To do so, you need to download the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility from Microsoft, and deselect the previously installed ChromeMailer instance from the list.

Today’s second googlely-clickitry-click-hotfix-install stopper was a lovely error, when I tried to get a Table usage Report from a database:

System.Xml: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Nice! Impressive! Informative!

Of course it was reported before, and a hotfix is avaliable, so I’m just writing for the magnificent MS mailservers to handle me the download link… well it lasts for 15 minutes now (I’ve checked the spam folder…:) )

Cannot open backup device ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Backup\backup.bak’. Operating system error 5(error not found).
RESTORE HEADERONLY is terminating abnormally. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3201)

This is a true WTF heart stopper, I thought that all the backups were invalid since we’re running the site

Afterwards it turned out that the client backs up the database files to a networks share, so magically somehow the permissions has been altered for a local restore. According to this hint by Stevied, I added the Network Service user as an owner, and voila: all functionality magically returned…

One huge error I found with the 1.5 install: the search got mixed up somehow, and it failed with the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method SearchHelper::checknohtml() in /plugins/search/content.php on line 254

..and of course there were no checknohtml() functions in any of the directories.

So i’ve downloaded the last stable version, and found out that originally, this function must live in the ~/administrator/components/com_search/helpers/search.php file. So i’ve just copied over the old file, and voila: it’s working.

If you set up your Gmail account according to Gmail Help, it will simply not work, Windows Mail will keep you entertained with silly error messages like  “This could, for example indicate a lack of memory on your system” and other nonsense error messages.

The only working setting is the following:

1) Your IMAP server is imap.googlemail.com not imap.gmail.com (and pop.googlemail.com instead of pop.googlemail.com)

2) Your SMTP server’s port is 587, not 564.

3) Under the IMAP tab, you should uncheck “Store special folders on IMAP server”

Now you can re-sych your accont, and finally you are able to check your emails

well, it’s a fine conclusion of the last 4 years here on blog.skaelede.hu

After some goggling, I’ve found the Microsoft KB article id #930102, dealing with “choppy image transition” quality. At the end of the article, you can find the solution: hack the registry, and set the WinSATScore to 500, to use the native video resolution. The transitions will be painstakingly slow, but you can press the Pause button to stop it, BUT going back and forth manually does not include transitions!

wget -E -H -k -K -p -U "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"  http://the.domain/file.name

note: if you don’t specify the browser type, the server possibly will think of you as a Crawler, a search engine bot, and will only serve you the robots.txt file.

I’m using the DynamicData Futures July edition, and it has beautiful features like Ajax enabled DateTime UI, custom Where clauses, and Insert parameters etc.

But it has some GUI design flaws:

1) the Child relations’ text occupies way too much space, and makes it unreadable

I’ve added some simple PNGs from the WebAppers Icon Set to make it more vivid for the end user. Download the icon set, and select the icons you like. The template files can be found under ~/DynamicData/FieldTemplates/

The Child relations file is named Children.aspx,  the codebehind file is Children.aspx.cs.
In the Page_Load event of the codebehind, i simply commented out the name setting of the child table, because it’s already in the Table header:

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {
            //HyperLink1.Text = "View " +ChildrenColumn.ChildTable.GetDisplayName();
            //InsertHyperLink.Text = "Insert " +ChildrenColumn.ChildTable.GetDisplayName();
        }

and in the aspx file, I’ve added the icons, and removed the two objects referred in the aspx.cs:

<a href="<%# GetChildrenPath() %>" runat="server" id="ViewLink">view 
<img src="/img/modify.png" alt="insert" title="insert" style="border:0;" width="16"/>
</a>
 
<a href="<%# ChildrenColumn.GetChildrenPath(System.Web.DynamicData.PageAction.Insert, Row) %>" 
runat="server" id="InsertLink">insert 
<img src="/img/add.png" alt="insert" title="insert" style="border:0;" width="16" />
</a>

Back in the codebehind file, you need to replace the reference to HyperLink1 to InsertLink:

        public override Control DataControl {
            get {
                //return HyperLink1;
                return InsertLink;
            }
        }

Build, and see in action:

You can do it with ForeignKeys as well - I choose the Next type icon for the outer reference.

2) the GridView controls are missing the GridViewAlternateRows settings

Simply do a text search for “asp:GridView”, and add AlternatingRowStyle-CssClass=”even” to every occurence. If you finished, create a new CSS class in ~/Site.css:

.even {
    background-color:#eeeeee !important;
    background: #eeeeee  !important;
}

This will work in every major browsers