Toffer's WebLog
A small place on the web for me to write about the adventures of my self education in coding
using SpriteFont's in XNA
So the quesiton of the day is when creating a SpriteFont to use for displaying text in an XNA app,...
Author: Toffer Date: 10/24/2007
random posting...
WOW...it's been a while since I've posted. Luckily I my self eductions of coding hasn't been as slow...
Author: Toffer Date: 10/18/2007
multi-select drill-through reports...
Today I'm trying to work on improving my Sql 2005 Reporting Services report based on all the...
Author: Toffer Date: 03/28/2006
displaying an entire table on one page with SQL RS2005
Today I'm trying to figure this one out. I've got this report I put together for my team that has a...
Author: Toffer Date: 03/17/2006
question of the evening...
I've seen something in a couple of different databases that kind of confuses me. I've been looking...
Author: Toffer Date: 03/17/2006
setting up a Sql Stored Procedure to accept an array as a parameter...
Ok, I'm not sure the title is exactly right, so let me explain better what it is I'm trying to do...
Author: Toffer Date: 03/15/2006
using the T-SQL OPENXML command
Hello once again. :) I've been getting great feedback from everyone that stumbles across my blog...
Author: Toffer Date: 03/08/2006
calling SqlConnection.Close() from class destructor causes exception
Well, today I'm designing a class that's basically function is to talk to a database. I'm having a...
Author: Toffer Date: 03/07/2006
Sql 2005 and managed code...
Today I proposed an idea to my boss which included using Sql 2005 in a manor that I "think" is...
Author: Toffer Date: 03/02/2006
Using a ProgressBar control
Hiya all. I recenlty made a cheezy test program to just roll dice. I put a ProgressBar control to...
Author: Toffer Date: 01/28/2006
net use failing in RunOnce section of registry
Ugh...horribly frusterating problem today. I have a WinXP machine that's been sysprep'd. I'm trying...
Author: Toffer Date: 12/10/2005
making a service...
Oooofda...long time no post. Lots of work done though. hehehe. My question of the day...how do you...
Author: Toffer Date: 09/29/2005
solution to getting the parent process
In case anyone was interested, I did end up figuring out how to get the parent process of a given...
Author: Toffer Date: 07/21/2005
how to get the parent of a Process
Well, today's challange is to find a way to obtain a process' parent...if it has one. We have a...
Author: Toffer Date: 07/20/2005
to hack or not to hack...
Well I got some answers to using .Net Framework 2.0 on VS2003. Aside from the great suggestions...
Author: Toffer Date: 07/18/2005
using .net framework 2.0 from VS.Net 2003
Ah yes...everyone once in a while (usually after I start feeling like I know what I'm doing) a...
Author: Toffer Date: 07/15/2005
coding standards...
Oooooofda. The last few days I've been reading through some code that I found on SourceForge...and...
Author: Toffer Date: 07/14/2005
graphics are a horse of a different color...
sigh again I have been faced with how little I really know about the coding world. I'm starting to...
Author: Toffer Date: 07/07/2005
I don't get it...
https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8379873/ I've been a HUGE AMD fan for years because they have always...
Author: Toffer Date: 06/30/2005
how to find out if an exception's message will be localized...
Something a little different to figure out today. I have a piece of code in a try catch block that...
Author: Toffer Date: 06/22/2005
Sometimes I'm a blockhead...
big sigh of relief Yeah, I'm done with another big project. Although it was updating the previous...
Author: Toffer Date: 06/21/2005
code review standards...
Recently I had a bunch of code to check into our source depot, but I'm told that before checking...
Author: Toffer Date: 06/03/2005
yeah, movement on Mp3Taginator
Ok, right now I have a blocking issue of not knowing where to get genre information from...I'm...
Author: Toffer Date: 05/27/2005
the most un-fun part of coding...
Ahhhhhhh, eyes going buggy...that's it...I'm taking a break. I have come to realize that the most...
Author: Toffer Date: 05/03/2005
XmlNode question...
Ok, tonights question of the evening is this... I have a method which takes an XmlNode as a...
Author: Toffer Date: 04/08/2005
up late working on code...
My wifey-to-be see's that I'm working from home late tonight and makes a fresh batch of chocolate...
Author: Toffer Date: 04/07/2005
IList Interface...
I've read what MSDN has to say about this, but I'm still not sure why this is useful. I've found it...
Author: Toffer Date: 04/06/2005
TextBox's in .Net
I'm trying to figure something out about this, and having a little trouble, so I figured I'm make an...
Author: Toffer Date: 04/06/2005
programatically editing mp3 tags
Ah, it's been to long since a real good post. hehehe. Lately, I've been pretty busy working so I...
Author: Toffer Date: 03/30/2005
SQL Question...to sproc or not to sproc???
So how does a person know when the best time is to use a stored procedure vs a normal sql statment?...
Author: Toffer Date: 03/07/2005
back from vacation...
Well, it wasn't much of a vacation really. It was my Grandfather's funeral...and my family was...
Author: Toffer Date: 03/03/2005
An assembly must have a 'dll' extension in order to be referenced???
And how did I get such a useful error you might ask? By trying to add a reference to a project that...
Author: Toffer Date: 02/25/2005
Movinator Progress...
Well, the database stuff is completely done. I've been testing it the last couple days, and I'm very...
Author: Toffer Date: 02/25/2005
More Movinator
pushed through the night to get a little more work done on Movinator. I really need to set up...
Author: Toffer Date: 02/22/2005
Blog Traffic
You know, I've noticed that since I've opened this blog, I get a lot of traffic from people I don't...
Author: Toffer Date: 02/18/2005
flags enum in Sql
I've been looking for the answer to this most of the day...Books Online doesn't say anything about...
Author: Toffer Date: 02/17/2005
rss feeds
Hmmm, I tried to add a RSS feed last night and it didn't seem to work like I thought it would. Can...
Author: Toffer Date: 02/17/2005
More work done on Movinator
Woot...lots of progress made last night. Movinator is now adding actors to the database with movies...
Author: Toffer Date: 02/17/2005
laptops in the bathroom?
Am I the only one who thinks this is a really strange thing to do? It seems to be a growing trend at...
Author: Toffer Date: 02/16/2005
yeah...time to learn assembly
Well, I've been asked to learn more about debugging at work. So I've gone to a couple training...
Author: Toffer Date: 02/16/2005
connection string pains and stuff...
I just hate going to bed when I've got a problem I'm trying to work through. I was up until early...
Author: Toffer Date: 02/08/2005
Sql Express 2005
Well, I tried out Sql Express as the database backend and it's a lot better than anything else I've...
Author: Toffer Date: 02/06/2005
a little more progress tonight...
Yup, another night away from EQ2...well, kinda. I left my guy logged in to sell stuff, hehehe....
Author: Toffer Date: 02/04/2005
Improving String Handling Performance in .NET Framework Applications
https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/vbnstrcatn.asp
Author: Toffer Date: 02/03/2005
An Evaluation of Stored Procedures for the .NET Developer
Author: Toffer Date: 02/03/2005
ugh, that's it for tonight...er, this morning...
Made lots of good progress on Movinator tonight. I got the object handling connection to the...
Author: Toffer Date: 02/03/2005
IMDb idea for Movinator...'n other stuff...
You know, I was thinking there's probably got to be some way to hook Movinator into IMDb.org, so I...
Author: Toffer Date: 02/02/2005