Today one of the nodes in my RabbitMQ cluster was down. So I logged onto the server and opened up the cmd at the rabbitmq bin folder and tried running the following command ‘rabbitmq-service start’, however it threw an error ‘erlsrv: the service Rabbitmq is not an erlsrv controlled service’. Just run the following to resolve this error… Read More »
Setting up RabbitMQ clustring on windows is very simple, however the documentation is not great. Installing. Get the latest version from erlang.org and rabbitmq.com. Run the installers as administrator. Install erlang first. After installing enable the management web interface. Navagate to ?the rabbitMq server sbin,?C:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.6.2\sbin Open cmd at the location as admin and run the following:?… Read More »
To encrypt an ASP.NET application’s connection strings?by the path of the application, navigate to the .NET framework folder ?%windows%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\versionNumber Open the command prompt as administrator and point to the .Net directory and run the command ASPNET_REGIIS -pef “connectionStrings” “C:\Inetpub\<Application Folder>” (Point to the directory not the web.config file) If successful the following should be displayed.
Naming conventions of properties defer slightly in .NET and JavaScript. .NET uses?pascal-case and JavaScript uses camel-case. When developing a .NET API all the public properties should use the naming convention pascal-case. However if the service is consumed as an API with a JavaScript client then the json returned should be camel-case. Now you could go and add the… Read More »
Preregisters: Octopus Deploy plugin already installed in TeamCity and Octopus Deploy already setup. Please note: This guide will not run through setting up deployment steps in Octopus Deploy. Guide is based on setting up a web application in Visual studio 2013. Will not show how to actually replace values in a web.config using a transform config. 1)… Read More »
Code template: ‘ParentElement’ is the name of the element which you want to add the new child to. Always remember to save the file or it will not be updated.
As a developer who thinks in C# but who works with VB from time to time, I tend not define if a parameter is ByRef or ByVal unless I have to. I have also at times needed to describe why an application wasn?t breaking when I was assigning a value to an object?s property in a called function… Read More »
If like me you work behind a firewall you may find Bower is unable to install packages. To enable this open up ‘GIT CMD’ and run: git config –global url.”https://”.insteadOf git:// Then restart Visual Studio and retry.