Problem I was working on a windows service I haven’t looked at in ages. We recently updated some dlls that broke the windows service, so […]
Setting Up WCF with Windows Authentication
Introduction Configuring WCF to do anything for the first time is very time consuming, frustrating and just generally a hassle. My coworker and I mucked […]
Easy Way to Start/Stop SQL Server on a Multipurpose Machine
I have been doing a lot of development on my gaming machine and as all gamers know, you want to have as much free RAM […]
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 […]
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 […]
Windows Services and Creating a Setup Project
I want to create a constructive post on this with a full explanation on how to create a setup project for anything, my main example […]
Windows 7: How to locate a task you created in the Task Scheduler
I created a task recently in the windows 7 task scheduler and I couldn’t find my task after I created it. I saw other people […]