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Web Hosting: anything cheaper than webhost4life? [Web Hosting: anything cheaper than webhost4life?]

Red5 — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:14:45 GMT

WebHost4Life wants $177 USD for me to continue another year with them for a website.

The website is just a simple asp.net site.

Can anyone recommend a cheaper option/provider? I just need asp.net 2.0, SQL server not required.

thanks in advance

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Windows Live Login [Windows Live Login]

Red5 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:02:24 GMT

trying to get at my MSDN subscription downloads today and the LIVE login page is broken or the service is down.

Anyone else seeing this?

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VS 2008 Load Testing [VS 2008 Load Testing]

Red5 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:56:41 GMT

Has anyone yet played with Test Load Agent in VS 2008 SP1?
Have you had success using it against Web Services?
Is this a good tool to use in comparison to something like OpenSTA or OpenLoad or LoadRunner commercial products?

I have a need to run some load tests against some WebServices. One of our devlopers has done this successfully along with creating some paramaterized scripts to use one request's result in the next webservice request. I'm failry impressed with what I see.
There is another co-worker here leaning towards OpenSTA, but it seems like a big learning curve to use that tool...and we have limited time.

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Validating XML file against client XSD [Validating XML file against client XSD]

Red5 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:46:40 GMT

1. we receive an XSD from a client as a definition of data we should return to them in XML format
2. database person generates an XML file based on that XSD in SQL Server 2005.
3. QA needs to validate the XML file against the XSD to ensure we're doing the right things with the XML file

What do you use to accomplish such things? Is there a 3rd party toolset most of the industry uses? Or do most roll their own?

XML stuff has been off the radar for our little company and we have rarely dealt with it until recently. I've found some code on the web to use in VS to try and fulfill this need, but get conflicting results.
Also, is there a "best" way to declare an XSD in the first few lines of XML so it self-validates? I've noticed you can do this with a DTD.
I'm still researching all this but thought some of you can share your opinions here too...

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Microsoft Reader [Microsoft Reader]

Red5 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:04:40 GMT

Does anyone have any inside information on MS Reader? What it's future is? Planned updates or new releases?
I personally like the product the way it is, but it seems to be a product that hasn't undergone any changes for a long time compared to other MS products.

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zero-length string == nothing ?? [zero-length string == nothing ??]

Red5 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:04:08 GMT

Is this supposed to evaluate to TRUE in vb.net?
--------------------
Dim strMessage as String

If strMessage = "" Then
'if true, do some stuff here
End If
-------------------

strMessage, in debug mode, shows a value of "Nothing".
Is "Nothing" supposed to equal a string of zero length?
I would have thought Nothing == Null.....which is different than ""

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Line Terminators [Line Terminators]

Red5 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:22:02 GMT

Q: How do you discover what a line terminator is when using a StreamReader.ReadLine?

I'm working with some very large (500-600mb) PostScript files. There is a mixture of chr(13) + chr(10) and chr(10) + chr(10).
My end goal is to write the file back out with some string replacements and retain the original bytes less my changes.

Of course I can read the entire file (StreamReader.ReadToEnd) but then have memory issues on some of these larger files.

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Missing C9 Threads? [Missing C9 Threads?]

Red5 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:07:26 GMT

ON or about April 11th, I posted a thread about ASP.NET 3.5 vs 2.0 and questioning the versioning of ASP.NET.

It has mysteriously vanished -- or at least it isn't in my list of posted threads and the search utility comes up empty.

Has anyone else had threads go missing? Maybe I've been blacklisted. I'm such a troublemaker i know.

Here's the graphic I posted with it:

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Google down? [Google down?]

Red5 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:55:01 GMT

Don't know if it's regional to me, but Google seems to be down.

http://www.google.com gives me "Address not valid" page.

Anyone else getting this?
I've never seen this with Google before.

edit: but this works: http://64.233.167.99/ , must be local dns?

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C9 - Triplets Delivered ! ! ! [C9 - Triplets Delivered ! ! !]

Red5 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:46:55 GMT

I had lunch with a fellow niner today, who came bearing gifts....

I only had them for a few minutes before the kids ran off with them.

Thanks John!

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VS2005 WinForm Security [VS2005 WinForm Security]

Red5 — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:34:01 GMT

For the first time in about a decade, I had to produce a WinForm App that reaches out to a local network location to get data (Tif Images).

I've done lot's of WinForm stuff for myself, but this is the first time I've had to give the end product to someone else.

The setup for the application and the application was created in VS2005.

The end user had the Network Admin log in as administrator and installed it with the Setup.exe created by VS2005, from a CD I provided.
No Problems.

End User logs in as himself (non-Admin) and cannot run the program with the either the Desktop Shortcut or the Start Menu shortcut. Some wierd error like 'Fatal error during installation' and some text referring to the copy of the installation package file MyApp.msi.

Is it the temp location where the MSI file was during install from CD?
I've repeated the error myself, and by going directly to the C:\Program Files\blah\blah\MyApp.exe file and double-clicking on it, I can get it to run. It seems just the shortcuts are all farked up.
I can even create my own shortcut to the exe and it works.

When I compare the install shortcut with mine, the TARGET is different and un-editable in the install shortcut.

This is probably a rookie question, but can anyone describe what is possibly the problem here or suggest how to fix this?

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Per Minute Cell Phone Plan [Per Minute Cell Phone Plan]

Red5 — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:05:24 GMT

Can anyone reccommend a good cell phone plan to use on a pay-per-minute basis?
Something like Trac-phone or T-Mobile's product.

I'm ditching Verizon this month when our 2-year contract expires. It's just too expensive for the minutes we actually use.

And I don't care about retaining my existing cell phone number.

