Yesterday afternoon I was trying to search for something on my PC, I couldn't find it. I checked my settings in the MSN Desktop Search and realized it was only indexing Outlook and my My Documents folder. Well, I rarely keep anything in the My Documents folder, so I setup the search to reindex my machine.
15 hours later it finally finished indexing. It indexed close to 500k items on my machine.
During that process I figured out there were some virii on my machine as well. So I had Norton do a full system scan last night and it came up with 9 files on my old harddrive which is hooked up as an E drive.
Now I guess I should run a disk defrag and try to clean up the drives a little. I think I'm going to write an application to help me archive my many thousands of images. I have probably 100 gigs of photos taken with my cameras, so I need to figure out a way to archive them on DVDs and have a thumbnailing application on the PC so I can tell what images are on what DVDs. That could be a fun little project to start on this...
Looks like Mark is back and blogging. From what I hear he got fired from google for some of his blog postings, and he had just started there!...
I got the domain and web site setup for Faye and James on Thursday evening. She even made her first blog post and uploaded some pictures already! I think she get's her geekiness from her...
I've been trying to get the MS Enterprise Library Data Access Applications Blocks working this morning. Yesterday I got the library setup and running. I started to implement the DAAB so that I could call a stored procedure, passing in a parameter, and retrieving a datareader that I could fill into a class. But I was having some horrible problems trying to get the stored procedure to run and fill the datareader using the DAAB.
I was continually getting the error “Object must implement IConvertible“ and was unable to figure out why this was.
sqlCommand = "spCMS_CustomerLostPasswordEmailAddress";//parametersSqlParameter [] parms = {new SqlParameter("@EmailAddress", SqlDbType.VarChar, 50)};parms[0].Value= identifier;DBCommandWrapper dbcw = db.GetStoredProcCommandWrapper(sqlCommand,parms);SqlDataReader dr = db.ExecuteReader(dbcw);
It would return the error while trying to perform the ExecuteReader command.
In order to get the code to successfully function I had to do the following
DBCommandWrapper dbcw = db.GetStoredProcCommandWrapper("spCMS_CustomerLostPasswordEmailAddress");dbcw.AddInParameter("@EmailAddress", DbType.String, identifier);SqlDataReader dr = (SqlDataReader)db.ExecuteReader(dbcw);
So if you're looking to use execute reader with the Microsoft Enterprise Library Data Access Application Blocks I hope the above code helps!
Also, some resources I used to figure all of this out!
Enterprise Library / Data Access Application Block Follow-upAn Introduction to the Microsoft Enterprise Library by Scott...
I'm doing a Intro to dotnetnuke presentation at the St. Louis VB.Net user's group meeting this evening. Not sure how many folks will show up for the event, but I'll be there nonetheless. I'll most definitely be keeping the presentation trimmed down a bit more than the one I did in Springfield back in January. I tried to cover way too much information in the time alotted and went over by about an hour. Hopefully I can drum up some interest to get a dnn User's Group started here in STL so I can get working on...
Last night's user group meeting ended up getting started around 6:20, maybe closer to 6:30. We left the building just after 9. I tell ya, my voice was about done with after those 2.5 hours, even though I had a glass of water there to try to help keep my throat going.
I covered ALOT of information, I felt a lot better about this presentation then I did the one I had in Springfield earlier this year. I tried to stay more in line with the Powerpoint (any interest to make that downloadable?) as to not veer off topic too far and cover some of the key features of dnn. After finishing up with the power point I started working more with an actual dnn install and showing the capabilities and how to use dnn out of the box. I really could have talked for another 8 hours on how to use dnn, I know this because I've done 3 days of training on dnn before, so trying to fit the key points and functionality into a few hours is tough.
Hope everyone walked away with a better understanding of dnn, and hopefully I generated some more local interest for the...
Where are all my friends at? I just noticed the top of the blog said “Through world through the eyes of Chris Hammond” and has probably said that for 3 months now! Thanks for the help there folks, the first thing on the page and I look like an idiot!...
Something to read about and play with later...
Sorry for the delay! Here's the much requested power point file from the dnn presentation I did at the VB User's group on March 16th.
Download...
I really need to read this and start working on some CS...
I'm not going to do a full writeup here, but for those of you investigating the differences between dotnetnuke and MS CMS I have a bit of advice for you.
Don't bother dropping the $25k on a license for MS CMS, take a look at dotnetnuke, you can't really beat it's licensing costs, how does $0 sound? That's right, dnn is free to use. It's also, IMO, far more simple to develop for, as well as upgrade versions, it's very plug and play compatible with 100s of modules available on the net. Just try adding search into MS CMS, it'll cost you at least another $10k-$15k in fees, while with dnn you can use the standard search, build your own search, OR buy a dnn search enhancement online from NukeSmith.com for $17!
This is all, IMO as always, but coming from a developer who is currently working on a MS CMS project, I'd HIGHLY suggest going a different...
Google debuted a few new things this April Fools. Ride Finder allows you to track Cabs in certain Cities around the US, St. Louis being one of those cities.
They've also made Gmail infinite in space. Not really, but they did add 1gb of space to the already 1gb total each account has. I don't see that they've opened it up to the world yet though. If you need a gmail account, let me know, I have 50+ to give...
I'm exactly the same place I started, I have nothing working.
Here's what I've tried
Install dnn 3.0.13
Install CS with the installer, without creating a community, without installing the membership roles, no sample data
Run cs_system.createcommunity trying to create a community with the applicationname of 0, which appears to be the dnn default app name
Install dnn 3.0.13
Install CS with installer, with a community, changed the appname in the cs web.config to 0 instead of dev (at least 3 occurances)
Run cs_system.createcommunity trying to create a community with the applicationname of 0, which appears to be the dnn default app name
Install CS with installer, create community
Install dnn 3.0.13 (dnn install failed)
Install dnn 3.0.13
Run CS SQL Scripts on DB
Run cs_system.createcommunity
Nothing of the above has worked, hopefully I'll have some more time to mess with things this...
Check out the following
“In a move to build momentum in the sea of Windows developers toward the impending release of its next-generation development platform, Visual Studio 2005 - which builds on the forthcoming and robust .NET Framework 2.0, and just days after releasing the downloadable bits to its MSDN Subscribers, Microsoft has made Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 available to amateur, student or low-budget developers via a CD which can be ordered (shipping is free for what seems to be a limited time) from what appears to be a new domain name, getthebetas.com. They have also put together a nice introductory page to this site from the MSDN site.
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I found this information on this blog...
Starting a blog post to keep of community server controls I need to work...