Entries for JeremyJ

Help a Geek for a Good Cause [Help a Geek for a Good Cause]

JeremyJ — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:43:13 GMT

I am going to be riding in the Courage Classic in July. This race is a 157 mile ride through the Rocky Mountains. Most of the ride is all over 10,000ft elevation. The ride is for The Children's Hospital and all donations go to support them. I am doing this ride to support them, as well as, using it as a fitness goal so that I can always be around for my own daughter.

So if you want to help out a fellow niner and support a good cause then please go to my page and donate: http://www.couragetours.com/2009/jeremyjones

Thanks!

Here is a (not very clear) map of the route.

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Visual Studio 2008 publish web site error [Visual Studio 2008 publish web site error]

JeremyJ — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:45:02 GMT

I frequently use Visual Studio 2008 publish web site feature. About 99% of the time it works without any problems. Today I am getting an odd error that I have tried everything to fix but it still gives it to me for my current project.
When I click publish it goes through all of the normal processes of building and copying the files. At the end it has been giving me the error:

Unable to add folder '_vti_bin' to the Web site. Server error: '_vti_bin' does not refer to a page or folder in this web. It may be a page or folder in a subweb, or it could be a badly formed URL.

I have gone into Frontpage administrator and did a recalculate and detect/repair but it is still happening. Has anyone else encountered this error?

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WCF Service Host Problems [WCF Service Host Problems]

JeremyJ — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:33:45 GMT

I have 2 projects. The first project is a WCF service library project and the second is a Windows form project that will host the WCF service. Every time I run the windows form project, the WCF Service Host application loads at the same time. When I try to host the service in my forms application it gives me an error saying the service is already hosted.

I have tried going into the service library project and unchecking the "Enable the Visual Studio hosting process" checkbox and it still loads every time.

Does anyone know how to get the WCF Service Host to stop loading?

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Custom StaticSiteMapProvider and Logged in Users [Custom StaticSiteMapProvider and Logged in Users]

JeremyJ — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:00:25 GMT

I have a custom MembershipProvider and a custom StaticSiteMapProvider. All of my user, role, and navigation data is stored in a SQL Server database. I want the navigation menu to be limited based off which user is logged in.

The user logs in using the standard Login control which communicates with my custom MembershipProvider. Once they are logged in the custom StaticSiteMapProvider builds the navigation menu.

Is there an easy way to fetch the logged in user name (from the MembershipProvder class) in the StaticSiteMapProvider class so that I can limit the menu?

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Casting error in VS2005 [Casting error in VS2005]

JeremyJ — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:05:02 GMT

I am having a strange problem that maybe someone can answer for me. I have 2 classes: Recipient and Contact.

public class Contact

{

}

public class Recipient : Contact

{

}

If I try to pass Recipient into a function that accepts a Contact reference like this:

Recipient data = new Recipient();

FetchContact( ref ( Contact )data, row );

It throws a error:
A ref or out argument must be an assignable variable

If I do this then it accepts it just fine:

Recipient data = new Recipient();

Contact contact = ( Contact )data;

FetchContact( ref contact, row );

The error message usually happens when you try to pass a constant by reference. Am I missing something?

(Why does it keep double spacing everything I post?)

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Dual Monitors with Laptops [Dual Monitors with Laptops]

JeremyJ — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:08:36 GMT

I am trying to set up development laptops with docking stations. I want to be able to have 2 external monitors that are both hooked up with DVI.

For some reason I thought this setup would be common but my initial search has come up empty. I haven't been able to find a single docking station that supports dual DVI outputs.

This seems odd to me because it is easy to find a laptop video card that has dual DVI outputs.

Has anyone tried a setup like this or may know of some products that would allow me to accomplish this?

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IE7 and XMLHttpRequest [IE7 and XMLHttpRequest]

JeremyJ — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:47:50 GMT

I have been experimenting with AJAX in IE7. I noticed that IE7 now supports the XMLHttpRequest object so I thought I would give it a try. So say I take the following code (I removed all of the browser checking code in the getHTTPObject function to keep it simple)....

var xmlHttp;

function getHTTPObject()
{
return new XMLHttpRequest();
}

function xmlHttpGet( url, handler )
{
   xmlHttp = getHTTPObject();
   xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = handler;
   xmlHttp.open( "GET", url );
   xmlHttp.send();
}

function xmlHttpPost( url, sendItem )
{
   xmlHttp = getHTTPObject();
   xmlHttp.open( "POST", url );
   xmlHttp.send( sendItem );
}

Running this code works fine for all of the POST calls. Running the GET works the first time. Every time I call it after the first, it doesn't call the server. It seems to return some cached value from the first call.
If I change the getHTTPObject function to this...

function getHTTPObject()
{
   return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}

It works the way I would expect. Is this the way it is intended to work or am I just missing something obvious?

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ASP.NET Radio Buttons [ASP.NET Radio Buttons]

JeremyJ — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:17:50 GMT

Does anyone know how to make a ASP.NET 1.1 radio button use the Windows XP visual style instead of the default style? Is this even possible?

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