Aaron Zupancic's Blog

Preventing an upgrade of an Office 2003 Add-in

Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:29:35 GMT

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)

Enforcing Administrative Privileges

Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:28:57 GMT

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)

Simplifying the Ripping of AudioBooks and Tagging with PowerShell

Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:20:53 GMT

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)

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

Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:11:47 GMT

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)

Windows Classical Music

Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:20:03 GMT

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

Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:41:21 GMT

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)

CSS Attribute Selector Magic

Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:28:44 GMT

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)

XamlFest in SLC on May 1st

Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:35:44 GMT

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)

ScrollableLabel control

Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:19:13 GMT

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)

Working through "The media is write protected"

Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:31:52 GMT

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)

Installing Software on a Terminal Server

Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:47:23 GMT

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)

SQL Profiler in SQL Express

Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:29:07 GMT

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)

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

Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:46:02 GMT

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)

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

Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:21:32 GMT

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)

Caution: Avoid Using SELECT * in a SQL View

Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:47:24 GMT

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)