tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622797717355333362012-01-15T01:54:40.258ZMy little place to give out nuggts of info i find in my work and play! Hopefully i help someone out along the way.Omenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06134091928790639012noreply@blogger.comBlogger621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-662279771735533336.post-21407008548737161462010-11-11T23:21:00.007Z2010-11-12T00:01:12.992Z

Remember the film Lawnmower Man where the guy went into a virtual world? See the bottom of this post for the trailer. Well maybe Microsoft Kinect could fetch something like this to the masses.I've been having a think about the sort of games that could work well with this technology and when you think about how it can recognise you and your voice, understands depth, motion and your mood etc. then

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I have put together a web application project that made use of ASP.Net web form routing but I had some strange behaviour on a certain route.The route i had added to the routes tables was: routes.Add("Admin", new Route ("Admin", new PageRouteHandler("~/Admin/help.aspx", true)));This was to point to a the help.aspx page in the admin folder.The Problem When i attempted

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So Visual Studio 2010 has finally been released. I downloaded our MSDN copy yesterday so today I will be installing in the background while i get on with other stuff - it looks a monster install!Big thumbs up to the change in versions! What used to be multiple versions to purchase (Architect, Tester, Database, Developer) are now wrapped into Ultimate for us Team Edition users! I'll let you know

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If you get this error when you deploy to a production server but it works ok in development then the cances are you have got a duplicate name issue! This generally occurs when you have a developer that may have copied a web form rather than create a new one. To resolve the issue simply rename the partial class (name of the underlying .vb or .cs class) and ensure that the inherits from in the

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In IIS5 and IIS6 it was pretty straight forward to control access to a website using the directpry security and adding rules into the IP Access Rules. I came to do this on IIS7 today and it took me a good half hour to find out how to do it so here is a quick run down!First off you need to enable the IPRestriction module by going into the server roles and adding it. Next restart your IIS

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Have you ever thought about writing an iPhone application? If so then today I came across an excellent how to write an iPhone app ebook that takes you through all the stages of developing an iPhone application from start to finish.The Apple iPhone App Store and its Apps are one of the hottest things in early adoption technology at the moment. People have been making an absolute killing writing

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If you are flying on american airlines before new years eve 2009 and the plane has wifi you should be able to use this promotion code to get free wifi on a mobile device. I dont think it works for laptops but you can try it. I used it via my iphone.Its fantastic being able to fly and surf! In fact i am flying right now as i post this blog entry! :-)here is the code folks! Enjoy....MOBILE2009AA

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I am blogging 35,000 feet above Chicago on my iphone using wifi internet on an american airlines flight to San Diego from Chicago. I must say its fantastic and its just like when you got to send your first ever email for some reason. Its a bit of a novelty but pretty soon I'm sure all planes will offer it. Best of all its free at the moment as a trial. The price going forward looks to be $7.95

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As you are a reader of this blog then there is a pretty good chance you have some involvement with software development or web development. If not, don't worry as it may be very useful for you too. What I would like to know is have you ever asked yourself the question:"What if there was a way for me to earn some extra money online utilising my existing skill set?"As you already probably realise

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Below are five Visual Studio 2010 new features that I feel are excellent additions to the product. On the whole I don't think the release is a massive revamp (apart from the user interface being redeveloped using WPF). It is more an enhancement of what was there before with some nice bells and whistles added in.1. Multiple Config FilesI think one of the handiest new features is the ability to

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If you are like me and are itching to get hold of the Visual Studio 2010 download to get up to speed with all the new enhancements then below is the link you can follow to go and get it. Visual Studio 2010 is still in BETA release so you could see some minor changes in the full release but if you are keen to get ahead of the game it will help you get up to speed before it hits the shelves.If you

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I went to see the total solar eclipse in Turkey back in 2006 and it was awesome with perfect weather conditions! I would tell anyone that given half a chance they should get to see one at least once in their lives! Id love to see another and as soon as one is within a decent travelling distance im all over it. There was one that passed over Asia in the early hours but its taken me a while to

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Today I came across an issue with Lightbox (the javascript image gallery) and after ages of trying to find out what it was everyone seemed to be saying the problem was in the JavaScript and how it was called.The thing that made me think otherwise was the exact same website was working perfectly on another server which was Linux. After looking around the code I noticed the lightbox file was

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Visual Studio 2010 is currently at the Beta Test stage but already the excitement to the release date is growing. The actual official Visual Studio 2010 release date is still to be announced but it is currently expected to ship early in Q1 of 2010. If you are looking to get ahead of the game and get to grips with some of the new features of Visual Studio 2010, then I highly recommend you head

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Amazon have just put Windows 7 for sale on a pre-order basis! Its officially released on 22 October. I've put the links to the various versions and stores for your convenience:For you guys in the US:Microsoft Windows 7 Home PremiumMicrosoft Windows 7 Professional Microsoft Windows 7 UltimateFor everyone here in the UK here are the Amazon UK Links:Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium E Windows 7

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If you have followed my blog at all over the last couple of years you will have noticed I am a champion of LearnVisualStudio.netThey offer a great training program and it is where I started out Learning .Net and it helped me massively getting started all the way though to holding my own in a .Net role. If you are looking to learn .Net - either C# or VB.Net then I highly recommend these guys.

