Android SDK

Hope everyone had a nice day today. I downloaded the android SDK...looks very nice. Now just need to find that one app that everyone needs. Anyone have a wish-list?

Vacation Day!

Good to have a day off...allows me to play with my new phone as well :)

Opera Unite

A friend of mine recently showed me this. It is so cool! You should check it out.

MSMQ Count with C#

We had a bug in our production environment that filled up MSMQ and would be tied to a specific windows service that we had running. In order to fix this, the solution was to stop and start the windows service. The catch was that we only wanted to do this when the MessageQueue count was above a certain number. You can get access to the class here. A snippet of the main code is below:

public void Run()
      {
          if (TotalMessagesInAllQueues() >= MessagesCriticalCount)
          {
              StopService();
              SendEmail();
              StartService();
          }
      }

private ManagementObject GetServiceByName(string name)
      {
          List list = SearchObjects(string.Format("Select * From Win32_Service WHERE Name='{0}'", name));

          if (list.Count == 0)
              throw new Exception(string.Format("Service '{0}' can not be found", name));

          return list[0];
      }

      private ulong TotalMessagesInAllQueues()
      {
          var list = SearchObjects("Select * From Win32_PerfRawData_MSMQ_MSMQService");
          return (ulong)list[0].GetPropertyValue("TotalMessagesInAllQueues");
      }    

Android Programming

I have to get into that! I love my new phone...

Testing in IE5 - IE7

I am a firefox/chrome guy..but you always need to test in IE. I had an issue with a .js file that worked in IE8 but failed in 5,6,7. I could have downloaded a virtual, but someone sent me this great tool...what a time-saver!

Administrator not needed to Run Remote PowerShell Commands

I always impersonated, but it is good to read this article.