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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

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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

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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

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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

So the need for a client's offline ClickOnce app to have command line parameters came up again. (oh boy). The Microsoft docs initially spec'd out that you can't do this when the ClickOnce app is an "offline" app. But since .NET 3.1, there is a trick you can use to make offline ClickOnce command line parameters function. The scenario is this: Client has a ClickOnce app that gets updated (redeployed) by their developer frequen...

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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 Transactio...

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Dynamic PayPal Buttons without using tags

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

A client of mine recently wanted to collect payments on her website for event registration with her PayPal account. The catch was, Adults were $10 ea, Children (3-12) were $8 ea, and Children (3 & younger) were $5 ea. So I set out on an adventure to figure out how to do this. Obviously we didn't want to make a PayPal button for every possible combination of registration possible, that would be of been maddening. Instead, ideally I wanted to build a form on her site using some basic HTML an...

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DNN Live Chat

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

So the age old question... buy it or build it? Recently I was helping a client with their new ERP that my team and I developed for them. Part of the ERP is public facing and we wanted to integrate a Live Chat feature to help the client's customers transition through the changes. I was very surprised to find a real lack of quality Live Chat services out there that fell into a happy medium between Good Features and Free. So after toiling around with a few canned solutions and service...

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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

Clients always have great questions about SEO, Keywords, and Internet Marketing. What are some of the basics, gotchas, and where's a person or business to get started? There is no magic bullet - sorry. Like anything, hard work and research will pay off. Below are some fast tips I recently sent to a client that I thought I'd share.... You always want to avoid what I call Keyword Stuffing. Google’s spider (called Panda) that crawls and indexes the web is VER...

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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

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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

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Graphics Goodness - Fluid Dynamics Rendering

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

PhysXInfo seems to have solved a challenging tasks, making computer generated water look like water. Now, I'm not talking about fluid rendering with the horsepower like ILM uses for movies like The Perfect Storm, but instead using a commercial available desktop to render out the magic in real-time. Think video game, instead of pre-rendered movie special effects. Rendering water is particularly tricky because it ta...

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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

A client yesterday had a common problem, "Ted I have 100+ Excel documents that I need to be able to quickly search through, and I'd like to combine all those work books into a single .xlsx file so that I can just search in one document." Sounds simple enough right? The first thing we tried together was scouring the web for a VBA script to do this. Seems simple, get a list of the files in a directory, open each doc, and copy and paste its contents into the m...

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Stupid chain letter spam

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

Infrequently I love getting chain letter spam, so that I can read through it, pick it apart, and then reply to the 100+ people that I was not BCC'd with. Note the use of "infrequently". It's bad enough to get spam, but to get it directly from family members? Plus the fact that my email address is then shared with 100 other friendly spammers because even after repeated attempts to explain the BCC feature, it doesn't get used. Sigh.... I thought I'd share my latest rant. Enjoy!<...

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

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

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End of the World?

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

So, the Mayan's 'predicted' the end of the world? Seems strange that they would do such a thing. I guess every civilization has thought of their beginning and their demise. As advanced as the Mayans were, their mathematics didn't take leap year into account. The actual number of days in a year is 365.2425, not 365. This is because a day is not precisely 24 hours. Now, since the Mayan's didn't take this into consideration, they had a roundi...

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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

How do you monetize your online presence? If you are 'in business', I would think you are probably in the business of making money. Are you running an eCommerce site? Are you advertising to your visitors? Are you selling a service, subscription, or knowledge? In the late 90's, it seemed like everyone was getting into the online game. Giant ideas came and went. Some things have changed, but undeniably some very simple, non-technological principals still apply: A grea...

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Busy Beavers & Domain Registrations

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

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