The big percent of visitors of our web sites are accessing our sites via search engines. So in order to increase the visitor count of our websites we should ensure that the search engines are crawling our websites correctly.

SEO Toolkit is a free tool that you can download with the link below. SEO helps the search engine optimization that shows warnings, errors about the content which is not compatible for search engines. It can also create robots and sitemap files.

http://www.microsoft.com/web/spotlight/seo/?appid=10991003

Bill Gates who is Microsoft’s founder has just jointed Twitter. You can start following him at @BillGates. Twitter has confirmed that this account belongs to Bill Gates. So it's real.

http://twitter.com/BillGates

If you are using Windows Vista or a higher version you'll see that Last Accessed attribute of the file does not change even if you accessed the file just before checking. This situation may cause problem in our programs that we need to get the last access property of a file using FileInfo object or the situation that we use FileSystemWatcher to get notified when file is accessed by using  NotifyFilters.LastAccess attribute.

For improved file system performance Last Access time update in switched off in Windows Vista by default. Thus, Last Access time attribute is set upon creating file and not changed afterwards even if file is modified. However, it is possible to enable Last Access time updates if necessary.
To enable Last Access time updates open Registry Editor by typing regedit in Search input on Start Menu, locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem path entry and change NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate value data to 0. After setting Last Access time update, system has to be restarted for the change to take effect. Alternatively, run the following command with administrator rights:
fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 0

You can visit that website

http://www.febooti.com/products/filetweak/online-help/file-last-accessed-date.html

Most of the developers ping an internet address or a web site to check whether computer is connected to Internet or not. However there is a much simple and accurate way to achieve this goal which is using an api. I'm sharing the code that you can use in your applications.

We use Form's ShowDialog method in various parts of applications we develop. However these forms will not be collected by GarbageCollector since they are not manually disposed.

Here are the lines from msdn documentation.

When a form is displayed as a modal dialog box, clicking the Close button (the button with an X at the upper-right corner of the form) causes the form to be hidden and the DialogResult property to be set to DialogResult.Cancel. Unlike modeless forms, the Close method is not called by the .NET Framework when the user clicks the close form button of a dialog box or sets the value of the DialogResult property. Instead the form is hidden and can be shown again without creating a new instance of the dialog box. Because a form displayed as a dialog box is not closed, you must call the Dispose method of the form when the form is no longer needed by your application.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c7ykbedk.aspx

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now available to MSDN subscribers and will be available to the public at next week. For download you can visit the address below.

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=151797

Today, I found a nice site about Graphic User Interface Tricks and Tips.

Here is the address http://www.minarts.com/graphic-user-interface-trick-and-tips

and Here are the tips.

*Use cute buttons, icons, and graphics and images.
*Don't be afraid to experiment with colors! But don't use too much colors together.
*Your application should play smart and not run fun sounds and games while operating to keep the users entertained.
*By the way, never, ever use under any circumstance use native graphical controls or widgets. Users get bored of the old fonts, shapes, buttons, text boxes, and "free" stuff.
*When you writing own controls or widgets, check absolutely sure they look and feel nothing like the standard widgets or anything else the end user might expect.
*Is important that the end user should never be able to tell the difference between a checked and unchecked option box or check box.
*Use obscure or poorly drawn graphics for your tool bar buttons, and never put text inside.
*Users need time to think about what they are doing and get coffee. Your application should always take at least 5 minutes to load even on the fastest available computer.
*Tool tips are a bad way to display critical information, use text massages on red color or orange, depends how it is critical.
*To get the most screen space but don't force your application to always run maximized.
*Make the default positions of floating properties windows cover something important.
*Please, don't use the most exotic fonts you can find.
*Your application's user interface can't to be too much flexible and customizable to the point where if the user accidentally sneezes on the mouse or keyboard they will have to spend the next half an hour setting things back.
*Remove 5-year old draw your graphics, including your corporate logo.
*File browsing dialogs are needed, users can't easily remember and type in long file paths.
*Don't design your application so it requires the user to set their tiny monitor to 10512*7430 make it more flexible.

Make it Smart
UI Design Tip - 1
Organize the user interface so that the information flows either vertically or horizontally, with the most important information always located in the upper-left corner of the screen.
Group related controls together using either white space or a frame.
Align controls to minimize number of margins.

UI Design Tip- 2
Either center the command buttons along the bottom of the screen or stack them in either the upper-right or lower-right corner.
Use no more than six command buttons on a screen.
Place the most commonly used command button first.

UI Design Tip - 3
Assign meaningful captions to command buttons.
Place the caption on one line and use from one to three words only.
Use book title capitalization for command button captions.

