John Luif

Today I ran into a security issue with performance counters.  Turns out to create a performance counter/category Administrative privileges are needed.  I fail to see the reasoning behind needing admin permissions for perf counter creation, they are important but not that important.  Seems like a user belonging to the Performance Monitor Users group should be enough.

Anyway, the work around.  It was first set up in the Global.asax Application Start to check and create if needed the category and performance counters.  As stated above this would only work if the Application Pool was running with admin permissions which is not a good idea.  So instead of using the Global.asax for perf counter creation I moved it to a custom action on an msi installer.  This seems to be a very common approach when dealing with perf counters which it is now obvious why.

Honestly after doing some work with perf counters this seems like an area of the framework that could use some attention.  I will soon see what Orcas has to offer.

I will be presenting on New Language Features in C# 3.0 at the next front range code camp.  In this talk I will be showing some of the new language features of C# 3.0 such as Lambda Expressions, Automatic Properties, Extension Methods, Anonymous Types, Collection and Object Initializers and much more.

So what will you be presenting on?

Hope to see you all there.

This is so I do not forget where to find this.  The CleanIISScriptMaps utility cleans up the IIS metabase from possible previous WCF installations that has left the metabase in an undesirable state.

Also, “ServiceModelReg -i” may need to be ran after using the above utility.

Front Range Code Camp v2 is approaching on May 19.

If you would like to present please sign up here.

If you would like to attend please join this google group.

For me the goal of this Code Camp is to make it as diversified as possible.  So all you Java, Linux, Ruby, Robotics, C, C++, Snowball, .NET, PHP, etc. come on out and present or at least attend.

I’m pleased to announce that the Front Range Code Camp v2 is planned for Saturday May 19, 2007!

Metro State has stepped up and is providing us the North Classroom for this event.

Hope to see you there and think about what you want to present!

This is more of a reminder for myself than others.  There is a good step by step article here on how to sysprep your VMs.