http://www.devprise.com by devprise.com Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:41:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ For a very small simple and easy to use ISO burner for Windows Vista (and XP), check out ISO Recorder by Alex Feinman ... It works like a Microsoft PowerToy. I love it! http://www.devprise.com/2008/06/02/small-simple-plug-in-to-burn-isos-in-windows-vista/ Here we are going to see an easy way to enumerate files in a directory, filter the files with Linq, then bind the results to a ASP.NET repeater control. We will show you the old .NET 1x way of doing this, then the new and improved Linq way of doing ... http://www.devprise.com/2008/05/30/howto-filter-systemiodirectorygetfiles-with-linq/ You can use Lambda expressions and the new extensions provided in the .NET framework 3.5 to filter your specialized collections like the ListItemCollection (used in ASP.NET ListBox controls). I found this great usage for lambda this weekend when posed with a problem using a ListBox control with a SelectionMode ... http://www.devprise.com/2008/05/27/querying-selected-items-from-listitemcollection-using-lambda/ SQL Server 2005 gathers metrics data for you automatically out of the box! I discovered this bit of information today, as I was looking into why my DotNetNuke database was starting to drag down. (remember my previous post about How to reset a DNN password at the Database) I ... http://www.devprise.com/2007/12/10/sqltrace_buffer_flush-performance-metrics-on-sql-server-2005/ I am always looking around for the Generic equivalents for the non-generic collections. Especially when converting 1.1 code over to 2.0 .comptable td { border-bottom: 1px solid #008000; background-color: #ebf7ff; } .comptable .name { background-color: #a8cece; } Table of Generic Collections to Non-Generic Collections Non-Generic (1.x) ... http://www.devprise.com/2007/10/22/net-20-generic-collections-to-10-and-11-collections/ Have you ever wanted to stream some video from your house to a remote location. Like to your cell phone, or to your computer at work? Maybe you are scheduled to work late during the World Cup, or NBA Finals. Well here is a simple way to stream that video/audio ... http://www.devprise.com/2007/09/18/streaming-video-from-home-to-work/ I manage many SQL 2000 databases. And many times while performing maintenance I have run into the 'transaction log full' error. like this: Error: 9002, Severity: 17, State: 2 The log file for database '%.*ls' is full. So like many people ... http://www.devprise.com/2007/08/19/easy-way-to-kill-ms-sql-server-transaction-logs/