John Sawyer's Techo Blog

Visual Studio 6 and VB6 – Hosted on Windows 7 (64k)

2009-08-14T17:48:00.001+10:00

There are still lots of VB6 applications out there that need to be maintained. I couldn’t install VB6 directly on the Windows 7 desktop because of ActiveX and adoDB problems, but I could install it using Windows Virtual PC XP Mode. I’ve set up VS6 in Windows Virtual PC and created a shortcut on my Windows 7 toolbar: I run it from there and dragging it around my desktop just like any other

Move Office 2003 from one PC to another

2009-08-07T23:26:00.001+10:00

This is dead easy. On you old PC - stop sending & receiving Tools -> Send Receive -> Send Receive Settings -> Disable ... Shut down outlook Copy all your PST and other outlook data files to exactly the same place on the new PC (I abandoned Bill's My ... naming convention long ago and keep my stuff on a mapped M:\ drive) Use the Save My Settings wizard on the old PC to

A VB.NET console app to backup your blog(s)

2009-04-20T13:35:00.001+10:00

If you want a small program that you can run periodically to backup your blogger blogs, you can use the following source code with the Google GData .NET Library. See Sorting photo data from Google's Picasa API for another example of using the GData .NET library. Code highlights You need to supply your email address and password at service.Credentials You need to specify the

NoClassDefFoundError when attempting to use MTOM with NetBeans 6.5 Jax-WS 2.1 client

2009-01-12T23:20:00.001+11:00

A Java client that communicates with a .NET host has problems when the HOST has messageEncoding set to MTOM in web.config :

NetBeans 6.5: Problems building WSDL Java apps after upgrade from 6.1

2009-01-12T12:04:00.001+11:00

I recently updated to NetBeans 6.5 and a WEB Services client stopped working. At build time I got the following error message: C:\myproject\JavaApplication29\nbproject\jaxws-build.xml:10: taskdef A class needed by class com.sun.tools.ws.ant.WsImport cannot be found: com/sun/istack/tools/ProtectedTask I fixed the problem by adding:

Jetty embedded WEB server offers GZIP compression out of the box

2009-01-10T03:52:00.001+11:00

Jetty is an Open Source WEB server written Java that you can embed in your application. You can find out more about it here. It's very useful as an a way to serve a browser based control panel for an appliance, desktop system tray or windows service application that generally runs unattended. Browser based control panels are particularly useful if the application is running in a dark room

Safari Browser provides Web Inspection Tool

2009-01-09T14:32:00.001+11:00

In previous posts, Use Fiddler to explore HTTP GZIP compression and Fiddler helps you analyse HTTP traffic I mentioned tools to analyse how you web site. The Safari browser offer the same detail, but in a more visual user interface. (Download it here.) Click on a page name, and you get the content: Click on the time bar and it accordion opens the details: It makes suggestions about

Sorting photo data from Google's Picasa API

2009-01-04T20:15:00.001+11:00

In the earlier post Google Calendar Service hosts a Gig Guide, I showed how to to use Google Data APIs to use Google Calendar data. The client has posted photos of interest to Picasa and given them tags that determine which page of their WEB site they are displayed on. This post describes how to use the Picasa Service to host photos and use them in a ASP.NET WEB site using VB how to

Database Publishing Service used with Database Publishing Wizard

2008-12-29T09:14:00.001+11:00

In the previous post (Useful SQL Database Transfer Tool) I mentioned Service that can be installed on a a server and receive requests directly from the Publishing Wizard. This is an open source project. The compiled version can be downloaded from Microsoft SQL Server Database Publishing Services 1.1 I installed it using the defaults. I had to change the IIS as follows to get it to run:

Useful SQL Database Transfer Tool

2008-12-29T08:32:00.001+11:00

Microsoft SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard 1.1 is a great tool for transferring databases between sites. It generates a single SQL script file which can be used to recreate a database (both schema and/or data) on a remote location. This is often used in a shared hosting environment where the only connectivity to a server is through a web-based control panel with a script execution window.

VB6 Developers - Can't use WebBrowser Control since IE7 installed

2008-12-05T02:26:00.001+11:00

This should not happen for run time users. When you open a project that is using the class SHDocVwCtl.WebBrowser (SHDOCVW.dll), you might get this error message: File Not Found ieframe.dll\1 If you didn't save your project file after you got the error message: Exit VB6 Run regedit Edit | Find ieframe.dll\1 You should find: Change the default value

Google v Microsoft "Chart" Components

2008-12-04T02:20:00.001+11:00

Microsoft is offering Chart Controls "free". See: New ASP.NET Charting Control:

Use Fiddler to explore HTTP GZIP compression

2008-11-13T07:50:00.001+11:00

Once you've installed Fiddler (see Fiddler helps you analyse HTTP traffic) it's worth looking at the data savings using GZIP compression. The above URL uses GZIP and delivers 57,127 bytes using just 12,320 bytes. Certainly worth exploring your WWW site. See the later post: Safari Browser provides Web Inspection Tool

