Well if that's the case, it's probably cause you're attempting to use this class from a MTA thread. In order to fix this, just change the apartment of the thread where this code is running from MTA to STA (either using the [STAThread] Attribute or by...

Yep, had to figure this out since I'm still working with SharePoint stuff. I couldn't find any "HowTo's," code samples, tricks, hints, or anything else really helpful on this. Just a bunch of other folks attemptint to do the same thing. This is one...

You may encounter the following error if you are trying to build a ASP.NET application or web service on a x64bit machine where Sharepoint is installed: Error 1 Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Search, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture...

So I get my third dual head card in the mail the other day and after two days of patient waiting I took the plunge to install it. Well, to make a long story shorter, it took me all day to get working. Typically you just add the video cards and voila,...

To install the MouseWheelFix on a 64 bit edition of Windows you need to place the registry key entries in the 32 bit node of the registry. This means the registry keys should be HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft... instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE...

Simple, YOU CAN'T!!! For a while now my computer's Automatic Updates has been broken. No new downloads have appeared, the control panel icon is missing, and the Windows Update site can't install the updated ActiveX control. Every time I go to the site...

The Sandbox here at Mix contains all sorts of labs, vista pcs, windows media center, and of course the awesome ultra mobile pcs. :) I got to play with the devices and talk to Lora who was tending the devices and answering questions. Unfortunatley I had...

We were fed quite well, thanks to all of the folks that made the food decisions. My tummy is happy! The keynote was pretty cool, Tim O'Reilly's interview with BillG went really well. Bill had great answers and everyone was happy with his responses...

MIX06 is sold out! 1900 attendees have come to Vegas to talk about the future of their respective portions of the internet. In fact, I think it's already started since I heard some conversations on the flight in. The check-in area has about a dozen lanes...

Well, I just stepped off of a 5.5 hour flight got a rental car for 16 hours and then I'm back on another flight to Las Vegas all within a 24 hour time span. More to follow!

A VERY large thank you goes out to Kevin Willimason for taking the time to hook (no pun intended) us all up. Kevin rewrote a majority of the add-in so it works in SDI mode. We are in the process of getting the KB article udpated. In the mean time you...

I was trying to install a web service on a freshly build W2k3 box. I checked the event log and found: Event code: 3005 Event message: An unhandled exception has occurred. Event time: 1/3/2006 12:50:03 PM Event time (UTC): 1/3/2006 8:50:03...

Well, the main project I was working on suffered a minor setback when the HDD on the box died. Until that get's settled I get to work with a smartphone on a cool little project. Unfortunately the smartphone also had it in for me. :) I got the following...

Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Assembly Registration Utility 2.0.50727.42 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1998-2004. All rights reserved. RegAsm : error RA0000 : Could not load file or assembly 'MyAssembly, Version=0.0. 0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken...

So I was upgrading a project from VS.NET 2003 to VS.NET 2005 (v2.0 of the framework) and I kept hitting this assert: " _CrtIsValidHeapPointer(pUserData) . " There were several postings out and about but they were all for previous versions of the framework...

The VS.NET SDK (a.k.a. VSIP package) lacks the wide spread use and documentation that other SDKs enjoy. To make a change to that here's a little snippet that shows you how to open the VS.NET webbrowser and browse to a particular page: IVsWebBrowsingService...

I'm like every other computer geek out there.... "64bit, wow, cool!" Well, to a point... My latest woe is that I need to install the directx 9.0c SDK for some work I'm doing but alas it won't install. I guess that means it's time to fire up Virtual...

Here's a question I got this afternoon: I have a C# assembly named AppDom. I execute the following line in the Main function of the assembly Console.WriteLine(Assembly.GetCallingAssembly().FullName); Visual studio.NET 2003 gives the output as...

Congrats to all of the autonomous vehicles and their teams that finished the 132 mile course earlier today. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9621761/

I forgot to mention this one the other day: You can bring up all of the stored auto complete entries simply by hitting the down arrown on autocomplete enabled fields. Typically users begin to type in the 1st letter of the item their looking for. If...

So, I upgraded an existing ASP.NET (1.1) application today to ASP.NET 2.0. The upgrade had some warnings which seemed unimportant but it didn't matter since I had elected that the upgrade wizard make a backup of my application. Alas when I try to run...

I really like AutoComplete , it's such a great feature. However every now an then I have a miss-spelling or something else that I'd rather not have in my autocomplete list. It totally screws the down arrow once, tab, entire sequence. This can be really...

The changes I posted here: More updates for the VB6/VBA mouse wheel fix . Have been published to the kb article: "Mouse wheel events do not work in the Visual Basic 6.0 IDE"

So I got this spankin' new machine ( Dell Precision 380 ) with Intel's 64bit technology: EM64T . So I installed XP 64bit edition and it turns out that this version of XP ships with IIS6.0. They say you learn something new every day. The best thing of...

Thanks to Matt Dawdy for not only report the bug but also coding a fix. The latest fix is for issues where scrolling does not work on some multi-monitor displays. Changes are only for Main.bas: Add the following two functions: Private...