January 2008 Entries
So after searching in vain for a 64 bit driver (of any kind) and on the verge of giving up I decided to just try the 32 bit driver and had success. Vista 64 made the appropriate adjustments and away I went. Obviously, this is not a guarantee for others out there using this TV tuner who are also trying to run Vista in 64 bit, but if you are, I have copied the link to the driver (for those of you with Gateways) below. http://support.gateway.com/...
Honestly, when you open a SQL connection just go ahead and spend two seconds to close it when you're done. If it becomes super hard for you write a snippet to take care of it for you. Don't call up your infrastructure teams though and complain about poor website connectivity when it breaks and you haven't closed your connections. If you've forgotten what happens when you don't close them there is a good article here (http://www.15seconds.com/i...
So, in the past when I wanted to allow a user to impersonate using the .NET framework, I had to go into the frameworks directory (i.e. "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\F... and grant the impersonating user rights to read and write to the correct directory. However, in Windows Vista the rights to these directories are locked down and you might get an error such as the following...The current identity (DOMAIN\USERNAME) does not have write access to 'C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\F...