Tell me truly

Olga Orlova wrote this on her facebook wall:


Olga Orlova
Tell me whyAm I the one your heart belongs to, why me?
Tell me whyAm I the one who won a place in your heart, why me?
Tell me why do you love me, why is it me you want?

on Monday

I couldn't resist responding with:

Larry Watanabe Let me tryto Tell you why
My heart belongs to you
because you're the one to renew
my spirit each day
i love you in every way
that's why ..
i prayyou feel this way too
for you're the one
who has won
a place in my heart,
why you?
the reason i love you?
you're so true
in everything you do
that's why its you i wan
tthe last words you said haunt
my mind although it daunts
me to live up to all
i've just written on your wall :)

Kate liked it

Kate Hudson posted this on her facebook account:

When I'm with you I feel like flying,
when I'm without you I feel like dying,
and now knowing you don't feel the same way I feel like crying

I added these lines:

you talked and teased me til I was smiling
you told me you cared but you were lying
why'd you play these games is it a guy thing?

Kate liked it :)

14 minutes ago · LikeUnlike · 2 peopleKate Hudson and Sascha-Ralph Nowak like this. ·

DropDownList SelectedIndexChanged not firing

Edit the properties of the drop down list and set the AutoPostBack to true.

New Facebook Account for Hanna Dakota Fanning

Hanna just created a new FB account and deleted her old one .. one of her friends was jealous of her or something. I wrote a piece of a song for her:

(modelled after Sheryl Crow's song )

Every day is a new account
I get a little bit of drama
the way people treat me is a crime
I get a little bit closer to deleting another time

Alway use a reaching assist

Lifeguard Instructor: "Always use a reaching assist even if it's just your bathing suit".

Me: "Why? That won't help me reach them!"

Lifeguard Instructor: "So you can let go if you have to."

You can't save everyone but life is full of suprises and people are stronger than you think. Sometimes when they realize they're on their own they start kicking their legs and make their way to shore.

Aside - were you told of the girl who whipped off her suit during the final exam? I think it's a lifeguard myth myself ... just curious if they're still telling it 30 years later.

Hierarchical Data Repeater Asp .NET

I looked at a lot of information on hierarchical data display in asp .net. I had trouble with al of them except this one:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa478959.aspx#aspn-hierdatabinding_topic4

Finding a Good Relationship

Finding a good relationshp is like finding a good plum at the supermarket -- it's all about timing! But location also helps -- there are better plums at the farmer's market.

FindControl - Repeater problem - can't find repeater in context

http://www.west-wind.com/Weblog/posts/5127.aspx


///

/// Finds a Control recursively. Note finds the first match and exists
///

///
///
///
public static Control FindControlRecursive(Control Root, string Id)
{
if (Root.ID == Id)
return Root;

foreach (Control Ctl in Root.Controls)
{
Control FoundCtl = FindControlRecursive(Ctl, Id);
if (FoundCtl != null)
return FoundCtl;
}

return null;
}

with this the code becomes:

///

/// Assigns controls from the subclassed control to this instance so
/// we always can access the controls in our base class.
///

protected void AssignControls()
{
this.lblError = wwWebUtils.FindControlRecursive(this.Master,"lblError") as Label;
this.dgItemList = wwWebUtils.FindControlRecursive(this.Master, "dgItemList") as DataGrid;
}

Repeater name does not exist in current context

Try using the find control to find your repeater control and then proceed.

linq multiple join

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/linqprojectgeneral/thread/e09b50af-5ab4-4cfb-9617-ef2be339c17f/

this is a good article. Basically you need to make sure the types are the same, so cast if necessary.

FB msg: Are you the REAL Elvis Presley?

next time someone asks if you're real, just tell them "No, I'm just a figment of you're imagination."

Why do we love acting?

Why are humans good at acting? It's a skill that must have had some survival value Acting may be an expression of an adaptation mechanism that allows us to survive and thrive in situations where we don't currently fit.

Maybe acting and Stockholm Syndrome are two faces of the same coin.

Getting the ASP .NET CheckBox Value

I tried to figure this out on the net. There was a lot of info to wade through for such an easy question.

Short answer: just use the Checked property to set or get the value, e.g.

