Remove Antivirus XP 2008

A friend of mine has come to me twice now with this malware on his computer called Antivirus XP 2008. He was on a website and a dialouge box reported that IE needed to download an update. My advice is to let automatic updates download needed updates for Microsoft products. Here is what I did for remove it. 1.) Turn off system restore Right click My Computer, choose properties, click the system restore...

February 5th, 2009 by B.Harding 

How does the adrotator control’s imrpessions property work?

The msdn documentation was a little hazy on this subject. Here it is as I understand it…. Lets start from the beginning; and adrotator will take a list of images and rotate through them every time the page loads. Some ads may need to appear more often than others. That is where the Impressions property comes in. It allows to give some ads more weight than others. Perhaps one person is paying...

February 5th, 2009 by B.Harding 

Operator ‘==’ incompatible with operand types ‘Int32′ and ‘Object’

I had this error pop up on me recently. Operator ‘==’ incompatible with operand types ‘Int32′ and ‘Object’ I had an good grasp on why but the stack track would not tell me where! The issue is that a null object was being used in a where clause somewhere. Linq translated the null as “” and could not be compared the the ID field which is an int. My solution...

February 5th, 2009 by B.Harding 

Web Developer Stuff

If  you’re like me you surf  for solutions to problems that crop up while developing. Almost always I see a solution on the first page of Google results pointing to a solution at Expert Exchange. It never fails. Rather than shell out my hard earned cash I just keep searching. While reading the latest issue of 2600 magazine I came across a letter that put a smile on my face. It explained that...

February 5th, 2009 by B.Harding 

Hello world!

Welcome to my first post! I’m giving WordPress a try. I was formerly using DasBlog.  I though it was a little slow.
February 5th, 2009 by B.Harding