tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74447661695780798482011-12-21T02:01:30.704-05:00We are a provider of IT services and support for small to medium sized businesses across the USA. We specialize in data-driven software development, and can help you develop a solution to your IT needs that fits your business.MyLabRubyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07660787840173063138noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444766169578079848.post-57654369616062829302010-08-25T10:27:00.000-04:002010-08-25T10:27:49.442-04:00

I needed to push out some new / updated system DSN's today for some reporting changes that are happening next week. Since there's no built in way to do this via group policy, I wound up setting up a "model" computer with all the DSN's I'd need, and then exporting that section of the registry to a .reg file (odbc.reg) I exported the following section of the registry: HKLM\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INI

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I took this from http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/page/Extensions.aspx: ExtensionsHere's a list of extensions that you can download and implement into your own BlogEngine.NET installation.  Thanks goes to Paul Tumelty for collecting this list and sharing with it us. Embedded Media ExtensionsSlideshow Photo Gallery - Silverlight based Photo Gallery Lightbox Extension - Integrates the Lightbox

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I found this online (here), and thought I'd jot down the important pieces for myself any anyone else who might run across this. There are several places you can adjust timeouts for websites in general, let alone a DotNetNuke CMS-based site. Here's a walkthrough: increase session time-out for the webserver Open the properties for your DNN site in your IIS manager Go to the tab "Home Directory"

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Found this on the web and it worked perfectly. I knew everything about restarting the system attendent, but I had to remove my default website and recreate a blank one, so it had a different "ID" than the original one, which is where the kicker was. I'll put that part here first, although you need the IIS Resource Kit described in the steps below it to get to the Metabase Explorer. I immediately

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http://gskinner.com/RegExr/

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A great article with a tool you can use to automate backups of SQL Server 2005 and 2008 Express databases from the command prompt. http://www.sqldbatips.com/showarticle.asp?id=29 The ExpressMaint utility supports the following operations Full Database Backup Differential Database Backup Log Backup Housekeeping of backup files Database Integrity Checks Database Index Rebuilds Database

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This is a quite handy blog on sending a gridview to an excel file download in vb.net http://mattberseth.com/blog/2007/04/export_gridview_to_excel_1.html

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This was a great article on setting up Outlook Anywhere on a Exchange 2007 / Server 2008 Configuration. They key thing I didn't have done was setting up the autodiscover.____.com CNAME in my DNS. Once I did that, things started working great! http://www.netometer.com/video/tutorials/windows-2008-how-to-configure-outlook-anywhere-exchange-2007/ I also found this very cool exchange "testing" site

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I'm compacting a 100GB exchange server this weekend and wanted to get a good set of working instructions down so it runs as planned. Here's what I wound up with. I'm practicing with the public folder store, and here are some directories where things are stored:Exchange Database: d:\exchangeWorking Folder (drive with lots of space): g:\exchangeExchange System: c:\program files\exchsrvr1. Go to

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I thought I'd scoured the internet last Friday to figure out how to set up ExchangeServer 2003 for RPC over HTTP, but alas, everything I read fell short of this great article. I didn't even have RPC over HTTP INSTALLED on the server,and there were also some registry settings that had to be put in. Everything I readwas about SSL's and Basic Authentication, but there was so much more! This is a

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For those who tested the new SQL Server 2008, you probably got this message, when trying to change the columns in some tables, add columns or change nullity conditions. "Save is not permitted"... and something like tables have to be dropped and re-created. The only choice you have is to click cancel, or to choose to save the message to a text file, which is, i think, not very useful.The solution

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This looks to be just what I'm looking for for a project.http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/cloud.aspxWeb sites such as del.icio.us, Technorati and Flickr, which allow tagging of their content, depict the popularity of tags using a tag cloud. The popular items have larger font sizes. This concept can be applied to any list of items where each item has an associated weight. For example, a

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I've been working on a project for the past month on sending and receiving data to a vendor using XMLRPC over HTTP technologies. It proved to be a real bear to figure out as we got started as I couldn't see the format of XML I was sending and they never told me exactly what it needed to look like either. I've finally got it "licked" and thought I'd share some of the journey here in case it helps

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I'm always looking for these shortcuts, so thought I'd post them here... hope they help you as well!CTRL+ALT+END: Open the Microsoft Windows NT Security dialog box (CTRL+ALT+DEL) ALT+PAGE UP: Switch between programs from left to right (CTRL+PAGE UP)ALT+PAGE DOWN: Switch between programs from right to left (CTRL+PAGE DOWN)ALT+INSERT: Cycle through the programs in most recently used order (

MyLabRubyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07660787840173063138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444766169578079848.post-83437550101567042292008-08-12T08:06:00.000-04:002008-08-12T08:07:30.215-04:00

Source: http://motov3m.com/tiki-index.php?page=UsingBasicsThis is a guide to setting up your phone to sync with Windows Media Player.The Motorola V3m serves not only as a phone, but also as a multimedia device. One of its primary uses is as a music player. It is a fairly robust music player, allowing for music syncing with the device through Windows Media Player 10. Out of the box, the device

MyLabRubyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07660787840173063138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444766169578079848.post-45672668290741112392008-03-13T15:40:00.003-04:002008-03-13T15:40:54.060-04:00

One of the ways we've been gathering data for years has been called "screen scraping." You log onto a program, find certain text in certain portions of the page, and "scrape" it off for your own application's needs. This has become a whole new animal with the explosion of the Internet. So much more information is available now, but it's constantly changing as well! We are able to use RSS, blogs,

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We have recently developed an ASP.NET control that allows for database driven META tags and page titles for pages on your website. This control, when placed on a page, will look up META data and page TITLE information from the database and incorporate into the page. This is extremely useful on sites that use master pages and completely data-driven virtual pages, such as this very page, or any

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If your business is a service provider to other businesses or even individuals, you may often need for them to send you large computer files for you to work on for them, such as accounting software backups or logo designs. Often these files are too large to send via email, so another method must be used. We have developed a simple "web site upload" application that will allow your clients to

MyLabRubyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07660787840173063138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444766169578079848.post-5376545588889427532008-03-13T15:39:00.001-04:002008-03-13T15:40:54.061-04:00

We've been doing some work with some local high schools and entire school corporations and are beginning to see a need for consistency and data-driven templates to better allow these organizations to effectively communicate and connect with the visitors to their sites.You can read more about this project here.

MyLabRubyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07660787840173063138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444766169578079848.post-20626284827885651542008-03-13T15:37:00.000-04:002008-03-13T15:39:08.754-04:00

We've recently built a smashup (I think that's the technical term) that combines several types of information feed into a single page. The application reads a database to find a Bible reading for a given day of the year from a SQL Server database hosted on the site, and then queries an external web site via a URL and Querystring for that passage. Depending on copyright rules, the text is

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