Granting Admin rights to SQL Express (When you don’t have sysadmin rights)

I ran into an issue where I’ve been trying to get my local SQL Express instance setup so I would be able to do a bit of local development.

What stopped me is that for some reason, my local … more

Note To Self: Outlook 2010 Features

I really needed to archive my messages in Outlook - I’d hit the wall on my Exchange mailbox limit and needed to get some of the cruft out of my (freshly filed, almost empty) inbox.

So it used … more

How To Use Visual Studio 2008 with Team Foundation Server 2010

I had all kinds of fun getting this to work - so I'm going to record it in case I have to do it again.

1: Make sure TFS2008 Explorer is Installed 2: Install VS2008 SP1 (this Updates VS2008 & TFS2 … more

Visual Studio - Stopping a Multi-Project build at the first compile error

Yet another Note to Self post--

UPDATE 11/30/2014 - This functionality has been totally replaced in VS 2010 and up by one of several extensions (like this, or this) that will do the same … more

Jenny & Jaya

IMG_9388, originally uploaded by CATucker.

Just wanted to try the Flickr Integration and while I was at it, prove that I have been taking some pictures lately. I've got to get back to that, I've … more

Now Why did I never notice THAT before?

On a different topic today, I noticed something that, even as much as I played the game back in the early 90’s when it came out I never remember seeing or at least I don’t REMEMBER* … more

Setting up IP Address restrictions on IIS7

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I was asked to setup one of our Web Servers to only Restrict all but a certain subset of IP addresses to have access to the site since this is a server that sits in our DMZ, I … more

Note to Self: ASP.NET Paths

I always keep looking for this information because for some reason it never sticks in my memory.  So I figured I’d put it some place I could find it without having to search for it every … more