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No New Text Document with Right Click on Vista

December 21st, 2008 | Posted in Windows Vista
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One of the features I use frequently in XP is the Create New X feature with the right click within Explorer. Vista does not have the option to create a new text document. I found a forum post over at vistax64.com that has a fix. Open notepad (Windows + r, notepad, enter) and copy the ...

101 Useful Web Developer and Web Designer Links

December 4th, 2008 | Posted in Resources
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Design Color Pallete Color Schemer Colour Lovers Color Combos CSS Forms Spruce up Your Search Box with CSS and a Background Image Fancy Form Design with CSS Layouts Fluid 3 Column – Content First in Code Three Column Layouts Perfect multi-column CSS liquid layouts – iPhone compatible The Perfect 3 Column Liquid Layout (Percentage widths) ...

Return Single Value with ExecuteScalar, Stored Procedures and C#

December 3rd, 2008 | Posted in ASP.NET, SQL Server
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A common query is to return a single value from a SQL query such as an aggregate to get the total number of rows in a table. I will show you how to do just that with SQL Server Stored Procedures and C#. Preparation You will need some table data to query against. I am ...

How to Import Pictures from your iPhone on Vista

November 30th, 2008 | Posted in Software, Windows Vista, iPhone
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If you are Windows user and need to import your pictures from your iPhone here is how you do it. Plugin your iPhone to your computer with the supplied USB cable....

Add a Count Column to Your Gridview, Datalist or Repeater

November 30th, 2008 | Posted in ASP.NET
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Found this great article on how to add a counter column to your data rich controls. http://www.lazyasscoder.com/AspNet/Article.aspx?id=55&title=How+To%3A+Add+a+row+count+column+to+a+GridView%2C+DataList+or+Repeater The above article is specific to a GridView. Here is an example with a Repeater control. <asp:Repeater ID="repeater" runat="server"> <ItemTemplate> <%# Container.ItemIndex + 1 %> <%# Eval("field_name") %>'> </ItemTemplate> </asp:Repeater>...

Add Items Dynamically to .NET Arrays with C#

November 30th, 2008 | Posted in ASP.NET
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If you are in a situation where you need to add an item to an array you will need to use one of the collection classes such as the Arraylist. New values cannot be added to an array that has set values. String Array Example string[] list = new string[] { "one", "two", "three" }; ...

Format FAT32 Drives Larger Than 32gb

November 28th, 2008 | Posted in Windows Vista, Windows XP
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By default Windows XP will not allow hard drives larger than 32gb to be formatted FAT32. If you need to format a large hard drive to FAT32 (say for an external hard drive to make backups of your Windows and Mac workstations) you can a tool provided by Ridgecrop Consultatnts called Fat 32 Formatter. Documentation ...

Dreamweaver and Disappearing ASP.NET Directives

November 28th, 2008 | Posted in ASP.NET, Software
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If you are working with Dreamweaver templates and your ASP.NET directives keep disappearing try the following. Place <%–’comment–%> on the second line after your page declaration on your content pages. You can leave your template as is. <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="default.aspx.cs" Inherits="default" %> <%--'comment--%> You do not need to set the <!– TemplateInfo codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked=”false” ...

Move your Outlook Mail to Windows Mail

November 28th, 2008 | Posted in Software, Windows Vista
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If you want to use Windows Mail instead of Outlook you can import the messages directly into Windows Mail without any 3rd party utilities. I haven’t tried this without outlook installed but I don’t think it will work since the import process asks for your MAPI profile. Fire up Windows Mail File/Import/Messages Select Microsoft Outlook ...

Moving a Large Number of Files with Windows

November 28th, 2008 | Posted in Windows Vista, Windows XP
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If you are ever in the situation where you need to move a large number of files in Windows and notice that explorer is not responding you can try the move command. Open a Command Prompt Windows + R + cmd Run your move command C:\> move /y C:\source_directory\*.jpg C:\destination_directory\ Explanation /y – Suppresses the ...