Scott Elkin

Category: Programming

  • LCD Screen Types and Acronyms

    I have never understood the acronyms associated with LCD screens. It seemed each time I looked there was a new one. Up until now I just memorized which one was better than another. I just found these LCD definitions that clean all that up. Under the definition for “Resolution” are a list of the acronyms…

  • Pubic and Privates Methods

    Does anyone else out here misstype the keywords public and private as pubic and privates? Truthfully, I never type privates, but I caught myself typing pubic today and reignited my 7th grade childish humor. Any other “bad” typo’s people know about that can be made in .NET?

  • Enterprise Library Quick Start

    Ok, I have finally got *most* of the Enterprise Library working. I thought it was going to be a quick upgrade since I have been using the Data Application and Exception Handling Blocks for several years, but it was a bit of a learning curve. Rather than explain what they are (which is available on…

  • Exception Handling Block Error

    Ran into the error: There were no types found in the assembly 'MyAssembly' that implement or inherit from the base type 'System.Exception'. when trying to add a custom Exception Policy in the new Enterprise Library Exception Handling Application Block. After finding Jason's Post I saw the relevance to my problem. I copied all my references…

  • Sauce Reader

    I have been looking for a possible replacement for Newsgator because my Outlook is starting to get a bit crowded and will sometimes go into endless restarts. My biggest feature request is the ability to view all the items in one browser interface like Newsgator or Bloglines. I want to be able to have a…

  • Could not write to output file error

    One of the few remaining issues I continually have is this “Could not write to output file” compile error I get when I switch my configuration types. I think the majority of time it is when I switch from Debug to Release version. I don't always get it, but it happens I would say once…

  • Code Books

    I just love books on the subject of ciphers, cryptography and the sort. I want to find more of them. I like books that teach you somthing while also telling a story. Here is a list of books I have read that I have liked: Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson Blurb from Amazon: Cryptonomicon zooms all…

  • Community Server 1.0 Released

    The new software is finally here. Time to play. Link

  • Count Distinct Rows in SQL Server

    Question: How do you count distinct rows in a query? 1st Try: I *thought* this would work: select distinct count(taskid) from #temp however, it returned the count of all taskid's. 2nd Try: then I tried keeping duplicates out to begin with, so I could just do a normal count(taskid). That wasn't fool proof. Solution: Just…

  • Validators Not Submitting on an ASP.NET Form

    WOW! I have been having this problem where my submit buttons would just stop posting back for no reason. It seemed that some pages would work, and some didn’t. I just didn’t know enough to even know where to look. Thank goodness for Scott Mitchell. He wrote up the reason for it here: http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/2943.aspx To…