NT Commands

This site has information on the Windows NT command line commands. They apply to Windows 2000 as well.

NT Commands

Next Day

This chunk of T-SQL code can find the next date that a certain day of the week occurs after the current date. The example finds the date of the next Thursday.

-- Get the next Thursday (in the formula we are using Monday = 1 so Thursday = 4)
SET @wanted_day = 4
SET @ap_date = DATEADD(d, (15 + @wanted_day - @@datefirst - DATEPART(dw, GETDATE())) % 7, GETDATE())

National Do Not Call Registry

National Do Not Call Registry I'm going to be using their complaint form a lot if those telemarketers don't stop calling.

Visual C# Developer Center: Frequently Asked Questions

Visual C# Developer Center: Frequently Asked Questions: "The C# team, along with members of the C# Community, are answering Frequently Asked Questions "

Sets

Microsoft's got an interesting article on sets that includes a C# class that handles sets similar to the way Pascal does.

Part 6: Efficiently Representing Sets

Kansas City Events

This page lets you search events occurring in the Kansas City area.
VisitKC.com - Official Travel and Tourism Site for Kansas City

Getting the absolute path in ASP.NET

This could be useful if I get to do any ASP.NET development again.

Getting the absolute path in ASP.NET: "Typically when we create ASP.NET applications, we are developing against a virtual directory. However, when we deploy our app to a production web server, it is likely set up as a web site. This can have an impact on href assignments when using absolute paths. In order for paths to be consistant between virtual directories and web sites, I created a helper method that will work in either environment. "

My Parents Visit

My parents came for a visit over the weekend.

While they were here I bought a grill and my Dad showed me how to use it to grill hamburgers. It was a bit more involved than I thought. I'm glad I waited to get one until someone who knew what he was doing was here.

While we were on our way to the GrassPad to try to buy some rhubarb plants (unfortunately they were sold out), my Mom noticed a sign for the Arboretum. So we stopped off there briefly on our way back. I think I now know where some of my stranger weeds are coming from.

Mom made a couple of delicious rhubarb pies using Grandma's recipe and some rhubarb she brought from South Dakota. That was what lead to the GrassPad trip as I was hoping I could start growing some rhubarb of my own.

The Sasser Worm

Here's Microsoft's page on the Sasser Worm. I've already had to help out a few friends and relatives who've had problems with this.

What You Should Know About the Sasser Worm and Its Variants

EasyThread - Quick and Easy Application Threading

A VS.NET 2003 add-in that makes multithreaded programming easier
EasyThread - Quick and Easy Application Threading

XmlNameTable: The Shiftstick of System.Xml

XmlNameTable: The Shiftstick of System.Xml: "The XmlNameTable enables object reference comparison rather than string value comparison and is useful in documents with many repeating known elements, attributes or namespaces which are automatically added to the XmlReaders XmlNameTable, a process called atomization. This allows you to then added your own names to the nametable and perform efficicent object comparisons rather than character by character string comparisons."

Transitions Between Pages

Transitions Between Pages

A list of the page transitions supported by IE.

Cancel a restart or shutdown

Cancel a restart or shutdown:

To cancel a restart or shutdown

1. Open Command Prompt.
   
2. Type: shutdown /a within the time-out period.

New Templates

The Great Blogger Relaunch includes a bunch of new blogger templates. I haven't decided if I'll switch to one yet or not.

Google Blogs

Google finally has an official blog.

But I'm probably going to keep reading the original unofficial google weblog as well.

Application Blocks Links

Useful URLs:
The article has links to information on:
Leveraging Application Blocks in Your Applications
Rapid Application Development with Visual Studio 2005
XML, XQuery, and CLR Integration in SQL Server 2005
SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services

ASP.NET Uses Short Names When Loading DLLs

Odd behavior in ASP.NET

ASP.NET uses short names to determine what it loads from the bin directory. So don't give a file a name like MyLibrary.dll_bak because it might wind up with a short name like MYLIBR~1.DLL.

Bookmarklet to Zoom IE's Display By 200%

This post on asp.net had a method for tweaking the registry to add a Zoom 200% menu item to IE.

It gave me the idea of doing a bookmarklet that does the same thing with no registry editing required. Just right-click the link below and add it to your favorites.

Zoom 200%

VSTweak PowerToy

VSTweak PowerToy
A PowerToy for Visual Studio.NET, it has a MRU Lists Manager that allows you to clear recent files and projects.

It can be used as a fix for when Visual Studio.NET is slow in starting up.