BlogEngine upgrade from 2.9 to 3.1

Posted on December 2, 2014March 2, 2018 by Jim 1 Comment

Though the version jump from 2.9 to 3.1 may not seem like to much of a jump, it did not go easy for me. It failed the first few times. I tried following the directions at dotNetBlogEngine.net, but that was unsuccessful… all my existing posts would not show. I finally found a comment to a […]... Read More

Time Flies…

Posted on November 29, 2014March 2, 2018 by Jim Leave a comment

Yikes… Where did the time go? 3 years have passed since my last post. With the new year approaching, I hope to do a better job of updating this with tidbits of useful information. So… to begin, I have a new look to the blog with an updated version of BlogEngine.Net (more on the update […]... Read More

Where is your Right Click Context Menu?

Posted on July 15, 2011March 2, 2018 by jrblack 6 Comments

Recently working on the UI of a WPF project I struggled attempting to get the Right Click Context Menu to appear as normal, to the right and below the mouse pointer. No matter what options I used with ContextMenu (.Placement and .PlacementRectangle) the Context Menu would appear to the left and down instead of the […]... Read More

HydroForce Designs

Posted on January 18, 2011March 2, 2018 by jrblack 5 Comments

Casting Crowns, on of my top favorite Christian rock bands recently had a contest. Mark Hall, the lead singer, recently made a new years resolution to stop drinking sweet drinks (soda, sweet tea, etc) in favor of just water or something not sweetened. He tweeted about this and soon had interest from band members and […]... Read More

Outdoor Nature Pictures from Plateau

Posted on November 19, 2010March 2, 2018 by jrblack 1 Comment

In August I took the family to Pocono Plateau, an Eastern Pennsylvania Conference United Methodist church camp. Kim and I were councilors for the week while the kids were campers. The weather was wonderful and the kids had a great time. The Plateau is where Kim and I met. I snapped a bunch of nice […]... Read More

Yosemite ‘Fire Waterfall’

Posted on November 8, 2010March 2, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

A friend of mine sent me an email with a link to these pictures and story of “Fire Water” at Yosemite. First I thought the pictures cool… man, how did they do that… then it got better when I read the story to learn that this is a naturally occurring phenomenon and how rarely happens […]... Read More

Removing Duplicates in a DropDownList

Posted on October 20, 2010March 2, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

In a recent project enhancing some functionality to an existing .Net v2.x web application I had the need to remove duplicate entries in a DropDownList. As with most challenges I haven’ had the pleasure of resolving before, I took it to Google. Of course I got a plethora of suggestions to eliminate the duplicates in […]... Read More

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