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Stop FileZilla Server Interface from loading on startup

I manage a server for a client that has the FileZilla Server running as a service. Every time I connect to the server and login the FileZilla Server Interface loads and pops into focus which after some time gets a bit annoying since it is rarely needed. It appears that the option to load the [...]

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Block Facebook Event Invitiations from Friends

I’m not what you would call a serious Facebook user, I don’t use it every day, probably once or twice a week but mainly to see what friends have been up to rather than to post anything. I have a few friends on Facebook that quite regularly spam me with event invitations that are and [...]

Register ASP.Net on IIS in Windows 7

In IIS on Windows 7 it appears that the ‘old fashioned’ method of using ASP.NET IIS Registration Tool (Aspnet_regiis.exe) is no longer the correct method to update the script maps. Instead the Windows feature should be enabled via the control panel by following the steps below:

Open the Control Panel
Select “Programs”
Select “Turn Windows Features on or [...]

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C# Utility method to populate list controls with all countries as given in ISO 3166-1

Most projects I work on need a list of countries at some point so I put together a snippet of SQL that I could reuse to create and populate a countries table in the database with all countries as given in ISO 3166-1. After recently writing a utility class to populate list controls with world [...]

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Discover which ASP.Net Worker Process Belongs to each AppPool

Ever needed to know which ASP.Net worker process (w3wp.exe)  belongs to an App Pool? Well I did recently when I needed to attach to it for debugging and there was no obvious way to find out which process related to each app pool. A little bit of research led me to discover AppCmd.exe. I wrote [...]

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Setup SMTP Logging on Windows Server 2008 by enabling the ODBC Logging module

I recently had a client who had some issues delivering mail from their site so I went to look at the SMTP logs only to find that there were none there (I am embarrassed to say). I notice that I had configured the logs to be written to a custom directory on a separate drive from the operating system and thought [...]

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