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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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