SQL Server 2008: Create administrator account without admin login

Deploying our development machines from virtual machine templates saves us a lot of time, however every now and then we hit frustrating little speed bumps. Here is the latest – SQL Server 2008 / SQL Server 2008 Express not having an administrator account enabled. To fix this problem you must first stop the SQL Server 2008 instance, and start it [...]

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Where to download Silverlight 5.0.61118.0 Tools/SDK/Developer Runtime

Here are the links required to prepare a Silverlight 5 development environment for those that need to target Silverlight 5.0.61118.0 even when Microsoft remove the links to the downloads from their download site(s). Both the Developer runtime and normal runtime for 32-bit and 64-bit are included. Silverlight 5 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 – 10.0.40219.370 http://silverlight.dlservice.microsoft.com/download/B/4/7/B4707E08-AD5E-4A32-BFF0-F3ED6C9C0200/enu/Silverlight5_Tools.exe This download will [...]

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Moved to spazzarama.com

Welcome to the new site, spazzarama.com. If you have any email subscriptions you wish to keep from the previous site you will have to re-subscribe on this site. Old links will now automatically redirect to this site. Cheers, J

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Where to download Tools/SDK/Developer Runtime for Silverlight 4.0.60831.0

With the release of Silverlight 5 it is of course now difficult to find a download for the latest Silverlight 4 Developer Runtime for those of us developing for restricted client environments (again). Silverlight 4 Developer Runtime 4.0.60831.0 http://silverlight.dlservice.microsoft.com/download/D/C/2/DC2D5838-9138-4D25-AA92-52F61F7C51E6/runtime/Silverlight_Developer.exe Silverlight 4 Runtime 4.0.60831.0 http://silverlight.dlservice.microsoft.com/download/D/C/2/DC2D5838-9138-4D25-AA92-52F61F7C51E6/runtime/Silverlight.exe Silverlight 4 SDK 4.0.60310.0, April 2011 Update http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/9/B/B9BDD218-6974-4816-A309-0FC85A105521/sdk/silverlight_sdk.exe (from here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=15636). You should install this after [...]

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MonoTouch: Auto scroll UITextField or other views hidden by keyboard

Here is a snippet that I use in my base view controller class to handle scrolling views that would be hidden by the keyboard when it appears. Any view within a UIScrollView can be made to scroll automatically to be visible when the keyboard appears over it. This is based on the following Apple documentation example: Managing the Keyboard: Moving [...]

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C# – Screen capture and Overlays for Direct3D 9, 10 and 11 using API Hooks

So it’s been almost a year and I have finally got around to finishing a new version of my screen capture project that supports Direct3D 9, 10, and 11! This solution still uses SlimDX for the Direct3D API wrapper along with EasyHook to perform the remote process hooking and IPC between the host process and target process. Some of the [...]

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Where to download Tools/SDK/Developer Runtime for Silverlight 4.0.50524.0

This one is for anyone who has had to deal with Company Standard Operating Environments (SOE’s), and the red tape involved with deploying updates to applications such as Silverlight. We have been working on a Silverlight 4 application, and along the way our development environment had its Silverlight Tools and Runtime updated to a more recent version than what the [...]

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MonoTouch – UIView with curved border and shadow

Giving a UIView a curved border and then adding a drop shadow is much easier than I first thought it would be, but as with anything with iOS development it took some time to work out. Here is a UIView descendant “UIViewBordered”: To test just place a UIViewBordered view as a subview of the main window and position in the [...]

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C# – Screen capture with Direct3D 9 API Hooks

Since investigating screen capture techniques for Direct3D applications a year ago I have wanted to look into hooking the Direct3D API to utilise the much faster GetBackBuffer for my screen captures. Well here it is at last – a mostly managed C# solution providing easy and safe hooking of the Direct3D 9 API thanks to EasyHook, supporting both 32-bit and [...]

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Happy 1st Blog Birthday!!!

Yeah, what the title says, its now been a year since starting this thing There’s been a steady stream of visitors over the past year and hopefully I will have many more bits and pieces to post in the coming year. With the upcoming April release of VS 2010, SharePoint 2010, and .NET 4.0 there is sure to be a [...]

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