I painted these 8 horma-terma-whatever-gaunts in Hive Fleet Leviathan paint scheme more than a year ago. They came out fairly well, but it took about twelve hours to do. Upon completion I determined I shall not have a Tyranid force painted in Leviathan color scheme. Instead I'm going to do something that involves an airbrush and wood stain.
Just making sure this is correct. By this I mean PreCode (requires Windows Live Writer 2009) with SyntaxHighligher setup. PreCode is also a stand alone program.
public bool Validate(IValidationDictionary modelState, string prefix)
{
// xVal example code
var dataAnnotationErrors = from prop in TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(_entity).Cast<PropertyDescriptor>()
from attribute in prop.Attributes.OfType<ValidationAttribute>()
where !attribute.IsValid(prop.GetValue(_entity))
select new ErrorInfo(prop.Name, attribute.FormatErrorMessage(string.Empty), _entity);
var brokenRules = GetBrokenRules();
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(prefix))
prefix += ".";
if (dataAnnotationErrors.Any())
dataAnnotationErrors.ForEach(ei => modelState.AddError(prefix + ei.PropertyName, ei.ErrorMessage));
if (brokenRules.Any())
brokenRules.ForEach(rule => modelState.AddError(prefix + rule.Property, rule.Message));
return modelState.IsValid;
}
There is a “Fix Indentation” button in PreCode. I am in love.
Now just to setup the clipboard SWF thing.
I should seriously consider a theme with a wider content area.
So I went to stream a movie (DVD) off my Windows Home Server (Windows Server 2003 based) to my Windows Media Center 2005 (XP 32-bit) and encountered CONSTANT stuttering. The night before I had watched a movie with no problems. I spent about 5 hours trying to figure out what had happened - both machines had a "Your computer was recently updated!" message from automatic updates. I knew I was in serious trouble.
I spent a long time trying to troubleshoot codecs (both audio and video) and going through all manner of issues. I mucked around with the registry on both machines as I narrowed down the problem to horrible, horrible gigabit network performance. I watched the networking performance through Task Manager on the server and saw my network usage NEVER go above 1%.
Then finally I came across the hotfix from Microsoft to unfuck the hotfix automatic updates kindly installed for me:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948496/
Now network utilization hangs out at 25% while copying a 7 GB file across my gigabit network.
And I've learned the lesson I seem to learn every 6 months or so - pretty much every time a new install of Windows or a new PC comes online in my house - disable Automatic Update. If you don't - you will regret it.
Update: I also had to install a hotfix rollup for Windows Media Center 2005 available from Windows Update and reboot the machine to put my network bandwidth consumption at something over 0.5% which is apparently what I need to play DVDs without stutters... though /sigh there is *still* some stuttering but not nearly as bad as before.
Update[2]: FINALLY. I ran across this:
http://www.winaims.com/network_patch.html
So on my Windows Media Center machine I fired up regedit again and did:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanworkstation\parameters
Key: ReadAheadGranularity
Type: DWORD
Value: 0
rebooted, and now network utilization seems to stay at a constant 20% when copying a 6 GB file over my network.
Finally I can sleep with a minor feeling of accomplishment.
I've had this machine, dubbed "The BEAST" to the outside world (aka my friends) since last August with literally nothing to do. Its a monster, eight cores, HyperV with several VMs running, 8 GBs of RAM and Server 2008 64-bit. I just wish I had some useful task to put it towards!
Since you can run classic web forms along side MVC its useful to know how to update your *.csproj project file so Visual Studio shows you the MVC items you can add to your project when you add a new item. To do this, after installing MVC (and .NET 3.5 SP1 if you haven't yet):