MyCheckBox.Checked = true;

bool val = MyCheckBox.Checked;

Visual Studio crashes on opening a solution .sln file

Here's a fix to the problem: delete the .suo files.

--------------------
Long version:


My attempts to open solution included: (1) System hard and soft re-boots ; (2) Getting the latest version of the solution from Team Foundation Server; (3) Rolling back changes I had made; and (4) eliminating Visual Studio Add-ins such as Jet Brains Resharper (ver sion 4.5). None of these helped. Blog post and information I found on forums about this issue do not reveal a consistent resolution to the problem (with some folk even reinstalling Visual Studio 2008 and the service packs; others removing and adding references from projects; or removing and re-adding projects in the solution).

I deleted the *.sou file for the solution and I was up and running sans my break points and bookmarks. So maybe the .sou file had become corrupted or Visual Studio was not able to deal with some combination of the elements it stores. Who cares? I was going again! Hopefully this might serve as a quick first option to resolve the issue for those who encounter it

Just Friends

I'd rather be hated than "Just Friends" *shudder*

At least there'd be some passion there.

Starter Veggie Suggestions

I'm trying to figure out what a good "starter" vegetable would be.

Something low-maintenance, looks good, and tasty

...hmmm...if you have any girl friends like that, send them my way too!

You could grow ....

I live in an apartment ...someone told me "you could grow some weed in that spot there".

I don't see the sense in planting any dandelions but I've been thinking of secretly planting some artichokes there.

An infiinite world of possibilities

the world has infinite possiblities; what is your perception?

I can't wait for your full list, but let me know your top 5 :)

Facebook is Watching You

It's amazing how connected people are to fb these days. People post when they are going on/off line, when they're eating, etc.

What's next - a 24-hr multi-sensory monitoring system so you can experience everything another person does in virtual reality, with playback and search functions?

Search & replay: "all restroom trips by blonde supermodels in New York restaurants".

Poor Lindsay Lohan

Feel sorry for Lindsay Lohan ... sometimes beauty, fame, and money can be a curse.
If Lindsay was a nobody with no money, and butt-ugly to boot, I don't think she'd be have the resources to get herself into the kinds of problems she's in (probably couldn't afford a car, for starters).

Of course, then she'd have the problem of being a poor butt-ugly nobody :)

Layla

Learning "Layla" on the guitar.

Me: "Two guys each with millions of screaming groupies and they have to go for the same woman?."

Emily: "She must have been one SPECTACULAR woman" :)

Kento Watanabe - Composer

My son Kent's music:

http://composersforum.ning.com/profile/Kento

Adding Scrollbars to TextBox in ASP .NET

just outside the text box add this div tag in this

Undelete file in Team Foundation Server TFS

You can undelete files/folders in TFS if that is what you want?

In Visual Studio, go to Tools, Options, Source Control, Team Foundation Server and check the "Show deleted items in Source Control Explorer" box. Then browse in source control explorer to the place where the project was located and you can undeleted it.

To make it appear in your solution you could then do a "Get Specific" on the project in Source Control Explorer, then right click on the solution and do "Add Existing Project..." to load the project from your local file system into Source Control Explorer.

Hope that helps - good luck,

Turning off anonymous authenticaion in IIS

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308160

How to configure IIS Web site authentication
Use an administrative account to log on to the Web server computer.
Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Services Manager.

The Internet Information Services snap-in starts.
In the console tree, click * computer name where computer name is the name of the computer.
Right-click one of the following items, and then click Properties:
To configure authentication for all Web content that is hosted on the IIS server, right-click * computer name.
To configure authentication for an individual Web site, right-click the Web site that you want.
To configure authentication for a virtual directory or a physical directory in a Web site, click the Web site that you want, and then right-click the directory that you want, such as _vti_pvt.
To configure authentication for an individual page or file in a Web site, click the Web site that you want, click the folder that contains the file or the page that you want, and then right-click the file or the page that you want.
On the Item Name Properties dialog box where Item Name is the name of the item that you selected, click the Directory Security tab.

NOTE: If the selected item is an individual file, click the File Security tab.
Under Anonymous access and authentication control, click Edit.
Click to select the Anonymous access check box to turn on anonymous access. To turn off anonymous access, click to clear this check box.

