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Strange characters when Pinging

2007-04-09T18:44:00.000+02:00

Today I received a PC of a customer with a huge history of virus and spyware infections. It was impossible to connect the PC to a network.I ran AVG Antivirus Free and AVG Antispyware Free to remove the remainders of the unwanted software, but still no network access. When I tried to ping my router and I got some strange characters in the output window.As usual, Google served the answer and

No files were found to look in. VS.NET 2005

2007-03-30T11:40:00.000+02:00

All of a sudden the search in VS.NET 2005 stopped working with the message 'No files were found to look in. Find was stopped in progress.'.I found a very bizar solution to solve this problem in VS.NET 2003, but pressing Control + Scroll Lock also did some magic in VS.NET 2005...

Msi.dll crashing my system

2007-02-15T13:20:00.000+01:00

Today I lost some valuable time fixing my system. When Windows XP had started, I got a messagebox 'svchost.exe - Application Error' with the errormessage 'The instruction at "0x745f2780" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read". Followed almost immediately by another error-window 'Generic Host Process for Win32 Services had encoutered a problem and needs to close.'The

HP Deskjet 5150 on Vista

2007-02-13T20:32:00.000+01:00

I had some big issues installing my HP Deskjet 5150 on Vista. On my portable running Vista Business, I could follow the instructions on http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00808478&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=304431&lang=en to install an alternate driver. On my desktop Windows Vista Home Premium was installed, but I needed remote desktop support (and RealVNC didn't work very well

Undeletable message in Windows Mail

2007-01-24T22:44:00.000+01:00

For a few days I had a message in my outbox that couldn't be deleted (it had been send correctly however). In the preview window there was an error saying "Windows Mail encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try again." Trying to delete the message resulted in "An unknown error has occurred." Since that message was

IHaBiP (I Hate Big Powerpoints)

2006-12-17T15:24:00.000+01:00

Every day my mailbox is loaded with some huge powerpoints. Mostly they're so huge because it seems to be an unwritten law that every powerpoint should embed at least one full song!So I've written a little .NET-tool to be able to modify the presentations in an automated way. IHaBiP is capable of removing every sound from a presentation and it can be used to export every object (backgrounds, texts,

RealVNC and Windows Vista Home Premium

2006-12-09T14:56:00.000+01:00

On my portable I have a Windows Vista Business installed, at my desktop I have a Windows Vista Home Premium running. After a day of hard work, I just love to sit on the couch with my portable (and my wife ;-) ) reading emails on my desktop. In Windows XP I always used RealVNC to take over my desktop. Since Remote Desktop (server) is not available in the Home-editions, I installed RealVNC on the

0FF1CE in Office GUID's

2006-12-06T22:13:00.000+01:00

I had some problems with my Office Installation (both Office 2007 RTM and Sharepoint Designer Beta). I landed on KB928218, assisting in manually uninstalling Office 2007 beta. While cleaning the registry, I noticed many of the Office GUID's ended on 0FF1CE (l33t for OFFICE).This post really has no technical purpose, I just found it a little bit funny and it made me think about the 'epacsteN'-

Windows Live Writer

2006-11-04T00:39:00.000+01:00

I'm currently testing the Windows Live Writer bèta. Windows Live Writer (WLW) is a WYSIWYG authoring tool (and a LOT more) for your blog. If you would like to see if this tool can simplify your blogging life, download it from http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/ and give it a try.

MOSS 2007: Creating readonly colums in a list

2006-10-11T16:58:00.000+02:00

I wanted to add a column to a list to store a date based on some heavy business-logic (the calculated column could not be used for this). The end user needs to be able to see the contents of this column, but should not be able to modify it.Walking through the Sharepoint object model I discovered the CreateNewField Function on the SPFieldCollection in the desired list.This (at the moment almost

Giganews Binary Newsreader Label Editor

2006-10-10T21:25:00.000+02:00

Giganews Binary Newsreader is a cool newsreader with very nice looks. Try it, you'll love it...The author, Uwe Keller, is looking for people that can help him to translate his software into their language.I just finished the Dutch translation and I've written a small editor to simplify the translation process. You can download this editor for free from http://blog.khsw-be.net/Download.asp?f=

