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Some notes on tfpt.exe from Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (2010/2013/2015) Power Tools extension

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/23

Some links.

First tfpt:

Old name: Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools.

Then witAdmin:

With API:

 

–jeroen

via: Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools extension.

Links to past posts about tfpt:

Posted in .NET, Development, Power User, PowerToys, Software Development, Source Code Management, TFS (Team Foundation System), Visual Studio and tools, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Some useful links on bash parameters: $1, $*, $@, quotes, etc.

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/22

Some notes with the links I found them:

Syntax Effective result
$* $1 $2 $3 … ${N}
$@ $1 $2 $3 … ${N}
"$*" "$1c$2c$3c…c${N}"
"$@" "$1" "$2" "$3" … "${N}"

–jeroen

Posted in bash, Development, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

German trains show Kernel, IP-address *and* MAC address

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/21

A long time ago, I found out German trains can show a Kernel version number during their boot sequence (sometimes even at their station, in this case Hannover Central Station). Recently, I found who posted the original of the picture (Volker Briegleb) and through reddit that Volker had posted more pictures on a twitter thread.

So this train showed:

  • Kernel: 6.1.0.0
  • IP: 10.0.0.196
  • MAC: 74:38:89:00:66:C9

The MAC address indicates the network device is made by ANNAX Anzeigesysteme GmbH.

–jeroen

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Writing tests for http / https request: Postman, SoapUI, Advanced REST client.

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/21

I’m using these Chrome Extensions for most of the http / https call mockups, and after that put them in SoapUI (which despite the name also does REST and has come a long way sinceSource: SoupUI – as sometimes that is the only thing that works):

You can get both Postman versions through GetPostman.com as well.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET, C#, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Chrome, Communications Development, Development, Google, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, Power User, REST, Software Development, TCP | 1 Comment »

On Windows 7, Visual Studio 2015 wanted Internet Explorer 10… here are the direct links to download it

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/20

Boy, don’t you dislike how hard it is to find direct download links…

Well, thanks to kenorb and jjlin (slightly edited):

Check: IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10, IE11 Offline Installers Download Links – kenorb Mar 20 ’15 at 13:39 – http://www.itechtics.com/download-internet-explorer-all-versions/ – note this does not provide hashes.

jjlin:

Try these Microsoft offline installer links:

These may refuse to work if you already have IE 11 installed, though. If it is refused, try this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20043971/how-to-downgrade-from-internet-explorer-11-to-internet-explorer-10

And in case these links ever stop working and you must obtain a copy from a non-Microsoft source, here are the SHA-512 hashes for posterity:

  • 32-bit: d89ba3f9978be428ac05b182481198ab0f7b0c0651e4716e63cd0cf907d739cbc30f44ec9c444da683869473a548cd99e5c396467b2898f7c382b6345b3e70d2
  • 64-bit: f1752bb6517fe15071e5f7a4fee4b8680da1bdad1df7054ab22bab78fe0f46aee177787f60ea2cfc86a2db2b08429e2cba3cfdd20ba6a2ab69e091c7784dfdae

Source: internet explorer 10 – Does Microsoft still have a link to download IE10 for Windows 7? – Super User

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, Development, Internet Explorer, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio and tools, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 7 | Leave a Comment »

When a fresh install of Bonobo Git Server on Windows 7 IIS 7 gives you a “HTTP Error 404.0 – Not Found”

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/16

HTTP Error 404.0 - Not Found

HTTP Error 404.0 – Not Found

Had this on a fresh Bonobo Git Server on a relatively fresh Windows 7 installation:

HTTP Error 404.0 – Not Found

At first I thought it was missing ASP because of the “StaticFile” in the error information, so I enabled it:

ASP is not enabled by default

ASP is not enabled by default

Enable ASP

Enable ASP

That didn’t help, so I searched for “MapRequestHandler” “HTTP Error 404.0 – Not Found” and found:

  1. HTTP Error 404.0 – Not Found (MapRequestHandler / StaticFile) when deploying WCF Web API on IIS 7.x | Alexander Zeitler
  2. aspnet_regiis.exe -i is still a solution : Fixing HTTP Error 404.0 – Not Found (MapRequestHandler / StaticFile) when deploying an application in IIS 7.x | Michael Hidalgo

Though ASP.NET was clearly enabled according to the Windows features, this was apparently for an old ASP.NET version so I manually re-registered ASP.NET (but now for Version 4: I had 4.6.1 installed):

C:\Windows\System32>%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -ir
Microsoft (R) ASP.NET RegIIS version 4.0.30319.0
Administration utility to install and uninstall ASP.NET on the local machine.
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Start installing ASP.NET (4.0.30319.0) without changing existing web applications to use this version of ASP.Net.
.....
Finished installing ASP.NET (4.0.30319.0) without changing existing web applications to use this version of ASP.Net.

Windows 7 is .NET 2.0 all over the place…

Then it still didn’t work, but the second tip above also mentioned the application pool. And since Bonobo insists installing in wwwwroot, it’s using the default application which on Windows 7 – surprise! – is ASP.NET 2.0:

Default Windows 7 application pool for wwwroot uses ASP.NET 2.0

Default Windows 7 application pool for wwwroot uses ASP.NET 2.0

ASP.NET 4.0 needs to be the default.