NOTE: If you turn off anonymous access, you need to configure some form of authenticated access.
To change the account that is used for anonymous access to this resource, click Edit next to Account used for anonymous access.
In the Anonymous User Account dialog box, click the user account that you want to use for anonymous access.
Click to clear the Allow IIS to control password check box if you want to use the Windows LogonUser() API for user authentication.

NOTE: By turning this password control option off, this forces IIS to use normal authentication and to log the account on locally. You should turn this option off if users experience difficulty accessing resources such as files or Microsoft Access databases on a network computer.
Click OK.
Under Authenticated access, click to select the Basic authentication (password is sent in clear text) check box to turn on basic authentication. When you receive the following message, click Yes:
The authentication option you have selected results in passwords being transmitted over the network without data encryption. Someone attempting to compromise your system security could use a protocol analyzer to examine user passwords during the authentication process. For more detail on user authentication, consult the online help. This warning does not apply to HTTPS (or SSL) connections.

Are you sure you want to continue?
To select a domain with which to authenticate users that are using basic authentication, click Edit next to Select a default domain.
Type the domain that you want in the Domain Name box, and then click OK.

Note If you are concerned about security on your intranet because Basic Authentication transmits user name and password information in clear text, you can use Basic authentication together with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
Click to select the Digest authentication for Windows domain servers check box to use digest authentication. When you receive the following message, click Yes:
Digest authentication works with Windows 2000 domain accounts only and requires the accounts to store passwords as encrypted clear text.

Are you sure you wish to continue?
NOTE: You must configure user accounts with the Store password using reversible encryption account option turned on.
Click to select the Integrated Windows authentication check box to use integrated Windows authentication.

NOTE: This authentication method was formerly known as Microsoft Windows NT Challenge/Response or NT LAN Manager (NTLM).
Click OK, and then in the Item Name Properties dialog box, click OK. If the Inheritance Overrides dialog box opens:
Click Select All to apply the new authentication settings to all of the files or the folders that are within the item that you changed.
Click OK.
Quit Internet Information Services.

Detect Active Directory User with ASP.NET

In IIS turn off anonymous authentication mode and select integrated windows security and basic. Then in your web.config file make sure you are using windows authentication. Then you should be able to access the user name by using


PHP Code:
User.Identity.Name

Adding Existing Project to Team Foundation Server

It should work fine if you have Team Explorer installed and Check under Tools-->Options -->Source Control--> Plug-in Selection. Here you should have the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server as the current source control plug-in.

The other option is to add the files manually to source control. Open the source control explorer (View -> Other Windows -> Source Control) and the either drag 'n drop the files into the source explorer window, or choose the Add files button in the toolbar which will be available at left top in source control window.

Installing Adventureworks database in SQL Server 2005

It was hard to track down a useful reference for installing the AdventureWorks database - this one worked (almost). Just had to use regular SQL database, not sqlexpress, but that was easy to find by refreshing the database list.

Just in case the page disappears, copying here.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa992075(VS.80).aspx


Walkthrough: Installing the AdventureWorks Database

This walkthrough shows how to install the AdventureWorks sample database for SQL Server 2005, which is a prerequisite for other walkthroughs provided in the ReportViewer documentation. AdventureWorks is not automatically installed with SQL Server or SQL Server Express, but can be downloaded from a Microsoft Web site. You can use the instructions provided in this walkthrough to download, install, and configure a connection to the AdventureWorks database.

The version of AdventureWorks that is distributed with SQL Server 2005 is different from earlier versions AdventureWorks. If you already have a previous version of AdventureWorks, you should install the most recent version so that the queries in other ReportViewer walkthroughs work as expected.

To learn more about using the AdventureWorks sample database, you can search for "AdventureWorks Sample OLTP Database" in SQL Server 2005 Books Online. Books Online is available in most editions of Visual Studio 2005. You can view it on MSDN at www.microsoft.com. You can also download the "AdventureWorks OLTP Database Diagram" from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/.

