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January 2007 - Posts

• Error When ASP.NET attempts to write to EventLog

  Problem I received the following error message while attempting to log an entry in the event log using System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry(String message, EventLogEntryType type) System.Security.SecurityException: The source was not found, but some Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:02 PM by Tod Birdsall | 29 Comments Filed under: knowledge base

• Copilot 2.0 Released

  Joel Spolsky announces that versions 2.0 of Fog Creek Software's remote desktop application has been released . My previous employer has used it on several occasions with positive results. New features include support for Mac OS X and potentially Read More... Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 2:52 PM by Tod Birdsall | 4 Comments

• Good Lightweight Blogging Application

  I have been experimenting with SubText for a few weeks now, on a side project. So far, it has worked really well. SubText is written in C#, is open-source, and it is free. There is a part of me that wonders if I should have used SubText rather than Community Read More... Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 7:58 AM by Tod Birdsall | 4 Comments

• Jeff Attwood's Desk

  Jeff Attwood has pictures of his work area posted on his site. Always interesting to see other software developer's work environment. Jeff really goes all-out and describes just about every item on his desk, wall and ceiling. I want a Pong clock Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2007 4:57 PM by Tod Birdsall | 4 Comments

• ASP.NET DropDropdownList of States

  Since it is difficult to find a code snippet of a dropdownlist control populated with a list of all 50 U.S. states, I have decided to add the one I just created here, for future reference. I am sure that others are looking for a dropdown containing a Read More... Posted Monday, January 15, 2007 5:17 PM by Tod Birdsall | 42 Comments Filed under: knowledge base

• ScrewTurn Wiki = Easy

  If you are looking for an easy to install, ready-to-run, Wiki written in C#, look no further than ScrewTurn Wiki . I installed the precompiled version of this tool and it is a joy to use. Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 03, 2007 12:53 PM by Tod Birdsall | 3 Comments

• How-To: Add more IP addresses for use in IIS

  While adding new websites via IIS to our development server, I ran out of "unasigned" IP addresses. I used the steps below to add additional IP addresses to this Windows 2003 server. Go to the Start Menu Select Control Panel Right-click Network Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2:42 PM by Tod Birdsall | 4 Comments Filed under: Tutorial