Category: How To Fix
An update on the mysterious PhotoShop color shift

The problem started happening to me again recently, the information I found at this link fixed it.

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How to prevent images and photos from being stolen your site

they're welcome 2itThe Problem: You need to prevent people from saving images and photos that are featured on your website

The Cause: There is no real solution to this – if you can see it online, you can copy it, but you can make it more difficult.

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How to fix the copy file problem in C#

Cavalry moving forwardphoto © 1918 National Library of Scotland | more info (via: Wylio)The Problem: You need to copy a file from one location on the server to another and cannot remember how.

The Cause: It is too short and simple, and easily forgotten

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How to fix the “Unable to cast object of type” problem

Drill Bitsphoto © 2008 Justin Gurbisz | more info (via: Wylio) The Problem – you have several asp.net web controls (.ascx files) in your website project and for no obvious reason you suddenly get the error “Unable to cast object of type ‘YourWebControlName_ascx’ to type ‘YourWebControlName_ascx’.”  You recompile and the program works, then stops working.  You recompile and it works again, then it stops working, ad infinitum, but the working times become less frequent, and eventually the site stops working at all.

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How to fix the Login failed for user ‘IIS APPPOOL\ASP.NET v4.0′ error in IIS7 and Sql Server 2008

The Problem: You are trying to access a sql server database from your new ASP.net 4.0 site and get the error Login failed for user ‘IIS APPPOOL\ASP.NET v4.0′ error in IIS7 and Sql Server 2008 when logging in with the integrated security.

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How to fix lengthy database records in SQL Server

The Problem: You wish to truncate database records, but you can’t remember how.  At first, Google is no help.

The Cause: You are using the term “Truncate” which is usually used to truncate a table, when all you really want to do is chop characters off of overly long database records.

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How to fix being blocked by your web host

FiberThe Problem: For no known reason I became unable to reach my web host.  All of my websites and even the host’s public site vanished.  I could reach everything through remote desktop connections, but not from my home connection.  I had just backed up two gigs of files from one of my servers and I assumed that the web host had blocked me  (mistaken profiling).  After much back and forth with my host’s tech support team they unblocked my IP Address.  I still could not reach my host.  I inform tech support of that; they do some more digging, and they tell me that I had never been blocked at all.

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How to Fix “Cannot Publish Because a Project Failed to Build” error

VS2010_Beta1_ScreenShotThe Problem: You attempt to publish your C# ClickOnce application in Visual Studio 2010, but you get the “How to Fix “Cannot Publish Because a Project Failed to Build” error” error. There are no syntax errors.

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How to fix the Asp.net CalendarExtender and CompareValidator to accept European date formats

The Problem: You want to use the standard European Date Format, DD/MM/YYYY instead of the American Date Format MM/DD/YYYY.  You change the “Format” feature of the CalendarExtender to “DD/MM/YYYY”, but then the CompareValidator (which you’re using to ensure valid dates) calls out that you have entered an invalid date.

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How to fix the “could not load file or assembly microsoft.sqlserver.batchparser” error

database schemaThe Problem: Every time you attempt to run Microsoft’s excellent Database Publishing Wizard Utility you get the following error after you enter your login information could not load file or assembly microsoft.sqlserver.batchparser

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