As I mentioned in a previous post, I am in the process of "Going Paperless." I have decided to use Evernote as my digital repository. (I love the tags!!) One important requirement of my new information repository system is that there has to be a way to back up my data. Unfortunately, Evernote does not include a built-in backup option; however, there is a command line utility to export notes. Since I am semi-dangerous with scripting, I decided to write a batch file to create a consistent and automatic backup system.

The cause of a System.BadImageFormatException is a common question received by our developer support department. At first glance, some LEADTOOLS users think the BadImageFormatException is a LEADTOOLS specific exception because LEADTOOLS is an imaging SDK and "Image" is in the name of the exception. However, the exception has nothing to do with LEADTOOLS being an imaging SDK.

This exception is thrown when a process tries to load an assembly that is built for an incompatible architecture. The MSDN description of the exception is:

An HttpModule is a perfect way to add an HTTP header to every request in IIS. An HttpModule is an assembly that is called on every request (and as of IIS 7 this includes non-ASPNET requests). Other uses of HttpModules include tracing, logging, and security. We have a change coming up where having an HTTP header added to certain responses will be very helpful. I thought I would share my C# code for the HttpModule and some JavaScript that will use the new HTTP header on the client to display a message.

A few weeks ago, I was asked to help technical support with a new feature we are adding to our Media Streaming Server. Our developers added SSL to the Media Streaming Server, and technical support needed some SSL certificates for development and testing before we release it in mid-February.

Some years ago, I worked in the IT department, and I never delete anything. I just happened to have a few scripts that could help them streamline self-signed certificate creation.