your address pool for the remote connections. Note, this should be a private IP address range
   5. Click “OK” and “OK” to finish
   6. Configure Network Access Policy (Add a new access policy)
      1. Right-click the “Remote Access Logging & Policies“
      2. Select “Launch NPS”
      3. In the “Network Policy Server” window, right-click on the “Network Policies” node and select “New”
      4. Given policy name. E.g: Remote Users Group.
      5. Set the “Type of network access server” to “Remote Access Server”
      6. Add condition, click on “Windows Groups”, click “Add…” and select the Windows Group to grant access to
      7. Once all your conditions are added, click in the Next button
      8. Verify that “Access granted” is selected
      9. Accept all other defaults.
6. Verify that the port 443 (SSL) is open on the Windows Firewall and anyother firewall between the server and the Internet
7. Add users to the Windows group that has been granted access in the network policy

Secure Windows File Sharing (Windows Vista/7)

1. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Windows Firewall with Advanced Security.
2. In the console tree, click Inbound Rules.
3. Find the Public rules in the “File and Printer Sharing” group.
4. For each of the rules, except “Echo Request – ICMPv4-In and “Echo Request – ICMPv6-In”:
   1. Open the properties
   2. Click the “Scope” tab
   3. In the “Remote IP address” section, click “These IP addresses”.
   4. Click the Add button
   5. Enter the IP addresses/subnets/range to allow access to.
   6. Click “OK” and “OK”

Test the rules, by running a port scan on the server from an external entity. I recommend: Shields Up or Advanced Port Scanner

You may need to create a rule block inbound port 135 on ther server.

Client Connection Setup
Configure the hosts file

1. On CLIENT1, click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator.
2. In the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue.
3. In the command window, type the following and then press ENTER: notepad %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
4. Add IP and domain name to the file. E.g: 192.168.0.2         vpn1.server.com
5. Save and close the hosts file.
6. Ping the domain name entered to see if you get a response. Please note that the server may not respond if the firewall(s) block ping requests - On the server, in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security, check that: File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request – ICMPv4-In) for the Public profile is enabled

SSL VPN connection

1. Open the Control Panel.
2. Click Network and Internet, click Network and Sharing Center, and then click Set up a connection or network.
3. Click Connect to a workplace, and then click Next.
4. Click Use my Internet connection (VPN).
5. Click I’ll set up an Internet connection later.
6. In Internet address, type vpn1.contoso.com, and then click Next.
7. In the Type your user name and password dialog box. DON’T CONNECT WHEN ASKED
8. Finish and close the wizard.
9. Back at  Network and Sharing Center, open the properties of the newly created VPN connection.
10. Click the Networking tab.
11. From the Type of VPN drop-down list, select Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP), and then click OK.

Try connecting with the new VPN connection. Everything should go well!

If you run into issues try to connecting or accessing a share, turn on the Windows firewall log:

1. In the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
2. Select “Windows Firewall Properties”
3. Click the “Public Profile” tab.
4. Click “Customize” button
5. Select “Yes” from the “Log dropped packets” dropdown list
6. Click “OK” and “OK”

Resources:

Windows Server 2008 SSL VPN (SSTP)

Step-by-Step Guide: Deploying SSTP Remote Access

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP

Instead, I realized that the order of the property assignments is based on the order of the properties the class definition! I guess there is optimization/reflectiion happening in the background. E.g:


private class Class1 {

private Class1() { ... }

public string PropY { ... }

public string PropX { ... }

}


I was working on a .NET 3.5 SP1 app.

Any one else notice this or have a better explanation?

Anyone else having this problem? Or even a solution?

This error is evident when you have setup a handler to process requests in ASP.NET. In my case, I was trying to handle requests to “.json” extension in my ASP.NET app.

or an exception message: An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007000B)

The problem is IIS is currently running in 64 bit mode and you are trying to load a 32 bit application into its worker process. To resolve this, you will need to configure the IIS app pool to run in 32 bit mode. You can do so, by editing the pool’s advanced settings. Change the option of  “Enable 32bit Applications” to True.

This only applies to the 64-bit versions of Windows running IIS. You will not have this problem on the x86 (32 bit) Windows versions … but you are also limited to to amount of usable RAM  … booo!

Unfortunately, it is not a native Windows application and requires Cygwin in order to get it to work in the Windows environment. But once it is setup and working, it’s an awesome tool!

Here are some quick steps to get it all setup:

1. Download the latest source from http://code.google.com/p/skipfish/downloads/list.
2. Unzip the folder to a location on your computer.
3. Install Cygwin (Devel packages) http://www.cygwin.com/install.html (this may take a long time to download). Run installer as Administrator if UAC is enabled. Note: It may take a while for this to install, please be patient!
4. Once finished, copy the latest unzipped build to the C:\cygwin\home\<<user name>>. You can use 7-zip to unzip the archives.
5. Start the Cygwin bash console
6. Type: “make” (minus quotes). This will create the executable. You may need to nav to the directory where the source code is located.
7. Once the compile is complete, you will need to pick a dictionary for Skipfish to use. You will need to copy the dictionary to the location for Skipfish executable:  “cp dictionaries/XXX.wl dictionary.wl“

To execute the program:

./skipfish -W dictionary.wl -o ../results http://<<my_url>>

There are a lot of command switches for this program. You can find a list of them all by typing: “./skipfish -h”. Also, visit the Skipfish wiki page http://code.google.com/p/skipfish/wiki/SkipfishDoc

Enjoy