Prerequisites
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You must have a SQL Server instance installed for which you have permissions. If you installed SQL Server 2005 Express, the default instance name is (local)\sqlexpress. If you upgraded an MSDE instance to SQL Server 2005 Express, see the SQL Server Books Online topic "Upgrading MSDE to SQL Server Express".

The following steps describe how to download, save, attach, and configure the AdventureWorks database.

To download adventureworksdb.msi
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1.Navigate to this download Microsoft Web site. Double-click AdventureWorksDB.msi.

2.Click Run and complete the installation wizard. AdventureWorks_Data.mdf and AdventureWorks_Log.ldf are copied to your SQL Server data directory. For SQL Server 2005 Express, the default is c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data\.

To confirm your SQL Server data directory
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1.Open a Visual Studio 2005 command window. From the Start menu, click All Programs, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio Tools, Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt.

2.Open a connection to a local SQL Server Express instance by typing or copying the following command into the command line:

CopySQLCMD -S (local)\sqlexpress -E
3.Press Enter.

4.At the SQLCMD prompt, type or copy the following commands.

Copyselect physical_name from sys.database_files where name = 'master'
go
This query returns the location of the file master.mdf, confirming the SQL Server data directory where you will place the AdventureWorks database files.

To attach AdventureWorks to your SQL Server
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1.At the SQLCMD 1> prompt, call the sp_attach_db stored procedure to attach the AdventureWorks database in the data directory determined in the previous step. The line below uses the default location for SQL Server 2005 Express. Edit the text as necessary to use the data directory confirmed in the previous steps. Type or copy and paste the following statement into the command window (the statement must not have line breaks).

Copyexec sp_attach_db @dbname=N'AdventureWorks', @filename1=N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data\AdventureWorks_Data.mdf', @filename2=N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data\AdventureWorks_log.ldf'
2.Type go.

3.Press ENTER. You may see a series of messages about converting and upgrading the database.

4.Type exit to close the command window.

To verify Adventureworks is attached
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1.Open Visual Studio 2005. You do not need to open a project.

2.From the View menu, choose Server Explorer.

3.In the Server Explorer window, right-click on Data Connections and choose Add Connection. The Add Connection dialog box opens.

4.Confirm Data source is set to Microsoft SQL Server (SqlClient).

5.In the Server name textbox, enter (local)\sqlexpress.

6.In Log on to the server, choose your method of authentication.

7.In Select or enter a database name, expand the list of databases.

8.Select AdventureWorks.

9.Click the Test Connection button to confirm that you have connected to AdventureWorks successfully.

Note
With a successful connection, you can right-click the data connection icon for AdventureWorks and select New Query to invoke a Query Expression window if you want to try out queries against this data source.


To configure AdventureWorks to work with Web server controls
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1.Open a Visual Studio 2005 command window to run SQLCMD. You will use SQLCMD to grant access to the database and ASP.NET account.

On Windows Server 2003, the ASP.NET process used by the Web server control runs under NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE. On other Windows operating systems, the process runs under MACHINENAME\ASPNET.

If you installed SQL Server Express 2005, type or copy the following SQLCMD below to grant login authority to the service. Otherwise, you must specify the SQL Server instance you want to use in place of (local)\sqlexpress.

The following example works for Windows Server 2003 and must have no line breaks.

Copysqlcmd -E -S (local)\sqlexpress -Q "sp_grantlogin N'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE'"
2.To grant access to AdventureWorks for this service, use the following command with no line breaks.

Copysqlcmd -E -S (local)\sqlexpress -d AdventureWorks -Q "sp_grantdbaccess N'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE'"
3.To add this service to the owner role account for AdventureWorks, use the following command with no line breaks.

Copysqlcmd -E -S (local)\sqlexpress -d AdventureWorks -Q "sp_addrolemember 'db_owner', N'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE'"
4.Close the command window.

5.You can confirm the configuration by successfully completing Walkthrough: Using a Database Data Source with the ReportViewer Web Server Control in Local Processing Mode.

change password remote desktop windows xp

when in xp mode, can't use cntrl-alt-end.

Instead, go to cntrl panel, shared user names and passwords, and change it there.

Use mixture of upper/lower case and some numerics.

change password remote desktop windows xp

Probably works for other OS versions

cntrl-alt-end