Archives
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Cool shortcut to C:\WINDOWS
Start --> Run then type in the folder name, you are there. I live in LogFiles..now, I simply go Start --> Run --> LogFiles and I am there.
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Do a Ping from .NET with a non-admin user
Yup, non admin users cannot do a ping from .net. A non admin user cannot create Raw Sockets. To do this with a non admin user you have to do the following:
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Visual Basic .NET 2003: A .NET Framework Tour
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vb03fxtour.asp
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T-SQL Coding Standards
Well it's about time:
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SUS WSUS and No Touch Deployment
WSUS kicked my butt for the last 48 hours.
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Advanced .NET Master Class
Numbers and Logistics:
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Do not name any dll "Security"
We have been fighting MSDE for the past 24 hours. Our .Net Windows Client typically uses Sql Server that runs on a box inside the LAN. We were trying set up a laptop to run the app locally using MSDE and a local copy of the database.
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Cancel and leave me alone
Ian Griffiths was kind enough to point me to a link about how users feel about dialogs in general:
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Things that make you go hmmmm: but or though
I do not like the word "but". A colleague once said that every you said\I said up to the word "but" in a sentence is ignored once the word "but" comes out. I listened to myself for a few weeks and sure enough, it made sense.
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LISTSERVS: how not to use them
When I first got started with .NET I was on my own. I worked alone in a shop where nobody else knew .Net. I found the www.develop.com LISTSERVS very helpful, though I found myself posting to them too much.
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Trying to write to a full event log
This got us this week. Our app was trying to write exception details to the event log (Application) and the user's log was full.