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Right Arrow SQL Server – Table variables and temp tables.
Posted by Blake on 1/27/2012 12:24:07 PM
Right Arrow VB.NET/C#–Excel Column Mapping Enums
Posted by Blake on 1/27/2012 10:25:30 AM
Right Arrow Infragistics.Excel–Set the format to dollars on a cell, column or row.
Posted by Blake on 1/27/2012 10:09:57 AM
Right Arrow Infragistics.Excel–Merge Cells
Posted by Blake on 1/27/2012 10:03:41 AM
Right Arrow MySql–Get the Size of your Database
Posted by Blake on 1/24/2012 11:52:33 AM
Right Arrow VB.Net and C# Function to Get Bitmaps of All Screens
Posted by Blake on 1/24/2012 11:19:39 AM
Right Arrow Blog Moving
Posted by Blake on 1/23/2012 5:01:55 PM
Right Arrow C# Extension Method shortcut for Format
Posted by Blake on 1/23/2012 4:45:36 PM
Right Arrow ‘The provider is not compatible with the version of Oracle client’
Posted by Blake on 1/18/2012 12:31:09 PM
Right Arrow SQL Server, Oracle, MySql, OleDb, Parameterized Queries and ADO.NET
Posted by Blake on 1/9/2012 2:40:48 PM
Right Arrow Connecting to Oracle via VB.Net 2.0/3.5/4.0
Posted by Blake on 1/4/2012 4:36:21 PM
Right Arrow WP7–How to change an images source from code via a string property
Posted by Blake on 12/29/2011 12:54:13 PM
Right Arrow Windows Phone Silverlight App Crashes on Startup – A first chance exception of type ‘System.InvalidOperationException’ occurred
Posted by Blake on 12/27/2011 2:41:18 PM
Right Arrow Windows Phone Silverlight App Crashes on Startup – A first chance exception of type ‘System.InvalidOperationException’ occurred
Posted by Blake on 12/27/2011 2:41:18 PM
Right Arrow Windows Phone Silverlight App Crashes on Startup – A first chance exception of type ‘System.InvalidOperationException’ occurred
Posted by Blake on 12/27/2011 2:41:18 PM
Right Arrow Windows Phone Silverlight App Crashes on Startup – A first chance exception of type ‘System.InvalidOperationException’ occurred
Posted by Blake on 12/27/2011 2:41:18 PM
Right Arrow VB Methods to Truncate files in a directory
Posted by Blake on 12/27/2011 11:48:49 AM
Right Arrow Shared functions to sort a directories files by last write time, last access time or created time.
Posted by Blake on 12/26/2011 10:16:38 PM
Right Arrow Databinding a System.Drawing.Image in WPF with VB.Net
Posted by Blake on 12/22/2011 12:05:35 PM
Right Arrow Open source libraries every Windows Phone Developer should be aware of.
Posted by Blake on 11/29/2011 5:13:13 PM
Right Arrow WP7 – Common Language Runtime detected an invalid program. Microsoft.Xna.Framework.TitleContainer.OpenStream
Posted by Blake on 11/22/2011 2:06:41 PM
Right Arrow WP7–Playing Sound Effects
Posted by Blake on 11/22/2011 1:36:37 PM
Right Arrow Unspecified error [ 5,sqlcese40.dll ] at System.Data.SqlServerCe.SqlCeConnection.ProcessResults(Int32 hr)
Posted by Blake on 11/17/2011 4:57:31 PM
Right Arrow WP7–ChildWindow & Handling the Hardware Back Button
Posted by Blake on 11/3/2011 2:19:09 PM
Right Arrow DBNameValueCollection Class
Posted by Blake on 10/7/2011 1:47:08 PM
Right Arrow How to get the user selected text from a WebBrowser control
Posted by Blake on 9/23/2011 1:13:18 PM
Right Arrow Windows 8 Developer Preview in VirtualBox (Build 8102)
Posted by Blake on 9/15/2011 4:21:18 PM
Right Arrow HtmlTableReader Class for VB.Net (Using HTML Agility Pack)
Posted by Blake on 9/14/2011 3:10:28 PM
Right Arrow Outlook Add-In: How to add a menu item to an existing tab on a read mail message
Posted by Blake on 9/8/2011 12:33:32 PM
Right Arrow Creating a Jira Issue from VB.Net with Web Services
Posted by Blake on 8/16/2011 3:11:17 PM
Right Arrow How to show a progress message while writing a file to the response stream as an attachment
Posted by Blake on 8/11/2011 1:05:05 PM
Right Arrow IE9: couldn’t be downloaded.
