Lightweight WebService Testing Tool

WebService Studio 2 available for download at https://code.google.com/p/webservicestudio2/

WebServices have evolved but there's still a lot of ASMX Web Service out there.

ASMX is simple and because it is simple, it isn’t very powerful, but you still have to work with them.

Instead of downloading SoapUI massive 1OO MB installer for basic testing why not use this tool 200KB Executable, I definitetly do!

Regular Expression Tester

Check out https://regex101.com Great Online Regular Expression Tester, with a full reference help and awesome explanation of the regular expression that you're building. It's specially helpful when the regular expression starting getting big and it's hard to find mistakes

View user permissions in SQL SERVER

Hi, To check your permissions just run the following queries and you'll get a list of assigned permissions SELECT * FROM fn_my_permissions(NULL, 'SERVER'); USE YourDatabaseName; SELECT * FROM fn_my_permissions (NULL, 'DATABASE'); GO

DTS_E_CANNOTACQUIRECONNECTIONFROMCONNECTIONMANAGER. (0xC0209303)

Whenever this error happens

SSIS Error Code DTS_E_CANNOTACQUIRECONNECTIONFROMCONNECTIONMANAGER.   failed with error code 0xC0209303


Check you connection string if the provider is

;Provider=sqlncli10.1

In my case the was because I had a connection string with Provider=SQLNCLI.1 from Integration 2005 and when I upgraded to 2008 didn't change it.

It took me along time to find this out hope it helps

Error when workflow is running in publishing page

I had a custom workflow associated with a content type  used by a publishing page, that gave this error

[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.] Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.WorkflowUtilities.GetAssociationDataValue(CachedWorkflow workflow, String xmlNodeName) +124


Digging throught the web I found a solution.


We need to had this association data to the workflow


<my:myFields xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:my=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/myXSD\" xml:lang=\"en-us\"><my:ItemChangeStop>false</my:ItemChangeStop></my:myFields>


Apparently Sharepoint is looking for node called "ItemChangeStop"


Thanks to Julien C (http://www.sharepointdev.net/sharepoint--workflow/sharepoint-error-when-editing-documents-with-custom-content-types-44343.shtml)


Somewhere else people talked about and hotfix from microsot that isn't available on the web ...

Error using TextAlignment="Justify"

When using TextAlignment="Justify" in a  TextBlock a windows phone application unexpectedly exits.

After some digging apparently this alignment isn't supported on this control. Although appear as an option is a bug.

How to Configure Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)

Just run the following commands


NET TIME /SETSNTP:time.windows.com
NET STOP W32TIME
NET START W32TIME
W32TM /config /reliable:YES
W32TM /resync /rediscover

Just replace time.windows.com with closest atomic clock address

For instance for Portugal the address is "ntp02.oal.ul.pt"