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Comment on VMware View Client uses PCoIP; please network admins read the PCoIP checklist! by jpluimers

jpluimers — Fri, 25 May 2012 09:14:55 +0000

Thanks!

Comment on VMware View Client uses PCoIP; please network admins read the PCoIP checklist! by IL

IL — Fri, 25 May 2012 06:21:16 +0000

Just to let you know VMware 4.1 HA And DRS Deepdive – Free Kindle Edition until May 25.
http://jeremycarterblog.com/2012/05/vmware-4-1-ha-and-drs-deepdive-free-kindle-edition/

Comment on Generate XSD from XML – XSD.EXE versus on-line tools by jpluimers

jpluimers — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:40:18 +0000

WordPress is very bad at handling XML and XSD. Will try myself later to see what XmlGrid delivers.

Comment on Generate XSD from XML – XSD.EXE versus on-line tools by Ling Chia

Ling Chia — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:18:21 +0000

Sorry, the XSD code was cut off by the forum server.

Comment on Generate XSD from XML – XSD.EXE versus on-line tools by Ling Chia

Ling Chia — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:15:25 +0000

I pasted you sample XML code to XmlGrid.net, and generated the following XSD code. I'm not sure if this is what you expected.

Comment on Generate XSD from XML – XSD.EXE versus on-line tools by jpluimers

jpluimers — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:14:18 +0000

Thanks!

Comment on Delete and Remove to Unlock EISA Hidden Recovery or Diagnostic Partition in Vista » My Digital Life by DJ

DJ — Tue, 22 May 2012 13:27:49 +0000

Very helpful! Thanks

Comment on Generate XSD from XML – XSD.EXE versus on-line tools by Ling Chia

Ling Chia — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:54:46 +0000

I think you can use online XML editor xmlgrid.net to generate XSD from an XML document. It is easy. You supply an XML file, and it returns you the XSD schema.
http://xmlgrid.net
select the XML to XSD link.

Comment on process – How to check if a program is using .NET? – Stack Overflow by Checking which applications have a TCP connection to SQL Server (DTAP) « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff

Tue, 15 May 2012 05:01:49 +0000

[...] various versions of .NET use various versions of the CLR (clr.dll, mscor*.dll) [...]

Comment on Getting TLIST.EXE: Microsoft TaskLister from the Debugger Tools by Checking which applications have a TCP connection to SQL Server (DTAP) « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff

Tue, 15 May 2012 05:01:43 +0000

[...] Getting TLIST.EXE: Microsoft TaskLister from the Debugger Tools [...]

Comment on Welcome to Classic Shell: Classic Start Menu and Classic Explorer functions for Windows 7 by jpluimers

jpluimers — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:15:31 +0000

Thanks!
–jeroen

Comment on Welcome to Classic Shell: Classic Start Menu and Classic Explorer functions for Windows 7 by xpclient

xpclient — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:55:06 +0000

Classic Shell has an option to assign Backspace (or any custom key of choice) as an additional shortcut besides Alt+Up for going Up One Level.

Comment on Migrating SQL Server 2000 ISQLW Utility to SQL Server 2008 R2 SSMS command-line parameters (SQL Query Analyzer; SQL Server Management Studio) by Sharepoint Foundation

Sharepoint Foundation — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:49:54 +0000

Sharepoint Foundation…

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Comment on Vista SP2 update: error E_FAIL(0×80004005) caused by SYSHIPER 0x80071a91- solved! by Bru

Bru — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:58:23 +0000

Thanks a lot

Comment on Entity Framework: EF4 – update model from database ignores some changes by bill bates

bill bates — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:56:50 +0000

Same old problem. The code first fluent guys are messing up the database first. Why doesn’t Microsoft get the one way working correctly first before doing all the fluent Rad, go and fumble stuff? It looks like the regen of the entity model doesn’t work for ef-4.1. maybe they will get this act together for Juneau.

