Aaron Zupancic's Blog

Preventing an upgrade of an Office 2003 Add-in

2010-01-25T23:29:35Z

Developing applications that target multiple version of Office on a single computer can be difficult, daunting, disturbing, and down-right dirty. The Microsoft Office team has performed some herculean tasks to ease our burdens, but there are still some Read More......(read more)

Enforcing Administrative Privileges

2009-10-23T02:28:57Z

I had the need today to create an application must run with administrative privileges. Fortunately, this is a pretty straightforward endeavor. On Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 (and beyond) I wanted to take advange of the Admin Approval Read More......(read more)

Simplifying the Ripping of AudioBooks and Tagging with PowerShell

2009-08-25T05:20:53Z

Here's something I threw together the other day to help me organize my ripped audio books. I have several audio books (Harry Potter, LOTR, Dresden Files, etc) that I've been ripping to file so that I could gather an entire 10-20 CD set onto a Read More......(read more)

Get your hands on the Windows 7 RTM...soon!

2009-07-22T19:11:47Z

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/07/21/when-will-you-get-windows-7-rtm.aspx Can't wait! I've been using Windows 7 in the Beta and RC (Release Candidate) builds for some time now and I LOVE it! It's been rock solid (particularly Read More......(read more)

Windows Classical Music

2009-06-17T19:20:03Z

Well, I've always loved classical music ...too bad I'm not on Windows 95 anymore. Read More......(read more)

Enabling PING in Windows Server 2008 and Vista

2009-06-12T22:41:21Z

This is definitely not news, but I wanted to blog it anyway. Having recently just reset a development server to use Windows Server 2008, I needed to open the firewall to allow ICMP packets through. Essentially, I wanted to have the server respond to PING Read More......(read more)

CSS Attribute Selector Magic

2009-05-04T04:28:44Z

As you may or may not be aware IE 7+ (and other browsers) support using CSS 2.1 attribute selectors . Attribute selectors allow you to specify a style on an element whose element matches a particular pattern. For instance: td[x] { font-weight:bold; } Read More......(read more)

XamlFest in SLC on May 1st

2009-04-23T19:35:44Z

My buddy Rob Bagby has announced this exciting event called XamlFest which will be in Salt Lake City on May 1st. If you have the chance, I'd encourage you to sign up and attend. Here's the info: http://blogs.msdn.com/bags/archive/2009/03/31/xamlfest Read More......(read more)

ScrollableLabel control

2009-04-07T04:19:13Z

I was putting together a WinForms utility application today that consists of a TabStrip control on the main dialog box. On a themed system the TabStrip displays a nice gradual gradient on the page. As part of this application I wanted to output statistical Read More......(read more)

Working through "The media is write protected"

2009-03-17T23:31:52Z

I have an external HDD that I use to store various files and products that I download. Today, while downloading one such application my computer decided to freeze. I've been having a sporatic issue with my hardware lately, so this freeze (while not Read More......(read more)

Installing Software on a Terminal Server

2009-02-17T16:47:23Z

Years ago I created an InstallShield (InstallScript) installer for some software that I've maintained over the years. While the installer has been run countless times (successfully, I might add), I recently witnessed the following error message: An Read More......(read more)

SQL Profiler in SQL Express

2009-02-12T22:29:07Z

In my development environment, I like to use SQL Express rather than the full-featured SQL Server editions mostly because its physical and memory footprints are smaller and its background processing is lighter, but also for support of User Instances. Read More......(read more)

Utah .NET User Group February 12th, 2009 - Visual Studio 2010

2009-02-12T18:46:02Z

Come join us tonight at the Utah .NET User Group meeting. We're excited to have Mike Erickson come and talk to us about the up-and-coming Visual Studio 2010. Date : Tonight, Thursday, February 12th, 2009 Time : 6:00 PM Place : Neumont University 3rd Read More......(read more)

.NET Regular Express Assembly Builder Tool (v2.0.0.3)

2008-12-23T17:21:32Z

A few weeks ago I made some updates to my Regular Expression Assembly Builder that I wrote some time back. These updates have long been requested by users and I finally carved out some time to get them implemented. These are the new features in verion Read More......(read more)

Caution: Avoid Using SELECT * in a SQL View

2008-12-23T00:47:24Z

Suppose you have a table (tblDemo) and a view (vwDemo) over that table that joins tblDemo to another table to retrieve their results. The view might resemble the following: CREATE VIEW vwDemo AS SELECT d.*, o.OtherField01, o.OtherField02 FROM tblDemo Read More......(read more)