Dirk Schuermans

Hey everyone,

I just finished reïnstalling my laptop and I just finished the MSN Messenger install.
This had happend to me before and I got this solution from Microsoft Support a while ago.

When you attempt to log in on MSN Messenger, it won’t log you in and it’ll give you the 81000306 error code.

What you can try is to turn Windows Auto Tuning off by entering the following command in an elevated command prompt:

netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

If done properly, it should respond with “Ok.” and Windows Auto Tuning is now turned off.
Try logging in again and it should work!

If not, run the following command to turn Windows Auto Tuning back on and then I’m afraid this solution didn’t help you ;P
So far it has always worked for me!

netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal

Hey everyone,

I recently went to London and I’ve purchased myself some programming books!

I’ve got:

- Pro Silverlight 3 in C# (I know Silverlight 4 is out, but they had no books at all about Silverlight 4)
- Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 1 hour / day

I’ll most likely start with the Silverlight book and then wrestle myself through the C++ book

Hello everyone,

Recently I was asked in class how to solve the whole “Unable to access control created on another thread” exception.
The teachers apperantly didn’t know the solution so my classmates turned to me.

It’s pretty simple actually.
What we basicly have to do, is delegate the task.

Continue reading ‘Cross-threading operations in .NET (C# / VB)’ »

Hello everyone,

Recently while working on a VB.NET project I had a class library project set to compile for “x86″ while my application was still set to compile for “Any CPU”.

When I tried to access my dll it threw me a BadImageFormatException:

Continue reading ‘BadImageFormatException’ »

Hello everyone,

For those who wish to have a quick peek and see how the cPMS looks like:

Continue reading ‘cPMS demo’ »

Hello everyone,

Recently I’ve stumbled upon a small nifty tool, that’ll allow you to retrieve the database schema of your SQL Compact Edition database ^.^

The tool is relatively easy to work with, provided you have the correct SQLCE runtimes installed..
In my case (having a x64 system) I had to install the x86 runtime first, and after that the x64 runtime.

Anyhow, the tool is not made by me, but it’s made by Erik Ejlskov Jensen.
You can find his blog here

The tool can be downloaded here

It’s available as an addin for SQL Server Management Studio 2008 (Express) or as a simple CLI

Continue reading ‘ExportSqlCE’ »

Hello everyone,

Recently I’ve started working on my own Project Management System. I’ve been looking all over the internet for a good webbased PMS, but couldn’t find any so I decided to make my own.

I must say, the result is better then I hoped for
Anyhow, I’m planning on selling or hosting it for corporate / private use, so if anyone is interested please let me know.

I’ll be putting up a demo soon

- Dirk

Hello everyone,

Today I’ve released a new, in my opinion, handy tool.

It’s a POP3 mail checker!

Continue reading ‘POP3 Mail Checker’ »

Hello everyone,

I’ve decided to share some of my tools I’ve created so I put up a downloads page

This page contains all downloads available, going from tools to source code from tutorials I’ve written.

For those of  you who like my blog posts and tools, feel free to donate some money in order to help me pay for my webhost

Take care and have fun coding!

- Dirk

Hello everyone,

I recently discovered how to get another picture to show up besides the mystery man when you post a comment.

All you have to do is create an account at Gravatar.com and create your avatar there.
Then whenever you post a comment on a wordpress blog and you fill in the email address you used to register your account at gravatar, it’ll display the avatar you made on their site

Just a simple FYI

- Dirk