Comment on Dodgy Coder: Coding tricks of game developers by François

François — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:21:58 +0000

“the best tool is between your ears”. I would agree with that, except that sometimes you wonder if there is actually something there…

Comment on VMware Converter 4.01: “Unable to obtain hardware information” or “Unable to determine Guest Operating System” by Windows 2008 R2 64 bit V2V conversion fails with “Unable to determine Guest Operating System” error « Virtualization Guide

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:48:07 +0000

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Comment on C# Toolbox: Debug-able, Self-Installable Windows Service Template Redux | Visual Studio Feeds by jpluimers

jpluimers — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:02:44 +0000

Thanks for keeping me posted on this!
–jeroen

Comment on C# Toolbox: Debug-able, Self-Installable Windows Service Template Redux | Visual Studio Feeds by robiii

robiii — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:50:28 +0000

I was missing the ServicesDependedOn property (http://goo.gl/iU3eK) so I added it and updated the zipfile: http://goo.gl/c0LuT

Comment on SEC_LinkShare SSID is from your Samsung TV: SWL (Samsung Wireless Link) by Paul

Paul — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 04:27:12 +0000

Finally, I find out my new Samsung had the wireless set on. I turned it off….all is good

Comment on SharePoint 2010 error: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {BDEADF26-C265-11D0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F} failed due to the following error: 800703fa – SharePointWiz by jpluimers

jpluimers — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:19:51 +0000

I wish I could help, but I don’t have a SharePoint development environment up and running any more. Please re-ask your question on StackOverflow.com

Comment on Delphi – Frames as visual Components – changing your inheritance by noName

noName — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:56:49 +0000

Comment on SharePoint 2010 error: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {BDEADF26-C265-11D0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F} failed due to the following error: 800703fa – SharePointWiz by Mohan Udupa

Mohan Udupa — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:04:19 +0000

Hi,
I am accessing Sharepoint dll in Windows services, but am getting the error, even after i changed the CPU type to x64. Please help.

Comment on Migrating SQL Server 2000 ISQLW Utility to SQL Server 2008 R2 SSMS command-line parameters (SQL Query Analyzer; SQL Server Management Studio) by jpluimers

jpluimers — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:06:51 +0000

Thanks; the link didn't work well as WordPress tripped over the parentheses. So here are the links for the various versions of SQL Server:

SQL Server 2012: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb933942.aspx
SQL Server 2008 R2: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb933942(v=SQL.105).aspx

Comment on Migrating SQL Server 2000 ISQLW Utility to SQL Server 2008 R2 SSMS command-line parameters (SQL Query Analyzer; SQL Server Management Studio) by IL

IL — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:08:29 +0000

After Upgrading the Database Engine
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb933942(v=SQL.105).aspx
dbcc updateusage(0)
exec sp_updatestats
alter database set page_verify checksum
–consider compatibility level
–tracing for Deprecation, Errors and warnings
–reconsider hints like FORCE ORDER
–inplace upgrade tasks

Comment on VMware Converter 4.01: “Unable to obtain hardware information” or “Unable to determine Guest Operating System” by jpluimers

jpluimers — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:45:41 +0000

Thanks for the tip.

Comment on VMware Converter 4.01: “Unable to obtain hardware information” or “Unable to determine Guest Operating System” by Carl Green

Carl Green — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:02:23 +0000

Removing from inventory and adding it back worked for me. OK…. that makes no sense. But good to know.

