http://blog.quarksoft.com Just another Usefulnotes.com weblog Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:07:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Windows users are excited over the discovery of a hidden "GodMode" feature that lets users access all of the operating system's control panels from within a single folder.  In order to enable this feature all you need to do is to create a new folder and then rename the folder ... http://blog.quarksoft.com/2010/03/03/interesting-feature-within-windows-7/ Created a short video about how to do a Mail Merge from Microsoft Outlook using the Categories option for Contacts. See all the details here http://blog.quarksoft.com/2010/02/05/mail-merge-from-microsoft-outlook/ Found a decent article about custom parameters for data sources in ASP.NET.  It was written by Eilon Lipton who has been on the ASP.NET team for quite a while at Microsoft.  The article discuss how to insert your own custom parameters and has easy examples and a good explanation. http://blog.quarksoft.com/2009/11/23/custom-parameters-with-objectdatasource-and-sqldatasource/ We use Google Analytics (GA) for all our sites and most of our client sites.   It often provides the most bang for the buck and makes slicing and dicing your analytics pretty easy to do. On of the most interesting sections of Google Analytics is in the Visitors section and it ... http://blog.quarksoft.com/2009/08/08/getting-more-useful-information-into-google-analytics/ LogMeIn is a platform that we use internally for our own computers as well as all our clients. One of the most useful features of the LogMeIn offering is the ability to setup a secondary user to allow access to one or more computers in your account.  It is pretty easy ... http://blog.quarksoft.com/2009/07/28/how-to-setup-logmein-secondary-users/ Found some discounts on Lenovo laptops (and some desktops) and thought I would pass it along. Promo Code: USPENTERAIN3 Save an additional 10% + Free Shipping There are some pretty decent laptops available. http://blog.quarksoft.com/2009/07/16/lenovo-discounts/ Ran across an issue today when trying to get my DropDownList embedded within a GridView.   Here is an extract of the code (the error is in the red text): <ItemTemplate>   <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlMaker" runat="server" ... http://blog.quarksoft.com/2009/07/09/gridview-with-dropdownlist-server-tag-is-not-well-formed/ Ran across an interesting approach to generating insert statements for SQL Server 2005 (and other variants).  If uses a less well known function called master.dbo.fn_varbintohexstr. The approach that was taken was to use the fn_varbintohexstr function to encode the data so you did not need to use cursors or any ... http://blog.quarksoft.com/2009/07/02/creating-insert-statements-for-sql-server/ One of the great features of Outlook (but also sometimes annoying) is that it remembers all the email addresses of the people that you send email to or receive email from.  This makes it really easy for composing emails except for when you get an email address that is spelled ... http://blog.quarksoft.com/2009/06/30/clearing-email-history-lists-in-outlook/ A few weeks ago a client of ours asked if there was a way to get a Remote Desktop session to go full screen across the two monitors that they had connected to their computer.  There didn't seem to be an obvious method to do this.  Upon some further research ... http://blog.quarksoft.com/2009/06/22/remote-desktop-with-multiple-monitors-screens/