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Toshiba Tecra - Nvidia drivers [Toshiba Tecra - Nvidia drivers]

Red5 — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:51:31 GMT

I recently downloaded the nVidia drivers for my Tecra M4 from Toshiba's support site. I think the date was Oct 7th or thereabouts.
I've noticed that the cooling fan on my Tecra runs less often and not as high when it does run.
I think it is due to this new driver download.

Just want to pass on my experience to any other Toshiba Tecra users.

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System.IO.Directory.GetFiles [System.IO.Directory.GetFiles]

Red5 — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:53:00 GMT

Can someone explain to me why the first result in my result set is being returned?

?System.io.Directory.GetFiles(strFolder, "*0?0*.vb")

{Length=4}

(0): "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\TestPath\PF\Reports\ReportWeekendingPayroll.aspx.vb"

(1): "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\TestPath\PF\Reports\ReportSSItemResolutionMI0703.aspx.vb"

(2): "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\TestPath\PF\Reports\ReportSSItemResolutionMI0704.aspx.designer.vb"

(3): "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\TestPath\PF\Reports\ReportSSItemResolutionMI0704.aspx.vb"

Also, if I use a filter of *050*.vb, I still get a result back for the first item.
Changing the 5 to anything else and I don't get that first item back.

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Single Page DLLs [Single Page DLLs]

Red5 — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:23:14 GMT

Originally posted in the coffeehouse; I should have put it here instead.

Does anyone know of a good resource tool to use to create single-page DLLs for an ASP.NET Web Application Project under VS 2005?

I rolled my own solution to this under .NET 1.x VS 2003, but would rather not take the time to recreate the wheel for something in .NET 2.0 VS 2005. I'm thinking someone has done this already either as an example project or for profit.

The project I would like to deploy is a conversion from VS 2003.

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Single Page DLLs [Single Page DLLs]

Red5 — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:52:37 GMT

Does anyone know of a good resource tool to use to create single-page DLLs for a Web Application Project under VS 2005?

I rolled my own solution to this under .NET 1.x VS 2003, but would rather not take the time to recreate the wheel for something in .NET 2.0 VS 2005.

The project I would like to deploy this way is a conversion from VS 2003.
(maybe this is better asked in tech-off)

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Apple Users - Remote Desktop [Apple Users - Remote Desktop]

Red5 — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:47:29 GMT

Apple Users,
I have an iMac and would like to bring up a PC desktop remotely on my iMac on an internal network.

What tools have you used with success to do this?

EDIT: Forgot to mention I found this but have not tried it yet. Still doing research.

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/misc/rdc_update_103.xml&secid=80&ssid=10&flgnosysreq=True

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Interstate 35W bridge over Mississippi River collapses [Interstate 35W bridge over Mississippi River collapses]

Red5 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:26:26 GMT

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1338294.html

Nobody knows what caused it as of yet. Any other niners in MPLS? Hope everyone is safe. No casualties reported yet.

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C# Random function question [C# Random function question]

Red5 — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:22:42 GMT

What is the best way to select a random number between two numbers in C#?

For instance, if I have a low value of 63286 and a high value of 64542, what would the correct code be to select a random number between and including these two numbers?

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SmartPhone--Verizon Wireless--What do you recommend? [SmartPhone--Verizon Wireless--What do you recommend?]

Red5 — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:26:55 GMT

I'm starting to take over some manamgement responsibilities and move away from coding. I'm going to miss the coding!

Anyway, I am finding that I really need a managment tool where I can view my email, contacts and most importantly calendar stuff from Outlook 2003. I have a couple PocketPCs but would perfer to combine them into a phone where I only have one gadget to carry around.

I'm stuck with Verizon for awhile and was wondering if anyone has some recommendations for a good Windows Mobile (SmartPhone?) to use that would satisfy my needs.

Thoughts??

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The Office (BBC version) [The Office (BBC version)]

Red5 — Fri, 18 May 2007 02:11:26 GMT

I just finished watching disk 1 of Season 1 of the BBS (original) version of The Office. VERY funny. Looking forward to disk 2. Anyone else share the same opinion?

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MOV converter for VISTA [MOV converter for VISTA]

Red5 — Wed, 09 May 2007 02:27:43 GMT

Can anyone here recommend a good free tool that converts *.mov files to AVI or WMV that works on VISTA?

I have some digital camera movies from my Nikon S5 that I would like to convert.

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Vista and FTP Client [Vista and FTP Client]

Red5 — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:44:06 GMT

What is your perferred software for FTP transfers and FTP file/folder management under Vista?

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ASP.NET Shared Hosting [ASP.NET Shared Hosting]

Red5 — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:48:10 GMT

When creating ASP.NET websites for a shared hosting environment is it better to

Use inline script
Code-behind files
Compiled DLLs

I'm talking like a shared hosting where your site is on the same server as another 400 clients.

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SQL Server 2000 - is there a queue? [SQL Server 2000 - is there a queue?]

Red5 — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:43:35 GMT

High level question:
Is there some kind of queue in SQL Server where requests sit and wait for resources before they are executed?

Real life example:

Webserver application (ASP.NET) with about 1000 connected users.
Each user using same connection string (connection pooling)
SQL Server 2000, Standard edition, 6 GB Ram, but only can use 2GB?? Server 2003 as O.S.
User requests some data through the web interface via stored procedure at the DB. The amount of time to get this data is around 45 seconds.
We can identify the user's request with SQL Tracing and see that it takes about 2 seconds to get the data, BUT this two seconds of execution time is happening at the end of the users 45 second wait. Somewhere in the first 43 seconds this request is where???? Some kind of queue?

If there is some kind of queue, is there a way to set properties on it or manage it via some interface? Thanks all.

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