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I've been Tagged: Five Things You Might Not Know About Me
I have been tagged by Shawn Weisfeld. Here are 5 things you might not know about me.
1) My son Ryan, brother Denis and I are all Eagle Scouts
2) I love to go camping. I have a lot of good memories backpacking upstate New York.
3) My current job is an assistant engineer onboard Sun Cruz's Surfside Princess
4) I have 4 dogs, 4 cats, and 3 birds as pets.
5) While working on ships I have visited England, Scottland, Ireland, Germany, Norway, Spain, Canada, Puerto Rico, UAE, and Bahrain.
Beta Certification Exam
I took the beta exam for Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 - Application Development (exam number 70-540) with the visual basic option. The exam had 81 questions with a 4 hour time limit. There was one c# question slipped in there.
There were questions on the creating menus, smart phone connection status to the network, interacting with contact list, listing items in the task list, serial port, xml, and httpwebrequests.
SQL Everywhere (formerly SQL Mobile) was a topic which had a few questions. You will need to know how to repair a database, and sync with a sql 2005 database....
Tom Fuller MVP
Congradulations to my friend Tom Fuller on making Solution Architect MVP. Tom runs the Soa Pitstop website. Tom also speaks at florida code camps and user group meetings.
New Website
Upgraded the website today to use the asp.net 2.0. I used the small business template from the asp.net website for the site look. Posted it on the KJM Solutions server. I am using SQL Server 2005 for the blog now. We are getting closer to opening up for business.
Real Random Numbers
The random function does not generate truely random numbers. Use the RNGCyptoServiceProvider to create them
Imports System.Security.Cryptography
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
FillList()
End Sub
Private Sub FillList()
ListBox1.Items.Clear()
For x As Integer = 0 To 20
ListBox1.Items.Add(TrueRandom.Rand(500).ToString)
Next
End Sub
Private Sub btnNewList_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnNewList.Click
FillList()
End Sub
End Class
Public Class TrueRandom
Public Shared Function Rand(ByVal MaxNum As Integer) As Integer
Dim rnd(20) As Byte
Dim num As Long
Dim generator As New RNGCryptoServiceProvider
generator.GetBytes(rnd)
For x As Integer = 0 To...
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Find Missing dll
There was a question the other day in the vb.net newsgroup on how to make a list of the missing dlls on your system. Files that are registered by regsvr32 create a CLSID. This program will check all the CLSID registered dll exists and adds the missing ones to a list box.
Imports Microsoft.Win32
Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
#Region " Windows Form Designer generated code "
Public Sub New()
MyBase.New()
'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.
InitializeComponent()
'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call
End Sub
'Form overrides dispose to clean up the component list.
...
Blog up and running
Well I got my blog up and running today. I am using a MySql database for storing the data. My web host brinkster offers Sql Server, MS Access, and MySql database storage. I seam to get a lot of data access errors using MS Access on the web when I have too many users at once. I figured I will try the MySql. Seams to be a very powerfull database full of features. I still prefer to use Sql Server.
In addition to this site I also maintain a VB.Net and VB-Tips website with Cor Ligthert. I am...