http://blog.bksanders.com The world between the Sanders Family and IT! Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:47:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Phase 1 You are listening to jazz -- Your first day at work is great. Your fellow co-workers are wonderful, your office is cute, you love your agents, and your manager is the best! Phase 2 You are listening to pop music -- After a while you are so busy that you are ... http://blog.bksanders.com/index.php/2009/09/6-phases-of-being-employed-in-the-insurance-industry/ I'm done with my haitus from blogging...until I need another haitus ;). What I wanted to write about is the typical, ever more frequent now, developer "death marches." From my experiences, as well as those told by friends, occur when some executives get something in their head that must be done ... http://blog.bksanders.com/index.php/2009/05/developer-death-marches/ I'm not about to go into all of the 10,000+ possible things you can do to attempt to fix whatever is causing this, including, but not limited to, firing a semi-automatic at your server. But you shouldn't do that, since it's not your hardware's fault that Adobe Acrobat can't work ... http://blog.bksanders.com/index.php/2009/02/adobe-acrobat-8-serious-error-windows-terminal-server/ Just a friendly helpful tip - if you are using LINQ and have, for example, a list of objects, you can use the OrderBy() method to order it. But in order to order it by additional column criteria, use the following: listView.DataSource = myList.OrderBy(i => i.Field1).ThenBy(i => i.Field2); Additionally, the OrderByDescending() and ... http://blog.bksanders.com/index.php/2008/11/linq-orderby-method-and-multiple-fields/ This is to help out anyone that receives the following error with Microsoft Exchange 2007. When you are in the Exchange Management Console, and click Toolbox and Queue Viewer, the following error is displayed: MMC cannot open the file {Exchange Install Folder}\Bin\Exchange Queue Viewer.msc. This may be because the file does not ... http://blog.bksanders.com/index.php/2008/11/exchange-2007-corrupt-mmc-queue-viewer/ I've been a huge fan of LINQ to XML. So I have been trying to have a ASP.NET ASMX Web Service with several WebMethods return XElements. You cannot return the XDocument as it is not serializable. However, XElements are. But, in my experimentation, after having a few XElements returned, I ... http://blog.bksanders.com/index.php/2008/10/aspnet-web-services-xelement-return-types/ I was trying to install my networked color-laser printer on my daughter's laptop this weekend. She is running Vista Ultimate, my printer is a Dell 3110cn Color Laser, and it is connected and shared via Windows 2003 R2 server. My laptop connected to the printer fine as a network printer, but ... http://blog.bksanders.com/index.php/2008/10/support-cant-connect-to-printer/ So I was discussing iPhone apps with my friend R&B. I was telling him I still haven't settled on the next big iPhone-app-money-making-scheme. He was saying his were some pretty awesome ideas - so we started joking around. After further thought, here would be my top 10 iPhone apps necessary for ... http://blog.bksanders.com/index.php/2008/10/10-iphone-apps-to-rule-the-world/ Boy do I have stories about this one... I remember the day that our company chose to use SalesForce.com (SFDC) as our CRM for lead management. Basically they wanted to get rid of our old back-end system and "upgrade" to a web version with a new supplier. After a brief protest ... http://blog.bksanders.com/index.php/2008/10/salesfarcecom-the-true-salesforcecom/ I've spent the last few days tracking down how to get a ListView to refresh its associated generic list collection which is populated via LINQ to SQL. My UI is more complex than the below example, but you'll get the idea. I essentially wanted a ListView that gets populated from ... http://blog.bksanders.com/index.php/2008/09/wpf-listview-not-refreshing/