Web.config Transformation Syntax for Web Project Deployment Using Visual Studio

Needed to do some work on the web.config transformations, I was finding difficulty in locating the complete set of functions which can be set to either xdt:Transform or on xdt:Locator. \

Finally found a cool link on msdn which served my purpose: 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465326.aspx

Another link which helped: 

http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/deployment/visual-studio-web-deployment/web-config-transformations

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Dibyendu

Self answered question on Stackoverflow: how-to-get-typeas-in-request-gettype-of-a-request-message-in-service-behavior

Stackoverflow is the lifeline of all the developers these days. I created a question and answered it for myself and this is my first attempt at asking a question and answering it, till date no one has upvoted the answer but I would still like to paste the link here: 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22621906/how-to-get-typeas-in-request-gettype-of-a-request-message-in-service-behavior/22640604

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Dibyendu

Faking Static constructor

I have been fixing up some legacy test cases written against Typemock 6.0.8 and was planning to get it running against Typemock 7.4.3. 

As always legacy code was faking some objects which were internally referring objects which had static constructors. 

Couple of links which helped me here : 

http://forums.typemock.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19382

http://www.paraesthesia.com/archive/2012/02/10/potential-typemock-gotcha-allow-static-construction-to-happen-before-mocking.aspx

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Dibyendu

Performance counter references

Awesome code project article
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/8590/An-Introduction-To-Performance-Counters

Followed by this an article by Mads Kristensen helped; 
http://madskristensen.net/post/create-performance-counters-using-net-and-c

Along with that another article that helped me: 
http://www.coderslexicon.com/using-performance-counters-in-the-c-language/

One of the most comprehensive writeups talking about all the aspects of the Performance counters: 
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/how-do-i-publish-a-custom-application-performance-counter-in-c/

Visual Studio TFS: Why no keyboard shortcut to view the Source Control Explorer?

A common thing which I lookup multiple times and thanks to  Ian Goodsell for blogging : 
http://blog.iangoodsell.com/2009/08/visual-studio-tfs-why-no-keyboard.html


And one request to VS team please make the dialog little larger so that a developer can see at least 10 commands.
This does not help:

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Dibyendu

How to install Windows Search Service on Windows 2008 Server R2

http://www.howtogeek.com/100691/using-server-2008-r2-as-a-desktop-os-enabling-search-and-disabling-the-shutdown-event-tracker-part-4/