Comment on SharePoint 2010 error: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {BDEADF26-C265-11D0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F} failed due to the following error: 800703fa – SharePointWiz by [摩斯皮开发笔记] Sharepoint 2010 服务器对象模型报一个奇怪的错 « 波波博

[摩斯皮开发笔记] Sharepoint 2010 服务器对象模型报一个奇怪的错 « 波波博 — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 08:22:42 +0000

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Comment on Some words on Unicode in Windows (Delphi, .NET, APIs, etc) by jpluimers

jpluimers — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:55:28 +0000

It wasn’t an accident that this post followed the technical debt one (:
http://wiert.me/2012/04/04/debt-in-it-and-software-development-via-coding-horror-paying-down-your-technical-debt/

Comment on Some words on Unicode in Windows (Delphi, .NET, APIs, etc) by François

François — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:25:31 +0000

Cannot agree more with the last sentence “It can be costly to pay the accrued debt on that”…

Comment on Debt in IT and Software Development (via: Coding Horror: Paying Down Your Technical Debt) by WarrenP

WarrenP — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:06:03 +0000

Technical debt exists mostly where you can’t see it, until it stops you dead in your tracks. An external dependency on a hard-coded path (C:\TEMP, or any hard coded path, anywhere) is technical debt of the very nicest kind because you can see it, and you know about it. The kind of technical debt that is most crippling is (for example) when someone does a date-math hack that breaks on leap days (such as the bugs that brought down Microsoft’s Azure servers recently). Now that’s some killer technical debt.

I routinely see people on StackOverflow who don’t want to upgrade their Delphi codebase to work in unicode, don’t want to leave behind Windows XP, and who think that any working system (however barely functional it is) takes precedence over any kind of risk. It’s those people who pilot their ships into reefs that they themselves have created. Fear leads to paralysis, and paralysis leads to self-destruction. I think that along with technical debt, there is some psychology of learning-the-wrong-lessons that leads to people who are really otherwise quite smart, making disastrous decisions.

In the end, it’s a problem between the keyboard and the chair.

Warren

Comment on Debt in IT and Software Development (via: Coding Horror: Paying Down Your Technical Debt) by Some words on Unicode in Windows (Delphi, .NET, APIs, etc) « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:01:01 +0000

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Comment on CodeRage 4: session materials are available for download« The Wiert Corner – Jeroen Pluimers’ irregular stream of Wiert stuff by Some words on Unicode in Windows (Delphi, .NET, APIs, etc) « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:00:52 +0000

[...] Cantu wrote a very nice whitepaper about Delphi and Unicode, and I did a Delphi Unicode talk at CodeRage 4 and posted a lot of Delphi Unicode links at [...]

Comment on Debt in IT and Software Development (via: Coding Horror: Paying Down Your Technical Debt) by ldsandon

ldsandon — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:33:59 +0000

It’s also a key indicator of when a developer is past its time. Developers who accumulate debts in their code need a strong incentive to pay them, or a strong inventive to find a job elsewhere.

Comment on Debt in IT and Software Development (via: Coding Horror: Paying Down Your Technical Debt) by rloveutah

rloveutah — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:09:32 +0000

Totally agree. Every agile sprint we try to remove as much technical debt as possible in the areas touched by the sprint. This included both bugs, and design flaws.

Comment on Debt in IT and Software Development (via: Coding Horror: Paying Down Your Technical Debt) by Darren Davis

Darren Davis — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:57:38 +0000

It’s one of those key job (worth) indicators.

When you find that the technical debts you raise into the bug list / road map etc., keep getting removed, it’s time to leave. This generally happens as technical debts don’t often have business owners, so no one will sign off the “job”. In financial terms what then happens is that you’re constantly paying interest but never paying the principle.

Comment on reflection – C# – Resolving a parameter name at runtime – Stack Overflow by Getting the public static readonly strings and public const strings (and their values) from a class « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:02:29 +0000

[...] first trick is how to obtain the name of a method parameter without using a string literal (you now probably get it that I don’t like literals). Thanks to Rinat Abdullin, he provided [...]

Comment on Posting categories by Page with my WordPress posting Categories « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:02:37 +0000

[...] Posting categories [...]

Comment on Alternate (offline) Google Chrome installer (Windows) – Google Help by Refined: Alternate (offline) Google Chrome installer (Windows) – Google Help « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:01:06 +0000

[...] updated my earlier post on Google Chrome offline installers with this info: Google Chrome has two offline installers: one single user install, and one for all [...]

