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I just stopped in to take a look at the lounge. WOW, I haven't laughed this hard in a while, read this thread -> WinDev[^]
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Now who would have thought that the error below was something as simple as the IIS website needing the version of .NET changed from .NET 1 to .NET 2. Sigh, there was a couple of hours wasted. There has to be a better way for IIS to handle errors like this!
Configuration Error <br />
Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately. <br />
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Parser Error Message: Unrecognized attribute 'type'.<br />
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Source Error: <br />
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Line 2: <configuration><br />
Line 3: <configSections><br />
Line 4: <sectionGroup name="system.web.extensions" type="System.Web.Configuration.SystemWebExtensionsSectionGroup, System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"><br />
Line 5: <sectionGroup name="scripting" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingSectionGroup, System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"><br />
Line 6: <section name="scriptResourceHandler" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingScriptResourceHandlerSection, System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" requirePermission="false" allowDefinition="MachineToApplication"/><br />
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Source File: D:\Share\inetpub\wwwroot\KB\web.config Line: 4
  
I need a ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
With respect, I must disagree. A quick look at middle management in just about any corporation shows that the dodo not only survived, it's reproducing in record numbers. Christopher Duncan
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Always remember when re-installing subversion the santax is
Copy the svrService.exe to the directory with your subversion setup in it.
cd [to the subversion directory]
svrService.exe -install -d -r [absolute path]
Just makes life so much easier...
With respect, I must disagree. A quick look at middle management in just about any corporation shows that the dodo not only survived, it's reproducing in record numbers. Christopher Duncan
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Just sitting here playing around with VS2005 and C#. Wow there are some really cool features in .NET Take this little snippit for example.
<FONT color=Blue>private</FONT> <FONT color=Blue>void</FONT> GetRunningProcs<FONT color=DarkBlue>(</FONT><FONT color=DarkBlue>)</FONT>
<FONT color=DarkBlue>{</FONT>
<FONT color=Blue>string</FONT> strMsg <FONT color=DarkBlue>=</FONT> <FONT color=Maroon>""</FONT><FONT color=DarkBlue>;</FONT>
<FONT color=DarkGreen>
<FONT color=Blue>try</FONT>
<FONT color=DarkBlue>{</FONT>
<FONT color=Blue>foreach</FONT> <FONT color=DarkBlue>(</FONT><FONT color=Teal>Process</FONT> proc <FONT color=Blue>in</FONT> <FONT color=Teal>Process</FONT><FONT color=DarkBlue>.</FONT>GetProcesses<FONT color=DarkBlue>(</FONT><FONT color=DarkBlue>)</FONT><FONT color=DarkBlue>)</FONT>
<FONT color=DarkBlue>{</FONT>
<FONT color=DarkGreen>
<FONT color=DarkGreen>
<FONT color=Blue>if</FONT> <FONT color=DarkBlue>(</FONT>proc<FONT color=DarkBlue>.</FONT>MainWindowTitle<FONT color=DarkBlue>.</FONT>Length <FONT color=DarkBlue>></FONT> <FONT color=Red>0</FONT><FONT color=DarkBlue>)</FONT>
<FONT color=DarkBlue>{</FONT>
strMsg <FONT color=DarkBlue>+=</FONT> proc<FONT color=DarkBlue>.</FONT>MainWindowTitle<FONT color=DarkBlue>.</FONT>ToString<FONT color=DarkBlue>(</FONT><FONT color=DarkBlue>)</FONT> <FONT color=DarkBlue>+</FONT> <FONT color=Maroon>"\n"</FONT><FONT color=DarkBlue>;</FONT>
<FONT color=DarkBlue>}</FONT>
<FONT color=DarkBlue>}</FONT>
<FONT color=Teal>MessageBox</FONT><FONT color=DarkBlue>.</FONT>Show<FONT color=DarkBlue>(</FONT>strMsg<FONT color=DarkBlue>)</FONT><FONT color=DarkBlue>;</FONT>
<FONT color=DarkBlue>}</FONT>
<FONT color=Blue>catch</FONT> <FONT color=DarkBlue>(</FONT><FONT color=Teal>Exception</FONT> Exc<FONT color=DarkBlue>)</FONT>
<FONT color=DarkBlue>{</FONT>
<FONT color=Teal>MessageBox</FONT><FONT color=DarkBlue>.</FONT>Show<FONT color=DarkBlue>(</FONT>Exc<FONT color=DarkBlue>.</FONT>ToString<FONT color=DarkBlue>(</FONT><FONT color=DarkBlue>)</FONT><FONT color=DarkBlue>)</FONT><FONT color=DarkBlue>;</FONT>
<FONT color=DarkBlue>}</FONT>
<FONT color=DarkBlue>}</FONT>
That just makes it so easy to loop through all running process on the local computer. Doing the equivliant in C++ & MFC would require a lot more work.