Windows Vista RC2 install.wim

2006-10-10T20:51:00.001+02:00

This weekend I downloaded Windows Vista RC2. I created a DVD out of the image and tried to install it in a virtual machine. After a few minutes, I got an error message ''Windows cannot open the required file E:\Sources\install.wim. The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available and restart the installation.".The file was available on the DVD and

Design a MOSS 2007 workflow locally

2006-10-10T16:29:00.000+02:00

After installing Microsoft Office Sharepoint Designer (MOSD) 2007 on my client I tried to create a workflow on a remote Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 server. I connected to the Sharepoint server using MOSD but when I tried to create a workflow I got the error message 'The list of workflow actions on the server references an assembly that does not exist. Some actions will not be

VDS Computing

2006-10-10T16:08:00.000+02:00

It's a long time since I've updated my blog... At the end of this month they should start building our house. The last weeks I've been quite busy doing some thinking, arguing, preparing, discussing, ...I also quit my job at Dolmen after 7 years because I was tired of the daily traffic jams. Dolmen is a great company to work for, but with many customers in Brussels. I spend about 12 hours in my

Free eBook : Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks

2006-07-27T10:15:00.000+02:00

Minh T. Nguyen has been so generous to provide us with a free copy of his book 'Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks'. This time-saving PDF can be downloaded from http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/vsnettt.

Form converted to .NET 2.0 resizes when rebuilding the project

2006-04-12T17:32:00.000+02:00

Today I converted a small project to .NET 2.0. I had my main form open in the designer when I did a rebuild of the project. The height of my form changed all of a sudden. If I ran my form, the anchoring was completely messed up!After some testing I removed the MainMenu of my form and the weird behaviour had gone. I had to replace the MainMenu with a MenuStrip...

Dolmen Jobevent 26 april 2006

2006-04-10T09:40:00.000+02:00

Ben jij een ervaren IT-er op zoek naar een nieuwe uitdaging? Dan is er een toekomst voor jou weggelegd bij Dolmen.Een job vol afwisseling, een stabiele werkomgeving, een'no nonsense' bedrijfscultuur, state-of-the-art ICT-oplossingen en dynamische medewerkers.Ontdek alles over Dolmens bedrijfscultuur, jobinhoud, doorgroeimogelijkheden, competentiemanagement,… op Dolmens jobevent op 26 april 2006.

Merge PDF Files using iTextSharp

2006-04-07T11:32:00.000+02:00

iText# (iTextSharp) is a port of the iText open source java library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform. iText# is a library that allows you to generate PDF files on the fly. It is implemented as an assembly.The code of the class I've written uses iText# and is based on the example code (Console Application) that can be found on http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/examples/Concat.cs .

Create an icon using VB.NET

2006-03-08T11:16:00.000+01:00

You just have finished your application, the only thing you need is an icon. You don't have icons on your machine and you don't have the graphical skills to create one. But... you have an image on your PC or you found one on Google (watch out for copyrights!) that could be used, too bad it's not in .ico format.But since you're a .NET-coder, you can create an application to convert an image to an

Copy a complete directory with progress bar

2006-03-08T08:27:00.000+01:00

Some months ago I published an article explaining how to copy a file with a progressbar in VB.NET. I would like to thank you all for the great feedback on that article! Some days ago I received a mail with the question how to copy a whole directorystructure while showing the progress. So here's a possible solution. Please have a look at the original article first (http://khsw.blogspot.com/2005/08

Telenet SLUIT je wereld...

2006-02-07T09:08:00.000+01:00

Terwijl we allemaal met ongenoegen en verbazing toekijken hoe China meer en meer censuur toepast op het Internet, blijkt dat ook Telenet - héél dicht bij huis - niet vies is van dergelijke praktijken.Iedereen weet dat ze ongeveer alle poorten lager dan 1024 blokkeren, terwijl een provider net zou moeten zorgen voor toegang tot het Internet...Bovendien hanteren ze nog steeds een middeleeuwse

SelectedNode in a TreeView

2006-01-12T14:15:00.000+01:00

If you use the default TreeView in Visual Studio 2003, the SelectedNode property doesn't always return the correct selected node in the Click event.If you inherit from the TreeView, you can override the OnMouseDown event with this code:Protected Overrides Sub OnMouseDown(ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs)Me.SelectedNode = Me.GetNodeAt(New Point(e.X, e.Y))MyBase.OnMouseDown(e)End

Happy 2006!

