Merging/Joining two ADO.Net DataTables Written on January 29, 2007, by akafazov.
I recently needed to compose a DataTable from 2 other tables with very similar structure. Some of the columns of those tables are identical, but not all of them. So instead of leveraging on the DataTable events and updating a third DataTable with the needed columns I looked for a easy way to join the [...]
WinXP crash when using Windows Movie Maker Written on January 27, 2007, by akafazov.
I’ve been having the issue for some time after I’ve been trying to learn to work with Windows Movie Maker. After some time, my computer displays a blue screen and restarts itself, after the restart I send the error report to Microsoft and I am taken to the Windows Error Reporting website where I get [...]
Cannot copy file xxx to yyy because it is used by another process Written on January 25, 2007, by akafazov.
Have you caught the following message while trying to build a project under Visual Studio 2005
Fehler 1
Datei C:ProjekteFlightVision-ALLbinPinkieControls.dll kann nicht in ..bin.DebugPinkieControls.dll kopiert werden.
Der Prozess kann nicht auf die Datei ..bin.DebugPinkieControls.dll zugreifen, da sie von einem anderen Prozess verwendet wird.
The error is in German but is basically says that the first file cannot be copied to [...]
VS2005 Service Pack 1 Installation and more Written on January 25, 2007, by akafazov.
Yesturday I finally installed SP1 for Visual Studio 2005. As far the installation was concerned, it took forever. After I started the installer I waited for 2 hours to complete and then left work. This morning it was finished with 0 remaining minutes the the progress window wasn’t closed. Something went not so smoothly as [...]
Windows XP broke my HDD Written on January 16, 2007, by akafazov.
I have the following situation: Windows XP SP2 is installed on my notebook and I have hooked up an external 80GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 HDD through USB2.0 to IDE adapter and an external USB hub. Everything worked fine until I decided to allocate some unused space on the external drive from the computer manager. [...]
Visual Studio 2003 error opening .sln files Written on January 10, 2007, by akafazov.
Last week I reinstalled Windows XP and of course all needed software along. However after the Visual Studio was installed, I couldn’t open project files.
I supposed that the error has something to do with the file type association, but this was not the case. I did a repair installed and nothing changed, then I uninstalled [...]
Google Reader and Virtual PC Written on January 9, 2007, by akafazov.
I guess I have already mentioned about both already, the Google Reader and Virtual PC.
The reader features a new “share” functionality which allows the reader to publish selected content on a publicly accessible page. I used it to add the “Selected items” pane on the left of this page, where the most recent shared items [...]
Tool for renaming files in order of mod. time Written on January 6, 2007, by akafazov.
I needed a simple tool than renamed files in some directory so than when I add the to a player they’d be played in the same order of their download time. This is very useful for music, videos and other files, as most of the players do not have sort function to time, but to [...]
Win XP recovery from malfunctioning driver Written on January 4, 2007, by akafazov.
Actually the title is misleading – the driver wasn’t malfunctioning, but it was behaving like such as most of the keys didn’t work. I want to share with you the problems I encountered while trying to recover my Windows XP and why is it so important to make regular backups!
After I installed the driver non [...]
Some toughts on proprietery and open source software Written on January 2, 2007, by akafazov.
Just saw another video on Channel9 and it made me think again about why do people go into those wars between open-source and anti-Microsoft religious stuff. If there’s somethink I could tell from experience, if you don’t like or appreciate something it is because you are not familiar with it. I know, because I was [...]