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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Sometimes, It's the Obvious...
OMW. Helped out another programmer at one of the sister companies of the company where I work via email today. First, the required COM DLLs weren't present, then I tried to get them for her from other projects that we did that used the same libraries, then she was getting “Exception of type 'System.Windows.Forms.AxHost+InvalidActiveXStateException' was thrown.” 24 emails later, it seemed like it would never end!
Eventually got an installer for her for the Kodak Image Library that was residing in a rather dusty directory on one of our servers (that thing is like flipping hen's teeth on the Internet!). That seemed to work, but then the same exception popped back up.
Guess what now? We forgot that the now-correctly-installed-and-registered ActiveX control wasn't on the form because, well, it wasn't correctly installed and registered. I supposed I should mention that she reinstalled her laptop two days ago and she also told me that she was modifying copied code. She put the control on the form and finally, Finally, FINALLY the thing worked.
Lessons:
1) If you format and/or reinstall your developer machine, make sure that the required libraries and project dependencies are installed.
2) If you are installing the said libraries and project dependencies during development, drop the control back onto the form!
She's very junior and is learning C# while she is coding this app, so this was plain inexperience on her part and ASSumption on my part.
Bleugh. But at least it's solved! :-)
Eventually got an installer for her for the Kodak Image Library that was residing in a rather dusty directory on one of our servers (that thing is like flipping hen's teeth on the Internet!). That seemed to work, but then the same exception popped back up.
Guess what now? We forgot that the now-correctly-installed-and-registered ActiveX control wasn't on the form because, well, it wasn't correctly installed and registered. I supposed I should mention that she reinstalled her laptop two days ago and she also told me that she was modifying copied code. She put the control on the form and finally, Finally, FINALLY the thing worked.
Lessons:
1) If you format and/or reinstall your developer machine, make sure that the required libraries and project dependencies are installed.
2) If you are installing the said libraries and project dependencies during development, drop the control back onto the form!
She's very junior and is learning C# while she is coding this app, so this was plain inexperience on her part and ASSumption on my part.
Bleugh. But at least it's solved! :-)
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
Happy 50th Birthday LEGO!!!
http://www.lego.com
http://parents.lego.com/Features/50th%20Birthday.aspx
LEGO turns 50 this month! (January 2008) LEGO played a big role in my childhood and really taught me how to think laterally and outside of the box.
Happy birthday my old friend!!!
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Why Should I Play Fallout 3?
I honestly love Fallout 2. I hope Fallout 3 isn't a complete mess with it being a FPS now instead of a Turn Based CRPG...
For more details, please go to No Mutants Allowed.
Friday, December 28, 2007
Thursday, December 06, 2007
I'm an Assasin for Hire!!!
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
RIAA Can Suck Air In a Vaccumm
http://bash.org/?444453
#444453
ProfessorOhki: oh, ud get a kick out of this
ProfessorOhki: cisco guy came to talk to my class
ProfessorOhki: (lecture hall)
thepieisabomb: ya
ProfessorOhki: and he goes "i ask this ever year out of curiosity, who has the most media collected and served?"
ProfessorOhki: no one wants to raise hands
ProfessorOhki: one guy rasies his hand
ProfessorOhki: "how many gigs of media do you have shared?"
ProfessorOhki: guy: "about 3.6 terrabytes"
ProfessorOhki: i swear the cisco guys heart stopped for a sec
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