Comment on Upgrading a Windows XP machine with Visual Studio 2005: KB2251481 Security Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Service – Microsoft Answers by KB2251481 update issues (via: MS11-049: Description of the security update for Visual Studio 2005 SP1: June 14, 2011) « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:00:53 +0000

[...] I bumped into the issue before, and wanted a shorter/easier form of hoopla. And there is: The easy way of doing the hoopla is through an msiexec command-line: C:WINDOWSsystem32msiexec.exe /promptrestart /uninstall {23036C23-ECDE-47F5-A908-BEC94EE0456F} /package {1B041548-33BC-4174-8B97-ADC9B7948488} [...]

Comment on Anyone with a C#, Delphi or FreePascal implementation of the PRESENT Ultra-Lightweight Block Cipher encryption? by Gustavo Carreno

Gustavo Carreno — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:05:05 +0000

Like I said earlier, really glad I could help.

Comment on intelligent answer to “whats my ip” on Google Search by jpluimers

jpluimers — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:41:40 +0000

For me, both IP addresses are the same and are my public IP.

Comment on intelligent answer to “whats my ip” on Google Search by Matthijs ter Woord

Matthijs ter Woord — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:55:31 +0000

Jeroen, Google shows an IP which is actually the “most important data” of the WhatsMyIP site, but that’s the IP of the Google Crawler….

Comment on Windows: killing the Zone.Identifier NTFS alternate data stream from a file to prevent security warning popup by Enabling powershell to run unsigned scripts for the current user only (via: Absoblogginlutely!) « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:01:02 +0000

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Comment on PowerShell: the 2 most common error messages for starters by Enabling powershell to run unsigned scripts for the current user only (via: Absoblogginlutely!) « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:00:57 +0000

[...] More than a year ago, I wrote about enabling PowerShell to run unsigned scripts. [...]

Comment on VMware Converter 4.01: “Unable to obtain hardware information” or “Unable to determine Guest Operating System” by jpluimers

jpluimers — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:45:48 +0000

You are most welcome (:

Comment on VMware Converter 4.01: “Unable to obtain hardware information” or “Unable to determine Guest Operating System” by You receive the error message “Unable to determine Guest Operating System” when trying to move a VM using VMware Converter | The IT Bod

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:58:02 +0000

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Comment on Disable Windows 7 DLNA exposure by Tommy

Tommy — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:55:43 +0000

This did not work on my Samsung LCD TV. In order for my computer not to show up as a media server, I had to stop and disable the Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service (WMPNetworkSvc) in the Services panel.

Comment on How to install Windows 7 on a virtual hard disk (VHD) in 10 steps (via: Guides & Tutorials) by Rich Shealer

Rich Shealer — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:52:53 +0000

Thank you for the link. I didn’t know that the bootloader could now boot to a VHD.

Comment on Anyone with a C#, Delphi or FreePascal implementation of the PRESENT Ultra-Lightweight Block Cipher encryption? by jpluimers

jpluimers — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:12:35 +0000

Thanks. I don’t care much for rep, but I’m glad this algorithm got more attention on SO this way (:

Comment on Anyone with a C#, Delphi or FreePascal implementation of the PRESENT Ultra-Lightweight Block Cipher encryption? by Gustavo Carreno

Gustavo Carreno — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:51:58 +0000

I was glad to help.

I was not counting on some narrow minded peeps on SO. But you guys got over it.

This questions should really be giving Rep to Jeroen. I accepted the answer and voted up.

