Author Archives: Chris C

What to do if Norton Incorrectly Thinks Your Product is Harmful

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Chris C

A while ago I got an e-mail from a customer that had just bought Mini-Compressor (which I think is the best image compression software in the world but I’m a bit biased) but was getting warning from Norton when he … Continue reading →

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Coming… Later Part 2

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Chris C

I was just talked into and/or talked my friends into purchasing Magicka.  That reminded me I had posted Part 1 of “How the Gold Master was Delayed” and I should look for Part 2. It’s nice to see a humorous … Continue reading →

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SQL Server Dependency Query

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Chris C

You’ve been staring at the SQL Server view vwCustomersGH for the past hour.  The view is part of a project you just started maintaining and like many views and stored procedures in the project you are sure it’s not being … Continue reading →

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Kids Thinking Outside the Box – Who to Invite to Your Birthday?

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Chris C

My 5 year old daughter is endlessly planning her birthday parties, even 11 months and 30 days in advance.  Her recent planning session focused on who she should invite.  After going over her list of friends she paused and then … Continue reading →

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NUnit Error “Attempted to access an unloaded AppDomain”

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Chris C

I was plagued by the above error but found a workaround, at least one that worked for me.  It’s a one line change to the NUnit config file.  Note, this the actual NUnit config file that is installed in C:Program … Continue reading →

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Upgrading Mini-Compressor to .NET 4.0 Notes Addendum

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Chris C

You can read part one at Upgrading Mini-Compressor to .NET 4.0 Notes post. One item that I feel has been neglected by Visual Studio is the Setup & Deployment projects.  There has been little improvements to them since Visual Studio … Continue reading →

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Signed up for PayPal Micropayments

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Chris C

I just signed up for PayPal’s new Micropayments.  PayPal seems to be rolling this out slowly as you have to sign-up and then you will be notified in 2 days if you are accepted or not.  In theory it should … Continue reading →

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Extra Memory for my Virtual Machine

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Chris C

All my development work is done on virtual machines (VM), Virtual Box to be exact.  In the past I’ve only needed one VM open at a time and only one version Visual Studio, or other IDE, running in the VM.  … Continue reading →

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Coming… Later

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Chris C

A realistic video about software development: Exclusive How the Gold Master Was Delayed: Part I If, like me, you typically work on business software for a single large client, aside from (shameless plug) Mini-Compressor, then make the following substitutions: Publisher … Continue reading →

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Upgrading Mini-Compressor to .NET 4.0 Notes

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Chris C

My notes on upgrading Mini-Compressor from .NET 3.5 to .NET 4.0 (Visual Studio 2008 to 2010) and also upgrading NUnit and NAnt. 1) Run the automated VS 2010 upgrade process.  Appears that there are no error but appearances can be … Continue reading →

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