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I was looking at some of the results from my blog in the search engines and noticed that owing to the length of my title the title pf the posts were simply not being displayed - hence probably not getting as many click throughs as it could. I therefore had a search around and found the variables for setting descriptions etc from within blogger. If you look at my blog now you will notice that on

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I am finally going to bite the bullet and move from the Nokia N95 to the new iPhone 3GS. I have fancied one for a while but not plumped for one as i didnt want another lengthy contact. However i am fed up with 3 mobile and their crappy network which is always dropping calls so time to move on. It wont cost me any extra per month so i shouldn't really feel a financial hit.One of the things that

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I you want stream MP4 video to your XBOX360 via Windows Media Player sharing I discovered when you browse to the folder with your MP4 files they dont appear as playable formats.I found if you change the extension to AVI and then play part of the file in Wondows Media Player (this checks you have the right codecs etc) the video will appear and be streamed to your XBOX360.You will probably have to

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A few months ago I joined up with Wealthy Affiliate who are widely regarded as the Number One Internet Marketing Training Program. At the time I wanted to learn about affiliate marketing and how to try and make some extra cash online. As its turned out I've gained a hell of a lot more out of it than just learning about Internet marketing. I have learned so many things about SEO, website

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Solutions, the company I current work for, current have vacancies for C# Developer Jobs. They are looking for an ASP.Net C# Developer to work in our Leeds Office.If you are interested in working on a wide variety of projects across the entire SDLC then this would be an ideal role for you.If you have experience in C#, ASP.Net, VB.Net, OO and have 2+years of development experience then check out

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I have posted on my blog in the past about a product called Micro Niche Finder. Well, I still use it today and continue to find great value in it.This post is about a new service that the makers of Micro Niche Finder have put together called The Niche Informant. In its simplest form it is a monthly package of 20 untapped and ripe niche markets just waiting to be exploited. With the package you

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I received an email allegedly from "facebook staff" today saying they had sent me a message - along with the usual login to view your message.Without thinking twice i clicked the link which too me to a facebook login page. I then noticed it wasn't on the facebook URL so straight away realised it was a phishing site.I am used to simply ignoring Bank scams but this is the first facebook scam email

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On April 8th 2009 if you are running Adsense on your blog (or any website come javascript:void(0)to that) you will need to have updated your Blogger Adsense Policy.If you are running Adsense on your website and do not have a Privacy Policy you are contravening Googles Terms and Conditions and risk having your account terminated.They are not hard to put together and i got mine from Jensense.com

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If you are looking for Video Tutorials on how to develop applications on the .Net framework for either Windows Forms, ASP.Net, WPF etc. then I highly recommend Learn Visual Studio.Net. I have been a member at LearnVisualStudio.net for almost 4 years after I signed up to their lifetime subscription (which to be fair is as cheap as chips)! They are constantly adding new visual studio tutorials in

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Had a totally weird thing ahppen to a sql server today. I have 2 linked servers and for some unknown reason all queries to the linked server were being met with that error. I removed the linked server, re-added, tested i could connect to the port with telnet - all good.Check remote connections enabled, checked tcpip enabled. Evrything seemed fine. One of our machines rebooted with some

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I am into snowboarding big time - just love it. Unfortuantely im miles from the mountains and get very little snow here (and no lifts!!). I get to go boarding once a year (twice im im lucky) and therefore in the meantime I hit the indoor slope at Xscape and watch boaridng videos.I've just watched Travis Rice That's It That's All - Travis Rice's latest video, and all i can say is its amazing!