Posted by Blake on 8/10/2011 1:25:00 PM
Right Arrow The case of the changing WinForm Handle
Posted by Blake on 8/1/2011 2:46:56 PM
Right Arrow Visual Basic: SafeLeft/SafeRight Helper Extensions
Posted by Blake on 7/29/2011 4:27:32 PM
Right Arrow Type.GetType(“System.Integer”) returns null value (Nothing)
Posted by Blake on 7/25/2011 12:30:22 PM
Right Arrow Netflix and good automated customer service
Posted by Blake on 7/19/2011 11:50:59 AM
Right Arrow Crystal Reports – The request could not be submitted for background processing
Posted by Blake on 7/15/2011 4:34:32 PM
Right Arrow How to find in whose logged into an Active Directory workstation + How to see whose using a shared Access Database
Posted by Blake on 7/12/2011 1:36:29 PM
Right Arrow Things to check when your SQL Server Compact 4.0 Database won’t work on a production server.
Posted by Blake on 7/12/2011 12:57:36 PM
Right Arrow RichTextBox not display full contents of a file or string if Chr(0) (Null Character) is found
Posted by Blake on 6/30/2011 2:52:28 PM
Right Arrow Windows 8 Store
Posted by Blake on 6/14/2011 2:13:40 PM
Right Arrow WinForms TextBox that splits at a specified interval
Posted by Blake on 5/5/2011 11:49:54 AM
Right Arrow WP7 App – Countdown
Posted by Blake on 4/22/2011 2:40:17 PM
Right Arrow IsNumeric, Left, Right and FormatCurrency Extensions for Windows Phone 7
Posted by Blake on 3/21/2011 4:34:48 PM
Right Arrow Windows Phone 7: Zune software is not installed. Install the latest version of Zune software.
Posted by Blake on 3/21/2011 2:28:09 PM
Right Arrow Visual Studio 2010 crashes on startup after installing SP1
Posted by Blake on 3/12/2011 1:01:00 PM
Right Arrow Disappearing/Reappearing Background Image in Div tag in IE8
Posted by Blake on 3/10/2011 5:00:55 PM
Right Arrow Microsoft Outlook 2007 Stops Receiving New Messages
Posted by Blake on 3/9/2011 2:42:06 PM
Right Arrow A ReadOnly ASP.Net TextBox that can PostBack data
Posted by Blake on 3/3/2011 2:46:13 PM
Right Arrow Coalesce for VB.Net
Posted by Blake on 2/28/2011 11:17:10 AM
Right Arrow AForge.NET Framework and a custom Screenshot Video Source
Posted by Blake on 2/7/2011 12:15:40 PM
Right Arrow SQL Server–Calculate Age with DateDiff/Rounding
Posted by Blake on 1/25/2011 2:34:18 PM
Right Arrow Microsoft WebMatrix–Create Custom File Template
Posted by Blake on 1/18/2011 4:04:09 PM
Right Arrow Microsoft WebMatrix 1.0 Review (RTW)
Posted by Blake on 1/18/2011 2:15:04 PM
Right Arrow is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level
Posted by Blake on 1/12/2011 11:50:37 AM
Right Arrow Crystal Reports–Show Label if no data exists
Posted by Blake on 1/7/2011 1:58:16 PM
Right Arrow Visual Studio 2010 (Pre SP1)–How to change the ASP.NET Port Number
Posted by Blake on 12/30/2010 2:37:53 PM
Right Arrow Referenced Assembly could not be resolved because it has a dependency
Posted by Blake on 12/29/2010 11:24:39 AM
Right Arrow RIP “Motorola Droid”, 1/4/2010–12/27/2010
Posted by Blake on 12/28/2010 1:24:46 PM
Right Arrow Visual Studio 2010–Intellisense not updating when property added
Posted by Blake on 12/24/2010 11:47:09 AM
Right Arrow absmiddle with CSS
Posted by Blake on 12/22/2010 3:31:18 PM
Right Arrow Visual Studio 2010 – Intellisense not working with Enums
Posted by Blake on 12/17/2010 2:09:28 PM
Right Arrow .Net Framework 4.0 – MethodAccessException was unhandled by user code
Posted by Blake on 12/16/2010 2:15:39 PM
Right Arrow Failed to find or load the registered .Net Framework Data Provider
Posted by Blake on 12/12/2010 8:06:59 PM
Right Arrow Causing an ASP.Net PostBack from one control to another on the client side :)
Posted by Blake on 12/10/2010 3:32:21 PM
Right Arrow ASP.NET ImageButton firing twice
Posted by Blake on 12/10/2010 3:03:30 PM
Right Arrow Visual Studio 2010–Build Failed with no Errors
Posted by Blake on 12/9/2010 7:57:08 PM
Right Arrow Comcast–On Demand Error E3602
Posted by Blake on 12/3/2010 6:17:00 PM
Right Arrow BackwardFileReader – VB.Net Source
Posted by Blake on 11/29/2010 2:30:05 PM
Right Arrow Visual Studio 2010, Why do you make me wait so long?
Posted by Blake on 11/11/2010 10:15:12 PM
Right Arrow Windows Live Messenger 2011, finally an upgrade that isn’t a downgrade
Posted by Blake on 10/29/2010 3:19:53 PM
Right Arrow Source Gear Vault Problems and Fixes
Posted by Blake on 10/27/2010 12:55:33 PM
Right Arrow Re-Register DLL/OCX files in the c:\windows\system32 directory
Posted by Blake on 10/22/2010 2:58:14 PM
Right Arrow SQL Server Management Studio 2005 – Unable to cast COM object… IServiceProvider, etc.etc.
