Scania Truck Driving Simulator Brake and Accelerator switched in controller pedal

I got the Ferrari 458 Italia Racing Wheel for XBox360 and PC and hooked it up to my PC to play Scania Truck Driving Simulator

This may work for any steering wheel controller for this game

However, after starting the game, I found that the accelerator and brake are swapped. ie; Press the brake in the pedals and the truck go forward. Press the accelerator in the pedals and the truck will break and stop.. and press it further, it will go reverse!

To make it work, I had to make the following changes.

1. Run the game and create a profile
2. Start any game (example freeform driving) and then press escape to find options
3. Make sure Keyboard + controller is selected and in the controller selection, click and press your Brake and Accelerator to register under Acceleration Axis and Brake Axis. The both should register as Joystick Z axis.  Also you can notice that see that they work opposite
4. Now quit the game 
5. In windows go to the following location :- C:\Users\\Documents\SCANIA Truck Driving Simulator\profile\44696E. Note that 44696E may not be the profile you see.. if you have only one profile in the game, there is only one folder here. 
6. Inside this folder you can see file controls.sii
7. This is a text file, so open this file in your favorite text editor, example notepad
8. Locate the following lines in the file
• config_lines[124]: "mix aforward `normalize(sel(c_jcombined, -j_throttle?0, (-j_throttle?1 * -0.5 + 0.5)), c_throt_dz)`"
• config_lines[125]: "mix abackward `normalize(sel(c_jcombined, j_brake?0, (j_brake?1 * -0.5 + 0.5)), c_brake_dz)`"
9. Change -j_throttle to j_throttle and j_brake to -j_brake
• config_lines[124]: "mix aforward `normalize(sel(c_jcombined, j_throttle?0, (j_throttle?1 * -0.5 + 0.5)), c_throt_dz)`"
• config_lines[125]: "mix abackward `normalize(sel(c_jcombined, -j_brake?0, (j_brake?1 * -0.5 + 0.5)), c_brake_dz)`"
10. Save the file
11. Run the game again, and now the throttle and brake should be working as it should be!

Windows 8, 8.1, 10 File explorer crashes after some time or clicking on the desktop

Please try below as solution:

Control Panel ==> Appearance and Personalization ==> file explorer options ==> click 'Clear' button next to Clear File Explorer history


if you are in explorer, you can copuy paste below in the address bar
Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\File Explorer Options

IIS Unable to start debugging on the web server

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Unable to start debugging on the web server. Could not start ASP.NET debugging. More information may be available by starting the project without debugging.

Click Help for more information.
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OK   Help  
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Solution: Please check to make sure the app pool you are debugging against is running. If its stopped, visual studio will give this error message

C# use proxy with HttpClient request

Posting a JSON string to server using a proxy

var httpClientHandler = new HttpClientHandler
{
    Proxy = new WebProxy("http://localhost:8888", false),
    UseProxy = true
};
using (var client = new HttpClient(httpClientHandler))
{
    string apiUrl = "http://yourserver.com/postpage";
    StringContent content = new System.Net.Http.StringContent("{dataelem:value}", Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
    HttpResponseMessage response = client.PostAsync(apiUrl, content).Result;
}

Execute arbitrary c# code at runtime, like a script

Here, we are compiling the c# code at runtime, and executing the result directly from in memory. The class is instantiated, and the method is called dynamically. The result, in this case a string is read back after the code executes

using Microsoft.CSharp;
using System.CodeDom.Compiler;
using System.Reflection;

        public string RunCodeSnippet(string sCSharpCodeSnippet)
        {
            string sCSharpSource =
            @"using System;
              namespace com.mycomp
              {
                  public class MyClass
                  {
                     public string RunCSharpScript()
                     {
                        return(" + sCSharpCodeSnippet + @");
                     }
                  }
              }";

            Dictionary<string, string> csProviderOptions = new Dictionary<string, string> { { "CompilerVersion", "v3.5" } };
            CSharpCodeProvider csProvider = new CSharpCodeProvider(csProviderOptions);

            CompilerParameters csCompilerParams = new CompilerParameters { GenerateInMemory = true, GenerateExecutable = false };

            CompilerResults csCompresults = csProvider.CompileAssemblyFromSource(csCompilerParams, sCSharpSource);


            if (csCompresults.Errors.HasErrors)
            {
                throw new Exception("Compile Error! - " + csCompresults.Errors[0] + Environment.NewLine + sCSharpSource);
            }

            object o = csCompresults.CompiledAssembly.CreateInstance("com.mycomp.MyClass");
            MethodInfo mi = o.GetType().GetMethod("RunCSharpScript");
            var dataout = mi.Invoke(o, null);
            return (string)dataout;
        }

Sample Usage:

            try
            {
                string sResult = RunCodeSnippet("\"The time now is : \" + DateTime.Now.ToString()");
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                sError = ex.Message;
            }

