Just do it…
“Do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.” Thomas Huxley
Busy or productive…
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. Thomas A. Edison
SecurityException / IIS .Net Trust Levels / Diagnostic Traces
This dasBlog website is now being hosted at WinHost. In reality, the migration was trivial. Using IIS Manager, there is an option under Deploy to “Export Application…”which saves the entire site to a .zip file. And then after connecting to the new site, one simply runs “Import Application…” and points to the saved .zip file—simple […]
The TAO of Programming
From the book by Geoffrey James Thus spake the Master Programmer: “A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.”
Microsoft’s support site solved WP7 error 801812DD
While I find it amazing that the USB cable needs to be directly connected to the port on the back of the computer to upgrade to the March 2011 release of the Windows Phone 7 operating system, at least the support page from Microsoft provided useful information: Now I can happily search the app store, […]
Windows Phone 7 February (and March) 2011 Update from AT&T
Available on April 19th, 2011 is the February update for my Samsung Focus Windows 7 Phone: And checking settings right after installing February update, March 2011 is also available: Only to fail with an update error 801812DD: I’ll try again in the morning
Extension methods in C#
Wikipedia has a very good overview of extension methods in C# here. Basically, if you create a static method in a static class and the first parameter includes the keyword ‘this’ then the first parameter will be the calling object and you’ve created an extension method. Here is a quick example console application (based on […]
Uppercase vs. UpperCase
XamlParseException occurred: The property ‘VerticalGridlinesBrush’ was not found in type ‘System.Windows.Controls.DataGrid’. [Line: 19 Position: 30] Took me 30 minutes to see that <Setter Property="VerticalGridlinesBrush"> <Setter.Value> <SolidColorBrush Color="#FFACACAC"/> </Setter.Value> </Setter> should be <Setter Property="VerticalGridLinesBrush"> <Setter.Value> <SolidColorBrush Color="#FFACACAC"/> </Setter.Value> </Setter> Next time I need to hit ctrl+space sooner…
devenv.exe.config
While trying to compile a demo Silverlight application, I ran into this build error: System.NotSupportedException: An attempt was made to load an assembly from a network location which would have caused the assembly to be sandboxed in previous versions of the .NET Framework. This release of the .NET Framework does not enable CAS policy by […]
Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 (WP7) using AT&T
My Samsung Focus came in the mail today to replace the old iPhone 3G I was trying to use. I say trying because with each OS release my old iPhone would get slower and slower. While the iPhone 4 looks like an improvement over the 3G (click here for the apple comparison), I like the […]