Connecting to SSIS 2008 Without Local Admin

The default install of SSIS only allows users with local admin rights on the server to connect. This can be...

SQL Server Development Permissions

After setting up a new SQL Server instance for development I found the following permissions were needed extra permissions were...

Self Hosting WCF Services With Transport Security

When developing and debugging transport security WCF services it’s a real pain if each developer on the team needs to...

Configuring/Authenticating with Identity Server in C#

In my previous post I walked through configuring ADFS and writing a small C# console app to authenticate with it...

AD FS Token Based Authentication In Code

I’m writing this post more as documentation for myself as I know I will be repeating this process quite a...

MVVM Page Navigation Using MVVM Light On WP7

Page navigation can be a pain to achieve in a true MVVM way, I recently ran in to this problem...

SQL Availability Groups VM Sandbox Step By Step

In this post I am going to walk you through creating a virtual environment from the ground up to play...

Automated Disk Space Alerts For Windows Server

PowerShell Style
I recently needed to automate disk alerts for each of our servers, to keep it simple I wrote a...

C# Explicit Interface Implementation

In C# it is possible to write classes that implement an interface but only show the methods of the interface...

SQL Server Service Broker Explained

What is Service Broker?
Service Broker is a native SQL Server implementation of message queues.

What are message queues?
Message queues are a...