I've been Tagged: Five Things You Might Not Know About Me

Ken Tucker — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:24:38 GMT

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

Ken Tucker — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:55:45 GMT

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

Ken Tucker — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:30:13 GMT

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

Ken Tucker — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:04:19 GMT

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

Ken Tucker — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:01:19 GMT

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 20
            num += CInt(rnd(x))
        Next x
        Return CInt(num Mod MaxNum)
    End Function

End Class

KJM Solutions

Ken Tucker — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:58:35 GMT

KJM Solutions

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Find Missing dll

Ken Tucker — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:58:07 GMT

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.
    Protected Overloads Overrides Sub Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean)
        If disposing Then
            If Not (components Is Nothing) Then
                components.Dispose()
            End If
        End If
        MyBase.Dispose(disposing)
    End Sub

'Required by the Windows Form Designer
Private components As System.ComponentModel.IContainer

    'NOTE: The following procedure is required by the Windows Form Designer
    'It can be modified using the Windows Form Designer.
    'Do not modify it using the code editor.
    Friend WithEvents lstMissingDll As System.Windows.Forms.ListBox
    <System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
        Me.lstMissingDll = New System.Windows.Forms.ListBox
        Me.SuspendLayout()
        '
        'lstMissingDll
        '
        Me.lstMissingDll.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(24, 24)
        Me.lstMissingDll.Name = "lstMissingDll"
        Me.lstMissingDll.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(680, 212)
        Me.lstMissingDll.TabIndex = 0
        '
        'Form1
        '
        Me.AutoScaleBaseSize = New System.Drawing.Size(5, 13)
        Me.ClientSize = New System.Drawing.Size(736, 266)
        Me.Controls.Add(Me.lstMissingDll)
        Me.Name = "Form1"
        Me.Text = "Form1"
        Me.ResumeLayout(False)

End Sub

#End Region

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dim rkCLSID As RegistryKey = Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey("CLSID")
        Dim strKey As String
        Dim strSys32 As String = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.System) & "\"

        For Each strKey In rkCLSID.GetSubKeyNames
            Try
                ' only check for dll name if it is a clsid
                If strKey.IndexOf("{") >= 0 Then
                    Dim strPath As String
                    Dim rk As RegistryKey = rkCLSID.OpenSubKey(strKey & "\InprocServer32")
                    Dim strDll As String = rk.GetValue("").ToString
                    If strDll.IndexOf("\") > 0 Then
                        'gave full path
                        strPath = strDll
                    Else
                        ' in system32 directory
                        strPath = strSys32 & strDll
                    End If
                    Dim str As String = """"
                    strPath = strPath.Replace(str, "")
                    Trace.WriteLine(strPath)
                    If Not File.Exists(strPath) Then
                        ' file doesnt exist add to listbox
                        lstMissingDll.Items.Add(strPath)
                    End If
                End If
            Catch
            End Try
        Next
    End Sub
End Class

Blog up and running

Ken Tucker — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:56:32 GMT

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 starting to make some Visual Studio .Net 2005 tips. Hope to be able to start posting some soon.

VB-Tips

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