C# formatting JSON as rtf document (can be useful to display on Richtext controls or exporting rtf files)

C# code that converts JSON string to RTF

sInJSON = sInJSON.Replace("\\", "\\\\").Replace("{", "\\{").Replace("}", "\\}").Replace(Environment.NewLine, "\\line" + Environment.NewLine);
string sRTFOut = @"{\rtf1\ansi\deff0
{\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green140\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;\red0\green128\blue0;\red0\green0\blue255;\red255\green0\blue255;\red0\green0\blue128;\red0\green128\blue128}" +
    Regex.Replace(
        sInJSON,
        @"(¤(\\u[a-zA-Z0-9]{4}|\\[^u]|[^\\¤])*¤(\s*:)?|\b(true|false|null)\b|-?\d+(?:\.\d*)?(?:[eE][+\-]?\d+)?)".Replace('¤', '"'),
        match =>
        {
            var cls = "\\cf2";
            if (Regex.IsMatch(match.Value, @"^¤".Replace('¤', '"')))
            {
                if (Regex.IsMatch(match.Value, ":$"))
                {
                    cls = "\\cf3";
                }
                else {
                    cls = "\\cf4";
                }
            }
            else if (Regex.IsMatch(match.Value, "true|false"))
            {
                cls = "\\cf5";
            }
            else if (Regex.IsMatch(match.Value, "null"))
            {
                cls = "\\cf6";
            }
            return cls + match + "\\cf1";
        })
+ "}";

Please review the RTF code outputted down below.

Points to Note: The RTF file always start with {\rtf1\ansi\deff0
After this, you can declare your color palatte as: {\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green140\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;\red0\green128\blue0;\red0\green0\blue255;\red255\green0\blue255;\red0\green0\blue128;\red0\green128\blue128}
and each of these can be later referred to as \cf1, \cf2 etc
Please also note that chars \, { and } are considered special characters. If you have it in your text, please override with \. For example, } should be changed as \} to display }

Example RTF code output:

{\rtf1\ansi\deff0
{\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green140\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;\red0\green128\blue0;\red0\green0\blue255;\red255\green0\blue255;\red0\green0\blue128;\red0\green128\blue128}\{\line
    \cf3"firstName":\cf1 \cf4"John"\cf1,\line
    \cf3"lastName":\cf1 \cf4"Smith"\cf1,\line
    \cf3"isAlive":\cf1 \cf5true\cf1,\line
    \cf3"age":\cf1 \cf225\cf1,\line
    \cf3"address":\cf1\line
    \{\line
        \cf3"streetAddress":\cf1 \cf4"21 2nd Street"\cf1,\line
        \cf3"city":\cf1 \cf4"New York"\cf1,\line
        \cf3"state":\cf1 \cf4"NY"\cf1,\line
        \cf3"postalCode":\cf1 \cf4"10021-3100"\cf1\line
    \},\line
    \cf3"phoneNumbers":\cf1\line
    [\line
        \{\line
            \cf3"type":\cf1 \cf4"home"\cf1,\line
            \cf3"number":\cf1 \cf4"212 555-1234"\cf1\line
        \},\line
        \{\line
            \cf3"type":\cf1 \cf4"office"\cf1,\line
            \cf3"number":\cf1 \cf4"646 555-4567"\cf1\line
        \}\line
    ],\line
    \cf3"children":\cf1\line
    [\line
    ],\line
    \cf3"spouse":\cf1 \cf6null\cf1\line
\}\line
}

Displayed as RTF:

{
   "firstName":"John",
   "lastName":"Smith",
   "isAlive":true,
   "age":,
   "address":
   {
       "streetAddress":"21 2nd Street",
       "city":"New York",
       "state":"NY",
       "postalCode":"10021-3100"
   },
   "phoneNumbers":
   [
       {
           "type":"home",
           "number":"212 555-1234"
       },
       {
           "type":"office",
           "number":"646 555-4567"
       }
   ],
   "children":
   [
   ],
 
You can also use this method to save/export to RTF files using your winform or ASP.Net web application

Microsoft OneDrive for Business stops sync with error the server you are trying to access is using an authentication protocol not supported

After a local windows password change, OneDrive for business stopped working with error

- the server you are trying to access is using an authentication protocol not supported

This error also kept pooping up during random times (guessing onedrive was trying to do a Sync)

Turns out the cached password is not updated in the Windows credential manager.

To Solve

Go to:

1. Control Panel
2. User Accounts
3. Credential Manager
4. Windows Credentials
5. Look for the credential thats named like Microsoft* and on expanding the username matching the one you use to login
6. Delete this credential. If in doubt, you can delete all of them and no harm is done as windows will ask for the credentials again as needed
7. Now, go to onedrive.com, and login as usual. Once on the One Drive page, click Sync
8. this should open your local OneDrive for buiness app and it should start normally at this time

I encountered this problem with Office 2016 on Windows 10, and this might be a problem for other versions of Office as well