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New internet is fun stuff minus the cap...

Minus the monthly cap of 250GB, I'm enjoying my new connection. I'm sure its still shoddy compared to some places, but for now I'm content. Big upgrade from 1.5/540kbit

Posted July 3, 2009, 4:14 am, by Dave Anderson | 7 Comments

Multi-part blog series on Business Application Shell

In the upcoming couple of months I will be posting a series of blogs on creating a application shell for a business type application, without the overhead of having to learn something like CAB (Composite Application Block), will full MSSQL database support for the data backend.

Example business shell:

Example data backend (sign in that uses mssql database):

This type of shell is reusable for multiple applications, and features a full Windows Style Control Panel system that makes navigation and data access extremely easy to use.

Further more, this application is also going to take advantage of, and fully test and operate on DCOM Productions new BitFlex Framework which I have been working on for many months now.

These blogs will be posted on our partner site, RenEvo Software & Designs in the upcoming months. So keep an eye out for the first blog within the next two weeks!

Posted June 24, 2009, 8:25 am, by Dave Anderson | 10 Comments

Live Messenger and Point to Point Protocol

I was playing with modem settings to optimize performance over our home network, and I had turned our PPP setting to PPPoE (Point to Point over Ethernet), which is how our network is setup. Apparently, since then Windows Live Messenger magically stopped working for me. After three days of fiddling around, I changed the modem back to PPPoA (Point to Point over ATM), and it magically started working again.

So, lesson learned, Live Messenger dislikes PPPoE for some reason.

Posted June 20, 2009, 10:37 am, by Dave Anderson | 2 Comments

IIS 7.0 Relocation Tool

I wrote and published a new tool to the website today. This little tool allows you to relocate an existing installation of IIS to another location on your computer. This is useful if you store all your source code and websites on a different partition other than (C:), or need it moved for further security precautions.

Requirements

An existing installation of IIS 7.0
Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 or above

Other than that, this tool works great. I used it to relocate my installations of IIS on my development machines to my development hard disk. I do highly recommend that you backup anything important before hand, either yourself or using the tool.

Posted June 17, 2009, 5:25 pm, by Dave Anderson | 5 Comments

BSOD when running profiler under Visual Studio on i7 Chipset

If you use a profiler, and you recently upgraded to an i7 chipset you may have noticed that you will get a blue screen of death when attempting to run the profiler. Fear no more, Microsoft has released a hotfix and by-golly it works.

*You do need Visual Studio Service Pack 1 as a prerequisite (installed already)

Download hotfix for Visual Studio 2008

Attachment:

VS90SP1-KB958842-x86.zip

Posted June 14, 2009, 11:24 pm, by Dave Anderson | 0 Comments