The curious case of a Windows Explorer hang
Explorer hangs and freezes using Chrome save/open dialog box with network shortcuts.
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2019
Setting up ProxyCap, Fiddler, and fixing SSL/TLS errors
Using ProxyCap and Fiddler to decrypt HTTPS traffic.
How to disable Skype v8 Automatic Updates
Instructions on how to disable Skype v8 automatic updates.
New Blog Migrated from SubText to Jekyll and hosted on GitLab
Finally migrated off SubText blog engine and migrated to a static generated Jekyll format hosted on GitLab Pages. Pretty sweet so far. I can finally decommis...
2018
List of Online Competitors Best Buy Price Matches
As of 8/11/2018:
2015
Enabling Decorators Support in TypeScript 1.5, Visual Studio 2015
Finally installed VS2015, I got the following error in my TypeScript project:
2014
RethinkDB Gems
After idling in the RethinkDB freenode IRC chat, I think I’m going to start a collection of very good Q/A that I see:
Convert Unix Endings to DOS/Windows using Cygwin/TCSH
Small note for me, which converts all *.cs files recursively in a directory:
Visual Studio 2013 Loading Splash Screen Slow
I recently experienced Visual Studio 2013 loading very slowly at the splash screen. It was noticeable since I’m on a very fast dev box and accustomed to VS 2...
2013
@functions ‘This is not a valid location for a breakpoint’ in Visual Studio 2013
Working with Visual Studio 2013 and I tried to set a breakpoint in “@fucntions” bout got back an error message that read:
Installing Freelan on Windows Server 2012
So, I was trying out Windows Server 2012. I tried installing freelan (http://www.freelan.org) as a service. If you know me, I’m a big fan of freelan, but for...
HTTPie doesn’t honor –style colors in mintty/cygwin
Be sure to check our $TERM variable.
2012
Rip Page Inspector out of your Web Site Projects now
Page Inspector causing multiple calls to HttpApplication : Application_Start in Web Site Projects
Modify Visual Studio 2012 Dark/Light Shell Themes
UPDATE: 9/7/2012 - An “official” theme editor for VS2012 is now available in the VS extension gallery available here: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.micr...
2011
2009
How to Setup a Windows 2008 R2 SNTP/NTP Server
Gee, setting up an SNTP/NTP server in Windows is not intuitive.
2008
Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed
ALL my chrome browser windows just now closed… I thought Google Chrome was immune to crashes…. apparently not. Guess that “process isolation” feature stuff...
Obama Palin Dancing With The Stars
LOL. Just got this in my inbox. Love the political dance!
Fluent C Sharp Language Extension Helpers - Part 1
So, I found myself doing a lot of for( int i = 0; i < n; i++ ){} stuff lately. So, I’ve decided to try something new. I’ve started a small collection of ...
Enterprise Library Validation MessageTemplate Tokens
I always forget… pulled from MSDN with my notes added in italics:
NHibernate 2.0 GA released!
Per Fabio’s Post, NHibernate 2.0 has been released:
Understanding ScriptResource and WebResource in ASP.NET
Here are some common questions about ASP.NET and web resources:
The ParseChildren PersistChildren and PersistenceMode.InnerProperty
After a while of non-web control development, ParseChildren and PersistChildren attributes are important attributes to remember when trying to get the desire...
CompiledTemplateBuilder and Event Catch-up
Federik Kalseth has a great easy-to-understand post on using template controls programmatically. Serves as a great review of templated controls since I need...
TRUNCATE TABLE and DBCC CHECKIDENT
During
development, it’s nice to reset the database tables and load the
database up to a known state for testing purposes without having to
reloa...
BadImageFormatException Errors
I’ve been playing with Lua Programming/Script Language and LuaInterface, because I have a need for embedding a scripting language in one of our projects. Un...
Paying Estimated Taxes
Estimated taxes are an unfortunate “pay-as-you-go” tax that every sole-proprietor, LLC, and corporation must pay. The Federal IRS want you to pay estimated...
Differences between NHibernate FetchMode.Eager and FetchMode.Join
What are the differences between FetchMode.Eager and FetchMode.Join? There are none! According to the Java Hibernate docs, FetchMode.Eager and FetchMode.La...
ASP.NET Head Tag Content Include and page scoped CSS Class - Style tags
One of the most important things I strive for is maintainable code. While working on RentToolbox, I’ve noticed I have many instances of specific CSS styling...
Vista’s Reliability
After using Vista x64 Business Edition for a couple of weeks, my reliability index is now at 4.36. In Vista’s defense, I do have to say, the operating syste...
Remove Explorer Zip Handling in Vista
Ugh. I’ve been using Vista for about a week now and it’s slowly annoying the heck out of me. My cool regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll doesn’t work anymore. But tha...
The Bit Armory Visual Studio Theme
I recently upgraded to Vista 64-bit, and got hooked on the eye candy. So, I decided to pimp out my IDE with my company’s color theme. :) Still working on s...
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Invalid FORMATETC structure
I recently ran into this problem with Visual Studio while trying to drag & drop a component onto a web page.
2007
How to fill open shapes in Visio
So, I was quite annoyed at Visio because I was lacking my Adobe Illustrator features, like filling in an open 2D shape. Unfortunately, Visio doesn’t have en...
Visitor Pattern for User Interface and Display
I was browsing the NHibernate forums and came across a post by “thatmikewilliams” who posted the following code:
CSharp Polymorphism, Inheritance, Method Hiding, and Method Overriding
Classes that declare virtual methods allow inheritors to permanently replace the method with their own implementation regardless of type cast. So, if Class ...
Remove Windows Service
You can remove windows services by executing the following command:
PNG Transparency and Cross Browser Compatibility
If you are dealing with web-development, PNGs, and transparencies, this neat little trick should help. Cross browser compatibility and support for PNGs isn...
AJAX and ASP.NET Template Controls
I was programming today (err. early morning, 1:00 AM) and stumbled across this error:
AJAXToolkit and Invalid FORMATETC structure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040064 (DV_E_FORMATETC))
I was working on our Web 2.0 project today, and I kept getting one of the following errors with Visual Studio 2005 any time I tried to drag and drop an AJAX ...
How to create tile-perfect diagonal lines in Illustrator
Creating diagonal lines in Adobe Illustrator is somewhat of a pain. I’m creating the graphics for our new Web 2.0 site, and had a hard time creating diagona...
NHibernate and Inverse=True False Attribute
In order to truly understand the inverse attribute in NHibernate, you need to first look at your relationship from the database table point of view and how y...
Svn Post-Commit Troubleshooting
We use Subversion (cygwin svnservice flavor). I recently updated our source code repository server here at Bit Armory. One thing is for sure, Cygwin update...
Catastrophic Failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED))
I came across the following IIS/ASP.NET while working on our production servers for RentToolbox.com:
The Strategy Design Pattern
Today, I’m going to write about the strategy design pattern and give some examples on where it should be used and why it’s useful. I’m really sleepy, only ha...
Design Toolbox
Here’s a quick summary of Design Guidelines for your Design Toolbox.
General Database Design Guidelines and Naming Conventions
Here are some helpful tips on database naming conventions. Consistency, readability, maintainability, and extensibility are some of the most important factor...