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Saturday, February 12, 2005

Mark Clerget's Blog - Dynamic SQL INSERT Generator Unleashed!

Mark Clerget's Blog - Dynamic SQL INSERT Generator Unleashed!: "on the contents of a table. The output of this query can then be us"

Some stuff on automatic creation of INSERT statements. I needed this a few times but lived without it anyway.

Moving XP User Profile

Moving XP User Profile

This read may prove useful sometimes.

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

Interesting thoughts. Should be taught at schools. :)

MSDN .NET Framework Developer Center: Interoperability: Microsoft Win32 to Microsoft .NET Framework API Map

MSDN .NET Framework Developer Center: Interoperability: Microsoft Win32 to Microsoft .NET Framework API Map: "Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio User Education Teams

Microsoft Corporation"

API mapping.

Friday, February 04, 2005

DotLucene 1.4 - The Open Source Search Engine for .NET

DotLucene 1.4 - The Open Source Search Engine for .NET: "DotLucene 1.4"

DotNetFirebird - Using Firebird SQL in .NET

DotNetFirebird - Using Firebird SQL in .NET: "Firebird SQL is a powerful open source database that can be easily used
in .NET. I believe it has a big potential (it is full-featured,
requires zero administration, can be embedded, etc.). However this
potential has not been fully discovered by .NET developers who rely on
Microsoft SQL Server heavily."

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Windows XP: Change user name in "Documents and Settings"

Windows XP: Change user name in "Documents and Settings": "the names under "Documents and settings" do NOT necessarily have to be the same as the user's name. The profile folders get created when a user logs on for the first time. This is the first possibility for a profile folder name to be different from the user's name.
Say you have a local account "Administrator", and you have logged on with it already. You join the machine to a domain, and logon with the *domain* account "Administrator". The domain account will (probably) create a profile folder named something like Administrator.domainname.
The second possibility: Renaming a user.
Let's stay with the above example and say that, for "security" reasons, the local Administrator's name was changed to "LocalAdmin", and a local dummy user "Administrator" was created. The LocalAdmin account will *still* use the profile folder "Administrator", and the dummy "Administrator" will get a profile folder with a name like "Administrator.001".
The profile folders are bound to the user's SID, not the user's name. The SID doesn't change when renaming a user name.

wizard_99,
usually, there is absolutely no need to change a profile folder's name. If you want to know which user name actually uses which profile folder, you can logon with the user and check the environment variable %UserProfile% (do *NOT*, never, ever, use "C:\documents and settings\%username%" when accessing a profile, for example in a script).
The other possibility is a bit more complicated. Get PsGetSid from Sysinternals (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psgetsid.shtml), then use that to retrieve the user's SID. Open regedit, go to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList, check the SIDs listed there against the SID you're looking for, and then look at the value of "ProfileImagePath" (most of them will actually reflect the user's name, but as I said before, don't rely on that).
Now, to rename the folder while making sure that the user can still access the profile, do the following:
* Retrieve the user's SID.
* Logon with an administrator account (other than the user whose folder you want to change).
* Rename the folder to the user's current name (or whatever you want to name it).
* Open regedit, go to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\, and change the "ProfileImagePath" to the new location.

How to Move the Location of a Locally Cached Profile
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=214470"

ASP.NET Development Center Home: Take Advantage of ASP.NET Built-in Features to Fend Off Web Attacks

ASP.NET Development Center Home: Take Advantage of ASP.NET Built-in Features to Fend Off Web Attacks: "Applies to

   Microsoft ASP.NET 1.x

   Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0"

How to embed a True Type font

How to embed a True Type font

Securing data from the threat within | CNET News.com

Securing data from the threat within | CNET News.com

Interesting read.

Enabling host disk cache under Virtual PC

Enabling host disk cache under Virtual PC: "Enabling host disk cache under Virtual PC

When you are running operating systems other than Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 under Virtual PC you can gain a performance boost by enabling host side disk caching. This is not enabled by default as it is not architecturally correct behavior - but I have seen situations where it can result in a 25% speed improvement in disk I/O intensive applications.

You can enable host disk caching by starting Virtual PC with the '-usehostdiskcache'. This setting is then enabled globally on all virtual machines that you launch in that session.

Cheers,
Ben"