Comment on Exporting Google Chrome cookies for wget usage: cookie.txt export – Google Chrome extension gallery by jmdigne

jmdigne — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:47:33 +0000

Thanks a lot for your trick, this save me a lot of time to do WordPress.com backup

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Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:03:21 +0000

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Comment on 15 years of xs4all internet provider membership by #@xs4all only over AnnexB with FRITZ!Box 7340 #fail: line sync issues; offline most of the time, max 4 mbit. @xs4all needs to give me some compelling arguments to regain trust in them. @xs4all_HD « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:00:33 +0000

[...] I’ve been an XS4ALL customer for more than 15 years. If this is the XS4ALL way of saying “thank you”, they have a serious business continuity issue. [...]

Comment on xs4all ONLY issues with ADSL sync and Fritz!Box 7340 by #@xs4all only over AnnexB with FRITZ!Box 7340 #fail: line sync issues; offline most of the time, max 4 mbit. @xs4all needs to give me some compelling arguments to regain trust in them. @xs4all_HD « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:00:29 +0000

[...] Then I started to get sudden disconnects. Sometimes dozens per day, each for a few minutes. Their helpdesk auto responder did not indicate they would not process incoming mail, only asked to use the online wizard. No words like “instead”, or “won’t respond on email”. For a provider with a premium price like XS4ALL, I expected them to process the email. They didn’t. [...]

Comment on Anyone with a C#, Delphi or FreePascal implementation of the PRESENT Ultra-Lightweight Block Cipher encryption? by François

François — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:24:14 +0000

Voted to reopen. Needs 1 more vote…

Comment on Anyone with a C#, Delphi or FreePascal implementation of the PRESENT Ultra-Lightweight Block Cipher encryption? by jpluimers

jpluimers — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:41:10 +0000

It got closed. Please help with a reopen vote.

Comment on Anyone with a C#, Delphi or FreePascal implementation of the PRESENT Ultra-Lightweight Block Cipher encryption? by jpluimers

jpluimers — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:33:55 +0000

AES is good, many C#/Delphi/FreePascal… libraries that implement it are good in varying ways.

I already did AES on a few platforms (Delphi, C#, iSeries aka AS/400) so I know what to use to get it right.

But there is no PRESENT implementation in C#, Delphi, or FreePascal. PRESENT is emerging, light weight, and for interfacing to systems that use it, it is important to have a reference implementation in those languages and underlying platforms.

Comment on Windows XP: changing the HAL to support multiple cores (actually: two CPUs) by Lansett

Lansett — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:29:00 +0000

Great! You made my day.
Thanks a lot.

Comment on Anyone with a C#, Delphi or FreePascal implementation of the PRESENT Ultra-Lightweight Block Cipher encryption? by François

François — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:06:02 +0000

Added a comment on the comments in SO.
I’m prepared to vote for reopening if it gets closed.
I think having the latest advances in security is important to the Delphi community. There has been too much lagging behind in these areas…

Comment on Anyone with a C#, Delphi or FreePascal implementation of the PRESENT Ultra-Lightweight Block Cipher encryption? by maxkleiner

maxkleiner — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:53:40 +0000

I know a better standard or the real one, it’s AES and fully available for Delphi, we use it in CryptoBox, SecureCenter and many others:
CryptoBox is based on Turbo Power LockBox 3 which is a big Delphi library for cryptography. LockBox
3 is a FOSS Delphi Cryptographic Library, providing efficient private key encryption, public key
encryption and hashing functions. Currently supported in Delphi 7, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2010. It
provides support for AES, DES, 3DES, Blowfish, Twofish, SHA, MD5, a variety of chaining modes,
RSA digital signature and verifications.
We’re just going to explain AES with the new SHA-512/256 hashes in the following docu.

http://www.softwareschule.ch/download/maxbox_starter13.pdf

Comment on Anyone with a C#, Delphi or FreePascal implementation of the PRESENT Ultra-Lightweight Block Cipher encryption? by jpluimers

jpluimers — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:27:00 +0000

thanks!
–jeroen

Comment on Anyone with a C#, Delphi or FreePascal implementation of the PRESENT Ultra-Lightweight Block Cipher encryption? by jecevans

jecevans — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:53:04 +0000

There is a C implementation here that should not be to difficult to port. It leaves out the possibility of a 128 bit key though.