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I recently put a website together for a client selling a product in quite an aggressive market. After the website had been put together it went live and the client was happy! What happened over the next few days was to take me on a new journey in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and website marketing.Search Engine OptimisationI followed all the rules and best practices to ensure the site met Web

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I annoyingly discovered that Visual Studio does not support intellisense when editing skin files. To save the hassle of using an aspx page and then copying it back there is a little tweak you can do to visual studio to allow this.Simply go to the Tools|Options|FileExtension and add skin, then select User Control Editor from the list and press Add.Close and re-open any open skin files and voila

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I had a situation today where i had a webform with a Gridview, a modal popup extender and a dummy button to fire up the hidden panel for the modal popup extender. If i pressed cancel to close the popup, when i next pressed the button to open up the modal popup nothing happened and i had to click the button a second time.This drove me mental for a couple of hours and i ended up leaving it alone

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Every now and then you come across something that totally rocks. Spotify is one of those things. If you have not seen it then go check it out!!! Its like itunes but you have an almost infinite record box/ full ipod!! Just type in who you want to listen to and up pops their entire discography. Type the song name and get it - stright away no messing. Click on the bands name and find al the albums

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I recently installed the KB957095 Hotfix on my Vista Ultimate and discovered it stopped me getting access to shares created using DFS over the network. On removing it i got my access back so at the moment i will stay with the vulnerabilty and have access to my data! Cheers Microsoft.I believe the hotifx is related to SMB.

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A while ago i had a project where i used Windows Workflow Foundation. Fantastic tool but i hit several issues with it that put me off using it since. One of these issues was the complexities of hosting in iis and the other was the versioning of workflows. At the time i could not find any information to help me with this so did what i though was best at the time. Today i noticed a blog post

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Had a bit of a nitemare getting this to work properly but eventually got there.First make sure you go into the Enable Windows features and switch on the following:Under Web Management Tools enable:IIS Management Console Under IIS 6 Management Compatibility enable:IIS Metabase and IIS6 configuration compatibility Under Application Development Features enable:CGIUnder Common Http Features enable:

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I have been learning some SSIS and created a file transformation package to load and convert some data. I have come across 2 major headaches in doing so that i thought i would share.1st - the deployment. This seemed so complex when i first set about doing it. If you follow the MS articles in BOL you will get most of the way there but they omit the part about security settings. When you deploy

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This drove me mental for a while.If you are trying to open an external file such as a TXT, XLS, CSV using SQL's OPENROWSET or OPENDATASOURCE functionality and keep getting errors that look like the ones below then here is the fix/workaround.The Errors:OLE Database provider "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0" for linked server "(null)"returned message "Unspecified error".Msg 7303, Level 16, State 1, Line

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I need to convert some html to aspx. On the page were loads of images and as i moving stuff into master pages it was going to totally scre the directories up. As you may know with a server control you can use the sqiggle/tilda (~) in a path so the server resolves the actual path for you when it generated the page. What you can do to save a lot of time is rather than change all the image

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Been ages since ive posted on here as ive been in a cave working on a big project! Ive finally come out and found time to post something useful i found.I wanted to know what had changed in a database in the last x days to check for things before i did a backup/restore so found the following queries useful!This fella will tell you the stored procedures that have been modified in the last x days:

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As ive begun digging deep into Reporting Services for a new project ive been hunting around for good resources. In doing so came across this list of extremely well put together tips, tricks and best practices.Some great things in here that i will be definitely putting to good use.http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Standards/Rules/RulesToBetterSQLReportingServices.aspx

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If your into the new "thing" which is social networking sites using video - like youtube, then checkout the new Guidance Starter kit from Microsoft and Vertigo - Video.Show. Its the next installment in the .Show family. All you need is to go to codeplex and download the kit.To build you will need VS2008. Other things required are ht latest Silverlight install, Expression Encoder and a FREE

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Lynda.com is offering an excellent package of FREE training for Silverlight. Over 4.5 hours covering the basics, right up to producing a fully featured media player.Ive gone through the training and found it to be excellent - and its totally free!FREE Silverlight TrainingAlso on Lynda.com is a batch of FREE Expression Blend, Web and design training. Ive yet to do this but as soon as i have some

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I sometimes get fed up up having to go through clicking solution folders to collapse everything to went on the hunt for a macro and came across this script by Scott Kuhl. Sub CollapseAll() ' Get the the Solution Explorer tree Dim solutionExplorer As UIHierarchy solutionExplorer = DTE.Windows.Item(Constants.vsext_wk_SProjectWindow).Object() ' Check if there is any open

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I found it a chore to create execute permissions on all stored procedures in a database.This query will do the job for you:CREATE A ROLE AS FOLLOWS:1./* CREATE A NEW ROLE */CREATE ROLE db_executor/* GRANT EXECUTE TO THE ROLE */GRANT EXECUTE TO db_executor2.AND THEN when creating user, assign db_executor as role rather than dbo.3.To assign user to all stored procedures in database run this.SELECT

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Today i added print functionality to a web page that basically changes the stylesheet for print formatting and also automatically fires the print dialogue for the user. On doing this in IE7 you get the message:"The web page you are viewing is trying to close the window"when running the follwing javascript added to the page on page load:If Not ClientScript.IsStartupScriptRegistered(Me.GetType, "

