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I just booked my flight to attend the Virtual Earth Seminar in Sydney on April 2nd. It is out at North Ryde so if anyone wants to share a cab ride I am flying in on Qantas at 11:15am.

I needed to turn on content expiration for a single file and wanted to do it through IIS so i didn’t have to write code (lazy me).  Cause i’m blind took me a while to find. To set a single … Continued

I installed Visual Studio Team Suite awhile back and haven’t had to use TFS yet.  So now I want to use TFS, there’s no “Connect to TeamFoundation Server” option under tools.  After looking at MSDN I discover you have to … Continued

I had a problem where i had a UDF on 2 databases with the same data that were returning different results. The query that was running was basically: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Comment WHERE Date <> NULL DB1 would give me … Continued

I’m not going to debate the merits and flaws in UAC but here is a tip for those people that use UAC and hate the video mode change that causes that annoying flicker. In group policy editor – gpedit.msc there … Continued

I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting an evening of Virtual Earth at the April meeting of the QLD MSDN user group. If you would like to attend please come along. So does anyone have any specific … Continued

Its been a long time comming but i published today my 2nd revision of the very popular article on clustering virtual earth pins. This revision utilises MS AJAX web services and the server side code is in C#. Full example … Continued

I seem to do this accidentally all the time…I hit the Don’t show Check In dialog box when checking in items. To get it back goto Tools ->Options Open Source Control -> Environment and untick the “Don’t show Checkin dialog … Continued

Was playing around with ASP.Net membership providers and I’d created a few users and roles and everything looked happy.  Then i ran my application and I just couldn’t log in.  Upon investigation the app thought that there were 0 users … Continued

FYI: Bank cheques don’t have an expiry date.  Personal cheques have a lifetime of 18 months.  I had to go to the bank today, so took along one of John’s really old cheques from 2003 (it was a bank cheque) … Continued

Showed John this the other night..so thought might aswell blog it case someone else is interested.  If you’re trying to create some data or need a GUID you can do it using an inbuilt tool in Visual Studio.     … Continued

Been playing with using supplied XML to join to tables in a select statement.  So i thought I’d do a simple example to remind myself next time i need to do it.. So i have the following xml structure: <Categories> … Continued

I’m running XP, and after a windows update I was getting svchoste.exe errors.  This cause a range of weird errors on my machine, like the theme going back to XP Classic and a selected number of things not working. I … Continued

I just put together what i hope is a really good reference for anyone wanting to change the look and feel of the V4 virtual earth dashboard. Read the article. Please let me know if I have missed anything and … Continued

 These guys have a really good article on ASP 2.0’s Membership, role and profiles. The part I found very useful was the section on adding the MS membership schema to an existing database.  You can run the aspnet_regsql.exe tool from a … Continued

It is amazing how powerful and productive find and replace can be if you know the tricks of Regex in VS2005. Here are the main set: Expression Syntax Description Any character . Matches any single character except a line break. … Continued

Just had to do this on Vista today and got an interesting object error on line: Response.Redirect(“~/Install/Install.aspx?mode=Install”) I wonder if this has changed in IIS7 in integrated mode? Anyway the solution I found is to change to “classic mode” to … Continued

We have just added the feature for anyway to subscribe to our articles and news. If you’re interested in what we are doing or some of our advanced topics please submit your name and email. Yes please subscribe me now … Continued

There are now a stack of photos up on the look up and smile site. If you want a really fast way to browse through them the local.live gadget is the way to go:http://www.live.com/?add=http://www.lookupandsmile.com.au/gadget/LUASGadget.xml My favorites: Flag house possum in … Continued

In my search for ways to get the most out of my new adsl2 connection I came across an old article of tips and tricks including how to allow Internet explorer to have more then 2 simultaneous connections. I cannot … Continued

If you want to be able to script out one object per file and include the create and drop in the same file in SQL2005 either wait for SP2 (apparantly it’s coming then) of check out this guys cool called … Continued

Was trying to use the new SQL2005 ROW_NUMBER() function to get “paged” results. There’s a bit of a trick to using it though.  Only way we could get it to work was to wrap inside another sql clause. E.g we … Continued

You’d think connecting a new phone line and linking it to your existing account would be a simple task?  Apparantly not. The task was simple..I wanted a new phone line at my house so we could get ADSL2.  I needed … Continued

I bought my lappy a few months ago.  As it was around the time of talk of upgrade offers to Vista, we contacted Dell to see if we would qualify for the Dell Vista Upgrade.  The sales guy then realised … Continued

I upgraded our site to the latest version of Dotnetnuke today. I have been playing with the new DNN4.4 recently and it does perform better. I’m a little confused by a couple of things. The error logs have changed xml format … Continued

My dad sent me the photo bellow the other day.  It’s a 5MB hdd from 1956. When you look at that pic, it’s SCARY how small memory storage has become in 50 years.  As a comparison….below is a photo of … Continued

Broke the Jas Jam already 🙁 Got my new 2GB micro SD card for the JasJam this morning.  Put it in, and it just kept going…couldn’t click it back out!  Of course John’s was fine (I always get the duds). … Continued

 We’ve turned 100 .  Well not 100 in years, but in blog posts.  Since the 6th August 2006 we’ve now done 100 blog posts.  No match for someone like Frank, and we kinda cheated cause there’s 2 of us blogging…but … Continued

I’m sure many of you are in the same boat with email spam. The latest attack here is spam pretending to be a mail returned message. Well I think i have a simple idea to put an end to it. Currently … Continued

For some reason SQL 2005 help is showing “help on help”. Very frustrating. What i need is a simple reference of the correct function names like ROUND() etc. Anyway this is the best i could find from MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174318.aspx