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Don't disable 8.3 filenames when building MSI files

I am using nantcontrib to build a windows installer msi. As usual I have been trying to squeeze every bit of performance out of my laptop, so the registry tweak to disable 8.3 filename creation on ntfs seemed like a good idea at the time. Unfortunately it is a requirement for the filenames in the msi...

Posted to Colin's Blog (Weblog) by colin on 08-31-2005
Xforms

In response to Adam's XForms post This is one of those standards that was killed by the committee. If you look at the history of it it began in early 2000, and by the time they updated it to use the same data model as XSD schema (2001? 2002?) it looked like it was going to be the NEXT BIG THING, it was...

Posted to Colin's Blog (Weblog) by colin on 08-03-2005
Installer resources

Links to articles for installing .Net framework, MDAC and MSDE http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=deployframework A really handy tool to install dependencies for your application http://www.devage.com/dotNetInstaller/dotNetInstaller.html

Posted to Colin's Blog (Weblog) by colin on 07-01-2005
Using Ajax.net to get javascript errors to asp.net

Since AJAX is the latest gimmick on the web, and Ajax.net is opensource now, I started thinking of things that can be done with it, so here is #1 of Colin's ajax gimmicks: Are you tired of your dumb-ass users sending you screenshots or trying to explain what error they got? With this you can record the...

Posted to Colin's Blog (Weblog) by colin on 06-28-2005
Pre-loaded Xml NameTable Codesmith template

As a follow up to an earlier post I created a small Codesmith template to generate a pre-loaded NameTable (in C#) from a list of strings in a text file. The idea behind this is if you are going to be parsing an xml file that uses a known schema, then you can usually get a performance boost by making...

Posted to Colin's Blog (Weblog) by colin on 06-01-2005
In case you were wondering how many absolutely positioned div tags IE6 can handle

32764, and then it gives up and stacks them all on the left of the page. powered by IMHO 1.2

Posted to Colin's Blog (Weblog) by colin on 05-17-2005
How fragile is your program?

Over the last few weeks I've had the dubious honour of debugging and creating installations for other peoples code (cringe). I'm sure anyone who has done maintenance work can tell war stories (or WTFs) about some of the horrible things that have scarred them for eternity, so I'm not going moan about...

Posted to Colin's Blog (Weblog) by colin on 05-09-2005
Getting the WIA Automation Library v2.0 to deal with document feeder scanners

Building on the code from my previous post . The WIA Automation library wizard only gets one image at a time if you use the Item object returned from the ShowSelectItems method Items items = WIACommonDialog.ShowSelectItems(d); You can call the ShowTransfer method as many times as you want on an item...

Posted to Colin's Blog (Weblog) by colin on 03-15-2005
Getting the WIA scripting automation to remember scanner settings in C#

This is a bit of a hack, but maybe it will help someone in the future when they discover that the Windows XP Scanner and Camera wizard doesn't remember the previous settings in subsequent scans. Very frustrating. Get the Windows Image Acquisition Automation Library v2.0 and install wiaaut.dll and download...

Posted to Colin's Blog (Weblog) by colin on 03-15-2005
Xml Schema and Xslt for Validation

This is not a new idea, just some ramblings about possibilities inspired by this article about using XSLT to validate xml documents. There are two reasons for Xml Schemas to exist: To validate instance documents To prescribe structure for an instance document for products like InfoPath. On the second...

Posted to Colin's Blog (Weblog) by colin on 02-16-2005

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