http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:59:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Break into Debugger when Exception is thrown even if you are using try catch statements. From Visual Studio, hit CTRL + ALT + E. Then check the "Thrown attribute of the Common Language Runtime Exceptions. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/break-into-debugger-when-exception-is-thrown/ I was bored today so I created a very simple and fast php script to plot the location for a given IP and display other IP information (such as lattitude, longitude, Country, State, Area code, ISP, etc.) on a Google Map using the Maxmind web service and the Google Maps ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/maxmind-and-google-maps-mashup/ I am in the process of migrating all SharePoint related blogs to MySharePointBog. The new RSS feed is http://www.mysharepointblog.com/syndication.axd. I am using the fantastic open source BlogEngine.NET from codeplex.com. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/moving-to-new-site-all-sharepoint-posts/ I am fairly certain the .NET versioning (numbering release) scheme is the dumbest ever created. Seriously who in their right mind does a point release that is a extension of the previous point but not the one before that (2.0 -> 3.0)? Then 3.0 -> to 3.5? ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/net-versions-rant/ This entry has been moved to mySharePointBlog.com. Go here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/cannot-get-the-list-schema-column-property-from-the-sharepoint-list/ This entry has been moved to mySharePointBlog.com. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/workaround-for-sharepoint-group-email-limits/ protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { // Show admin link if they have access to the admin directory. // hyperLinkAdmin.Visible = hasAccessToDir("admin"); } ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/aspnet-test-ntfs-directory-access/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/sharepoint-elevated-security/ C# public string CreateADUser(string szUsername, string szDisplayName, string szFirstName, string szLastName, string szMiddleInitial, string szPhone, string szEmail, string szOrgUnit) { string szPassword = "fooBar_123"; //temp only. string szCNName = ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/create-active-directory-user-in-net/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/sharepoint-webpart-dev-tip/ Sample columns date_col: 2007-05-06 00:00:00.000 time_col: 1971-01-01 01:06:23.000 Use this... DATEADD(hh ,DATEPART(hh, [time_col]]), DATEADD(n ,DATEPART(n, [time_col]) , DATEADD(ss ,DATEPART(ss, [time_col]) , [date_col]))) To get this... 2007-05-06 01:06:23.000 http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/sql-server-how-to-combine-2-date-and-time-columns-into-1-column/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/how-to-use-the-peoplepicker-in-sharepoint/ Here is a sweet little app that allows you to shuffle your taskbar items. Go HERE http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/taskbar-shuffle/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/how-to-enable-debugging-in-wss-30/ Using SPContext and making a application globally availible http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/sharepoint-establishing-site-context/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/update-a-person-or-group-field-in-sharepoint-with-c/ This .NET 2.0 website adds additional functionality to associate a name and notes to the MAC addresses in a DD-WRT flashed router. I did this because the built in only has MAC fields which makes it cumbersome to associate names/computer to MACs when you have dozens of ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/dd-wrt-mac-address-toolkit/ C# using Visual Studio 2005... using System; using System.Data; using System.Configuration; using System.Web; using System.Web.Security; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts; using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page { // How many rows when the page initially loads. static int tDefaultRow_Count = 10; // Max number of rows. ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/how-to-dynamically-add-a-table-row-with-input-fields-in-net/ Better to know what the bad guys are up to than not. SQL Injection Cheat Sheet http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/sql-injection-cheat-sheet/ Run php 4 and php 5.2.x on the same machine with IIS 6.0 as ISAPI. Extract the ZIP packages of both php 4 & php 5 (not the Windows Installer) to c:\php4 & c:\php5 respectively. Setup the corresponding php.ini files in c:\php4 and c:\php5 Add the Web Service Extensions for php4 and php5. ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/run-php-4x-and-php-52x-on-the-same-machine-with-iis-60-as-isapi/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/html-powerpoint-presentation-running-from-a-secure-sharepoint-site-prompts-with-a-unsecured-dialog/ Basic Definitions of Comet: Wiki Server Technologies: IE will not allow your to read xmlhttp.responseText untill xmlhttp.readyState = 4 (complete -- connection closed). It works in FF. var http_request = false; function makeRequest(url) { http_request = false; if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,... http_request = new XMLHttpRequest(); if (http_request.overrideMimeType) { http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml'); // See ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/comet-high-speed-ajax/ From command line C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\[framework version]\aspnet_regiis.exe -r After that has run, goto IIS --> Web Service Extensions --> ASP.NET [framework version] --> Enable. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/enable-net-web-extensions-in-iss-via-command-line/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/wss-current-number-of-sites-0-after-sql-restore-of-content-db/ RESTORE DATABASE SharePoint_Jeff FROM DISK = 'D:\SharePoint_Content_db_200705072120___jeff_restore.BAK' WITH MOVE 'SharePoint_Content' TO 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\SharePoint_Jeff_Data.MDF', MOVE 'SharePoint_Content_Log' TO 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\SharePoint_Jeff_Log.LDF', STATS = 1, REPLACE GO http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/restore-ms-sql-database-via-query/ protected void Button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { DataSet dsExport = dataSet; DataGrid dgExport = new DataGrid(); dgExport.DataSource = dsExport; ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/net-datagrid-to-excel-utility/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/sharepoint-wss-datetime-format/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/sharepoint-sessionstate-issues/ declare @dbsize dec(15,0) declare @freespace dec(15,0) declare @spaceused dec(15,0) select @dbsize = sum(convert(dec(15),size)) from sems_teas5.dbo.sysfiles select database_name = 'YOUR_DB_NAME', database_size = (@dbsize / 128), spaceused=(select (sum(convert(dec(15),reserved))/128) ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/sql-query-database-size/ The following command will encrypt your connection sting in your web.config file. The connection string must all ready be in place. For C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG -pkm switch encrypts the machine.config rather and web.config (default). aspnet_regiis.exe -pef "connectionStrings" "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\config" -prov "DataProtectionConfigurationProvider" http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/net-connectionstring-encyption/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/sharepoint-error-publickeytokenb77a5c561934e089-failed/ This function written in c# builds a MS excel out of a dataSet. private DataSet dataSet = new DataSet(); private DataView dView = new DataView(); private void LoadPeople() { SqlConnection conn ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/aspnet-excel-function/ This post has been moved to mySharePointblog. Go here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/wss-30-api-notes/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/sharepoint-wss-and-session-errors/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/sharepoint-sqlclientpermission-errors/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/sharepoint-wss-error-operation-aborted-exception-from-hresult-0x80004004-e_abort/ #my_div { border: 1px solid Red; width: expression(ieBox ? "100px" : "80px"); } http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/javascript-expressions-in-css/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/general-sharepoint-notes/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/suppress-microsoft-office-document-authentication-prompt-in-sharepoint-wss-30/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/sharepoint-30-wss-and-crystal-reports-10/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/wss-20-remove-the-sharepoint-team-site-from-the-root-of-an-web-site-without-un-extending-the-team-site/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/sharepoint-wss-20-cannot-delete-a-folder-named-forms/ Microsoft TechNet Article on Global Registry Entries My main point of interest is the IIS logging. I would like to flush the log to disk before I run a script that gathers up all the logs and build useage reports every hour. Although interesting, the following registry entry is ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/iis-60-registry-tweaks/ Due to some new enhancements in IIS 6.0, users may encounter a significant delay before receiving the content on the page. This can be a great annoyance for the users and prevent them from visiting your site. To eliminate this delay, follow these instructions: Copy the following: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ASP\Parameters] "DisableLazyContentPropagation"=dword:00000001 Open ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/iis-60-how-to-eliminate-the-delay-in-serving-updated-asp/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/serious-wss-30-bug/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/sharepoint-search-with-pdf-ifilter-and-scan-existing-pdfs-on-your-site/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/add-your-own-icons-to-sharepoint-lists-such-as-pdf-exe-etc/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/windows-sharepoint-services-wss-30-search-setup-notes/ Yes, EVER!!! It will be this Sunday night (12/24/2006), Christmas Eve in the G-Lounge. You may arrive as early as 7:00 PM. There will be games, door prizes, and plenty of alcohol with people from all over the country. We have two special guests all the way from California: Richard ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/the-best-x-mass-eve-party-ever/ When you create a backup job with the MySQL Administrator the backup will not execute properly in the MS Scheduler runing on x64. Right click the job in the MS Scheduler and change "-c" to "-C" (xp64 bug). http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/mysql-backup-job-scheduler-fix-in-x64/ From command line: cd c:\inetpub\adminscripts cscript adsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 1 Thats it. Related MS Article http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/how-to-make-php-run-in-x64-64-bit/ As an application developper you often need to write some logs for your application, and hopefully there is actually many framework to ease your pain: Log4net, Entlib Logging Application Block, etc. But when it come to read those logs, extract statistics or to do some alert or action on them, ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/visual-log-parser-gui-graphical-log-parser-tool-to-analyse-your-logs/ Here is the story... John Beschler, lead developer, was a little upset about our users having trouble with our website. He walked by my cube while someone mentioned someone else having trouble with our intrAnet site. Our site is well done and well tested and user friendly... anyway, John got all upset and ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/idiotproof-website/ Edit as required... use master go IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'tCalendar') begin DROP TABLE tCalendar end go create table tCalendar ( DateID int identity(1,1) constraint tCalendar_PK primary key CLUSTERED, Date datetime, Holiday bit default 0, Workday bit default 0) go Create UNIQUE nonclustered index tCalendar_date_N_Idx on tCalendar(Date) go --Populate all days declare @n int declare @maxn int declare @begindate datetime set @n =1 set @maxn=36500 ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/create-and-populate-a-simple-calendar-table-in-ms-sql/ Make FF faster. In the address bar... type "about:config" Filter: network Set network.http.pipelining = true Set network.pipelining.maxrequests = 8 http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/tweak-ff/ Changing the listening port for Remote Desktop can have its advantages, particularly if you are remoting in from behind a firewall. Since a lot of public firewalls (hotels, airports, etc.) block most ports except for those used for email and internet access, using the default settings for Remote Desktop will ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/change-remote-desktop-listening-port/ There is no easy way that I am aware of (in MS SQL 2000). You basically have to create a table with an additional identity field and import the data. Here is how you do it: -From *Enterprise Manager, backup the original table by renaming it. -From Query Analyzer, create ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/add-an-indentity-feild-to-an-existing-sql-table/ Open notepad and paste the following text (you can get to notepad easily by going to Start -> Run -> type 'notepad' -> Ok)... Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Control Panel\command] @="rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\DevMgr] @="Device Manager" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\DevMgr\command] @="mmc.exe %%SYSTEMDRIVE%%\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM32\\devmgmt.msc" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Regedit] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Regedit\command] @="regedit.exe" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Command Prompt] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Command Prompt\command] Save the file as my_computer_context_menu.reg to the desktop. Double click my_computer_context_menu.reg it to intall this your ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/how-to-add-control-panel-device-manager-and-regedit-to-right-click-context-menu-of-my-computer/ With the new release of Visual Studio (VS) 2005, you would think that it would have full support for classic ASP when working in a directory. This is not the case. There are some hacks out there, however none are fully functional and some require that you set ... http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/visual-studio-classic-asp-syntax-highlighting-and-intellisense/ This post has been moved to mySharePointBlog. Go Here. http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/run-regular-script-asp-aspx-php-etc-on-your-sharepoint-site/