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Enabling JavaScript in Community Server 2008
I have been wanting to add JavaScript to my posts for months but have never gotten it to work. I can usually get around using JavaScript but I decided that I wanted to add a Digg tag at the bottom and that requires some JavaScript. Open the communityserver...
Windows Vista VPN Client Connection Issues
I had a problem connecting to my companies VPN a while ago. I found running the following helpful: Uninstall PPTP & L2TP Protocols: Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. PS C:\Windows\System32> netcfg...
Ink in WPF -- Using TextInputPanel for Text Input
WPF has built-in controls for ink, but is missing much of the API that is available in the TabletPC SDK 1.7. As a result, unless you are doing the most basic and mundane ink you will be required to use this library. One of those basic things that are...
Easily Generate Business Objects From The Database
I know the title of this post is a little bit of a misnomer, business objects will never map 1 to 1 with relational database objects. However, when just starting out and when you get to control the schema of the database, it sure makes a good starting...
Bug in Visual Studio 2008 SP1?
This is just a quick post. I had a bug where any time I tried to compile a WPF project on my laptop I got the following pair of errors: Error Message 1: The "SplashScreen" parameter is not supported by the "MarkupCompilePass1" task...
Moving a WPF Window Without a Title Bar
here is some great code for moving a window without a title bar. Step 1: Make your window transparent < Window x : Class ="TestWpfApp.Window1" xmlns ="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns : x ="http...
Fixing the Pesky 2 Downloads at a Time Limit in IE7
Have you ever noticed that with IE7 you can only download 2 files from any given domain at any given time? It's actually slightly worse than that, you may only have 2 connections total, including a connection to request web pages. That means if you are...
Encrypting Configuration Information for ASP.NET
Every company I consult with invariably has their own "security" assembly and they all have a hard-coded encryption key with the IV and the method to decrypt is right next to the method to encrypt. This is what I call marginal protection . Yes...
Database Naming Conventions
Naming conventions are like arm pits. Everyone has them and they all stink! Well, at least that's the perspective of pretty much every developer an DBA alike. I will present my own personal philosophy for naming conventions on databases and hopefully...
Cyber Security
When I seem to have re-occurring themes happen naturally I find that those are good things to blog about. Recently I was speaking with my brother (who has incessant adware problems) about Internet Safety and Cyber Security. A week or two ago I had a stimulating...
Avoiding Circular Dependencies
The term "circular dependency" may be foreign to some programmers (especially if you do Java as it is a pretty common practice). However, anyone who has done some scripting for a referential database knows that you have to run scripts in a certain...
Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 Released & Installation Help
Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 has been released. This version is supposed to be pretty stable as I understand it. The tools on the other hand, still feel very much like a beta! I had a heck of a time getting this junk installed! The link to download...
Removing an account from the login screen in Windows XP and Windows Vista
You have no idea how it got there but one day you start your computer and get several new "accounts" you can login as. This is very annoying and frustrating! Fortunately there is a way to "hide" those accounts without affecting the...
User already exists in current database SQL Server 2005 Error 15023
I posted a blog entry a while back about how to change the owner of a database. What that still does not solve is the problem you have when there is a database user in the database you restored and there is a database user already in your system, each...
Restoring a SQL Server 2005 Database On A Different Machine
If you do a lot of programming on a SQL 2005 database, chances are this has happened to you! You restore a database and try to diagram it (or make some other change) and get this error: TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express ----------...
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