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February 2007 - Posts

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 10:52 AM

Spam Countermeasures

Spam is an increasingly annoying and expensive part of our lives as computer users. In the last week, I’ve been forced to take measures to deal with spam on several of my web properties. On RegExLib.com , an online library of regular expressions,
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Saturday, February 17, 2007 3:00 PM

ObjectDataSource could not find a non-generic method Update Error

So I’m writing a quick demo for a book chapter, and I want to use something close to best practices, so I’m eschewing the SqlDataSource and favoring the ObjectDataSource. Because this is meant to be a quick example I don’t want to spend
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Friday, February 16, 2007 9:40 PM

Dell Dimension SATA Drive Windows Installation

Last week I had to rebuild a Dell Dimension 9150 with an SATA hard drive and when I tried to install Windows XP I received an error saying txtsetup.oem not found when I tried to provide the drivers on a USB floppy drive. I searched for a while and found
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Friday, February 16, 2007 10:44 AM

MVP Live Chat Tonight

Join Scott Guthrie, myself, and numerous other MVPs for a live chat this evening sponsored by StrongCoders . The chat starts at 8pm EST this evening, 16 February 2007. http://community.strongcoders.com/blogs/ryan/archive/2007/02/03/february-16-2007-mvp-live-chat-experts.aspx
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Friday, February 09, 2007 1:40 AM

SQL Reporting Services 401 Error

If you just installed SQL Server Reporting Services and you are getting a 401.1 Unauthorized error when you try to go to the http://localhost/reports this post may help. I ran into this and was having a heck of a time figuring it out, since I assumed
Posted by ssmith | 3 Comments
Wednesday, February 07, 2007 12:28 PM

Need Work - Cure Cancer

Fellow RD Stephen Forte is hiring for a project that promises to help accelerate a cure for cancer. The work will be performed remotely using the latest Microsoft tools and technologies. If this sounds like something you might be interested in, please
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007 4:21 PM

Murach SQL Server 2005 For Developers

Recently I picked up a copy of Murach's SQL Server 2005 For Developers , and while I haven’t had a chance to really read it through cover to cover, I have read the first few chapters and skimmed the rest. It’s a meaty book, and is actually
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Monday, February 05, 2007 3:30 PM

Reporting Services Plus Vista Equals Pain

I spent quite a few hours yesterday trying to get Reporting Services to work on my Vista laptop. It didn’t end up working. For quite a long time I got a login prompt when trying to go to localhost/reports, which would bomb after 3 tries and had
Posted by ssmith | 8 Comments
Friday, February 02, 2007 2:26 PM

Offering Remote Assistance on Vista

Julie showed me how to do this on XP/2003 , which helped me figure it out on Vista. Following her lead, I created some screenshots… First go to your Start/Windows icon and click on Help and Support. Click on Windows Remote Assistance under Ask
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