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On To Live Writer
Technorati Tags: LiveWriter,Word,Blog I’ve used Word 2007 for quite some time to blog… But recently, it seems that it will not handle images when trying to post to WordPress. After about 6 min with Live Writer I had posts up and running again with images working. It seems the quality of the images isn’t as…
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A Tale of Two Mice
Technorati Tags: Dell,C#,.NET User Story: As a Windows 7 user of an IntelliPoint mouse I want to switch from left-handed to right-handed (and vice-versa) with a single double click. The Old Way I have a really nice mouse, but it uses IntelliPoint… ok, that’s fine. But at home I use the mouse left handed while…
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One Computer – A Very Strange Day
Technorati Tags: Dell I always felt I was "settling" for a lesser computer when using a notebook. Now the Dell Precision M4400 is literally the only computer I use – and I’m pretty demanding on a computer. The only thing that I think would have people shy away is the price. But in retrospect, I…
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Dell ControlPoint Fix
Technorati Tags: Dell Headline: After installing the latest version of .NET 4.0 I kept getting an error with SecurityDeviceInfoSetRegistryString.exe not being able to access the registry. There is a fix on the Dell site. After I downloaded an update to the ControlPoint System Manager dated 4 Aug 2009, version 1.3.00000, A12. After I installed that…
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Using SQL Express with Visual Studio Test
Update: I like the looks of Jess Chadwick’s solution better… I’ll post another update after I try it. Problem: I want to have a test project that I can easily give to someone else and they can run all the tests – even tests that run against SQL Express. Sounds simple, but it doesn’t seem…
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Saturday Night Wrestling with MVC
Ok… It wasn’t really that bad, but it did take some effort. Here was my objective: Now that MVC (ASP.NET Model-View-Controller) 1.1 has been released (not sure how I missed that) to work with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 migrate my evolving website to use the .NET 4.0 beta. I was able to get…