Category Archives: Geek

Vista fun

So later on July 1, I installed Vista 32 bit Ultimate. After the install finished, I started installing the motherboard drivers. About half way through the machine did a random reboot. Guess it wasn’t Vista 64 bit after all. I … Continue reading

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Vista random reboots.

Boy talk about speaking too soon!!! Shortly after the last post my new machine started going on a reboot rampage. An average of once an hour. 31 times yesterday. Things seemed to be getting better then I installed a WinTV1800 … Continue reading

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Vista random reboot re-visited

Ever since I made the memory timing change I’ve not had a single random reboot. Guess that was the ticket! I made the change June 14th, so it’s been two weeks, safe to say “stable” I think.

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Frustrating error of the day

An error occurred creating the configuration section handler for loggingConfiguration: Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’ or one of its dependencies. The located assembly’s manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80131040) … Continue reading

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Building a new PC

Started awhile ago. Bought case and PSU first, then a HD and DVD writer. Then came the hard part. Which mother board? Needed to decide on the mobo next as it would possibly restrict CPU and RAM choice. Got an … Continue reading

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What I do in my spare time.

Cause its a shorter list than what I don’t do! http://www.budanArt.com and http://blog.mandybudan.com I suppose its not much compared to some, but it keeps me busy!

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A Simple CSLA custom filter for FilteredBindingList

Need a better code formatter for wordpress Um, yeah, it’s a screen cap. Primitve.

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C# datagridview combox howTo

DataGridViewComboBoxColumn colFormat= new DataGridViewComboBoxColumn(); colFormat.DataSource = formatList; colFormat.DisplayMember = “Format”; colFormat.ValueMember = “FormatId”; colFormat.HeaderText = “Format”; colFormat.DropDownWidth = 100; colFormat.Width = 100; this.dgvASIN.Columns.Insert(1, colFormat); this.dgvASIN.Columns[1].DataPropertyName = “FormatId”;

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wcf hosted as a winservice common error

The ERROR Service cannot be started. System.ServiceModel.AddressAccessDeniedException: HTTP could not register URL http://+:xx/uri/. Your process does not have access rights to this namespace (see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70353 for details). The MOST common (in my experience) cause of this error is that in … Continue reading

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How to get an icon from an embedded resource file using c# .NET

How to read an icon from an embedded resource file. c# Assembly targetAssembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(); Icon icon = new Icon ( targetAssembly.GetManifestResourceStream ( “project.Resources.Configuration.ico”) ); Where “project” is your project name “Resources” is your resource file name, without the extension … Continue reading

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