UI Design Tip - 4
Label each control in the interface. The label should be from one to three words only, and it should be entered on one line.
Align each label on the left, and position each either above or to the left of the control it identifies.
Follow the label with a colon (:) and use sentence capitalization.

UI Design Tip - 5
Maintain a consistent margin of two or three dots from the edge of the window.
Position related controls on succeeding dots. Controls that are not part of any logical grouping may be positioned from two to four dots away from other controls.
Try to create an interface that no one notices.

UI Design Tip - 6
Command buttons in the interface should be sized relative to each other.
If the command buttons are centered on the bottom of the screen, then each button should be the same height; there widths, however, may vary.
If the command buttons are stacked in a corner, then each should be the same height and the same width.

UI Design Tip- 7
The human eye is attracted to pictures before text, so include a graphic only if it is necessary to do so.
If you are including the graphic for aesthetics only, use a small graphic and place it in a location that will not distract the user.

UI Design Tip - 8
Use 8, 10, or 12 point fonts for the elements in the user interface.
Use only one or two font sizes.
Use a sans serif font for the text.
Use only one font type for all of the text.
Avoid italics and underlining.

UI Design Tip - 9
The human eye is attracted to color before black and white.
Build the interface using black, white, and gray first, then add color only if you have a good reason to do so.
Use either white, off-white, light gray, pale blue, or pale yellow for an application’s background, and use black for the text.

UI Design Tip - 10
Always use dark text on a light background because it is the easiest to read.
Never use a dark color for the background or a light color for the text.
Limit the number of colors (other than white, black, and gray) to three.
Never use color as the only means of identification for an interface element.

Media Center feature which is delivered by Windows is used by a wide number of users. But sometimes users who use EPG data realize that the EPG information is not totally correct.

For this issue Microsoft has added an EPG Data Quality Submission form to Microsoft Greenbutton (Offical Windows Media Center Community) site. If you want to take part in increasing quality of EPG Data's you can use http://thegreenbutton.com/dqs/ address to participate.

Also for general feedbacks you can use the forum at http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”
- Brian Kernighan

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”
- Bjarne Stroustrup

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”
- Martin Fowler

“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.”
- C.A.R. Hoare

“Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.”
-  Alan Kay

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
- Bill Gates

“If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don’t need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.”
- John Carmack

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
- Abelson / Sussman

“Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!”
- Fred Brooks

Document Preview is an application that allows users to preview their files such as Pdf, Doc, Xls, Jpg, Mp3, Avi while browsing with an interface like Windows Explorer but without opening an extra application. It also allows users to move, copy, delete folders or files.

The idea to develop this software came up to my mind while trying to find a pdf document that contained specific information. My goal was to develop this application with techniques like Abstract Classes, Inheritance, Interfaces, Linq and provide community samples about usages of these techniques.

For further information you can visit http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/DocumentPreviewApp.aspx

Today while surfing on the internet I saw articles about Green IT which is one of the most popular topics. There was another topic about an application that can measure your computer is how environment friendly and also makes your computer work more environment friendly. Application is built on the idea of turning off your devices that consumes power such as screen, hard disks in period of inactivity. Application can also schedule timelines for different profiles such as work hours, non working hours. You can also see how much energy you saved by changing your profile and what is the amount of CO2 emission that your computer indirectly caused.

For further information you can visit http://www.microsoft.com/environment/edison.aspx .

This is a very funny game developed by Microsoft using Silverlight for whose want to have a certificate or just test their knowledge.

Also it is great to have different questions for IT Professionals and Developers.

If you are so ambitious to play, you can visit http://www.microsoft.com/click/areyoucertifiable/ without wasting time.

You can easily ping an address with your .Net applications via a class came by .Net 2.0. I am sharing the code snippet with you which can be used for discovering whether a website is down or not.

C#

            System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping png = new System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping();
             try
             {
                 PingReply rply = png.Send("www.tameroz.com");
                 Console.Write(rply.RoundtripTime.ToString());
                 Console.ReadLine();
             }
             catch (Exception)
             {
                 Console.Write("Ping Error");
                 Console.ReadLine();
             }

VB.Net

As you know accelerator is one of the most exciting features in Internet Explorer 8. I developed an accelerator for my site. You can add accelerator to Internet Explorer 8 by clicking here to easily serch content of my site.

