Windows 10 gave me a challenge this morning. When I turned on my computer and went to File Explorer to access a downloaded file, File Explorer hang for a while then just crashed. Maybe it’s just an accident, so I tried again, and it crashed again the same way. Hmm, one more try…crashed. Well, it’s Windows, rebooting is a magic fix for most issues, so I reboot my computer, guess what, it didn’t fix the […]
Recently I developed a WCF Web service and deployed it to a server with SSL, however, when clients try to add the service reference in their Visual Studio IDE, the endpoint URL address generated in the web.config or app.config file points to a wrong URL address: it points to the internal machine name instead of the production URL address. Because our SSL certificate is registered with the production URL, this wrong endpoint URL address causes the security […]
By default, Windows 10 lists all user accounts on the Welcome screen which exposes all usernames, and it is not considered secure. Why it is not secure this way? Because malicious user can create a fake login screen looks like the Windows login screen, and then capture user’s credentials when a legitimate user tries to log in using the fake login screen. You can prevent this from happening by enabling a secure feature in Windows to require user […]
This SharePoint query error kept me busy for a while because the error message is very generic and useless, so I hope my experience can help someone in the future. When I ran my ASP.NET application to query a specific resource item from a SharePoint list the other day, I got this error message: Cannot complete this action. Please try again. You can see that this error is very generic and it didn’t provide much […]
If you are still running Windows 7 or 8.1, you will have about two months to upgrade your OS to Windows 10 free of charge. In July 2015, Microsoft announced that eligible Windows 7 and 8.1 users can upgrade to Windows 10 for free, and this offer will end July 29th, 2016. After the expiration of the offer, if you want to upgrade to Windows 10, you will have to buy a license which costs $119 for […]
Recently a support ticket was sent to me regarding an error customers get while trying to download a file with Google Chrome browser, and the error is ERR_RESPONSE_HEADERS_MULTIPLE_CONTENT_DISPOSITION as shown below: And this error only happens in Google Chrome browser, users of IE, FireFox, and Safari all can successfully download the file. After some further investigation, it turned out that the root cause was that the filename of the uploaded file contains a comma “,”. […]
When you develop ASP.net applications that interact with SharePoint lists, you may come to a point that you need to retrieve value from each column of a list by referencing the name of the list coluumn, however, you may end up with an error saying the column does no exist. This is because the name you use to create a column in SharePoint may not be the same as the one stored in SharePoint (which is […]
Swagbucks is an online rewards and cash back program that allows users to earn points (called SB) by doing activities such as watching videos, playing games, searching the web, shopping online stores, answering surveys, and so on. Swagbucks is a legitimate business and it is definitely worth your time, and let me show you why. Disclaimer: Swagbucks is a legitimate business and rewards you with good amount of gift cards or cash, but do not […]
A few months ago, I decided to switch my hosting provider from Arvixe to SmarterASP.net and after the switch I decided not to continue to use SSL for my site, so I terminated my SSL certificate. Within a week, I noticed that my page views have dropped tremendously, almost to single digit. After some investigation I noticed that Google still indexes my site as HTTPS instead of HTTP, even though I don’t have SSL certificate […]
To help celebrate Safer Internet Day 2016, for a limited time Google will pay users if they complete a Google account security checkup. Well, technically Google does not pay users with real money, but with 2GB of free Google drive storage permanently. So what is the catch? Well there is no catch. All you need is a quick and easy security checkup to make sure your Google account is in good shape, and it only takes about […]