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  Hi All, Recently I had a requirement to find out the OS Version of remote machine but RPC calling were blocked in all machines due to security reasons. So I had to find another way. I achieved this task simply by querying our organisation Active Directory by computer name. I have copied the method I used to achieve this task. public string GetOSVersion(string computername)         {             DirectoryEntry deRoot;             string RootPath;             RootPath = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ADPath"];             deRoot = new DirectoryEntry(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ADPath"],                                         ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ADUsername"],                   ...

 Hi Guys, Recently I encountered an issue of Notification Emails not being sent when an event occurred within my companies Azure DevOps environment. After spending hours going through log files, databases still I couldn't find any issue. Finally I went to the DevOps servers and found out the server time was wrong and once I fixed it. We started receiving Notification Emails. Hope this Helps someone    

  Hi All,  I faced this issue while adding WCF Service Reference to my .NET Core application. Since our environment was behind proxy I had to do the following to solve it.   Step 1 -           Go to % AppData %\NuGet\NuGet.Config -           Then add proxy details inside <configuration> < config >          < add key = "http_proxy" value = " http://192.168.21.110:8080 " /> </ config >            Step 2 run the below command in command prompt         dotnet tool install --global dotnet-svcutil          

 Hi, Recently I had a requirement to enumerate folders/Items within a TFS project. The below is the powershell script I used to achieve it. $url = "http://tfsserver:8080/tfs" $folders = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "$url/CodePortal/QuickWinProjects/_apis/tfvc/items" -Method Get -UseDefaultCredentials -ContentType application/json $folders.value.ForEach({    Write-Host $_.path })

Hi Guys, Recently we had a requirement to compress (gzip) all the dynamic aspx pages within our Sharepoint portal to be compressed before sent to the browser. So this was the module I created to get the task done. Enable Dynamic Page Compression in IIS then add the module in web.config public class GZipCompressionModule : IHttpModule     {         public GZipCompressionModule()         {         }         void IHttpModule.Dispose()         {         }         void IHttpModule.Init(HttpApplication context)         {             context.BeginRequest += Context_BeginRequest;             context.EndRequest += Context_EndRequest;         }         private void Context_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)     ...

  Hi Guys, 1)      Please update VS 2019 to Version 16.11.11 by Clicking Help -> Check For Updates 2)       Run your project Make Code Changes Press on the Fire Icon to apply code changes without Restarting Project

  Hi Guys, I recently learnt the fundamentals of python, one of widely used languages right now. It is super fast in executing and I recommend everyone to give it a try. So I decided to the create a Simple API which will connect to a SQL Server database to perform CRUD operations. Hope you enjoy.  1) Make sure you have installed python     Go to command prompt type " python --version ", it will return the installed version of python in your computer as shown in the image. If it throws an error, don't worry you can go   to https://www.python.org/downloads/ to download the latest version of python to your pc 2) Install pyodbc to connect to SQL Server Database      Go to command prompt type " pip install pyodbc " 3) Install flask to create the api application      Go to command prompt type " pip install flask " 4) Open Visual Studio Code and create a new file "sqlapi.py" and paste the following code import  pyodbc  impor...