I have seen many blog entries and forum threads on this error however I was curious if anyone has any insight as to why this error seems to occur on Windows 2003 Server SP1 and not XP Pro SP2. I have not tested on Windows 2000 or 2003 without SP1.  When I deployed my application to the production server which is Windows Server 2003 SP1, I ...

If you work with an Oracle database on a laptop as I do, I am sure you have noticed the amount of resources that Oracle consumes. Figure 1: Task Manager To overcome this I simply set the database service to manual process so my laptop is not sluggish and I start this service only when I need it. This solution works fine however I started to ...

I completed the membership provider today and placed it online at my personal website. Go to http://www.radicaldevelopment.net/Default.aspx and click the Community Projects tab. If this tab is not visible you must first register. Good Luck and if you find any bugs please let me know. As far as the remaining providers I will post additional ...

I wanted to post an update to my previous blog entry on the work I am doing for the custom providers which will use Oracle 10gR2 and ODP.NET. It seems there is much more interest than I expected in this project so after all the request for releasing the code I have completed I thought I would meet those folks half way and release each provider as ...

If you have not seen the two new additions titled ITracker: Inventory Tracking System and Extended Club Site Starter Kit give them a look. Also seperate from By the Community, For the Community there is a new starter kit available titlted Small Business Site Starter Kit with the download section of www.asp.net that may be of ...

Assume for a moment that you need to monitor a specific folder and its subfolders for incoming files such as a FTP transfer and you wanted to accomplish such a task without an type of action from the system administrator. To accomplish this I will employ the FileSystemWatcher Class which is located in the System.IO NameSpace. First off open Visual ...

I was recently was tasked to develop a solution to download data from an Oracle database and allow the client to save the data as an XML document without the use of the file system. I turned to the System.IO Namespace to accomplish this specifically using the MemoryStream Class. First I will demonstrate how I accomplished this task and keep in ...

Open regedt32 and navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell folder. Add a new key called “Command Prompt“ Modify the default custom string to read “Open Command Window Here“ Add a new key to this folder called “command“ Modify the default custom string to read: Cmd.exe /k pushd %L Close regedit32 To use this, ...

I finally broke down and purchased an AMD Turion64 laptop which came with the 32bit version of Windows Home SP2, which was totally unacceptable. Why have a 64bit system only to run a 32bit operating system? In my mind there was none so the first thing I did was format the drive and install Windows Pro x64. I soon realized that finding 64bit ...

Today Microsoft has released the source code for the built-in ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role Management, Site Navigation, Session State, Profile, Web Events, and Web Part Personalization providers.  [Download Here] Check out Scott's blog which contains a few more resources in this matter.