Maybe this .NET thing isn't all tht bad...
Oh and the formatting from that little snippet was created using leppies C# IDE xacc[^]
With respect, I must disagree. A quick look at middle management in just about any corporation shows that the dodo not only survived, it's reproducing in record numbers. Christopher Duncan
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ugg, I just spent an hour, an hour figuring out how to link a dll into an app I found here at CP. I just don't get a chance to write any code any more and this is the result. Wasting time trying to remember something just because I haven't done it in a very long time. I no longer work in an area that values innovation and simplification of the work load. Actually they seem to enjoy making every task five times more difficult than it need be.
Enough complaining, so as a result of this I'm starting to think about finding a project out on source forge that needs help. I have looked in the past but really never found anything that suits my interests. Not to mention a project that has source available for evaluation, who wants to get involved in someone else's rats nest? Well I will forge ahead and continue my search for something to work on. We will see how that goes.
Oh and the app I was working on that got me started on this mini rant. Oddly enough it was a covert project for work, to convert PDFs into text. It worked quite well while testing, but when faced with the 30 / 40 meg PDFs I have to deal with, it didn't do much of anything. sigh None the less still an interesting project check it out extract plain text from a PDF file[^]
hmmm maybe I should figure out why that app failed fix it so no one has to put up with PDFs.
Just in case you (well okay, really I mean me  ) ever forget when trying to link zlib[^](zipping lib) into your app. It's realy simple 
- Include the headers for the dll in your app
- Open app properties, navigate to linker
- From the Category combo box select "input"
- Add the lib file to the "object/library modules"
- Lastly, the dll will need to be in the build directory
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So a friend of mine has always wanted to create a networking based website (http://e-grafix.com/comm/[^]) to help others with their networking issues. After a bit of trolling around the net I suggested either looking at Community Server (CS) or Dot Net Nuke (DNN). DNN doesn’t natively have user forums as part of its package, and well is really more of CMS. So he ended up going with Community Server, now I didn’t spend a huge amount of time looking for forum packages out there. But all I have to say is WOW; CS is very, very cool.
Some of the features that make CS cool are, out of the box it supports two separate views, the default view is similar to a PHPBB2 board, eh which is nice enough, but the second view is very close to the way the forums here at Code Project render.
The paid for version supports NNTP access, and here I thought NNTP was dead. I can’t say how much I loved the old news groups; it’s just too bad you have to pay for access to news groups now.
While administration of the site isn’t always entirely clear, it’s mostly fairly intuitive enough.
I would continue on with a features list I like, but alas I just don’t have the time at this point. Take a look at it for your self. http://e-grafix.com/comm/[^] Community Server Site[^]
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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I just had a conversation with a friend of mine about the newish Fisher Price UIs in operating systems the other day. I think I hit the nail on the head or at least close enough so that his girlfriend (who is slightly techno phobic) understood. Let’s see if I can summarize the same thought process here.
The Fisher Price UIs are really an extension of the graphic user interface, a just a “continued refinement” there of. The less intimidating the UI is, the more it will appeal to people who are not only not techno savvy but those who don’t want to be technology savvy. Do they really help the end user accomplish what they seek out to do? They certainly feel less intimidating than using a command shell. I know this for sure as I use both green screen applications at work and windows apps and I find even Windows 95 a be a vast improvement over the green screens any day.
But do the Fisher Price UI’s really help at all? Working in a corporate environment one of the biggest challenges I see and experience on a daily basis is information management. Man what a pain it is to constantly flip through 50 or so excel / word documents on a daily basis to make notes or what ever for others to see and don’t get me started about trying to track information in Lotus Notes. What a segway I know; it seems that instead of making the UI simpler the same efforts could be put to better use on general information management; or conveying to customers (end users) better utilization of current information management systems.
