Compassionate Capitalism as some may call it

In a world where capitalism focuses more on profits and revenues, others may think making a difference is totally out of the picture. I was reading about TOMS Shoes and how the company started out as Blake Mycoskie, Chief Shoe Giver, wanted to help children from developing countries by providing them shoes to wear. Their […]

Could not load file or assembly

I was assisting one of our customers move their .NET applications from one server to another and run them using Windows Task Scheduler. I did highlight to them that in order to make the application work, we have to make sure that the correct .NET Framework version was installed on the target server, that the […]

Finding out the .NET Framework version that an assembly uses

There will be cases where you would need to find out the .NET Framework version of an application or assembly running on a machine and you just don’t have the right tools. This is especially true when you need to promote your code from test to production environment. If there is only one version of […]

Windows 7 on VMWare Workstation 6.5

I was at the Microsoft Canada Energize IT Windows 7 Installfest event in Ottawa and volunteered to assist with the attendees while they were doing the installation. While the supported installation options during the event were clean install, upgrade, dual boot or virtualization using Hyper-V, Virtual PC or Virtual Server, a few of those who […]