Daily Tip - Update AddRemoveProgramsIcon (and other properties) in a Visual Studio Installer Project

6/11/2019 8:35:00 PM -- Ted Krapf

So this one drove me nuts.  It seems soooo simple. I have a Visual Studio 2017 solution with a Window Service Project and a Installer Project.  For the life of me, I could not figure out where to update the specific properties that would allow the installer to: Name the application correctly (if a friendly name) Specify other text values like Author, Description, Manufacturer, Title, ProductName, etc....

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ZeroSSL with IIS 10

5/3/2019 5:11:00 PM -- Ted Krapf

I have an IIS 10 server behind a VPN/Firewall, and was bound and determined to use Let's Encrypt even though the server can't be reached by Let's Encrypt to authorize the SSL certificate request. I ran across www.zerossl.com, but was very confused has how to successfully complete the process.  Here's my suggestions that allowed me to get it working:   In IIS, create a Certificate Request (CR).  Copy the contents of the CR to the clipboard. ...

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MinerGate.com Review - Mixed Emotions

2/3/2018 6:44:00 AM -- Ted Krapf

During the 2017 Q3 Crypto-boom, I finally decided to look into cryptomining.  I understood it at a very high level, but had never gone past understanding it conceptually.  As with any good project, I first started with research.  I wanted to know things such as: Is it worth it? What kind of hardware do I ideally need? What hardware can I get away with to get my feet wet? What coins can be mined, which cannot? ...

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Account Breach Monitoring

9/20/2017 3:36:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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DBML Visualizer VERY Slow - solved!

3/29/2017 8:15:00 PM -- Ted Krapf

Greetings fellow coders! I've had this super annoying recurring issue with Visual Studio (2010, 2013, not sure about 2017 yet as I haven't started using it on a daily basis yet), the DBML visualizer, and Windows 10 --- the DBML visualizer is just dog slow and frustrating to work with. After some snooping around and looking through task manager, I realized that tabtip.exe was interfering with Visual Studio's DBML editor. T...

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Poor Man's SQL Log Shipping (Kinda)

12/23/2016 9:54:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Excel Column Letter To Number.com

4/8/2016 3:06:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Easy & Powerful Ecommerce Solution

4/5/2016 7:58:00 PM -- Ted Krapf

Looking for a simple, beautiful, yet powerful e-commerce solution for your business?   Check out www.Shopify.com Shopify has beautiful themes, an amazingly simple and clean user interface, a really slick Apps add-on store to extend the functionality of your site and much more.  Let me know your experiences with Shopify!...

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asp:Menu Flicker on Page_Load - Solved

7/13/2015 1:48:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Offline ClickOnce app with command line parameters

3/9/2015 9:46:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Windows Server 2008 Install DLL into GAC

1/23/2015 8:48:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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IIS7 FTP 530 Home Directory Inaccessible SOLVED!

12/1/2014 10:53:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Project Time Tracking - The Best Solution

4/2/2014 1:50:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Transaction Express / TransFirst API & ACH Payment Integration

3/31/2014 3:20:00 PM -- Ted Krapf

This last week I had a client come to me with another interesting situation that needed a solution.  My client had previously sought out a cost effective and easy to administer 3rd party solution for taking checking account payments while having the ability to set up automatic recurring billing. They found Trans...

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Dynamic PayPal Buttons without using tags

10/16/2013 3:21:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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DNN Live Chat

9/6/2013 9:00:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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"We Are Already Cyborgs"

8/15/2013 1:13:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Keywords, SEO, and Internet Ads

8/13/2013 2:42:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Placebo Buttons -- they are everywhere!

7/2/2013 8:03:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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DNN Custom Modules - Locations, Simple Product Catalog, Form Builder and more

5/20/2013 8:35:00 PM -- Ted Krapf

As I work with clients I come across special needs that the client will require on their website.  I want to remind everyone that I can custom build basically any functionality for your website.  Most of my clients are using the DotNetNuke CMS platform, and I've built a nice set of custom modules to help my clients get the results they need.  Here are a few of them . . . MultiForm DNN Module ...

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Mobile - Looking Good (and Easy!)

5/9/2013 7:53:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Oh Silly Hyphen - Prevent Line Break on Hyphen

4/29/2013 7:27:00 PM -- Ted Krapf

Here's a cool thing I learned today.  I had an issue where a customer's webpage contained a word that required a hyphen to be grammatically correct: pre-plated.  The word pre-plated appeared at the end of a line in a set width column.  Internet Explorer would render the word on two lines instead of one.  This would also happen when zoom levels other than 100% were set in other browsers and/or when the responsive design would kick in. In other words,...

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Graphics Goodness - Fluid Dynamics Rendering

4/23/2013 4:25:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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One-Way Trip To Mars -- You can sign up soon

4/16/2013 5:33:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Combine Excel Documents Using C#

3/15/2013 12:47:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Stupid chain letter spam

2/6/2013 3:51:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Facebook, Amazon, and Google going the way of Rome?

1/28/2013 8:18:00 PM -- Ted Krapf

I just ran across an interesting article on Gizmodo that cited John Naughton at the Gua...

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End of the World?

12/18/2012 4:18:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Why Get A New Website

4/23/2012 4:13:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Reverse Sale: The Answer?

5/7/2012 4:13:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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Busy Beavers & Domain Registrations

8/16/2012 3:57:00 PM -- Ted Krapf



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