http://cis.sjtu.edu.cn/index.php/Software_Implementation_of_Block_Cipher_PRESENT_for_8-Bit_Platforms

Comment on Anyone with a C#, Delphi or FreePascal implementation of the PRESENT Ultra-Lightweight Block Cipher encryption? by jpluimers

jpluimers — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:28:35 +0000

Good one
–jeroen

Comment on Anyone with a C#, Delphi or FreePascal implementation of the PRESENT Ultra-Lightweight Block Cipher encryption? by Gustavo Carreno

Gustavo Carreno — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:18:51 +0000

Just asked here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9584462/anyone-with-a-c-delphi-or-freepascal-implementation-of-the-present-ultra-light

Hope someone answers.

Comment on Microsoft Office 365 – I always wonder: what will happen on februari 29, 2012 when the year has 366 days? by Adil

Adil — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:21:55 +0000

you were simply right Jeroen: It simply crashed

Comment on Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO formats: Microsoft, please do this the same for Visual Studio 11 (#VS11 #W8) by jpluimers

jpluimers — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:23:52 +0000

You’re welcome. And thanks for the efforts so far, VS11 looks marvelous, and works splendid too!
–jeroen

Comment on Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO formats: Microsoft, please do this the same for Visual Studio 11 (#VS11 #W8) by dougturn

dougturn — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:20:56 +0000

thanks for posting, I’ll share this with the release team

Doug Turnure
Visual Studio PM

Comment on Solution for OLE DB provider connecting to SQL Server giving error “Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done” by jpluimers

jpluimers — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 07:55:01 +0000

Not sure, as I don't use VB6. In .NET it works if you set Integrated Security=false and give Password and User ID a proper value.

Comment on Solution for OLE DB provider connecting to SQL Server giving error “Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done” by José Pablo

José Pablo — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:48:32 +0000

I have the same problem using visual basic 6.0, when I use integrated security = SSPI all works fine, but I need use a specify user for this work, and I need use integrated security =”false”, with that I get this error

Can anyone help?

Comment on SQL Server 2000: How do I register multiple databases with Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Manager? by VMware workstation will re-create different vmnet1 and vmnet8 when updating from 8.0.1 to 8.0.2 « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:03:09 +0000

[...] of days ago. Today one the less frequently used development virtual machines would not see the SQL Server 2000 alias it could find [...]

Comment on P/Invoke: usually you need CharSet.Auto (via: .NET Column: Calling Win32 DLLs in C# with P/Invoke) by Warren P

Warren P — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:35:55 +0000

Does ANYONE care about Win9x anymore?

Comment on VMware ESXi 4.0 / ESXi 4.1: enable SSH login for non-root users (and only them) by David Klemke

David Klemke — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:55:25 +0000

Not a problem at all I’m just glad I can save everyone the hassle of trying to figure all of that out again!

Comment on P/Invoke: usually you need CharSet.Auto (via: .NET Column: Calling Win32 DLLs in C# with P/Invoke) by David Heffernan

David Heffernan — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:30:50 +0000

If you don’t care about Win 9x, and I don’t, then CharSet.Unicode seems to convey more meaning to me.

Comment on FireMonkey and (OS X, iOS, Windows) Link Clearance by VRV

VRV — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:02:58 +0000

You did what Google didn’t fro me

Comment on FireMonkey and (OS X, iOS, Windows) Link Clearance by Bob Swart (@ebob42)

Bob Swart (@ebob42) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:46:17 +0000

And there is a Delphi XE2 iOS Development courseware manual available as well (used in training classes like my seminar last week, or for self-study)… See http://www.drbob42.com/ios for details.

