November 2006 - Posts

25 November 2006
.NET: Unable to load one or more of the requested types exception in winforms
I have encoutered this very strange error when Im trying to modify one of my user controls on a winddows forms module. It's the first happened to me so I assume I can fix this just by cleaning up the bin folder, update references, reload or restart the project. To no avail, I have googled around and... Read More...
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24 November 2006
.NET: I think I, we, will be using TimeSnapper
Yes, you heard it right, I think we will be using TimeSnapper .This can be very helful to me and my team mate to collborate and share screens on what are doing or what actually happened in a period of time. I don't know if we can drag images from TimeSnapper into Yahoo Messenger conversation directlly... Read More...
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23 November 2006
The best things are free...free developer tool licenses
I'm probably one of the luckiest developer ;) as I have my developer tools licensed, given to me for free. Some i won from simple quiz, some are just gift from friends. He'res a list. I won these tool during VS 2005 Launch Seminar in a Training Center, a complete suite of: Visual Studio 2005 Standard... Read More...
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23 November 2006
Life: Rodel goes independent consulting
Started last November 16, 2006, I will be workin as an independent consultant, I feel confident and feel excited on what's in store for me in this move. I think this is not permanet, I may return to fulltime employment mid next year when I have completed my project or felt I am not best suited here.... Read More...
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12 November 2006
.NET:When caching degrades application performance
You might wonder how come caching can cause infinite loop and degrade application performance. ;) This afternoon I have been optimizing my project and one of my strategies is to do caching on code. But instead of getting faster pages, it gets worst and my partner complaints that it seems I'm getting... Read More...
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08 November 2006
L10N: Autosize property of labels on windows forms
Lately, I was wondering why the Autosize property of label on windows forms is set to true, this is annoying and tiring if you love using windows forms designer(yucks! kidding ), because you often want a properly aligned controls and fixed with labels on data entry textboxes.But not until i want to loicalize... Read More...
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08 November 2006
L10N: The world is flat, start localization on your database
When you are developing software product to be catered to diverse customers, it must be a standard to localized your software. With .NET this has never been easy, on .NET 2.0 its even easier with striongly typed resource files. But localizing application must be part of the architectture and should not... Read More...
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08 November 2006
L10N: Changing cultureinfo on a multithreaded application/service
Today, I have written a service to be deployed on a server to manage creation/tracking of orders and manage sending different emails to customers. I designed it to be multi-threaded and at first I want to use System.Threading.Timer but its complexity is not suited on a simple server process like my requirement... Read More...
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02 November 2006
SQL Server: Incorrect decimal column's scale may mean lost money
I have been profiling my codes and my scripts trying to debug why I have lost lots of .50 cents every transaction, given I always use the decimal datatype when computing currency values. The business logic layer persists correct values and profiler shows result with its fractional part being passed to... Read More...
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