Archive for the ‘Other’ Category

Secure VPN connection terminated locally by the client. Reason 414: Failed to establish a TCP connection.

At the end of last week I updated my Windows XP with SP3. After a while I’ve tried to connect to the company network using Cisco VPN client and it failed to connect with the error stated in post’s header. If you look in the log you can see that the client tries to connect [...]

My new blog at blog.windowsclient.net

Since today I have a new blog at http://blogs.windowsclient.net/tbbtuk/default.aspx. I’d like to improve myself in the area of WPF and I’ll post all connected with WinForms and WPF there. I’ll also continue to blog here in my personal blog.
The idea to have an additional blog especially for WPF and WinForms came to me in the [...]

My custom Visual Studio’s environment settings

I’m using non-standard Visual Studio environment settings and I’ve decided to share them with other developers on the web. I hope that everybody is familiar with how to import and export VS settings but for those who do not know I’ll write few words.
First of all you need to start your VS :). Then you [...]

Enterprise Library 3.1 installation problem

I needed to install Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) on one old machine which I decided to use for some tests. As far as WCSF needs Enterprise Library 3.1 I’ve decided to install it. And I ran into a problem.
Firstly, let me say what I have installed on the machine. OS - Windows XP SP, [...]

I’m annoyed of how developers used to organize loops…

Today, I browse the code of one of our projects in order to look through a problem I discussed with another developer and I saw a loop which irritated me. The sample of what I’m talking about is below.
[sourcecode language="csharp"]
object obj = null;
foreach (int item in array)
{
// initialize the object if the first pass
if (obj [...]

How to use a custom xsd when edit a XML file in Visual Studio?

In one of my projects people use NHibernate for accessing database. Today, I saw that when some xml file (mapping or configuration) is edited Visual Studio doesn’t provide intellisense and validation of the schema. Moreover, i found no one in the team to use xsd schemas provided by Hibernate.
The question is how to use custom [...]