Tim Huffam

If you do a 'typical' install of Artcut, it will try to install the 'chinese graph files' - and therefore, when you run it for the first time (after the…

This error ("Failed to access IIS metabase") can occur when you try to access your WCF when you have added for hosting within IIS.

This post will explain how to do fading (fade out a layer) in Gimp. Assuming you have an image open... 1. Add a new layer 2. Draw the part you want faded…

When creating a new document and in Print Layout, Word sometimes places the cursor right at the top of the page - not catering for the top margin.

Note this article is primarily based on Microsoft/.Net technologies, although the principle apply to any technology.

Doing some winforms dev for a change - and had a need to hide a form, instead of closing it, when the user clicked the standard windows close form button…

One morning when restoring my pc from hibernate - I got this error: svchost.exe -- application error the instruction at "0x745f2780" reference memory at…

This error: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 has encountered a problem during setup. Setup did not complete correctly.

This seems to be a very common problem where by your event handler method gets run twice. It is caused by VS.NET inserting 2 wireup of the event handler:

The following demostrates how to retreive data from items within an Outlook folder (called "MySubFolderName" under the Inbox folder) using .NET:

public string HTMLEncodeSpecialChars(string text) { System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder(); foreach (char c in text){ if(c>127) //…

If you need to find a username but only have an ip address, if you use active directory (AD) then you can use the following method to find out the…

I have the following scenario: .container{ text-align: center; border: solid 1px blue; } <div class=container><table><tr><td>Text</td></tr></table><div>

1. Open your image. 2. Select the area you want to make transparent. 1. Select the appropriate selection tool from the Tool window or the Tools -…

I got this error immediately after installing VS2005 & SQL Server 2005 Express and trying to establish my first connection using the new server - not a…

IE supports provides a half-baked implementation of the non-standard attribute 'disabled' on anchor tags (ie it changes it's color -even though it does…

This seems to be quite a common error for many people installing PhpMyAdmin for the first time. The phpmyadmin (pma) docs mention it - basically stating…

I got this error when I try to create an eventlog source and when I try to write to the new event log (after resorting to manually creating the event log…

Those of you wanting to know how to remove this annoying version on IE - click here. However, if you are as unfortunate as myself, and have had another…

When trying to run/debug my ASP.Net web app from VS.NET (2003) I get this error: Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging on the web…

I got this error (and serveral variations of it while trying to fix it) when trying to open an ASP.NET (.Net 1.1) web app in VS.NET (2003) (on an XP Pro…

Upon clicking on the SQL Server Enterprise Manager shortcut the following error occurs: MMC cannot open the file C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SQL…