Channel 9 - Discussions by Jorgie

Tech Off - Can't modify file in system root despite giving My acc/USER group Full access?

Jorgie — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:32:53 GMT

The root of the system drive is a 'SYSTEM' area. Modifiying files in it require UAC elevation. Period.

You need to put your file in a better place.

Tech Off - .NET: Setting A Form's Cursor

Jorgie — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:23:55 GMT

I think you are looking for:

Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor;

And to reset it:

Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default;

-Jorgie

Tech Off - vista's event viewer - I don't like it

Jorgie — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:08:33 GMT

I have to agree about the summary list not being resizeable! Same with the lists in the Reliability and Performance Monitor. Everything should be resizable!

As for splitting up the logs, I consider that a feature and with the 'custom views' you can create a view that shows exactly what your want.

As for clearing the logs, I don't mind at all. I leave them set to overwrite old events am done with it. You get the same functionality by just filtering by date as the output is the same as if you hand cleared the log at the date/time your specify for your filter.

Tech Off - Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 for developing?

Jorgie — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:18:12 GMT

AFIK if you move to WS2008 but keep using Virtual Server you will not seem much change.

If you move to HyperV you should see an improvement, but it may not be a simple move.

Jorgie

Tech Off - shutdown.exe - Foiled by a screensaver?

Jorgie — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:38:32 GMT

Did you try the /f force option?

Nevermind... the docs say that /f is assumed then you provide a timeout.

I have not run into the problum you are having. Then again all my systems are set to to use the 'blank' screen saver as I just want the monitors to go into engery saver mode as soon as it kicks in.

Jorgie

Tech Off - IIS, SSL Certificates, and hostheaders

Jorgie — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:56:35 GMT

Host headers cannot be used for SSL because the setup of the SSL connection takes place when only the requested IP address is available to IIS.

The best you can do with a single IP address is set up a non-SSL website for the host header www.foo.com and have it redirect to https://foo.com

This will work fine if people type www.foo.com in their browser as long as they dont type the HTTPS in front.

BTW the option you want is: "A permanent redirection for this resource"

Jorgie

Tech Off - Cookie Question

Jorgie — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:46:14 GMT

The header is actually sent as a text representation of the date and for the cookie to be valid, it must be in the form:

DAY, DD-MMM-YYYY HH:MM:SS GMT

Since the function you are using takes care of the conversion from a DateTime object to this text, I would hope it would to the conversion for you.

I will be testing it as soon as I get VWD Express 2008 installed.

Coffeehouse - Whose Bright Idea Was This?

Jorgie — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:38:42 GMT

The length should be decided by the topic. 15 Minute videos are fine. 90 Minute videos are fine. But no matter the length, please let me download it in one piece! Jorgie

Coffeehouse - why does MS force users to call support for unreleased updates?

Jorgie — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:08:29 GMT

The formal request process...

...makes people think twice before applying patches that do not apply to thier problem. (You would be amazed at the number of people that will apply every patch they can get their hands on even if they don't need them.)
...opens up two way communication to allow MS to give you updated information on a hotfix and to allow you to report that the hotfix worked or if it caused any problems.
...provides realtime feedback on the number of people that really need a hotfix.

In other words it helps them gather the information they need both to decide how big the problem is and how to fix it.

Coffeehouse - Expressions vs Adobe? pros/cons (MS Staff Welcome)

Jorgie — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:11:27 GMT

I don't under stand the question.

If you are making WPF UI, use Expression.

If you are doing vector graphics for print/web use CS.

What am I missing?

Jorgie

Tech Off - File SearchPattern in .NET

Jorgie — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:28:54 GMT

Just use regex.

Have the user input a normal file mask, but befor you use what he have you, do this:

string fromuser = "get string from user";

fromuser = fromuser.replace(".","\\."
fromuser = fromuser.replace("*",".*");
fromuser = fromuser.replace("?",".");

Of course you also need put slashes in fronot of the other special regex chars

Tech Off - string.empty and  

Jorgie — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:59:13 GMT

There are many things you have to remember about asp web controls. Two of them are:

1. When your code runs on the server side, it is seeing the ASP control, not the HTML control that ends up on the page.

2. ASP controls do not map in a one to one fashion to HTML controls. ASP has to build them out of one or more HTML controls and manipulate their contents to fit the control.

In this case, #1 means that you are looking at an abstraction that will later be rendered into HTML. #2 means that when a asp:DataGrid is turned into an HTML TABLE, empty cells cannot be left empty or they will not be displayed properly. To deal with this, they are 'filled' with a non-breaking-space.

