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Why Aren’t More Startups Using .NET?

March 8, 2010 by Garett Leave a Comment

I’ve been reading the High Scalability blog quite a bit lately. After reading several articles over the past couple of weeks, I’m wondering where are all the web startups that are using the Microsoft stack? I believe .NET is a very productive platform on which a successful web-based product can be built, and I really … [Read more…]

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Retrieve the BizTalk Installation Path From the Registry

February 10, 2010 by Garett Leave a Comment

Recently, I wrote a utility to extract dehydrated messages from a BizTalk 2006 environment. As part of the process, I needed to figure out what folder the BizTalk software was installed in. Below is a function I quickly wrote to retrieve the BizTalk installation path from the Windows registry. I thought it might be something … [Read more…]

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Retrieving a Windows Service’s Key Name Using It’s Process ID

May 9, 2009 by Garett Leave a Comment

I was recently asked by a friend how to retrieve the name of a running windows service from the Service Control Manager (SCM) database. He wanted to do this from .NET, using the process id of the service. I started to think of different ways that this could be accomplished and came up with a … [Read more…]

Posted in: .NET Tagged: .NET, Programming

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