Getting a free IIS certificate for IIS served websites
This article covers how to set up free, self-renewing SSL certificates for you IIS hosted websites Download Win-acme for windows Run it Select Create New […]
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Setting up a Virtual Directory in IIS
You may have a need to server files over http. Here’s how you can achieve this via Virtual Directory. If you’re wanting authentication via username […]
DokuWiki: Change the URL of the logo link
You can change where you navigate to if you click on your logo in dokuwiki. You need to find the tpl_header.php file in your chosen […]
Custom Colours for .net Winforms Menus and Toolbars
Winforms doesn’t make customising standard controls very easy! This article shows you how to customise menus and toolbars with a fine level of granularity. For […]
Add Queries to TableAdapters in code rather than through designer
Overcome the issue of Designer Queries being brittle and being deleted on DataSet changes… One issue with using Visual Studio designer view for manipulating TableAdapters […]
Perfex Dark Theme
You can buy one for $15 or just download this and post it into Setup>Theme Style>Custom CSS. Whilst not perfect, it should do towards saving your […]
Solved: Poor image transparency in TreeView control
.net’s Treeview control has a sticky issue when using transparent images via ImageList. Solved… I was noticing crappy rendering when using the standard ImageList <> […]
Optimising IIS for php and WordPress
If you’re serving wordpress or other php based web applications from a windows server, then there’s a few simple things you can do to speed […]
VisualSVN auto backup script
A quick script that allows you to backup your VisualSVN Repositories to zipped files in a location of your choosing. Run this as a scheduled […]
RegEx: return match not line
A quick RegEx snippet to ensure only thew matched sub-sting is returned on a match… To extract part of a string from a line, example […]