Jorgie

Tech Off - Command parameters and SQL syntax errors

Jorgie — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:33:08 GMT

Your parameters look strange to me. I use the names I want to give them in my commandText, not question marks. But then again I am doing it a lot differt.

Not sure if it will help, but here is how I do it in c$ on a page where our IT Pros will request our Vista MAK for systems that will not be on the network enough to use our KMS server:

SqlCommand sc = _sql.CreateCommand();
sc.CommandText =
"INSERT INTO [VISTA_MAK_REQUESTS] ([PAWPRINT], [MACHINE], [IP], [CLIENT_ID], [RESULT])\n" +
"VALUES (@PawPrint, @MachineName, @IP, @ClientID, @Result);";

sc.Parameters.Add("@PawPrint", SqlDbType.VarChar, PawPrint.Length).Value = PawPrint;
sc.Parameters.Add("@MachineName", SqlDbType.VarChar, MachineName.Length).Value = MachineName;
sc.Parameters.Add("@IP", SqlDbType.VarChar, RemoteIP.Length).Value = RemoteIP;
sc.Parameters.Add("@ClientID", SqlDbType.VarChar, ClientID.Length).Value = ClientID;
sc.Parameters.Add("@Result", SqlDbType.VarChar, ResultMessage.Length).Value = ResultMessage;
sc.Prepare();
sc.ExecuteNonQuery();

Coffeehouse - Vista UAC - time for DRM keyboard?

Jorgie — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:04:47 GMT

Badgerguy wrote:

Sven Groot wrote:
It would exclude things like speech recognition and other accessibility software though that simulate user actions for good reasons.

And it would make the nay-sayers go "M$ forces people to buy new keyboards".

Not necessarily - software that simulates input could in itself be protected with DRM, and interact with windows TPM systems.

What you are asking for is already there. The UAC prompt is in a trusted process that can only be accessed by other trusted processes. The only way a piece of software, malware or accessibility software, can touch it is if it already has fully trusted and elevated. In that situation it could do anything it wants without triggering UAC anyway.

Jorgie

Coffeehouse - Geometry Wars for Windows XP?

Jorgie — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:48:46 GMT

I agree that it is annoying, but it is not BS.

Not everything has to be done for a technical reason to not be BS.

Billions of dollars are spent each year on marketing. Making good marketing decisions is good business, not BS.

In the console world, platform exclusive games are worth millions of dollars. That's hardly what I would call BS.

Jorgie

Coffeehouse - IE HTML controls hard to see in Vista

Jorgie — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:07:49 GMT

I am glad it is not just me!

I also don't like the way the active item is highlighted in Vista.

In some cases it is almost cases it is impossible to see what the currently active item is especially if multiple things are selected.

Coffeehouse - mfpmp.exe is annoying the hell out of me

Jorgie — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:50:24 GMT

Must be audio driver specific... I never see mfpmp.exe take more that 3%. I usually bounces between 0 and 2 and only hits 3 once in a while. This is on a Dell Latitude D620 with the onboard SigmaTel HD audio. 1.6Ghz Core Duo.

Jorgie

Coffeehouse - Event 1002 Error, DHCP-Client

Jorgie — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:23:11 GMT

I would set your lease time to 60 min and see what happens. You should see your machine renew it's address every 30 minutes. It also seems strange that the starting range of the DHCP pool is the address that Vista is calling the server. Since your routers address seems to be 192.168.1.1, you might want to start the pool at 192.168.1.2. Jorgie

Coffeehouse - The Registry. Why, exactly?

Jorgie — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:53:24 GMT

Minh wrote:

The Registry you see today is MS Registry V 3.0.You obviously wasn't around when it was introduced.

Yea, I have only been supporting MS products since Dos 3.2.

The regestry corruption problems in Win9x/Me do not justify spouting BS like 'they added it cause they wanted to create a single point of failure.

'The growing pains the registry has gone through (many of which were casued by the pre XP multitasking model) do not negate the advantages of having the registry.

People love to snipe at the low hanging fruit.The person who started the thread asked a simple question. Smart-arse remarks provide zero information and nearly zero entertainment for everyone but the smart-arse that posted them.

I guess we should expect as much in the coffehouse...

Come to tech-off you actually want to have a discussion.

Coffeehouse - The Registry. Why, exactly?

Jorgie — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:48:07 GMT

Minh wrote:

MS felt that error handling was a lost skill and they wanted to start training developers in that again.

By having a single point of failure for virtually every application on a disk sector, developers are forced to get better in error handling.

In the long run, you see that devs were able to take to .Net exceptions with ease.

