I recently found some images on the internet in a format that I couldn’t directly support in my applications. The images were in JPEG XR, with a .jxr extension. These images would fail with a “The parameter is incorrect” error Continue reading Handling JPEG XR (HD Photos/Windows Media Photos)
I blog in a few different places. I have my personal blog, my professional blog, and I maintain a blog at work to inform and educate co-workers. At work, the blog is hosted on the company’s SharePoint server, which is Continue reading Editing SharePoint Pages Using Visual Studio And WebDAV
At work, I was the first to upgrade my machine to Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2015. Opening our application’s solution, I started resolving little errors here and there. One problem was not so simple and had a very obscure Continue reading Visual Studio 2015 + Silverlight In VB.NET
After the mess with the Azure SDK reserving ports that conflicted with my development environment, and the fact that the SDK didn’t do anything for the automated publishing I was looking for, I decided to uninstall it. Well, that wasn’t Continue reading Azure Aftermath
Today, I spent my entire work day trying to find the solution to this error. When I would launch a web project from Visual Studio, IIS Express would fail to load. The error reported was: Failed to register URL “http://localhost:10000/” Continue reading IISExpress – Error description: Access is denied. (0x80070005)
Every three weeks we release an update to our websites and web services. To make this release easier, I created a batch file that would build the projects and deploy each one to our four web servers. The last few Continue reading MSBuild error MSB4057: The target "Package" does not exist in the project.
I recently implemented two-factor authentication into a web app and since it was a new concept for me, I thought it would be good to explain the highest conceptual level of this process. As with a lot of new things, Continue reading Two-Factor Authentication Primer
While doing a search for something innocuous, I found a search result that was very out of place. The domain was nothing related to what I was searching for, and the text abstract was, to say the least, spammy. Although Continue reading PHP Hacked Site
I recently assisted on troubleshooting an error in a utility application where an exception was being thrown on the dispose of a Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.ReportViewer. The environmental conditions were pretty specific, so it’s possible you’d never see something like this in your Continue reading SSRS ReportViewer NullReferenceException on Dispose
No, this post isn’t a rant on consumerism and lack of true holiday spirit. I have another blog for that. This is my programming blog. I was thinking hard about what I could post to close out the year. It Continue reading The Holidays Are All About Money