http://www.devprise.com by devprise.com Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:19:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Many of us have had to write data exports from our PC based management systems that are in some strange formats. Signed Integers (which smells of COBOL and EBCDIC on a main frame) are no exception. Now I know all you Computer and Mini Computer (mid range) guys out ... http://www.devprise.com/2009/09/11/how-to-convert-from-a-net-int32-to-ebcdic-signed-integer/ At work we are building a medium sized ASP.NET web application. We are using ASP.NET forms authentication for the membership. I then decided to implement a custom role provider (implementing ProviderBase) based on our [Employee] application table. Implementing this was really easy! Along the way I realized that ... http://www.devprise.com/2009/07/17/resolution-to-quoted_identifier-error-when-using-sqlcachedependancys/ While working on a midsized ASP.NET project today, I finally got fed up having to kill 'by hand' (or by clicking) the ASP.NET Development Servers (4 run for my project). I found this Linux Killall equivalent in Windows Vista today: TASKKILL TASKKILL [/S system [/U username [/P ... http://www.devprise.com/2009/07/07/linux-killall-equivalent-in-windows-vista/ These days using a Rounded Panel on your web site is almost a given. Here is an example to creating a Rounded Panel that inherits from System.Web.Ui.Panel, in a WebControls class library. First thing I did was fire up Jasc Paintshop Pro and created some rounded rectangles (with a 4px ... http://www.devprise.com/2009/03/20/creating-a-aspnet-rounded-panel/ I just started reading Programming Entity Framework  The subjects include:  Data Binding with WPF, LINQ to Entities Queries, Utilizing the ASP.NET EntityDataSource Control, Using Entity Objects with Web and WCF Services, Using the Entity Framework with n-Tier Windows Forms or WPF Applications, a bit on ... http://www.devprise.com/2009/03/03/adonet-entity-framework/ You can use the CDBurn.exe tool from Microsoft. It is included in the Windows Server 2003 Resource Tools. You can even use this tool to erase CDRW discs. Command Line Syntax: Usage: cdburn <drive> -erase [image [options]]  cdburn <drive> image [options] ... http://www.devprise.com/2008/09/25/how-to-burn-iso-images-on-windows-server-2008/ LINQ is really cool, SqlMetal has been my code generator of choice (for a book on LINQ, SqlMetal and all of the cool new features)... I like to keep my class file names the same as the class contained in the file. Since SqlMetal generates partial classes, and we don't ... http://www.devprise.com/2008/07/07/linq-sqlmetal-nesting-the-generated-code-file/ So this is my first post using Windows Live Writer from a Windows Server 2008 workstation. I was not able to install Windows Live Writer 2008 on my server workstation, it would give the error: Sorry, Windows Live programs cannot be installed on Windows Server, Windows XP Professional ... http://www.devprise.com/2008/06/18/howto-install-windows-live-writer-on-windows-server-2008/ You can create a copy or clone of an existing virtual machine (VM) quite easily in Hyper-V ... The process is a little different than you might think though. The basic procedure is to export and import a virtual machine. I use my VM's primarily for separate development sandboxes and ... http://www.devprise.com/2008/06/17/how-to-copy-clone-a-hyper-v-virtual-machine/ So I'm running Windows Server 2008 as a development workstation. I ran into some trouble with a custom .NET application that imports data from Excel files using the ODBC driver. Error Message in .NET ERROR [IM002] [Microsoft] [ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified ... http://www.devprise.com/2008/06/10/excel-odbc-driver-for-windows-server-2008/