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Outlook Contacts don't show up when clicking the 'To' Button

If you replace your default outlook data file (ie, you move your old file to a new computer or restore a backup) you may not get a list of your contacts when you click the “To” button. When you click the “To” button in Outlook 2003, it actually displays the Address Book. Back in the [...]

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Cingular Connection Manager Conflicts with Visual Studio.NET

If you are a .NET web application developer and you install Cincular Connection Manager, you’ll be in for a treat when none of your .NET web applications will run anymore! When you try to connect to one, you’ll hear a windows alert beep, but will see no error message displayed. The solution at the moment [...]

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ASP VBScript – working with SQL Server nText Fields

I ran into a problem with nText fields when porting a third-party app from MS Access to MS SQL Server. Wherever the existing code tried to get the value of an nText field in the RecordSet object, the return value would be blank. I searched all over and found a workaround, which I did not [...]

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Install Apache + Subversion on Windows

How to Install Subversion Server on Windows using Apache This is a walkthrough to install subversion server on Windows and make it available over http using Apache. Subversion is a version control system. In combination with Apache, you can allow local and remote developers to share source code. This guide will use the following installation [...]

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"Local Device Name Is Already in Use" Error

There are a lot of reasons why this error occurs, but the message is actually deceiving. Rarely is the device name actually already in use. The typical reason for receiving this message is that your machine simply cannot connect to the other machine for whatever reason. The most common reason I have discovered is that [...]

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