by patrick | Nov 4, 2008 | C#, Coding, WPF
Today’s challenge was fun. I had added a bunch of textboxes and labels to a Grid with 2 StackPanel in my code behind. StackPanel sp1 = new StackPanel(); StackPanel sp2 = new StackPanel(); Grid g = new Grid(); ColumnDefinition colDef1 = new ColumnDefinition...
by patrick | Nov 1, 2008 | C#, Coding, CSV, LINQ
This may sound stupid, but I wanted to store some text parsing I was doing for some VDP projects in LINQ to XML XDocuments. So, I created the following:XDocument recs = new XDocument();XElement records1 = new XElement(“Records”);XElement record1 = new...
by patrick | Nov 1, 2008 | ASP.NET, C#, Coding, LINQ, Rants, Software, WPF, XML
Ok, My rant for the day is about trying to use Microsoft C# and LINQ and XML and WPF. I spend more time trying to figure out simple stuff, because nothing exists as solid examples of how to do what I need to do.I spend so much of my time trying to find decent examples...
by patrick | Oct 19, 2008 | Rants
http://www.aefactoryservice.com/ae_consumer/index.html These guys are scammers. We had a Whirlpool washer timer fail. My wife places a service call and someone from A&E Factory Service comes out and identifies that the timer has failed. He then says the part...
by patrick | Aug 29, 2008 | Raves, Tech, TV
Very funny. Very Cool. I believe this is the world’s largest “inkjet” printer 🙂 Share this:FacebookTwitterTumblrLinkedInEmailPrintLike this:Like...
by patrick | Jul 31, 2008 | Personal
What a wonderful world we live in… Imagine if you will, Monday night, start of the 2008 NFL season. Lambeau field, 60,000 packer fans… Voice comes over the PA system. Ladies and Gentlemen, for 16 years, this man has given Green Bay 2 superbowls, 11 playoff...
by patrick | Jul 9, 2008 | Hardware, Rants
Why can’t companies make standards based equipment for the consumer? I have a nice Kodak v570 dual lens digital camera and was sick of Easy Share and wanted to use Google’s Picasa 2. Well, Picasa doesn’t “see” the camera, heck windows...
by patrick | Jul 7, 2008 | News, Rants
Wow, months after the African Puppy Scam I get another one over the weekend. Started off with a simple email requesting a quote in print price… Hello Sir/Madam, My name is Rev James Hopper and i want to make an order of SOME FLYERS .I will like you to get back...
by patrick | Jun 19, 2008 | Rants, Raves
Well, I’ve had some time to step away from the week long trip to Germany and the Drupa Print show. The trip was fun, and informational. Day 1 – Recovery from flight, stayed local, near the hotel. Cab driver from Airport spoke great English and knew more...
by patrick | May 10, 2008 | Personal
With great sadness in my heart, I wanted to let people know that my mom, Carol K Stuart, passed away this morning. Her 3 year battle with cancer has finally come to an end. Her strength was off the chart, she was amazing in her willingness to fight this cancer and be...
