Booting Windows with Hyper-V turned off
Windows technology called Hyper-V is enabled by default on Windows boot in case of using Hyper-V compatible hardware. This creates a conflict with some virtualization software like VMWare or VirtualBox. The fastest solution for this problem is creating alternative boot option for the same system partition, with Hyper-V option turned off. And the fastest way to do this is to use good old windows command prompt.
C#: authentication at proxy
C#: basic authentication at XML web-service
In order to do a basic authentication, with username and password, for your request to remote XML web-service you have to set Credentials property of request object.


C#: send and recieve SOAP packets as plain text
This is a simple example of a way to exchange plain text SOAP messages with XML web-service, without the use of OOP wrappers. This code may be refactored by removing the use of XmlDocument and XmlTextWriter classes.
Fastest way to edit environment variables in Windows 10
Environment variables are really old windows system settings, but these settings are still in use. In order to edit environment variables in Windows 10 usually you should walk this long path:
1. Get to "classic" System settings. You may right-click on This PC desktop icon and select Properties command from pop-up context menu. Also you may open "classic" Control panel (fast way is to do a search for Control panel desktop app), click System and security, click System.
File system has changed from NTFS to Raw - Problem and solution
If your NTFS file system has changed to RAW - that's probably because your drive partition table has broken. But your data is still there and you can get it back to life. There are a lot hard drive utilites you can use - commercial and free, simple and multimegabyte fancy monsters. But this time I want to tell you about simple, but powerful command line utility, that solves your problem in a few seconds - TestDisk.
ICQ client for Windows Phone 7: IM+
New toy: Samsung Omnia W GT-I8350 based on Windows Phone 7



Oracle: connection string without tnsnames.ora file
Sometimes you have to code an Oracle connection and you don't have a way to modify tnsnames.ora. This is the way to solve this problem. Use this form of oracle connection string:
Data Source=(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=MyHost)(PORT=MyPort)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVER=DEDICATED)(SERVICE_NAME=MyOracleSID)));User Id=myUsername;Password=myPassword;
Ringtones for Windows Phone 7


