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Oracle errors: ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve service name - Parenthesis problem
Firstly, happy new year to everyone. I can't believe I've not written anything here since August. Anyways, as a great start to my new year, I have been trying to run a console application that connects to an Oracle database but I keep getting the ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve service name error. Nothing had changed in my tnsnames.ora file and when I ran the console application from an older archived branch it would connect fine. I could also connect fine through Toad, so there was definitely...
Posted 15 January 2008 12:17 PM by derek | 1 comment(s)
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Icons
Sometimes we <insert "I"> focus too much on functionality rather than look and feel. With that in mind, I was looking for a really nice icon set to clean up toolbars and button icons etc. Here's two great resources for icons... and they're priced right: FREE! GlyFX The common toolbar icons are free, and you can purchase other graphics etc. I like that they include a "hot" and "disabled" state for each icon as well. FamFamFam The "silk" icon set is really slick. And with 1000 icons included...
Posted 05 April 2006 11:17 AM by derek | with no comments
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Human Task Switches Considered Harmful
I happen to agree with this. I have 3 projects on the go at the same time, and I've been told to share time between all 3 projects. I think I should forward this to my manager(s). Human Task Switches Considered Harmful from Joel Spolsky powered by IMHO 1.3 Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 04 April 2006 09:28 AM by derek | with no comments
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Compiling for 1.1 runtime with VS2005
As some of you might know, I've been trying to write an interface between Newsgator and Community Server 2.0 so that I can post directly from Newsgator in Outlook. The forum link is here: http://dotnet.org.za/forums/thread/51003.aspx So, this weekend I'm coding like crazy in Visual Basic Express and suddenly realise that it's not compatible (yet) with the interfaces I want to use. (I might be wrong, and will still try get it to work.) In any case, I was wondering if it was possible to compile a project...
Posted 03 April 2006 01:04 PM by derek | 4 comment(s)
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MSDN Magazine on CD as well as &quot;Best Of&quot; VS2005 and SQL2005 articles.
Here's a link to purchase (well... pay for the shipping costs only) some quite nifty CD's from the MSDN magazine: http://gallery.bcentral.com/GID5121612DD441701-Shop.aspx powered by IMHO 1.3 Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 29 March 2006 11:52 AM by derek | with no comments
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Guesswork and the UI
I found this post about icons and text in the UI, and I can also relate. In any case, it makes an interesting read: Guesswork and the UI found on Thomas Willams blog It's also worthwhile to read through to this link as well: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000523.html powered by IMHO 1.3 Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 24 March 2006 10:06 AM by derek | with no comments
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Reporting Services Divide by Zero problem.
Hi all, I hope someone can shed some light on how to correct this problem. I'm calculating a cents per kilometre value on a report in Reporting Services, and I'm using the following expression: =IIF(Fields!ODO.Value <> 0, (Fields!MAINT.Value + Fields!SERVICE.Value + Fields!TYRES.Value) / Fields!ODO.Value, 0 ) Now, for some reason, it's ALWAYS doing the divide. Even when the ODO field is zero. I've tried various brackets to try force RS to check the value of the IF statement before doing the...
Posted 09 December 2005 11:34 AM by derek | 34 comment(s)
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New MS .NET 2.0 certifications
I saw this post from Datagrid Girl: http://weblogs.asp.net/datagridgirl/archive/2005/10/25/428468.aspx And I definitely think this is something to look out for. I'm also hoping that I get access to some beta exams being MSCD.NET certified. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 27 October 2005 07:38 AM by derek | 2 comment(s)
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ASP.NET page display error
Oh cr4p! Someone changed something on our webserver and now my pages don't display correctly. Here's the gist of what's wrong: Firstly, all my directories' Web Sharing was turned off. And once I turned it back on, when I view any aspx page, I now see the actual HTML instead of the rendered page. In trying to figure out what's wrong, I removed the <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> line, and now I can see the page, but no server controls get rendered. Can anyone shed...
Posted 29 August 2005 12:12 PM by derek | 5 comment(s)
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Order Your Free Partner Product DVD for Visual Studio
Thanks to Angus Logan for the link Get it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/extend/partnerdvd/ Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 02 August 2005 10:19 AM by derek | with no comments
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Retrieving images from external webserver
I have an interesting problem that Google can't seem to help me with. I have a webpage that displays an image from an external web server. Now some images are uppercase, and some are lowercase, and some don't exist. Now because it's using FTP through port 80, the case is important. So basically, I retrieve the image name from the database. (IMAGE01.jpg) for example. Then I want to fetch the image from the external URL ( http://www.imagestore_fakelink.com ) BUT... if I can't find the image, I want...
Posted 27 July 2005 03:18 PM by derek | with no comments
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Connecting to my_SQL from Server Explorer.
Can anyone help with this?: I installed the my_sql data provider (mysql-connector-net-1.0.4.zip) onto my system, but it doesn't appear in the list of available providers when I try create a connection in server explorer. How can I add it to that list there so that I can create the connection? I can successfully connect from within ASP.NET code, but I would like to have it listed under Data Connections in Server Explorer. Thanks! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick...
Posted 26 July 2005 09:38 AM by derek | 2 comment(s)
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MCSD.NET YEAH!
Well, I demand a little more respect around here now. Heh heh.. Just kidding! Last week wednesday, I wrote my final MCSD.NET exam. And passed with 901. So now, I can look forward to NO MORE EXAMS... for now anyways. :) I found the 70-300 exam quite easy and the case studies were easy to understand and not too tricky. I do recommend that anyone considering writing that exam get MCSD .NET Solution Architectures Exam Cram 2 (Exam 70-300) . It covers just enough to get the exam done and leaves out all...
Posted 11 July 2005 10:16 AM by derek | 7 comment(s)
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Filling a dataset error
I hope someone can help me with this problem... I have a console application that reads records from the AS/400 into a dataset. Normally this works without a hitch, but this morning on the FILL command, I'm getting this error: “The data value could not be converted for reasons other than sign mismatch or data overflow. For example, the data was corrupted in the data store but the row was still retrievable.” Now that sounds like a data problem in one of the rows in the source table......
Posted 20 June 2005 11:11 AM by derek | 1 comment(s)
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Ajax.NET WHOOHOO!
Gotta use this for sure! Ajax.NET Posted up here as a reminder for myself. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 13 June 2005 12:37 PM by derek | 1 comment(s)
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