Recently I wanted to start Symantec's pcAnywhere 12.1 on Windows XP and when I started it none of the icons for remote clients were showing. So I closed pcAnywhere and restarted the program. It didn't restart. Well, instead of spending a bunch of time trying to figure it out or contacting Symantec I decided to fire up Windows Task Manager and just go to the Applications or Continue Reading
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How To Become A Web Developer
Are you interested in becoming a web developer? Maybe a web developer who uses Microsoft products to get it done? Are you interested in Microsoft's ASP.NET? If so, here is another free development environment to help get you started. In my article 4 Programming Languages To Help You Become A Programmer, I talked about some of the free development environments from Microsoft Continue Reading
4 Programming Languages To Help You Become A Programmer
If you're not a programmer and would like to dabble in programming to see if it's up your alley, check out the freely available Microsoft Express Editions of: Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition - Use this development environment to learn how to create Windows programs. The Visual Basic language is considered to be (or supposed to be) easier to grasp and get started Continue Reading
The Spinning Donut Program
I created this small program in VB.NET 2008 to further explain what The Spinning Donut is. If you run Microsoft Vista, you can download the program here (TSDSetup.msi) and have fun watching TheSpinningDonut. It only displays the rotating wait circle in Vista. Plus, you have to have the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 installed. Both installs will ask you if you want to Continue Reading
Databases with Access 2007
In this video we’ll take a brief tour of Microsoft Access 2007. Access 2007 is a database management system or DBMS for short. You can think of a database management system as your phone book - listing people, addresses, and companies all sorted alphabetically. Access can be used to create databases that track your home inventory to providing data entry screens and reports Continue Reading