How to restart an azure service on regular interval using script or cronjob

Introduction This post is about implementing a web-job in azure which will restart a service on a predefined interval. When restarting a service on a predefined interval clearly says that there is some problem with the implementation, we may rely on this as an emergency measure until we tackle the problem. Here we will ignore the implication behind it but will focus on how to get this done. To get this done, we need an application in AD which...

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[Solved] How to handle log4net RollingFileAppender logging from multiple application instances

Introduction          Logging is one of the very important factor in any application. You require it to analyse what when and how things went wrong. It serves as the log of the application. But when you have multiple instance of the same application running in parallel, then you don’t have the purpose served properly by the logging mechanism as it will be writing all the log entry into the same file and the log will be cluttered. Here in this post we will discuss how to handle this typical situation when you have multiple...

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A handy alternative to Alias in windows command

Introduction:    A recent encounter in windows server where a need for a folder alias was unavoidable, we made a discovery that unlike linux, folder alias is hard to achieve in windows command for windows version less than windows 10. Though it is achievable, it is hard to achieve when the target directory path is dynamic. This lead to a search for the alternative to deploy in this scenario. The scenario was when we have to use the editbin.exe and its LARGEADDRESSAWARE where we discovered that LARGEADDRESSAWARE take only a particular...

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[Solved] WCF Application failing on windows 10 made me doubt tcp port sharing

Introduction    I started on this issue when I had my WCF service times out when I am trying a normal socket connection. This was running fine in windows 8. We had a keep-alive WCF call which tells the server that the client is still active. For this we need the port sharing to be enabled on the machine. I was on an impression that the port sharing was not working and because of which it fails. From the log I came to a conclusion that...

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[Article] How to test an application in limited network bandwidth.

Introduction   It is important that we test an application in all network conditions. This is because we may want to put demand on a system or device and measure its response to determine a system’s behavior under both normal and anticipated peak load conditions. This makes sure that the application is robust enough to handle all the network conditions before we roll out to users. It would be a painful task to do this kind of testing without...

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[Article] Setting up SQLite and EntityFramework in VisualStudio

Introduction     In this article I will explain in detail how to setup SQLite with EntityFramework. Setting up SQLite and EntityFramework is straight forward but when I tried, it turn out that the version available at the time when this article was written is not really straight forward. So I thought of sharing this in the form of an article. In this article we will see how we could setup a Database First Entity model with SQLite with...

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[Article] How to run multiple WCF services under one website in IIS 8 where each service is running on separate app-domain

Introduction     Starting with IIS 7, we can have IIS hosting application which can run on separate App-domain. Running application on separate App-domain is required when we need application to work in isolation i.e. to prevent applications in one application pool from affecting applications in another application pool on the server. An application can have several virtual directories, and each one will be served by the same App-domain...

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[Solved] How to know if the window state has changed to maximized in WPF.

Introduction     In this post we will see how we can identify if the application has been maximized or it is restored to normal state. We will use the Resize event equivalent in WPF which is SizeChanged event. We will subscribe to this event and will check the window state to identify if the window has been maximized or it is restored to normal. Application.Current.MainWindow.SizeChanged += WindowSizeChanged; private void WindowSizeChanged(object sender, SizeChangedEventArgs e) { this.HandleWindowState(); } private void HandleWindowState() { ...

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