TechTidBits

HelloWorld - WPF style!

webmaster@pchenry.com — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:59:00 GMT

Tonight I wanted to hit two birds with one stone! Read on for more details!

Dictionary of Dictionaries? WTF?

webmaster@pchenry.com — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:37:00 GMT

Have you ever wanted to use a Dictionary of Dictionaries? What the heck are you doing with that you might ask? Read on please! :>

Playing with Graphics/GDI+ to screen scrape the Habs current web page

webmaster@pchenry.com — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:21:00 GMT

I'm working on a Montreal Canadiens screen saver and thought grabbing a copy of the current web page would be cool, but how to do it and also how can you add "stuff" to it? Read on for some cool graphic details (haha).

IComparer, how does it compare? Now introduce Generics into the mix and see how much fun it is?

webmaster@pchenry.com — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:20:00 GMT

Last week I need to order a list of files and directories. My problem was I was adding multiple files implementing the IComparer interface. That's good'n'all, but there had to be a better way than one more file for one more sort order? But how?! SG to the rescue!

How do you disable a WinForms close button?

webmaster@pchenry.com — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:35:00 GMT

How do you effectively disable the windows control box close button? You know, the bit "X" on the top right hand side of every WinForm, how do you get rid of it/disable it?

Update: What I plan to do this year to become a better coder!

webmaster@pchenry.com — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:40:00 GMT

Progress update as promised (late, but still as promised).

How do you run multiple websites on one IIS server?

webmaster@pchenry.com — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:38:00 GMT

Do you have your own server? Are you running IIS and have one ASP or ASP.NET application? Want to run more but can't seem to figure it out? Read on for some help!

You could be running Apache/Tomcat/WebLogic or other J2EE servers and you might learn a bit, but it's up to you to make the leaps of logical faith to make it run (the theory is tranlatable if not the screen shots and dialogs). Here's how you do it!

Are you a DISTINCT kind of person with your SQL queries?

webmaster@pchenry.com — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:35:00 GMT

Do you use the DISTINCT clause in your SQL queries a lot? If you do, can I have a word with you please? If you don't, maybe check this out for a "feel good" kind of moment. HAHA!

What's that Windows Prefetch directory all about?

webmaster@pchenry.com — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:22:00 GMT

Running short on HD space? Or maybe you're just poking around Windows and found a Prefetch directory. What's that all about? Can you delete it's contents? Only if you want to slow things down you can! DOH! Read on.

Ever wanted to create a Windows Service but didn't know where to start? Well, here's a great place!

webmaster@pchenry.com — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:39:00 GMT

Do you have a process you KNOW SHOULD be in a Windows Service but think they're just too complicated? You think they're for Windows Servers only or you've had/heard of administrative problems in the past? Well, read on for a detailed set of directions to take you from where you are now to a completed and working Windows Service!