I had been experimenting with Ruby/Rake. I took a little while for me to get adjusted to Ruby's syntax. I love closures in Ruby and their effective use in Rake. I was trying if I could do the same …

Man, oh, man! Setting this thing up was a pain in the arse. It took up most of my day! Anyway, hopefully, I can save someone else the heardache.

If you take the security settings in a GPO, and look closer to the audit policy. You will see 2 logon events. Audit account logon event and audit logon event.

Although I've never met them personally, I blame Dave Burke and Ben Armstrong for my little jaunt down memory lane this past weekend. It all started when I was cleaning out the basement...I came to…

You may receive the error "The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote server." while trying to consume a Web Service from your ASP.NET Web Application. However, the same …

Natively the GridView doesn't support the insertion of records. However you can manipulate the footerrow in such a way that you can use it as an insertion row. These are the steps :

My past experiences with Mono left me unimpressed because of it's speed issues, in some cases the .NET Framework runing six times faster. But because a lot of people claim that Mono gets faster wit…

If you use Virtual PC 2004 frequently, you are going to notice that the virtual hard disks (.VHD) files growth a lot, as files are saved within the VPC environment, because dynamic VHDs will expand…

System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive.

Upon clicking on the SQL Server Enterprise Manager shortcut the following error occurs:

In my initial post on Installing Vista Beta 1 on VMware v5 build 13124 - Initial Observations I was able to get all the VM hardware to work except the sound card. The native VMtools provided sound …

The uninstallation behavior of Windows Installer is actually quite efficient. At uninstall time, Windows Installer will only remove the items that have been installed by the package unless the comp…

Last month I mentioned winsock error 10053, "Software caused connection abort" (basically, the error means that something on the localhost caused the connection to be closed), and how it is so ofte…

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I had this error in beta2 CTP June. I was trying to create an ObjectDataSource using XSD with predefined stored procedures.

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While working on a Data Form in an ASP.Net application you might want to get a value from the user that corresponds to the Enum you created in your Business Layer. Since Enum types are not strings …