2006-01-01T12:42:00.000+01:00

All the best to you and yours! May 2006 make all your dreams come true...

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Setup failed because of J# Beta

2005-11-19T11:06:00.000+01:00

Some days ago, I received the .NET Framework 2.0 when I visited the Windows Update website.However, the installation failed with errorcode 0x1011. Unfortunately, I didn't had time then to have a look at what could be wrong.Today I did some 'Googling' and I had to remove all software related to the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Beta. I uninstalled these programs, downloaded the Redistributable

Dolmen Jobevent

2005-11-16T23:03:00.000+01:00

Sorry, this one is in Dutch online. My company is hiring...Specialist in je vakgebied, gedreven, ambitieus en op zoek naar een nieuwe uitdaging, dat ben jij?Een job vol afwisseling, een stabiele werkomgeving, een “no nonsense” bedrijfscultuur, state-of-the-art ICT-oplossingen, dynamische medewerkers, … dat is Dolmen. De carrièresprong van je leven? Gegarandeerd.Een sprong in het onbekende? Zeker

Sony's arrogance

2005-11-08T10:02:00.000+01:00

Not only do they claim that their rootkit doesn't compromise security (how about viruses and other malware that use their cloacking?), this is what Thomas Hessa (President of Sony BMG's Global Digital Business) thinks about their customers:"Most people, I think, do not even know what a Rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"Hear it yourself at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?

A VERY good reason not to buy Sony CD's any more!

2005-11-02T11:21:00.000+01:00

Recently I was reading an article of Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals, one of my most favourite websites.Sony has implemented a new 'copy protection scheme' for their 'audio' CD's. I'm not in favour of DRM as this normally means cutting down my freedom, but this one definitily goes too far!If you install the player on your Windows machine, you're not only installing the player, but also a rootkit

Comments disabled

2005-10-03T18:03:00.000+02:00

I've just disabled comments on this blog. Some losers find it necessary to post some spam in the comments. I do really hate those people!I do appreciate your comments however. You can always visit my forum (http://forum.khsw-be.net) and leave your comment there (after registering) or mail me at khsw.be [@] gmail.comSorry for any inconvenience.

The given assembly name or codebase was invalid

2005-08-19T21:05:00.000+02:00

Today we created a new project in Visual Studio .NET 2003, when we tried to run a webservice, we got this cryptic error message:Server Error in 'TheProjectNameHasBeenRemoved' Application.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Configuration ErrorDescription: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration filerequired to service this request.

Copy a file with progressbar in VB.NET

2005-08-03T10:49:00.000+02:00

Today I wanted to create a control that could copy files in VB.NET with some progress indication. I did some searches on the Internet and managed to build a working control. However, I would like to share the basics with all of you...First declare some API functions:Private Delegate Function CopyProgressRoutine(ByVal totalFileSize As Int64, ByVal totalBytesTransferred As Int64, ByVal streamSize

Execute a function using it's name as string

2005-07-27T10:19:00.000+02:00

A collegue asked me if it was possible to call a function when you only have a string with the name of the function.Of course, this is possible in .NET, everything is ;-) This is the little test-project I created for him in VB.NET.Add two buttons to a formAdd these two function in code:Private Function test1() As StringReturn Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss")End FunctionPrivate Function test2(

Changing the timeout of the tooltips (or disable them)

2005-03-25T08:37:00.000+01:00

If you would like to change to timeout of the tooltips, you'll have to change the value of the DWORD BalloonTip in the key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify]Setting it to 0000001E will change the timeout to 30 seconds. You don't feel comfortable changing this value yourself? Download the regfile here.If you would like to disable the tooltips, change

GIF animation is stopped when clicking on a link

2005-03-25T08:25:00.000+01:00

This looks like normal behaviour to me, but recently someone asked how to prevent this as he just called a Javascript function in a hyperlink. Something like this:He didn't want the animations to stop when clicking that link, so we rewrote this line to: