tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-206212202024-09-14T10:19:31.341-06:00My experiences with C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, SQL, SharePoint and other cool tech stuffCody Schoutenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242511893447519496noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20621220.post-82245956003416859762014-08-12T08:05:00.000-06:002014-08-12T08:05:30.709-06:00

I've been struggling with a strange Entity error in a new project that I've started. Here's the error: Method not found: 'System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.Interception.DbConnectionDispatcher System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.Interception.DbDispatchers.get_Connection()'. I played with removing items from the context, I removed items from the web.config, all with the same results. I

Cody Schoutenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17763959725035056209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20621220.post-42357022699554651552013-01-17T09:30:00.000-07:002013-01-17T09:30:08.418-07:00

Time to get ready for Utah Code Camp. It's going to be on March 23rd this year. http://www.utahcodecamp.com/ If you're at all interested in becoming a better programmer, you need to be at this event.

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I want to learn the basics of Responsive Design. Anybody have good resources or suggestions?

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I know I am late to the game but I like LESS. LESS is a dynamic stylesheet language. It makes CSS a whole lot smarter and easier to use. I won't go into all the specifics of it but LESS has made my CSS work so much better. With its ability to use mixins (functions) and variables makes CSS much more modular and reusable. I'd recommend any web developer to take a look at LESS or the similar SASS.

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I ran into a problem today that I struggled with for a couple of hours. I just had my machine upgraded from a Windows XP x86 (32 bit) to a Windows 7 x64 machine. We have some legacy custom applications that require a VB6 dll to be registered. Everytime I ran the regsrv32 command on the DLL to register it, I got the below error: The module "MyVB6.dll" failed to load. Make sure the binary is

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I had a need to find a way to take a single column result set and put it into a single varchar variable. I did not want to go through the hassle or the overhead of doing a cursor for this. With a little Googling, I found the below article: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/822615/what-is-the-best-way-to-collapse-the-rows-of-a-select-into-a-string It shows a very nice way of solving my problem

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I found a neat web development tool this morning. It's called jsFiddle. It allows you to play with HTML, javascript, and CSS on the fly. It also lets you save your "fiddles" for later. They also give each of your fiddles a unique URL so you can share them. Great for posting on forums and blogs. I'm very excited for this. Check out my very cool and complex fiddle:http://jsfiddle.net/codyschouten/

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So I have a TSQL problem that has been bothering me for a few months now. I have a stored procedure that runs nightly via a SQL scheduled job. It has failed almost everynight since April. The stored procedure is still in test and has been in low priority so I have dabbled with figuring it out. Our DBAs really didn't have a clue what the problem was and I couldn't find an answer through search

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Keep in mind that it has been a year or two since I've really played with creating and configuring websites via IIS. This is something I've done before but for some reason didn't recognize the error. I created a new website the other day and got a Configuration Error page that indicated that there was a problem with my setup that was not allowing the System.Web.Extensions namespace to load. A

Cody Schoutenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17763959725035056209noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20621220.post-59986097928373277432011-07-28T12:25:00.003-06:002011-07-28T12:34:22.343-06:00

This is the phone I really want:CNETPhoneArenaIt really makes me happy thinking about it. It's been available since April but not in the U.S. Supposedly it will come out this August just ahead of the next iPhone announcement. A buddy at work bought the European version without contract for a lot of $$$. I can't justify doing that so I have until AT&T releases an American version with

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I'm planning on attending this fall's Utah Code Camp. It will be my first time attending but I have heard great things about it. Best part is that it's free.http://utahcodecamp.com/

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I had a need recently to programattically query the triggers for a set of tables in my database. Here's the code that I used: SELECT DISTINCT Tables.Name TableName, Triggers.name TriggerName, Triggers.crdate TriggerCreatedDate, [Type] = CASE WHEN Triggers.xtype = 'TR' THEN 'SQL Trigger' ELSE 'CLR Trigger' END , [Disabled] = OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(Triggers.name), '

