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

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



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ZeroSSL with IIS 10

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



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MinerGate.com Review - Mixed Emotions

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



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Account Breach Monitoring

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

As a software developer that has to deal with user accounts, one of the topics always in my mind is security.  Is the box/vm/host secured? Did we implement strong enough password/login rules? What ciphers are enabled? Have the rules changed? Are the users doing something crazy that could compromise the security of the system? As with social engineering, the weakest link in a well designed security model is usually the users.  So, what happens if one of the users (maybe...

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DBML Visualizer VERY Slow - solved!

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



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Poor Man's SQL Log Shipping (Kinda)

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

Hi all, A Very Happy Holidays to everyone out there!  It's been a very exciting and busy year helping clients with unique needs and solutions. I'm looking forward to what 2017 will bring! I recently was tasked by a client to come up with a simple (as elegant as possible), and inexpensive Log Shipping solution for Microsoft SQL Server Express.  Yes, I know SQL Server Express doesn't have Log Shipping, and the solution would just be to purchase a ...

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Excel Column Letter To Number.com

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

Have you ever been working with a large Excel or other spreadsheet document and think, "man, I wish I could look up what the number equivalent of column BD is!"?  Me too! So I built a crazy simple web app that converts an Excel column letter (or letters) to its numerical value.  For example, BD = column #56.  I frequently use this for figuring out the column number when doing a VLOOKUP.  Or when I'm working on very wide spreadsheets. You can find the free Excel Column Letter T...

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Easy & Powerful Ecommerce Solution

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



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asp:Menu Flicker on Page_Load - Solved

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

Have an asp:menu that is flickering on (showing all the sub menus) on page_load and/or post back?  Of course you do, because that server control is pretty squirrely.   Here's the simple CSS fix that corrects the issue: