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I have uploaded a new msi package of DeVeDe 3.16.9 Build 2. It has disabled the percentage progress on what I believe is everything and now only has pulsing progress bars. This should alleviate all dead lock issues when running DeVeDe on Windows; at least I hope it does as I hardly ever run into the issue it is hard to tell. Over the coming weeks (months) I am hoping to re-enable the percentage progress bars. I figure it is better to have working program then one that only works partially.

When you need to free up space on a virtual machine (Windows XP/2003/Vista/7) use sdelete (Zero free space) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897443.aspx.

Boot the vm. Defrag the drive.
Run:
sdelete -c c:\

Shut down the vm

Using VirtualBox do the following:
VBoxManage modifyvdi "/path/to/vmDisk.vdi" --compact

The path must be the full path.

A .NET tool to check file check sums. I wanted an open source GUI tool that would work on Linux and windows that would be able to do this. I did not find any in with five minutes on google so I created my own tool. There is no exception handling (it will crash on errors).

executable
Source Code

Screenshot of it running on Linux.

Sample code for exporting scripts to drop and recreate all user defined Stored Procedures and Functions in a database.

The code uses SQL 2005/2008 Server Management Objects to accomplish this task. It loops through all functions and SPs and writes drop command for each of them then loops through and appends the create scripts for them to the same file. All commands are appended to the "c:\SomePath\SPExport.sql" file.

Update (2010/07/29): Added IronPython example.

C# Code

using Microsoft.VisualBasic;
using System;
using System.Collections;

I have fixed some bugs to allow zpu to work with the latest ZenPhoto server software again. I have committed the changes to the sourceforge.net svn repository (http://sourceforge.net/projects/zpu/develop) and built a new windows msi package.

The msi package can be downloaded from my site at http://majorsilence.com/zpu.

My Screen Video Capture software works perfect on my home computer (64-bit Windows Vista) but crashes almost immediately on my work computer (64-bit Windows 7).

I have been running it in the debugger for a while now and have fixed one error. I am also logging all exceptions properly now so that should help if I get any errors on another computer.

Watching the task manager it appears that I also have a GDI leak that could be causing numerous problems. In fact after watching it hit the default limit (10000) it does indeed cause bad things to happen.

I have finished reading Design Patterns Explained. Moving onto finishing code complete 2.

Finished reading chapter 19 Factory Pattern Method.

See http://www.majorsilence.com/design_patterns_explained.

Uploaded a new copy of ScreenVideoCapture2.

http://majorsilence.com/screen_video_capture