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I’ve been using Expresso for a while now. It’s a handy tool for working with regular expressions. It has a library of regular expressions which is very helpful. The editor lets you try your regular expression against a whole bunch of test data so you can test your expression against all sorts of data. The tool has been key in my getting better at regular expressions. The best part is that it’s

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Wow, it's been two years since my last post. I think I've been recovering from my masters degree. I'm now feeling more inclined to get involved with the blog again, if anybody cares. I expect to start posting again. My current job has me doing more and more SQL projects so my posts will be more focused to that. Besides, we're still on .NET 3.5 and really need to get up-to-date on .NET 4.0 before

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I've been spending A LOT of my time in SQL logic lately. It's been pretty rare that I've opened up Visual Studio. Not necessarily pleased with this but one bonus is that I've learned a bit more about SQL. I just found out the other day that you there is a SQL operator called BETWEEN. It allows you select a range of values:SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE YearBETWEEN 2000 AND 2009I guess you're never

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I just finished my last final for my masters degree! Next stop: Disneyland.

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I just finished my last final for my masters degree. Hopefully I can start focusing on posting again to this blog.

Cody Schoutenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242511893447519496noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20621220.post-30167838480019832782008-10-02T19:31:00.001-06:002008-10-02T19:32:37.119-06:00

I found this cool website for helping you print website. It allows you to control everything that is to be printed. Give it a look.http://www.printwhatyoulike.com

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I just found the coolest Firefox extension. It allows you to control the style of any website that is loaded into your Firefox browser. The extension has a community website that users submit their own styles so that others can share. For example, I really love using Gmail but I think their look-and-feel could have been done by a 10 year old. I grabbed a really nice looking user submitted file

Cody Schoutenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242511893447519496noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20621220.post-52812345966649408242008-04-22T21:23:00.002-06:002008-04-22T21:27:31.065-06:00

I'm working on an encryption solution at work. We currently need to symmetrically encrypt a user's password and store it in a database field. I need to somehow securely store the symmetric encryption key so that no one can access it except this application. I can't store it in the code because tools like Reflector and can find it. Has anybody found a great way of doing this?

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I am an 'Alt+Tab' addict. I have had a keyboard with a broken tab key and I was crippled on that keyboard. I'll use 'Alt+Tab' to quickly switch between to applications that I've been using recently. I also use it to get to an already open application. My problem is that I tend to have quite a few applications open at a time and it can take some time to 'Alt+Tab' to the correct application.So

Cody Schoutenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242511893447519496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20621220.post-70513450968721641332008-02-15T11:16:00.001-07:002008-02-20T21:58:13.151-07:00

A guy at work showed me a sound that is supposed to scare away kids and teenagers, similar to those devices that makes sounds that scare away mosquitoes. I guess the UK is using it to help encourage teenagers to no longer loiter near gas stations. Supposedly, in your early twenties we start having certain hairs in our ears die off which prevent adults from hearing the sound. So I tried listening

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I just found a video that CNET did that explains Launchy and how to use it.http://www.cnettv.com/9742-1_53-32210.htmlAs a note: I've been using this tool for almost two months now and I cannot live without it now.

Cody Schoutenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242511893447519496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20621220.post-9187504301650684332008-02-06T06:32:00.001-07:002008-02-20T21:58:37.660-07:00

I found a cool website that allows you to destroy any website that you want. No, you don't really bring the website down but the site allows you to have dinosaurs, tornadoes, wasps and many more things to destroy your favorite or most hated websites. Check it out: http://www.netdisaster.com/

Cody Schoutenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242511893447519496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20621220.post-26949805634204279882008-01-31T09:41:00.000-07:002008-01-31T09:46:38.025-07:00

I was using a batch file to kick off a process that grabs a file off a server. One of the arguments of the command to get the file tells the command where to store the file, including the file's name. We wanted the file's name to based of the date the file was stored on our servers. So I needed away to get the current date and passed it in as a command line argument. Here's what I found:@For /F

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