Today was developer frustration day.

I've furnished a specialized DLL to my customer to provide input/output capability. The DLL reads CSV files and writes data to a relational database.

The entire development process has been frustrating. The input files aren't fixed and the folks writing the files I process apparently aren't writing to the same specification I am using. As a result, I've had to add a lot of exception handling code for things like inconsistent trailing commas, missing columns, columns with different names, etc.

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I've been experimenting with converting a small Oracle database to SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5.  While I'm nonplussed with the available tools, in particular the lack of support for SQLCE in DTSWizard, the database is highly function for embedded purposes.

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Jane visited Fox Lair Farm New Years weekend, 2010. Jane is no longer riding and so, with a heavy heart, we are going to sell Rocket. I put together a play list of some of the video I took of her visit.

Sorry, no coding trivia tonight. I'm working on capturing family videos before our old Camcorders bite the dust.

This is an example of embedding a youtube playlist in a web page.  Sorry for the layout issues.  Everytime I save this entry, the layout gets punked on IE8.

I just completed uploading video for my Youtube channel.  Stop by and check it out.

Codewiz51 on Youtube

Let me know what you think.  I'm trying to organize the 60 odd videos so they make some sense.

I had to revisit an old project today. A new requirement meant code modification and rebuilding the install for a smart device (iPaq).

CabWiz.exe generated some errors which made no sense during the rebuild process:

Windows CE CAB Wizard

Warning: Section [RegKeys] has no data
Warning: Section [DefaultInstall] key "AddReg" - there are no section entries to process
Error: CAB file "C:\MyPrjDir\PocketCalcCab\Release\PocketCalcCab.CAB" could not be created

ERROR: The Windows CE CAB Wizard encountered an error.
   See the output window for more information.

This error looks awful, but the fix is simple. More...