Brian Donahue It always works on my machine. Probably the most common question that the Red Gate developer tools support gets is “Does your X work with Y?”... 18 January 2012 2 min read
Brian Donahue Event-Driven Debugging Most application troubleshooting involves getting an error, analyzing the error message, and at worst, attaching a debugger to work out... 15 October 2011 3 min read
Brian Donahue My application had a WindowsIdentity crisis The project I have been working on this week to test computer environments needs to do various actions as a... 17 March 2011 2 min read
Brian Donahue Anatomy of a serialization killer As I had mentioned last month, I have been working on a project to create an easy-to-use managed debugger. It’s... 19 December 2010 3 min read
Brian Donahue Updating the managed debugging API for .NET v4 In any successful investigation, the right tools play a big part in collecting evidence about the state of the “crime scene”... 24 November 2010 5 min read
Brian Donahue Installing databases using Wix In the promised second half of my Wix installment, I am going to demonstrate how you can install a SQL... 06 November 2008 6 min read
Brian Donahue Arrrrgh! Wix! This week’s time-eater, for me, was to try to create an installer package (MSI) with custom actions that install databases... 21 October 2008 5 min read
Brian Donahue ASP .NET: when a crash is not a crash In the mysterious viscera of Microsoft Internet Information Server, nothing is as it seems. When applications are designed to work... 24 September 2008 4 min read
Brian Donahue Man eats crow, film at eleven Last week I’d had a bit of a rant here about not using software for anything other than what it is... 12 August 2008 3 min read
Brian Donahue DOH! It’s the DaftOperationHandler Probably my least favourite question in the world, professionally anyway, is “Does your software support <choose a technology>”. Well,... 05 August 2008 3 min read
Brian Donahue Po man’s patchworkin’ If you had come of age before Component Object Model as I have, the concept of COM registration seemed rather... 27 March 2008 6 min read
Brian Donahue Need to loosen my bindings Microsoft .NET’s runtime provides an execution engine for Just-In-Time compiled code, but it also has the clandestine capability to pre-compile code... 13 November 2007 4 min read
Brian Donahue Database backup: insufficient resources for cache withdrawal Sometimes SQL Server can pose conundrums of such complexity that even the Riddler couldn’t conceive of. In my mind’s eye, a... 30 September 2007 5 min read
Brian Donahue How to rewind a SQL Server I work for a company that sells software. And SOME people, because of their untrusing nature, need to be convinced... 20 September 2007 8 min read
Brian Donahue Support’s line in the sand Some months ago, I took my car in for a safety inspection, and the garage found a small hole on... 15 September 2007 3 min read
Brian Donahue Learning to play the symbols If you are ever tasked to figure out what’s happening inside an application, one of the essential bits of information... 08 September 2007 6 min read
