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Vista Activation DNS Error

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:29:00 GMT

SuitedCowboys » Vista Activation DNS Error
A solution to the "0×8007232B DNS name does not exist" error when installing Windows Vista Business Volume Licensing

Changing the name of a SQL Server machine

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:16:00 GMT

If you change the machine name of a machine with SQL Server installed, you need to do a few things in SQL Server after the machine name change. This article outlines those steps. The article applies to SQL Server 7.0, 2000 and 2005.

Changing the name of a SQL Server machine

TimeSnapper

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:17:00 GMT

TimeSnapper - make timesheets a snap
TimeSnapper is an Automatic Screenshot Journal. It runs in the background of your computer, taking screenshots of your desktop every few seconds all week long.

SpeedFiler

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 08:49:00 GMT

Claritude Software: Products
Good looking tool to help you file emails in Outlook. Having used it for a few days now, it really looks useful.

Recent Links

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 19 May 2006 11:56:00 GMT

Using LINQ with ASP.NET (Part 1)
Comprehensive walk-through of using LINQ in VS2005.

Delete a Folder on the Local Computer
Demonstration script that uses the FileSystemObject to delete a folder. Script must be run on the local computer.

List Folders Based on Creation Date
wsh script to list all folders older (or newer) than a specific date

Recent Links

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:17:00 GMT

MSBuild Community Tasks Project releases new version
The MSBuild Community Tasks Project releases version v1.1.0.145. There are many new tasks in this release.

VS 2005 Web Application Project Release Candidate Now Available
Release Candidate of the VS 2005 Web Application Project. You can download it now from here.

Download or Order Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition for Free
The full software for 32-bit and 64-bit versions is available as a free download.

Ophcrack 2.0 - fastest Windows password cracker - The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog
If you have a Windows machine that you have somehow forgotten the password to, or one that you genuinely require access to but for some reason do not have the password, this little utility might be just the ticket to gain access.

Steve Eichert - Automated Unit Testing
A series of posts on the process of automating the unit testing of CRUD operations on business objects.

ASP.NET.4GuysFromRolla.com: Unit Testing the Data Access Layer
Using these techniques, we can test database objects like stored procedures, functions, triggers, and the DAL that uses them.

Fix Your Access Database

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:27:00 GMT

Fix Your Access Database
This page tells you about an automated web service that will help you retrieve data and software from a corrupt or damaged Access database for a fee (Minimum US$50).

Clear All Connections to a SQL Server Database

Stuart Radcliffe — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:54:00 GMT

We have a requirement to restore a database every night to a back up copy. This back-up copy will have people using it at times so there may be active connections that will stop the restore job from taking place. To get around this problem, we add some Transact-SQL to the restore job to clear all connections to the database. This Transact-SQL code looks like this:

use master

declare @vcdbname varchar(50)

Set @vcdbname = 'DatabaseName'

set nocount on

declare Users cursor for

select spid

from master..sysprocesses

where db_name(dbid) = @vcdbname

declare @spid int, @str varchar(255)

open users

fetch next from users into @spid

while @@fetch_status <> -1

begin

if @@fetch_status = 0

begin

set @str = 'kill ' + convert(varchar, @spid)

exec (@str)

end

fetch next from users into @spid

end

deallocate users

Recent Links

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:01:00 GMT

Sysinternals Freeware - Process Explorer
Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

CopySourceAsHtml (CSAH)
CopySourceAsHtml is a Visual Studio .NET add-in that allows you to copy source as HTML suitable for pasting into blogs. CSAH uses VS.NET's syntax highlighting and VS.NET's font and color settings automatically.

Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project Preview
The Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project Model is a new web project option for Visual Studio 2005 that provides the same conceptual web project approach as VS 2003 but with all the new features of VS 2005

MSBuild Community Tasks Project for VS 2005
You should be able to use these with both the VS 2005 Web Deployment Project and with the VS 2005 Web Application Project option in VS 2005 when building ASP.NET 2.0 projects.

MSBuild Extras - Toolkit for .NET 1.1 "MSBee": Home
MSBuild Extras – Toolkit for .NET 1.1 “MSBee” is an addition to MSBuild that allows developers to build managed applications in Visual Studio 2005 that target .NET 1.1.

Window XP Home Support Scheduled to End This Year

Stuart Radcliffe — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:57:00 GMT

RadicalStu points out that Microsoft appear to be saying that they will discontinue support for Window XP Home at the end of this year. This would mean that there would be no more security updates for Windows XP Home; an operating system that is likely to still be installed by default on new computers bought well into the second half of this year before the release of Window Vista.