Posted by Blake on 10/22/2010 2:47:34 PM
Right Arrow Visual Studio 2010 Crashes on startup after installing Productivity Power Tools (October 2010 release)
Posted by Blake on 10/22/2010 12:38:20 PM
Right Arrow ASP.Net Elastic TextBox with jQuery
Posted by Blake on 10/8/2010 2:51:26 PM
Right Arrow Faulting application name: crw32.exe, version: 10.0.5.1223
Posted by Blake on 10/8/2010 1:22:24 PM
Right Arrow Android 2.2 (Froyo), Ugg.
Posted by Blake on 9/28/2010 11:53:28 AM
Right Arrow Crystal Reports, Changing the Database Connection from .Net, SubReport links and the case of the “Missing parameter values”
Posted by Blake on 9/17/2010 5:24:02 PM
Right Arrow Crystal Reports: Updating the database connection information at runtime
Posted by Blake on 9/10/2010 4:37:53 PM
Right Arrow Asp.Net Ajax / FileUpload Control
Posted by Blake on 8/12/2010 5:22:54 PM
Right Arrow Visual Studio 2010 not displaying Intellisense for custom library
Posted by Blake on 7/7/2010 4:34:00 PM
Right Arrow Easily Creating an ASP.Net User Control Library
Posted by Blake on 5/3/2010 3:43:20 PM
Right Arrow Initial Impressions of Visual Studio 2010
Posted by Blake on 4/22/2010 11:39:31 AM
Right Arrow Crystal Reports 2008 / .Net DataTable with Spaces in Column Names
Posted by Blake on 12/30/2009 6:51:27 PM
Right Arrow How to Create a Windows Right Click Menu to Mass Convert Videos to other formats with Handbrake
Posted by Blake on 11/27/2009 3:59:37 PM
Right Arrow Creating an Aero Info/Navigation Panel in VB.Net & C#
Posted by Blake on 7/25/2009 2:02:35 PM
Right Arrow VB.Net – How to put a WinForm in a Namespace
Posted by Blake on 7/7/2009 5:17:16 PM
Right Arrow ASP.Net Ajax – Maintain Scroll Position of DIV on Async PostBack
Posted by Blake on 6/25/2009 12:58:56 PM
Right Arrow ASP.Net Ajax – HoverMenuExtender Flicker Fix
Posted by Blake on 6/23/2009 5:49:46 PM
Right Arrow System.Type.GetType vs. System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetType
Posted by Blake on 5/11/2009 3:57:49 PM
Right Arrow Cannot resolve the collation conflict between “SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS” and “Latin1_General_CI_AI” in the like operation.
Posted by Blake on 4/5/2009 3:52:06 PM
Right Arrow WPF – Setting ContextMenuItem.Icon
Posted by Blake on 3/12/2009 5:25:07 PM
Right Arrow My Freeware Utility Picks for Windows
Posted by Blake on 1/12/2009 1:27:31 PM
Right Arrow Crystal Reports 2008 / ‘crdb_fielddef.dll’ could not be loaded.
Posted by Blake on 10/10/2008 5:01:03 PM
Right Arrow Crystal Reports 2008 / ASP.NET / IIS
Posted by Blake on 10/9/2008 6:29:10 PM
Right Arrow Impersonation .Net Library & Com Exposed Library Open Source Project
Posted by Blake on 2/22/2008 1:51:18 PM
Right Arrow SQL Server Cache Manager
Posted by Blake on 11/14/2007 5:35:00 PM
Right Arrow How smart is the average spam bot?
Posted by Blake on 9/22/2007 3:22:05 PM
Right Arrow VB.Net & C# Impersonation Class
Posted by Blake on 3/22/2007 10:33:00 AM
Right Arrow The cube either does not exist or has not been processed.
Posted by Blake on 1/29/2007 1:48:38 PM
Right Arrow Add a user to an Active Directory (AD/ADS) group with VB.NET
Posted by Blake on 12/12/2006 2:54:37 PM
Right Arrow IErrorInfo.GetDescription failed with E_FAIL(0×80004005).
Posted by Blake on 12/4/2006 12:04:08 PM
Right Arrow NotifyIcon & DestroyIcon
Posted by Blake on 11/21/2006 2:51:08 PM
Right Arrow Connecting to an Analysis Services Cube from ASP.NET (Sharepoint Webpart or Website)
Posted by Blake on 10/18/2006 11:28:40 AM
Right Arrow MDX & the .NET Framework 1.1 (Visual Studio 2003) via Sharepoint
Posted by Blake on 10/17/2006 12:34:58 PM
Right Arrow MDX, ADOMD, VB.NET & SQL Server Analysis Services
Posted by Blake on 10/16/2006 2:13:37 PM

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