After a few years of using Vault , I have completed moving all of my internal projects to Subversion . Since I regularly work from multiple computers/locations and will most likely be adding people in the future, i wanted a free, flexible solution for source control. Subversion was a breeze to setup...

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To complement a previous post for Visual Studio 2003 and 2005, this registry key will add a context menu item to windows explorer. The menu item opens a command prompt with the vsvars32.bat from Visual Studio 2008. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Visual Studio...

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I updated the Property Center website this weekend. I worked with the Action Finale guys and they did an awesome job. The result is super clean xhtml markup and css. Hell, even the print view looks good. Take a look at the new design , and let me know what you think. One minor change I made was to use...

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Over the last few years, I've used Google to help me solve various problems, resulting in me not figuring them out on my own. I'm not saying that I can't solve problems, but Google is usually the first place I turn to for a solution before taking the time to manually do it. I feel that my problem solving...

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I started playing around with .net 3.5 today. I wanted to take a look at the TimeZoneInfo class first, since that new class conflicted with a custom class I wrote for Property Center. I'm happy to say that the new MS class does everything that mine does, so I can migrate my code to use the MS TimeZoneUtil...

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I got Property Center running on .net 3.5 tonight. Honestly, it wasn't a lot of work. There were some minor conflicts with the internal timezone class that I use, and I had to enable asp.net 2.0 web server extension with the vs.net 2008 virtual pc image. Other than that, things compile without any major...

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I kept running into issues when I tried to restore a database from a backup file. The error I kept getting was: Restore failed for Server 'localhost\SQLExpress'. Additional Information: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: Exclusive access could not be obtained because the database is in use. For local sql...

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I read a little bit about the concurrency APIs that will ship with .Net 3.5. It seems that they are FINALLY making it easy to integrate concurrency into an application without having to worry about locks, threads, etc. I'm not saying that knowing those low level concurrency programming concepts is a...

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Now that things aren't so hectic with Property Center development, I hope to get back into the swing of things and start posting more regularly. I've also been thinking of what to do with this site... From the sounds of things, Graffiti cms might be more appropriate than Community Server as the engine...

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This last week, I pushed live a pretty significant update for Property Center . This update has been a long time in the making... damn near 9 months actually. I'd wager that I refactored about 70% of the code for Property Center. Let that be a lesson, if you think you may want to support localization...

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