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Naming Conventions:

• Naming primary key in both database and in code: WidgetId (not Id, not ID, not WidgetID)
• General naming guidelines: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ms229042 and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ff926074
• For private data members within a class, use private in _fooId;

Unit Testing:

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using System;
using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;

namespace DumpExpiredCertificates
{
    internal class Program
    {
        private static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Iterates through all of the X.509 digital certificates installed in the certificate store

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using System.Security.Principal;

// Is this thread running with Administrator role?
private static bool RunningAsAdministrator()
{
   var identity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();
   if (identity == null) return false; // Administrator should always have access to this
   var principal = new WindowsPrincipal(identity);
   return principal.IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator);
}

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# The intent is that the command is to be scheduled to be run by the Windows Scheduler once a day: http://stackoverflow.com/a/8888886
# For Windows Azure, a new Windows Scheduler task is best added by a Startup Script and, like any other machine with the default PowerShell security settings, will need the PowerShell ExecutionPolicy configured: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jimoneil/archive/2011/02/07/azure-startup-tasks-and-powershell-lessons-learned.aspx
# Bill Wilder @codingoutloud 
# See also http://blog.codingoutloud.com/2012/12/10/tidy-the-temp-folder-on-windows-azure

get-childitem $TEMP -recurse | where {$_.lastwritetime -lt (get-date).adddays(-7)} |% {remove-item $_.fullname -force -recurse -verbose}

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// .NET Storage SDK 1.7

CloudBlob destBlob = TargetContainer.GetBlobReference(destFileName);

destBlob.Properties.ContentType = "image/jpeg";
destBlob.Properties.CacheControl = "x-ms-blob-cache-control: public, max-age=31556926"; // cache for up to one year 
try
{
   destBlob.UploadFile(sourceFilespec);         
}

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// Azure Storage SDK 1.7

public static RetryPolicy TrackingRetryExponential(int maxRetryCount, TimeSpan minBackoff, TimeSpan maxBackoff, TimeSpan deltaBackoff, ILog logger)
{
   logger.InfoFormat(
      "Setting TrackingRetryExponential: maxRetryCount = {0}, minBackoff = {1}, maxBackoff = {2}, deltaBackoff = {3}",
      maxRetryCount, minBackoff, maxBackoff, deltaBackoff);

   return () => (int currentRetryCount, Exception lastException, out TimeSpan retryInterval) =>
   {

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Invoke-WebRequest https://gist.github.com/codingoutloud/3318347/raw/ -OutFile .\.gitignore

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using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;

namespace DevPartners
{
   /// <summary>
   /// Power Switch for the Azure Emulator processes. Make it easy to programmatically turn Storage or Compute emulation On or Off.
   /// </summary>
   public static class AzureEmulatorPowerSwitch

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  <system.webServer>
    <rewrite>
      <rules>
        <rule name="Force HTTPS" enabled="true">
          <match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="false" />
          <conditions>
            <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" appendQueryString="true" redirectType="Permanent" />
        </rule>

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# original: https://gist.github.com/codingoutloud/6730043
# (inspired by http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kwill/archive/2013/08/26/azuretools-the-diagnostic-utility-used-by-the-windows-azure-developer-support-team.aspx)

# MANUALLY FIRST DO THIS from ELEVATED PowerShell command prompt
<#
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Force ; New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path c:\tools ; cd c:\tools ; notepad c:\tools\relax.ps1
#>

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