Comment on Jason Southwell (from arcana) just published DuckDuckDelphi: a unit to do Duck typing in Delphi XE2 (not XE) by Jason Southwell

Jason Southwell — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:21:04 +0000

By removing TRTTIIndexedProperty, the only limitation would be that you would be unable to get or set values of indexed properties. Other properties should work fine.

Having said that, I’m not sure if there are other limitations or not.

Comment on Jason Southwell (from arcana) just published DuckDuckDelphi: a unit to do Duck typing in Delphi XE2 (not XE) by jpluimers

jpluimers — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:06:57 +0000

That depends on how badly your pronounce English
Duct Tape is not for sticking wires to stage floors, that is Gaffer tape; Duck typing a software development thing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape versus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_tape versus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing

Comment on Jason Southwell (from arcana) just published DuckDuckDelphi: a unit to do Duck typing in Delphi XE2 (not XE) by antonio

antonio — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:22:15 +0000

Duck type? Isn’t that what stage hands use to stick wires to the floor?

Comment on Jason Southwell (from arcana) just published DuckDuckDelphi: a unit to do Duck typing in Delphi XE2 (not XE) by Markus

Markus — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:09:37 +0000

@Jason, a quick glance at the source indicated, that TRttiIndexProperty is quite important for a lot of functionality. Since this is not available for XE, I think it will not become easy to make it compatible with XE. Since I don’t have XE2 I can’t have a look into Delphi’s RTTI unit to see how complicated it would be to implement something similar for XE. I even don’t know if XE actually generates RTTI for indexed properties and that the guys at Embarcadero simply forgot to surface it in the XE reflection classes or if no RTTI for indexed properties is generated at all. If I find some spare time, I will have a look at it, as I see a lot of potentials for your duck typing framework.

Comment on Jason Southwell (from arcana) just published DuckDuckDelphi: a unit to do Duck typing in Delphi XE2 (not XE) by Jason Southwell

Jason Southwell — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:54:12 +0000

If anyone wants to be responsible for XE compatibility, I can make them a contributor to the project. I don’t run XE any more and have no desire to maintain anything less than XE2.

Comment on Jason Southwell (from arcana) just published DuckDuckDelphi: a unit to do Duck typing in Delphi XE2 (not XE) by jpluimers

jpluimers — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:02:23 +0000

I used the wrong boolean, sorry for that. Not XE; only XE2.

Comment on Jason Southwell (from arcana) just published DuckDuckDelphi: a unit to do Duck typing in Delphi XE2 (not XE) by Markus

Markus — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:16:55 +0000

Correction: It seems not to be so easy to adapt it to XE. @ Jeroen, how did you get it to work under XE ?

Comment on Jason Southwell (from arcana) just published DuckDuckDelphi: a unit to do Duck typing in Delphi XE2 (not XE) by Markus

Markus — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:01:49 +0000

Not entirely compatible with Delphi XE. It uses TRttiIndexedProperty which was added in XE2. In addition the source uses scoped unit names. But easy to adapt to XE.

Comment on Disable Windows 7 DLNA exposure by Eduardo Garcia

Eduardo Garcia — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:30:38 +0000

great! Thanks for the info, I was wondering what was I seen on my TV instead of my DLNA server…

Comment on There is a great Android Design – UI Overview site, but no great UI design tools for Android by jpluimers

jpluimers — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:08:11 +0000

Thanks; will give those a shot.

Comment on There is a great Android Design – UI Overview site, but no great UI design tools for Android by Yogi Yang

Yogi Yang — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:35:38 +0000

There are many tools that allow one to build UI for Android. You need to look at NSBasic, Basic4Android, etc.

Do look them up. I am personally using Basic4Android and am happy with it.

All the tools that I have mentioned do not support Pascal or Delphi dialect but they do excel at providing a blazing fast IDE for building UI visually.

Comment on There is a great Android Design – UI Overview site, but no great UI design tools for Android by jpluimers

jpluimers — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:35:01 +0000

Thanks for the input!

