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In my post about migrating from WordPress to BlogEngine.net, I mentioned some migration issues I was having but I really didn’t go into any details about BlogEngine.net itself. So I thought I should follow up with my experience and enjoyment of BlogEngine.net as a blogging platform. I first found out about BlogEngine.net from Brian Sullivan and Tim Franklin. Brian had good experiences with it compared to dasBlog and Tim Franklin settled on it and made it look and function very nicely as a total content solution....

I found a new remote assistance type program called CrossLoop. It’s basically a TightVNC wrapper that hooks two people up using a unique session id. The program is free and does not require an account or anything. Just install the application on both sides and share the session id. It connects quickly and seems to work very smoothly.

As I mentioned recently in my post about switching to BlogEngine.net, I said that I was switching to an ASP.NET web host, WebHost4Life. Now that it’s been a few weeks since I first signed up for WebHost4Life, I figured I could write a little review about my experiences so far. Price/Features I am on the Professional plan, which costs $9.95/month (paid annually). I get unlimited bandwidth and a good amount of features, including ASP....

Brian Sullivan recently tagged me to write about my programming background, so here it is. It took me a while partly because I don’t usually like talking about myself. Also, I’ve been quite busy lately both at work and playing with my website. How old were you when you started programming? My first real programming was in high school, teaching myself at home. I was 16. How did you get started in programming?...

If you’ve seen some strange RSS activity recently, I apologize. I am wanting to get into ASP.NET (specifically the new MVC framework) since I don’t do web stuff at work and feel I ought to be better versed in it. My former web host was Linux/PHP, which worked fine for WordPress, but I was not really interested in PHP programming. So, I signed up for an account with WebHost4Life and at the same time restructured the family website....

In Scott Hanselman’s post on Garbage Collector and issues involved with playing sounds, I noticed a framework class, TempFileCollection, which I had never seen. He barely even mentioned it, not really giving much information about it, so I looked it up myself to see what it offers. You can read the MSDN entry on the class if you want the details, but I’m going to offer some quick information that I learned when trying the class in a console app....

For the last few weeks, my work laptop (running Vista Business) had been functioning quite poorly. I was experiencing Windows Explorer crashes several times each day, shutting down was very slow, and in general things just were not stable. This is probably partially due to the fact that, like David, I am a beta junkie. So, I decided to do what any computer-savvy person would do in such a case – reformat and reinstall windows....

Bear with me as this one might get long … Several times before I have run across a certain problem that I did not know how to handle. Allow me to describe the problem, then I’ll describe the two possible solutions to this problem and the inherent problems with each solution. Of course, what good would this post be without at least my final solution to these problems. Consider having two very similar classes with slightly different functionality....

A while back I needed to solve the problem of making all of the DataGridView controls in our application sortable, but without needing to implement a custom sort in every single form. The problem is that the DataGridView, for reasons unknown to me, does not include default sorting. The only way I could find to get automatic sorting was if the data source was a DataSet or if the columns and rows are added manually rather than using a data source....

Recently, I started using Witty to keep track of Twitter updates. Previously, I had been using the Twitter support in Digsby, but despite my fondness of all things Digsby, I do find Witty to be a better overall Twitter experience. Plus, it has that sweet flashy WPF goodness. Soon after using Witty, I found myself expecting a couple of things to work differently. First, it is practically a standard feature of software to be able to double-click on an item in a list and have an action take place on that item....