This is not a terribly useful post, it is more of a piece of advice. If you have the option to activate this software by […]
DataGridView Loses Formatting and Columns After Setting DataSource a Second Time
Problem This was particularly annoying. If you have a DataGridView you are working with, you have setup the DataGridView through the designer and you have […]
Windows Form Designer File Hell: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
I spent 2 hours trying to figure out why a form I was working on was telling me that there was something wrong with a […]
Programmer Breakfast
I don’t have a good time waking up in the morning. I am usually a zombie and I grunt to communicate until my vocal cords […]
My.Request Equivalent in C#
The Gotcha When moving VB.Net code to C# code that uses the My namespace such as “My.Request” the equivalent for you to use is “HttpContext.Current.Request”. […]
How to Convert a Rebate Debit Card into Almost Cash
A lot of companies that offer rebates on their items will give you back your funds as a Rebate Debit Card which is incredibly inconvenient […]
WSE: Server unavailable, please try later
This is an amazing gotcha that had me almost throw my computer off the sixth floor of my building. First to narrow down the steps […]
Windows Forms Project Crashes Immediately on Startup
This was a more puzzling error that I have had to deal with in a long time. Every time I started up my windows forms […]
How to convert a String (Char Array) to List of Int (ASCII Decimal Equivalent)
I think it confuses people that single characters are interchangeable with byte and int, so here I am telling you that they are interchangeable up to an […]
WSE: You Cannot Return Custom Exceptions
I answered this on StackOverflow.com here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/138477/using-own-exceptions-in-wse-not-only-soapexception/9320072#9320072