Comment on There is a great Android Design – UI Overview site, but no great UI design tools for Android by Juhani Lehtimaeki (@lehtimaeki)

Juhani Lehtimaeki (@lehtimaeki) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:18:35 +0000

Unfortunately the state of visual GUI builders for Android is pretty bad. For wireframing and visual design the normal toolset from PS to OmniGraffle work but for building real UIs in actual code the best choice is ADT plugin for Eclipse. The UI builder in it has improved a lot in the last year but still is pretty damn far from being good enough.

Of course, building Android UIs in general is a bit more complex than iOS for example due to the scalability requirements but it shouldn’t be impossible to create a UI builder that actually supports the work. I still just write XML and occasionally check the ADT GUI builder how it looks but usually I just perform the infinite loop: tweak XML -> run on device -> tweak -> run…

I’m sure Google has skills to create a good UI builder but I’m not sure if they have allocated budget. I’m placing my hope on external people like the folks who built the IDEA IDE.

Well… we’ll see…

Comment on There is a great Android Design – UI Overview site, but no great UI design tools for Android by jpluimers

jpluimers — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:23:17 +0000

I will look into this, but I’m looking for a good UI designer for native apps as well.
If you come across one, please let me know.
–jeroen

Comment on There is a great Android Design – UI Overview site, but no great UI design tools for Android by A. Bouchez

A. Bouchez — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:01:00 +0000

You should consider also Smart – see http://op4js.optimalesystemer.no/2012/02/06/the-final-battle-begins-persians-on-the-run/ – which has a visual UI designer on its way.
This will work for Android, iPhone and even Web apps.
You’ll code in Object Pascal, then compile it into stand-alone JavaScript HTML application.
I’ve the alpha version, and it is very promising!

Comment on What’s new in .NET Framework 4.5? [poster] (via Heikniemi Hardcoded) by jpluimers

jpluimers — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:50:20 +0000

I think the proper human response here is “thanks”
–jeroen

Comment on What’s new in .NET Framework 4.5? [poster] (via Heikniemi Hardcoded) by Jouni Heikniemi

Jouni Heikniemi — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:00:47 +0000

While I fully admit the glitch in translation, let it be recorded for posterity that I did fix the typo on 2011-11-16. The current poster is typo-free.

Comment on Solution for “Error code: 2147500037″ while printing in Windows 7 by Chad

Chad — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:36:40 +0000

Excellent! Thank you!

Comment on Delphi – Frames as visual Components – changing your inheritance by jpluimers

jpluimers — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:46 +0000

You are most welcome. Buy me a beer if we ever meet in person
–jeroen

Comment on Delphi – Frames as visual Components – changing your inheritance by Dave Leach

Dave Leach — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:44:30 +0000

Thank you very much for sharing this solution! In addition to changing “object” to “inherited,” I also manually deleted out the properties you mentioned above (ClientHeight, ClientWidth, OldCreateOrder, PixelsPerInch, TextHeight). That made things work perfectly. I can’t imagine having found this on my own

Comment on How to tell the Windows version and Service Pack number by Batch file to detect Windows version number « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:01:22 +0000

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Comment on SEC_LinkShare SSID is from your Samsung TV: SWL (Samsung Wireless Link) by jpluimers

jpluimers — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:54:22 +0000

Cool; hopefully others can confirm this as I ditched the USB WiFi adapter in favour of a Wireless AP that has a far better antenna.

Reaver: http://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/
–jeroen

Comment on SEC_LinkShare SSID is from your Samsung TV: SWL (Samsung Wireless Link) by zekeadam

zekeadam — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:57:59 +0000

I cracked the tv-s pass with reaver. Now Im using as a repeater for my xbox.
Cracking is took 5sec beacuse the wps pin is 00000000

Comment on VMware ESXi 4.0 / ESXi 4.1: enable SSH login for non-root users (and only them) by jpluimers

jpluimers — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:55:04 +0000

Thanks for sorting this out in ESXi 5