ASP.NET 4.0 needs to be the default.

Changing that to ASP.NET 4.0 made it all work.

Read the prerequisites

Too bad that ASP.NET registration part is only prominently visible in the readme.md on github, but not in the installation instructions of the web-site with a tiny link (overwhelmed by the screenshots) to prerequisites.

Same for the default credentials:

  • username admin
  • password admin

–jeroen

 

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Aliases for tools removed from `net-tools` package – via: openSUSE Build Service

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/16

Since quite a few commands that you regularly see mentioned on the web have been removed from OpenSuSE net-tools, I’ve created a few bash aliases in /etc/bash.bashrc.local below.

Note the original commands are not good have been deprecated for years on various distros and therefore removed:

# stuff removed from net-tools
# see https://features.opensuse.org/317197 and https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/network:utilities/net-tools/net-tools.changes
## Because of changes on Thu Apr 10 12:33:41 UTC 2014
alias "arp=echo 'use \"ip neigh\" or \"ip -r neight\"' && ip neigh"
alias "ifconfig=echo 'use \"ip a\"' && ip a"
alias "netstat= echo 'use \"ss\" or \"ss -r\"' && ss"
alias "route=echo 'use \"ip r\"' && ip r"
## Because of changes on Sun Mar 29 00:41:21 UTC 2015
alias "ipmaddr=echo 'use \"ip maddr\"' && ip maddr"
alias "iptunnel=echo 'use \"ip tunnel\"' && ip tunnel"

Some bits of the net-tools change-log:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Sun Mar 29 00:41:21 UTC 2015 - jengelh@inai.de
- ipmaddr and iptunnel are obsolete too, move them to subpackage.
(Superseded by `ip maddr` and `ip tunnel`)
- remove redundant %clean section
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Apr 10 12:33:41 UTC 2014 - mmarek@suse.cz
- Move arp, ifconfig, netstat and route to a -deprecated subpackage
(fate#317196, fate#317197)
- Drop the rarp tool, which has been broken since kernel 2.3

Note that the -lntu parameter seems to be the same for both ss and netstat: [WayBack] Get a list of Open Ports in Linux – Super User

–jeroen

via File net-tools.changes of Package net-tools – openSUSE Build Service.

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, bash, Development, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, SuSE Linux | Leave a Comment »

How to overcome “Stuck while installing Visual Studio 2015 (Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2999226))” via – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/15

Visual Studio 2015 install stuck on

Visual Studio 2015 install stuck on “acquiring” KB2999226

I had exactly the same when installing Visual Studio 2015 on a Windows 7 x64 system: stuck on “Acquiring” the “Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2999226)”.

So as mentioned in the StackOverflow answers for the below question, I manually downloaded “Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2999226)” which you can get directly at https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/1/5/11565A9A-EA09-4F0A-A57E-520D5D138140/Windows6.1-KB2999226-x64.msu.

Be sure to quit both the Visual Studio 2015 installation as well as any (“automagically interfering” background Windows Updates), as otherwise you get this error:

--------------------------- Windows Update Standalone Installer --------------------------- Only one instance of wusa.exe is allowed to run. --------------------------- OK ---------------------------

---------------------------
Windows Update Standalone Installer
---------------------------
Only one instance of wusa.exe is allowed to run.
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------

If you still get that error, then

  • try to stop/start the wuauserv service: usually it gets rid of the error.
  • When it still occurs, try a clean boot, then re-apply the KB.

Applying the KB can take a long while, even on fast hardware.

–jeroen

Source: Stuck while installing Visual Studio 2015 (Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2999226)) – Stack Overflow

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How to: Set a Thread Name in Native Code

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/15

This is what the Delphi [WayBack] System.Classes.TThread.NameThreadForDebugging (introduced in Delphi 2010) is based on:

//
// Usage: SetThreadName (-1, "MainThread");
//
#include <windows.h>
const DWORD MS_VC_EXCEPTION=0x406D1388;

#pragma pack(push,8)
typedef struct tagTHREADNAME_INFO
{
   DWORD dwType; // Must be 0x1000.
   LPCSTR szName; // Pointer to name (in user addr space).
   DWORD dwThreadID; // Thread ID (-1=caller thread).
   DWORD dwFlags; // Reserved for future use, must be zero.
} THREADNAME_INFO;
#pragma pack(pop)

void SetThreadName( DWORD dwThreadID, char* threadName)
{
   THREADNAME_INFO info;
   info.dwType = 0x1000;
   info.szName = threadName;
   info.dwThreadID = dwThreadID;
   info.dwFlags = 0;

   __try
   {
      RaiseException( MS_VC_EXCEPTION, 0, sizeof(info)/sizeof(ULONG_PTR), (ULONG_PTR*)&info );
   }
   __except(EXCEPTION_EXECUTE_HANDLER)
   {
   }
}

Related:

For Delphi 2009 and 2007: It is implemented in the SetThreadName method of the IdGlobal unit.

–jeroen

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Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 ISO locations

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/14

Direct Microsoft download URLs for the various Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 ISO files.

I won’t even try myself finding them through the Microsoft sites any more given the trouble I had: How can I get Win10_1511_1_English_x64.iso or Win10_1511_1_EnglishInternational_x64.iso ? « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

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