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In building the news feed in the previous article i initially used a data list. It all worked fin in IE but when i loaded the page up in Firefox my articles were showing outside the DIV they were supposed to be in! Confusing.After investigating it with the IE Developers Toolbar i discovered the Datalist was outputting my news articles (which were built using the ul li structure) as tables! NOTE:

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I needed to display a news feed from an xml file. My original intentions were to use XML & XSL to tranform into html but i needed paging support.I looked at the XMLData Source control and there isno paging support built onto this control. After a look around I came across a .NET class called PagedDataSource. This class abstracts the paging functionality that is used in data grids etc.All you

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Today i modified the namespace of a workflow project. A little further down the track when it came to hosting the workflow the workflow runtime puked with the following message:"Cannot initialize 'StateMachineWorkflowActivity' that does not define a valid 'InitialStateName' property."The state machine workflow had the initial state set but as i has messed about the with the namespace i had a

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The team behind LearnVisualStudio.net have been hard at work behind the scenes again and produced another fine training website TrainingSpot.com. This site is tailored to SQL Server, Sharepoint, TSQL, Biztalk and Relational Database Design and Implementation. I'm sure these categories will also expand over time. As a member of LVS they are currently offering a voucher code for 25% off the price

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Dived into my first adventure in internet marketing to promote a website ive been working on. Im impressed by the whole adwords/adsense stuff that google has set up. It also quite exciting the first time you set somethign like that live - will we get some new business, how many visitors will we get... etc..The results after a week of advertising are pretty good. The website was new and

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Today, i was astonished to find out that MS reservs 20% of the available internet bandwidth on your PC for its own applications - windows update etc... I found this reading Liquid Boys blog here:http://advertboy.wordpress.com/2007/07/08/increase-your-internet-speed/Here is what he suggested you do to get around it:Click Start then Run and type “gpedit.msc” without quotes.This opens the “group

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Had my last phone - Sony Erricson W800i for a year and a half now with the joystick frigged for the last 8 months of that! I was supposed to return it under warranty but just never got round to it. So ive finally got round to doing something about it and found a cracking deal with 3 mobile. Last night i had a good look round at what other people have found and the things you can do with that

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Came across this on the MS e-learning site today as im looking to further my skills in this area.Sign up while its free if you are interested as there is a 1 year subscription on it. They may start charging soon.https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/courseDetail.aspx?courseId=61966

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Ive added some link banners to the top of my blog for LearnVisualStudio.net. I cant recommend this site enough. If you are a complete novice or an intermediate with plenty of .net under your belt you will always find something on there. Its how i learnt .NET and helped me become the developer I am today. The videos date all the way back to 1.1 and then upto current day technologies such as

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I tried to implement this using a script manager and script enabled WS but constantly kept getting the error 'service is undefined'. Talk about infuriating.I ripped my web.config apart trying to find the problem, hacked my code, moved scripts - alsorts! Searched high and low on the net but could not find the solution to the problem anywhere. I had a sample project that it worked fine in and

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I needed to find out where i was loading a file in a bulk insert today and found the following query:SELECT ROUTINE_NAME, ROUTINE_DEFINITIONFROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINESWHERE ROUTINE_DEFINITION LIKE '%search string goes here%'AND ROUTINE_TYPE='PROCEDURE'That will basically do a find for you and list the procedures your search string is present in.Very handy.

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I was absolutely gutted to hear on the radio this evening that Gatecrasher in Sheffield is on fire as i write this! Sounds like its totally destroyed. Had some great time in there over the years! An end of an era and a sad sad day!as the crasher slogan wentitwillalwaysbewithyou

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I recently had a bash at putting a WCF service together. I did all the tutorials and everything seemed ok so i had a bash at my own. Well i put it all together but could i get to consume it in a windows application??? Could i b*&^*^*.I was at it ages until i finally discovered why! I am using VB.net for this implementation. All the demos and tutorials i did in c# which is fine but for my project

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I had been implementing a custom activity in WWF and added some dependecy properties to the actvity to allow binding. I tried and tried but for some reason i could not get the little blue i at the side of my properties to show it was bindable.Here is what i had put in my activity:Public Shared ToProperty As DependencyProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("To", GetType(String), GetType(

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Came across some of the nifty little features on iGoogle the other day and have been playing ever since. The gadgets are great fun and i can see a massive use for them for friends that are scattered around the country or globe. Each friend could create a gadget for themselves and invite other friends to add it to their Google homepage. Then when they have some news, or a picture or anything

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Ive read hundreds, had lots of thoughts, come across lots of things and thought... i really should get my own blog - but never got around to it. Well, here it is. Ive finally taken the plunge and setup my very own blog.In it i hope to post nuggets of information about things i come across in my everyday life and work. Things to help people, things to warn people. Whatever i like. Lets see

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