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Screen Saver Doesn't Activate in Vista

I had an issue on two of my computers where the screen saver would never start. I could preview the screen saver, but no matter how long I waited it would never come on. I tried a number of things, changing various settings, but nothing seemed to work...

Posted to Bryant Likes's Blog by bryantlikes on 12-13-2006

Filed under: Gadgets, Vista

Maxtor Can't Touch

My dad got a Maxtor OneTouch II 250 GB external hard drive for Christmas. I'm the IT guy for my parents so my job was to set it up so that he could use it to backup his computer. Simple, I thought. I plugged in the drive and installed the software. The...

Posted to Bryant Likes's Blog by bryantlikes on 01-12-2005

Filed under: General

Silverlight Hello World in C# from VS 2005

Well I've been downloading the VS Orcas for a few days and it still isn't done. I really wanted to try out the .NET support in Silverlight 1.1 and so I asked if this could be done with VS 2005 and Scott Louvau replied: Well, in VS2005 you can...

Posted to Bryant Likes's Blog by bryantlikes on 05-02-2007

Filed under: ASP.Net/Web Services, WPF/E, Silverlight

__pendingCallbacks[...].async is null or not an object

I ran into this issue today while working on my personal ASP.Net 2.0 project. I was getting the error when my callback function (client side) was running one of my custom javascript methods. I did a little googling and came across this post which didn't...

Posted to Bryant Likes's Blog by bryantlikes on 12-20-2005

Filed under: ASP.Net/Web Services

Cannot convert type 'ASP.login_aspx' to 'System.Web.UI.WebControls.Login'

I ran into this issue today when working on a personal site that I'm developing with ASP.Net 2.0. The error is not very descriptive and it took a little hunting to find this explanation by sholder : I hit the same issue just now...and you are the only...

Posted to Bryant Likes's Blog by bryantlikes on 12-14-2005

Filed under: ASP.Net/Web Services

SharePoint Recycle Bins

I recently read the MSDN article Add a Recycle Bin to Windows SharePoint Services for Easy Document Recovery by Maxim V. Karpov and Eric Schoonover . It was an interesting read, but I was pretty amazed at the lengths they had to go to in order to get...

Posted to Bryant Likes's Blog by bryantlikes on 02-14-2005

Filed under: SharePoint

Remotely Disable Windows Firewall?

Ok, so I can remotely enable remote desktop . But what about remotely disabling windows firewall? Over the weekend I setup a new server box and managed to fit it in my server closet. But I didn't just install Windows Server 2003, I installed Windows...

Posted to Bryant Likes's Blog by bryantlikes on 04-25-2005

Filed under: General

Wanted: Cube Browser WebPart

At my new job we are doing a lot of work with OLAP cubes. We have to create reports that run off these cubes. We also use SharePoint as our dashboard technology to display these reports. Currently we are using two main technology to access our cube data...

Posted to Bryant Likes's Blog by bryantlikes on 03-01-2004

Filed under: Reporting Services, SharePoint

Squeaky Mice

A few months ago I purchased a Microsoft Notebook Laser Mouse 6000. A few days ago it started squeaking whenever you click the left mouse button. After a quick google search I see I'm not the only one noticing this. The squeak is starting to really...

Posted to Bryant Likes's Blog by bryantlikes on 04-24-2006

Filed under: Gadgets

ECS RC410L/800-M Motherboard BIOS Hell

My youngest brother-in-law Boogs has a computer that I helped him to build. We have been trying to upgrade it with Windows Vista since RC1 was released but we always ended up with a BSOD. Today I spend some time trying to troubleshoot it and figured out...

Posted to Bryant Likes's Blog by bryantlikes on 11-29-2006

Filed under: General, Vista

Creating a UL SiteMap Menu

It's been awhile since I last bloged! I'm still alive and still working on my ASP.Net 2.0 project. Today I was working on a new menu and I wanted to use the unordered list approach (UL) and I wanted it to be driven by the web.sitemap file. After...

Posted to Bryant Likes's Blog by bryantlikes on 02-17-2006

Filed under: ASP.Net/Web Services

Suggest: Want a SQL Server Session?

As an Evangelist I get an opportunity to do a variety of sessions for the India sub and I am sure I would have met quite a few of you who read my post via the events channel. As much as I try to keep the sessions content loaded, I would like to take this...

Posted to Vinod Kumar Mindmap by vinodkumar on 04-27-2008

Filed under: SQL Server, Events, ITPro

Deep Zoom Image Generation with DeepZoomTools.DLL

Yesterday I saw that the Expression Blend and Design team had blogged about the new DeepZoomTool.dll : In our most recent release of Deep Zoom Composer, one of the major changes we made was to change how we generated the image tiles both for designing...

Posted to Bryant Likes's Blog by bryantlikes on 11-27-2008

Filed under: WPF/E, Silverlight, Deep Zoom

Test Driven SmartPart Development

A couple of weeks ago Jan Tielens released the SmartPart version 1.0.0.0 . The SmartPart is a very cool WebPart that will host ASP.Net user controls in a SharePoint environment. This means you can use Visual Studio to edit the user controls and use the...

Posted to Bryant Likes's Blog by bryantlikes on 12-08-2004

Filed under: SharePoint, ASP.Net/Web Services, Test-Driven Dev

WPF Patterns

If you're doing WPF development, you really need to check out Dan Crevier 's series on DataModel-View-ViewModel. Right now there is no easy way to read through all his posts on the subject without navigating through them using the calendar control...

Posted to Bryant Likes's Blog by bryantlikes on 09-27-2006

Filed under: WPF

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