I installed the latest version of Process Explorer (v12) on my Vista 64-bit computer and set it to replace the default Task Manager, however, when I right-clicked the task bar to launch Task Manager, Process Explorer did not come up but an error message saying cannot find taskmgr.exe file: Windows cannot find ‘C:\Windows\system32\taskmgr.exe’. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. The old version of Process Explorer does not have this problem. […]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
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As shown in my last post, Firefox 3.6.2 didn’t pass the Acid3 Test with a score 94/100, 6 points away from passing the test. Today, I downloaded Firefox 3.7 Pre-release 4 and ran the Acid3 Test again to see if the new Firefox will do better. The result showed that Firefox 3.7 Pre-release 4 did do a better job than Firefox 3.6.2, but unfortunately it still didn’t pass the test, having a score of 96/100. […]
Microsoft released a platform preview for Internet Explorer 9 last week and I downloaded and installed it today, and compared some results with IE8, Firefox 3.6.2 and Google Chrome 4.1.249 and would like to share the results with you. First, the release notes of Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview is here. This version can only be installed on Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7, so check your system before download. Even if your system does […]
If you use XML string as parameter to update your SQL database table as I discussed in my last post, if the server is SQL Server 2000 and the XML string contains a datetime string, you will get a SQL error as this: Syntax error converting datetime from character string Cause: When generating XML string from DataTable object, all DateTime values are converted into strings in ISO 8601 format. However, ISO 8601 format is support […]
In my previous post, I discussed how to use TransactionScope to update DataTable objects in a transaction. The biggest shortcoming of using TransactionScope is that several security settings on the server need to be modified in order to make it work, and this may not be feasible for many companies because of the security concern. Today, I will discuss how to use XML and stored procedure to update DataTable objects in transaction. The basic idea […]