What a bunch of ... (why wasn't bu...sh*t bleeped?)

The registry is a core service. If your OS core is down, your appication won't work anyway.

You might as well have said that they chose to use a 'file system' (insert ANY core service here) just to add a single point of failure.

If your application does not need the registy, don't use it. You don't have to be a dick about it.

Coffeehouse - The Registry. Why, exactly?

Jorgie — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:20:08 GMT

I can think of two big ones off the top of my head:

1. Speed - some portions of the registry may me accessed thousands of times a minute.

2. Security - forcing access through a controled api allows ACLs to be use in ways that would be really messy to replicated in flat text files

Just think of all they reasons why you would move from a flat text file to a 'real' database and chances are they will apply.

At some point the sum of these advantages overcame the advantages (simplicity/human-readability) of ini/config files.

BTW, no one if forcing the use of the registry for everything. There are still plenty uses for ini/config files.

Jorgie

Coffeehouse - Vista network configuration mess

Jorgie — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:29:02 GMT

I think the public/privite thing was added to late to allow it to apply 'by network'.

You don't need 'Public' to activate the firewall. The firewall works just fine on 'Private' networks. 'Public' just goes one step further and disables all exceptions.

Jorgie

Coffeehouse - Can OpenGL Keep Up With DirectX10?

Jorgie — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:11:01 GMT

Xaero_Vincent wrote:

Its a way to keep all commercial game developers targetting Windows and the Xbox 360 while making it much harder to port them onto other platforms and game consoles.

People may see it that way, but back when Alex St. John (now at WildTangent) help create it, they designed it by asking developers what tools they needed and building from there.

Back then, developers wanted 4 things:

1. a supportable way to do graphics quickly without knowing anything about the specific video hardware in the system.
2. Some way to use network services without being networking experts
3. Some way to access joystks and other controllers without know what brand/model is going to be used.
4. an easy way to produce the best quality sound the hardware can support with out knowing that much about the hardware.

OpenGL has never tried to do anything but #1. That is at least one reason DirectX exists.

Jorgie

Coffeehouse - Unable to open XPS documents under Vista...

Jorgie — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:41:26 GMT

Give me a break. It is nothing to do with XPS, it is a file-extension/type problem.

Everyone better get ready to see XPS printers kick PostScript's butt in the mid to low end printer market. We just got a new network printer at work and they wanted $300 just for a downloadable PostScript engine for it. XPS will likely be a free update.

...and thank adobe for not letting MS include pdf creation.

Even though the PDF spec is now free to use, Adobe threatend to sue MS if they included it in Office 2007 or Vista.

Of course you can still download the Office piece.

Jorgie

Coffeehouse - Vista x64 on a pc?

Jorgie — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:48:24 GMT

The big quesiton is WHY?

There are few IF ANY reasons to run Vista64 on a laptop and tons of reasons NOT to!

The only folks that will see any real benefit from a 64 bit OS at this early stage are those folks running servers that will actually use the extra bit-width in a meaningful way.

You are really asking for lots of pain for no real gain.

Jorgie

Channel 9 - Discussions by Jorgie

Tech Off - Can't modify file in system root despite giving My acc/USER group Full access?

Tech Off - .NET: Setting A Form's Cursor

Tech Off - vista's event viewer - I don't like it

Tech Off - Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 for developing?

Tech Off - shutdown.exe - Foiled by a screensaver?

Tech Off - IIS, SSL Certificates, and hostheaders

Tech Off - Cookie Question

Coffeehouse - Whose Bright Idea Was This?

Coffeehouse - why does MS force users to call support for unreleased updates?

Coffeehouse - Expressions vs Adobe? pros/cons (MS Staff Welcome)

Tech Off - File SearchPattern in .NET

Tech Off - string.empty and &nbsp;

Tech Off - Command parameters and SQL syntax errors

Coffeehouse - Vista UAC - time for DRM keyboard?

Coffeehouse - Geometry Wars for Windows XP?

Coffeehouse - IE HTML controls hard to see in Vista

Coffeehouse - mfpmp.exe is annoying the hell out of me

Coffeehouse - Event 1002 Error, DHCP-Client

Coffeehouse - The Registry. Why, exactly?

Coffeehouse - The Registry. Why, exactly?

Coffeehouse - The Registry. Why, exactly?

Coffeehouse - Vista network configuration mess

Coffeehouse - Can OpenGL Keep Up With DirectX10?

Coffeehouse - Unable to open XPS documents under Vista...

Coffeehouse - Vista x64 on a pc?

Tech Off - string.empty and