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Custom PC Build It's been several years since I have built a custom PC. About 4-5 years ago, one day, I just quit building and started buying them. A few weeks ago, I was needing a mass storage unit attached to my network for backup-to-disk operations. I looked at NAS and SAN solutions but the reviews were terrible on most all NAS solutions and SAN solutions were entirely out of my budget.A few days of reviewing and poking around the Internet gave me some ideas. The inherent problem to solve was temperature and write speed. So, I went to the gaming world for a solution of inexpensive, high cooling, & mass storage computer shown to the left.I used ...
Posted Oct 6, 2011 11:31 AM by Tim Key -
Moving On... Life after graduation
So, I graduated from Western Kentucky University with my Bachelor's degree in Management:Business Administration with honors. Throughout my college career, I have ended it all with a GPA of 3.77. Not too bad for an old guy huh. Now that education is behind me, it is time to move on and I'm ready.I've decided that I'm going to take a few days to rest and reflect after spending the past 18 months without a break from school. Right now, there just isn't a new normal to spend my evenings and I want to avoid getting into the habit of coming home from work and watching television until bedtime.I want to spend ...
Posted May 18, 2011 9:02 AM by Tim Key
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VB.Net
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Launch and Manage MDI Child Forms
Change the words YourChildFormName to the actual string name of your child form. Change the words YourChildForm to your acutal ChildForm object and the words YourParentForm to your actual MDI ...
Posted Jan 14, 2010 8:39 PM by Tim Key -
Set Control Focus at Startup
Often times when developing application and using panels, getting a control to receive startup focus can be somewhat of a pain. After much trial and error and a lot of ...
Posted Jan 14, 2010 8:38 PM by Tim Key -
Get User Screen Resolution
There are a couple of ways to do this but the basic principle is the same. Here are a couple of ways to do this: 1) As a string function ...
Posted Jan 14, 2010 8:37 PM by Tim Key -
Trap The Enter Key In VB.Net
All you need to do is copy and past the segment of code below into the keypress event of the control. If Asc(e.KeyChar) = Keys.Enter Then 'Do something ...
Posted Jan 14, 2010 8:36 PM by Tim Key -
Pause or Delay Your Applicaiton
Public Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)Public Sub Pause(ByVal seconds As Single) Call Sleep(Int(seconds * 1000#))End Sub'Add the code snippet above and ...
Posted Jan 14, 2010 8:33 PM by Tim Key
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C-Sharp Tutorials
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Common Mask for DevExpress TextEdit Control
Simple Mask Type: Phone - (999) 000-0000RegEx Mask Type: Email - [a-zA-Z0-9.-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,}
Posted Nov 30, 2011 9:38 AM by Tim Key -
How to use CSLA NameList
using System;
using Csla;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Data;
using Csla.Data;
namespace CSLASample.NameList
{
[Serializable]
public class FindItemCollection : NameValueListBase<string, string>
{
#region Factory Methods
private static FindItemCollection ...
Posted Sep 27, 2011 6:40 AM by Tim Key -
Restrict textbox to numeric only
Instructions: Place the code below into a KeyPress event for the textbox you wish to restrictCode Snippet://The first "if" statement is for numeric only. The second section "else ...
Posted Nov 26, 2010 6:21 AM by Tim Key
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