Fiddler helps you analyse HTTP traffic

2008-11-13T07:33:00.001+11:00

4 Guys From Rolla.com have published a helpful article on Microsoft's free HTTP traffic debugger "Fiddler" Troubleshooting Website Problems by Examining the HTTP Traffic. You can download the latest version here. Hints: Fiddler works fine in IE, but is hardwired to ignore traffic on localhost or 127.0.0.1 You can debug local site traffic by using the machine name as in http:/

Cannot update/(un)install VMware - already installed

2008-10-23T08:27:00.001+11:00

Sometimes you get this message when updating VMware Workstation: "A previous version of VMware Workstation is already installed. Setup will uninstall the previous version before proceeding with the installation." Try the steps in Cleaning Up After Incomplete Uninstallation on a Windows Host or go directly to VMware_Install_Cleaner.exe link at the bottom of the page. It worked for me...

Windows Installer CleanUp Utility

2008-10-23T04:03:00.001+11:00

If your registry becomes corrupted during installation or software upgrade, you can get into a loop of Can't install because Can't uninstall because The Windows Installer CleanUp Utility does a very nice job. It even tidies up any broken uninstalls while its actually installing itself. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 Download:http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/9/d/

linuXploit_crew attacked my WEB Server using FrontPage Extensions

2008-10-22T12:34:00.001+11:00

My test WWW site (hosted on Windows XP) recently had the start page replaced by a page that includes the following text in the first line: [linuXploit_crew] The full HTML of this file is included at the bottom of this post. The offending files were written on 17-Oct-2008 [UTC +11] Examination of the IIS log file (ex011016.log) shows that the files were put in place (POSTed) via author.dll

Google's Dynamic Feed Control Wizard - Put feeds on Your Web Page - makes life easy.

2008-10-11T02:20:00.001+11:00

I used this feed control to provide a preview of stories on my Creative Writing WEB log (see http://blog.johnsawyer.info/) It's pretty easy with the wizard they provide at http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/wizards/dynamicfeed.html. Choose "Vertical Stacked" Add the name of your Feed to the Feeds Expression The wizard is pretty smart and finds the URL for us

SpringWidgets - An RSS reader and consolidator - Part 2 "How to add more than one feed"

2008-10-11T01:24:00.001+11:00

See Google's Dynamic Feed Control Wizard - Put feeds on Your Web Page - makes life easy. for another (pure JavaScript) feed reader/consolidator. Click on the gear wheel under the widget - up pops another window. Click "Prefs" and manage away to your heart's content From JavaScript Widget You'll see in the snippet below that the feeds are separated by a "|" [concatenate] character.

How To Set the Default Spellchecker Dictionary in Microsoft Word 2003

2008-09-21T08:14:00.001+10:00

If you find the default language changing in MS Word 2003, you need to change the normal.dot template. To do this, open a new Microsoft Word document, cut and paste some text into it from somewhere, and then click on Tools/Language/Set Language and select English (whatever). Next, whilst English (whatever) is highlighted, and the option Detect language automatically is selected, click on the

SpringWidgets - An RSS reader and consolidator

2008-09-18T19:54:00.001+10:00

See Google's Google's Dynamic Feed Control Wizard - Put feeds on Your Web Page - makes life easy. for another (pure JavaScript) feed reader/consolidator. SpringWidgets has given me a tool that I can put on my traditional site at http://johnsawyer.info/. It contains 3 feeds, My Traditional Site, My Techo Blog, and my creative writing blog. You can select the feed via the arrows or via the

Windows Live Writer is a pretty good tool for making and updating BLOGs on Blogger.com

2008-09-17T14:14:00.001+10:00

After a few weeks struggling with JavaScript rich text editors, I found Windows Live Writer. It allows me to write my post in windows using familiar tools. I can view the post normally, in a web layout using the style sheets on the target blog on as a WWW preview or HTML HTML I can publish , choose my BLOG Edit or delete an

Build your own VB.Net Search Engine (Part 1)

2008-09-17T10:15:00.001+10:00

I wanted to produce my own site search engine using VB.net and I chose Html Agility Pack for HTML page parsing - Extract word list for indexing - Extract a list of embedded links lucene.Net as the search engine This post shows the steps I took to parse the the document produce a word list hint at how to add the word list to lucene (Part 2 is to

Found It: The list of email subscribers in FeedBurn

2008-09-16T13:48:00.009+10:00

I spent ages looking for the list of email subscribers in the FeedBurn Dashboard. I did find FeedBurner Email Overview and FAQ, but it didn't actually say what to do. Its real easy when you know how. Feedburner --> Dashboard --> Publicise --> Email Subscriptions Then right down the bottom - just above Save Click View Subscriber Details There they all are Maybe I'll

Adding "Email this post" to each Blogger post

2008-09-15T11:48:00.014+10:00

Feedburner does have a "FeedFlare" facility that allows users to email an individual post but it means that they have to fill out a form and type a "Captcha".Most people resist this.Thanks to Ben Hall's 'Add link building links your blogger posts' I added a more conventional href="mailto:..." entry to the bottom of each post.The following code goes just before