One thing that is absolutely clear is that both end users and corporations are drowning in a vast ocean of information and there is no real way of keeping track of it all.
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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Well for the first time in a number of years I’ve had to invest some time / thought into my website. My old hosting provider has decided to call it quits, not that I blame him he has enough on his plate already. So I’ve ventured out onto the wild web and found a place to host my site, which in all honesty is used more for email than anything else.
It didn’t take me to long to find a hosting site, and as it turns out there wasn’t any cost difference between Windows or Linux. So I jumped the Linux ship and got a Windows box with the thought that just maybe I might spend a few minutes here and there adding content / developing stuff for the site (hey it’s a worth a shot ).
Now that I have everything set up, which was rather confusing as the hosting site is where I have my domain registered through. I have to say that there web based email interface is actually pretty nice. Domain management is rather a pain, but they do offer a bunch of free add-ons for the site which is cool. One of the add-ons was Dot Net Nuke, which seams to have a lot of very cool features & downloads just for it. Heck I’m half thinking about ditching the static pages I have now and converting everything over to the DNN side of the site.
First and foremost I have to figure out what all I want for content on the site. Which is proving to be rather difficult, I use the CP blog for whatever ramblings I have so that’s not really needed. Working with DNN isn’t too bad once you get the hang of it. If you’re looking for a CMS system then give it a shot.
That's all for now...
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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Where did you get the smiley banging his head against the wall? 
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Paul Conrad wrote: Where did you get the smiley banging his head against the wall?
Found it years ago, don't remember where any more. I should probably take that down, I'm sure Chris wouldn't be to happy seeing it there (not suppose to show pics in the forums yea know). link[^]
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S Douglas wrote: I'm sure Chris wouldn't be to happy seeing it there
He should include one similar. It would be great for homework problem posters and cross posters 
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Last Thursday (12/22/2006) I got a newer truck a White 2001 Chevy Silverado 1500 it’s a nice truck, but sure is different compared to my old 1997 Ford F150. It’s going to take some getting used to. 
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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Just looking over my little blog here and turns out I haven’t been posting much at all over the last few months. Soooooo here is what’s going on in my little world.
For the last two or three weeks my truck, a Ford F150 has been running rough. Thinking it was a maintenance issue I replaced the plugs and wires. Which actually solved the problem for about a day. Over the course of the next few days after that its performance continued back down hill. Then on Sunday as I was attempting to leave for work the truck just wouldn’t start. The starter tried to turn the motor over twice, but only ever made it a couple of revolutions. The second time it made a loud banking noise, thinking nothing of it as the noise sound more like the starter disengaging I continued a few more times trying to get it to start. The starter just wouldn’t turn the motor at all after that.
So I call it a night and had some come pick me up and drop me off at work. The following day during the daylight hours it was plain to see that my truck had developed a serious issue; the motor oil was no longer in the motor. I’m not entirely positive but it looks like the oil leaked out the side of the motor.
A very long story short its time to go hunting for a new truck as the cost of repairing a ten year old truck just doesn’t sound very beneficial. I have looked at new trucks here and there over the last couple of months, and have come to realize the don’t make a real pick up truck any more. They are cars with long cargo spaces on the back.
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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Well Okay, not my first post, but my first post from my new server. Just finishing downloading updates & drivers for a new server I built, life will be good once its back up and running. It will be nice to be able to have access to my source code repository again.
Specs (absolutly nothing to brag about)
1.7G AMD
512 Ram
Drives
Main drive is only a 10gig, Im going to need to buy new drives looks like the ones I was using have all died
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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C++ Applications written in VS2005, may error out when starting up with the following error message.
“This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.”
I have seen this come up a few times in the message boards and experienced this issue myself as well. When distributing C++ applications written in VS2005, you will need to also distribute the updated run time DLLs, CRT which is the C Runtime and MFC Version 8.
If the computer is a Windows XP system, there is a new paradigm for dealing with DLLs. It’s called SXS (side by side) DLL support. In other words it allows the target computer to run multiple versions of the same DLL. This was done to eliminate DLL hell issues. What this means to you is, your app will now need an installer to add the new DLLs to the system.
On earlier systems such as Windows 2000, you will only need to distribute the necessary DLLs with your application.
More information about both the SXS and creating installers can be found below.
Redistributing Visual C++ Files[^]
Deployment Examples[^]
Running C++ application built by VC++ Express on another computer[^]
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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Lt Col. John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
In Flanders Fields[^]
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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Today was my second bike ride on the new mountain bike; it’s been two very long years since I have been biking and WOW am I out of shape. It’s going to take a lot of work to get back to where I was about three or four years ago.
Yesterday just to get used to the new bike I only rode for 2 miles, today it was 6. So providing it doesn’t rain tomorrow and I'm still not soar, I'm thinking I should go for 10 miles (I'm not trying to kill my self just get back into physical shape ).
This is my first mountain bike with a front shock; wow does it really change the way a bike handles. I'm not convinced it changes the ride for the better or the worse. It’s just very different. One nice thing about the front shock on the Cannon Dale is I can lock it solid on the fly so the bike responds the way a bike should (well at least for my likings).
Ah it’s great to have three days off a week I tell yea!
Now all I need to do is spend some time in front of the computer, I had decided on learning .NET some time ago, but cant quite seem to muster up the energy do so. I have an old C# book targeting version 1.0 of the frame work, from what I have read thus far there is some pretty cool stuff in .NET. I will save that for another day.
Off to relax now…enough work for the day.
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Well I hunted and hunted around just couldn’t find a mountain bike I liked in my price range. So what did I do? I blew my budget, and ordered a new Cannon Dale F600, in brushed chrome. It should be here April 1st well let’s hope that no one decides to play a prank on me that day. I'm pretty stoked about getting a new bike. Now if only the weather will cooperate and stay above 40 F so I can go out riding… ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
-- modified at 20:24 Monday 27th March, 2006
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I have finally found a computer related task I detest doing, I have a ton of photos that need to be digitized. What an insanely tedious process. I'm using a Scan Jet 4100C, that I purchased years ago, never really used it much except the occasional image or two but this is 6 rolls of pictures.
What makes matters worse is that the images that are being produced are not only low quality but also the scanning software keeps miss scanning (show just crud).
Its to bad there wasn’t a way to completely automate this, I would be nice to just drop the pictures into some type of holder and let the scanner scan them one at a time. Saving the image produced. Oh well huh, better stop complaining about it and keep trudging along.
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Spring is almost here, and my current mountain bike needs a lot of work to get it back into ridding shape. So instead of spending a lot of money on an older bike I figured I would just buy a new one. I really hate shopping, its even worse with buying a bike, there are a ton of options and compromises (I don’t haven an unlimited budget for a bike).
So far the only bike I have found where I like the styling, is a Cannon Dale F600, but a thousand bucks is out of my budget.
If I can find a trek that’s not half bad I will just pick it up.
-- modified at 9:24 Sunday 19th March, 2006
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Well I haven’t been around Code Project much for the last week. I started a new job; recently that’s been keeping me very busy.
I'm now in a first line tech support role. All I have to say is as cool as some of the apps they have they sure like to do things as if they are in the Stone Age.
Oh well…
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[small rant]
Who is the mumbling moron who wrote the “HTML Help Workshop” must have been a lawyer? I'm trying to create a fairly simple HTML help file and this waste of not only CPU cycles but disk space is causing nothing but problems. When ever I create a nice ordered table of contents (TOC) it trashes it.
Will Microsoft ever give us (developers) a Help system that works and is easy to use? I don’t care how pretty it looks I just want something that works. If I wasn’t so dang busy I would create my own little system.
I would rather use IE .5 than this junk. At least I can use Programmers Note pad to create the needed files and compile it on the command line. Now what are those darn switches?
[/small rant]
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I said if I found anything useful in VS2005 I would comment on it, well believe it or not I did find something useful.
They added some useful features to the context menu while coding.
- With a class open if you right click and scroll to “Go To Header File”, it actually seems to always take you to the correct header.
- Again open a class scroll to Outlining, lots of useful stuff there mostly “Collapse to Definitions”
- I love the new (I think its new anyways) “Insert Trace Point” what a great idea!
- The “Find All References” is handy as well.
The new (for me its new anyways) way of creating menus is great! It makes creating menus even easier than VS6.
The class view filters seem to help, find what you’re looking for.
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