Software Development Archive

  • fugue

    Free Icons

    The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy "For thinking laymen." If you need a really nice, large set of free icons to use in your web or desktop applications, I recommend the Fugue set. As of November 30, 2009, it has 2360 icons,...

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  • Free Tools for Developers

    Free Tools for Developers

    Here are some free tools (mostly open source) that I use to help in my job as a software developer. Winmerge – an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files. PSPad — this is a nice code editor....

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  • 815492_30356691

    System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException: Unspecified error

    If you are getting an error like the one below in your ASP.Net application when trying to open an Excel or Access file, you may need to reset IIS. System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException: Unspecified error at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnectionInternal..ctor(OleDbConnectionString constr, OleDbConnection connection) at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions options, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection...

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  • Visual Studio bug: asp:UpdatePanel could not be set on property ‘ContentTemplate’

    Visual Studio bug: asp:UpdatePanel could not be set on property ‘ContentTemplate’

    So, I ran the Secunia Online Vulnerability inspector on my work PC and noticed there were over a dozen missing patches. I ran WindowsUpdate and had to reboot. After rebooting, I reloaded Visual Studio 2008 and my ASP.Net project that I’m working on. I noticed...

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  • waveform

    Keeping a Session Alive

    It seems like such a simple thing, I’m amazed it’s not part of Microsoft’s whole webform architecture. I would like to keep a user’s session from timing out as long as he/she is still on the web page. Just ping the server, so to speak,...

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  • bookcover

    Software Estimates

    My latest order from Amazon: Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art If you have read the book, I’m interested in whether you found it valuable or not. Were you able to apply what you learned? Did you improve your process and/or results? [Translate]

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