Bill Bosacker

Social Forums: The 3 Taboo Topics

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:40:00 GMT

Recently, some one asked me about what I meant by " the 3 taboos ". 10 years ago everyone would have known exactly what I meant, but in today's world with Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc., the Internet has become extremely large with only...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010: Should I use it?

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:27:00 GMT

This is a question that I've been pondering over for quite some time. The only reason for using VS over any other editor, is the help system. But wait, what help system? My point exactly. The help system that comes with Visual Studio 2010 is a very...(read more)

openSourceC.WorldOfWarcraft library is live on CodePlex

Bill Bosacker — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:37:00 GMT

Well, I'm starting to make all of these open source projects available on CodePlex . openSourceC.WorldOfWarcraft is the first of many projects that will be made available over the coming weeks. I have created 3 other projects on CodePlex as well,...(read more)

Hyper-V: Loss of network connectivity

Bill Bosacker — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:35:00 GMT

Many people have been reporting network connectivity issues once a Hyper-V Virtual Network Switch is created, but the symptoms vary so widely that it can be tough to find a solution. There are issues like: A few packets getting lost every 6-8 hours. Complete...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010: The developers equivalent to Windows Vista!

Bill Bosacker — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:29:00 GMT

If you are not aware, Visual Studio 2010 (VS) is a complete rewrite of Microsoft's previously popular integrated development system. Previous versions were all written using the Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) and the Win32 API, so Microsoft...(read more)

FQDN & CNames cause local access failures

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:21:00 GMT

This is one hell of a bug, that was created by a feature change in 3.51 .NET Framework SP1, Changes to NTLM authentication for HTTPWebRequest in Version 3.5 SP1 . The full resolution can be found in KB896861 . To make things worse, there isn't a UI...(read more)

VMRC: "Connection to server has been lost"

Bill Bosacker — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:45:00 GMT

If you are running Virtual Server 2005 R2 on a server, you were probably forced to install an earlier version of the Virtual Machine Remote Control Client (VMRC) as the R2 version will not allow itself to be installed on Windows 7. The problem is that...(read more)

iPhone & iPod Touch Multitasking: How to close an App

Bill Bosacker — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:00:00 GMT

In case you didn't know, the apps on your iPhone and iPod Touch never close unless they crash, are shutdown due to your device running out of memory, or you manually close them. The problem is that there isn't a close app button for any app that...(read more)

QuickBooks & Quicken 2009 or earlier and the latest Windows Live updates

Bill Bosacker — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:18:00 GMT

If you have QuickBooks 2009 (or earlier) and/or Quicken 2009 (or earlier) installed on Windows Vista (or later) and have installed the latest updates to Windows Live Essentials 2011, you may be in for a surprise. First off, I will say this it is all fixable...(read more)

New Contract: Local.com

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 23:29:00 GMT

Well, I finally got a new contract. I started with Local.com on October 5th and am working on an internal administration web application. This is my first time using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), and I'm luvin' it so far. It kicks Crystal...(read more)

TRS-80 Day!

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:30:00 GMT

Yes, TRS-80 Day! I spent most of my time yesterday in building a system that can read my old TRS-80 disks. It's much more difficult than it sounds as the floppy controllers prior to the early 90's worked differently than those of today. Western...(read more)

New blog for JawberDoo

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:19:00 GMT

JawberDoo.com now has it's own blog on the WGB Enterprises web site: JawberDoo Blog This blog will also replace the status messages that were appearing on the home page of the site itself....(read more)

Dropping the use and support of all Telerik products

Bill Bosacker — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:19:00 GMT

A little over a year ago we decided to give Telerik's products a try as their products seemed to have finally matured to a point where we wouldn't need to worry about incompatibilities with other systems, mainly AJAX.NET. However, about 2 weeks...(read more)

Sony: Playstation Network: Credit card entry issues

Bill Bosacker — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:01:00 GMT

If you have tried to enter your credit card information into their system on the "Edit Billing Information" page and it fails with "The credit card information is not valid." OR "The credit card information cannot be updated."...(read more)

Generic Issues with Windows

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:57:00 GMT

This is one of those posts to just keep a personal record of things that popup and are difficult to find answers to. As items are added, the date of this post will also be updated. Issues: CTRL + SHIFT + 0 (zero) not working under Vista & Windows...(read more)

TFS Red "X"s on Reports

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:40:00 GMT

This is mostly a reference for the next time that I need to rebuild my workstation, but one of the causes for this is a bug in the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 service pack. You need to run the service pack installation twice in order for it to correctly update...(read more)

AT&T up to it's old tricks again

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:30:00 GMT

Hey All, 48 hours later and we're back online. AT&T disconnected our DSL service, AGAIN! Fortunately, this time I was able to get new lines installed within 48 hours of the disconnect. Some lacky at AT&T didn't read his email, which lead...(read more)

Update: October 2, 2009

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:30:00 GMT

Hey Everyone, It's been a while since I've blogged at all as there have been quite a few things going on lately. First off, the JawberDoo.com site is almost complete. The basic jawb searching is working and allows you to search by Jawb Industry...(read more)

Umbraco: The not so friendly (anti-Karma) community

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:15:00 GMT

UPDATE 07/26/2009: Thanks to the comment posted by Gabe Sumners, this week of loss due to Umbraco was not in vein. Sitefinity is an AWESOME product. It only took about 5 hours to integrate the entire project with Sitefinity , and for about 1/5 ( $899...(read more)

.NET Tweeks

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:53:00 GMT

The latest .NET Tweeks post is now out and is the first of a multi-part series of Tweeks that developers can use in their everyday development of ASP.NET applications. This week it covers the PageBase idea and how to integrate it with master pages. Next...(read more)

SPAM HELL!!!

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:57:00 GMT

Over the past few months it appears that a few of the DNSBLs that I had been using, decided to go offline. Hundreds of SPAM messages were getting through. Outlook picked up many of them, but it also has a lot of false positives, so I needed to go through...(read more)

BeHeard.com is ON-LINE!

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:13:00 GMT

We just turned on the switch (thankfully missing the red button - whew!) and BeHeard.com is ON-LINE! The site currently in a public beta phase with blogs and forums while numerous expanded features will be added as they become available. Now you might...(read more)

Apple Commercial: Legalese

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT

I'm sure that you've all seen the latest Apple commercial that has been running for a few weeks, where you see legalese scrolling up the screen, but did you realize that the legalese is for Apple? It's an Apple commercial with Apple making...(read more)

asp:Menu fix for IE8

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:43:00 GMT

As most people know, IE8 was written to be as compliant with the W3C standards as possible, which means that existing sites may not work properly when view from IE8 in Standards mode. All of the Server-side asp controls appear to be compliant with the...(read more)

WAP and sub-projects

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:16:00 GMT

While discussing a new project today, one thing that came up was the behemoth of an application that Community Server has become and the idea that we don't want Sueetie to go in that same direction. A few years ago, you could say WAP and no one would...(read more)