Also you can find the code of this accelerator below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<openServiceDescription xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/openservicedescription/1.0">
    <homepageUrl>http://www.tameroz.com/</homepageUrl>
    <display>   
        <name>tameroz.com ara</name>
    </display>
    <activity category="define">
        <activityAction context="selection" >
            <preview action="http://www.tameroz.com/searchResultsPane.aspx" accept-charset="iso-8859-9">
                <parameter name="Search" value="{selection}" />
                <parameter name="Exact" value="false" />
                <parameter name="Preview" value="true" />
                <parameter name="Language" value="0" />
            </preview>
            <execute action="http://www.tameroz.com/searchResultsPane.aspx" accept-charset="iso-8859-9">
  <parameter name="Search" value="{selection}" type="text" />
                <parameter name="Exact" value="false" type="text" />
                <parameter name="Preview" value="false" />
                <parameter name="Language" value="0" type="text" />
            </execute>
        </activityAction>
    </activity>
</openServiceDescription>

As you know Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8.0 RC1 in past few days. However I was not able to share the release of IE8 RC1 with you on my blog I started using IE8 RC1 right away. The main purpose of writing this entry is to share opinions and experiences of using IE8 RC1 with you.

As a user who also used Beta2 version of Internet Explorer 8 I can say that RC1 is more stable and while using RC1 i haven't had any problems like using Beta 2. I can nearly say that RC1 has never crashed since I started to use it. The only problem is there are some design problems related to css or images while rendering some sites. But you can easily deal with this problem by using Compability View option.

For people who want to have more information about RC1 may visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/default.aspx

When developing web applications it is necessary to use web.config file. However normally iis is not publishing config files there can be some situations that needs higher security of web.config file.

I'd like to talk about how to encrypt the content of web.config file in this kind of situation.

First you must open Visual Studio Command Prompt or browse to directory C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\V.2.0.50727 from Windows Command Prompt. To encrypt web.config we will use aspnet_regiis command.

Now lets look at how to use this command.

aspnet_regiis.exe -pef "Section To Encrypt In Web.Config" "Psyical path of web.config file" - prov "DataProtectionConfigurationProvider"

For example :

aspnet_regiis.exe -pef "connectionStrings" "c:\MyWebApplication" - prov "DataProtectionConfigurationProvider"

After executing this command you will see the section you described as encrypted. But your application will not have any problems while accessing to values in web.config.
Another important point is that the web.config is encrypted at machine level. That means that if you move to application to another computer, it will not work because of the machine keys.

If you want to decrypt a web.config file using -pdf parameter will be enough.

I was not able to write entries to my blog for about 2 months. Lots of things happened that i would like to share with you. I'll try to mention about most important ones in this entry.

07.08.2008
A long expected Sql Server 2008 has been released. To learn what's new in Sql 2008 you can visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb500435(SQL.100).aspx.
However in the same announcement it says that if you want to work on Sql Server 2008 with Visual Studio 2008 you'll have to install VS2008 sp1.

11.08.2008
Visual Studio 2008 Sp1 And .Net Framework 3.5 Sp1 has been released. You can download via links below.

.Net Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AB99342F-5D1A-413D-8319-81DA479AB0D7&displaylang=en

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBEE1648-7106-44A7-9649-6D9F6D58056E&displaylang=en

27.09.2008
Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 has been released. For further information you can visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/worldwide-sites.aspx.

This title is the translation to English of a book that Turkish MVPs wrote in Turkish. The main subject of the book is sharing the knowledge and experience that MVPs have had during business life. The book has a different style and contains very valuable information that is worth reading. I wrote three chapters named Customer In Software Projects, Tips For Software Project Management and High Performance and Code Optimization. If you live in Turkey you can get the book from all bookstores. If you are outside of Turkey, I am planning to publish the sections I wrote in English at my blog, but it may take some time. You can contact me for any opinion or suggestion about the book.

The new material is designed to help .NET Developers to learn the top ten artifacts in SharePoint that are interesting to them. We’ve created a variety of materials with different learning styles to make getting started with these artifacts easy and it’s all based on the Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint – planned to release v1.2 for Visual Studio 2008 this week also (watch for their announce).

The Top Ten SharePoint Artifacts of interest to .NET Developers being promoted
• Web Parts
• Data Lists
• Event Handlers
• Workflows
• Silverlight Web Parts
• Page Navigation
• Page Branding
• Web Services
• Content Types
• User Management

At the site (which is hosted on microsoft.com) we have:
• An Introductory Whitepaper
• Benefits of SharePoint for Developers
• A Small Public VPC
• Hosted MSDN Virtual Labs in C# and VB.NET
• Video Interview with SharePoint MVPs
• Screencasts
• Web Casts with SharePoint MVPs (incredible 1705 live attendees in just the first four WebCasts)
• Quickstarts
• Labcasts
• Presentation Download
• Hands on Labs Download
• Additional Resource Links

The site encourages developers who use the content to also take a next step and go on Instructor Led Training, Get Certified, and Download an evaluation copy of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

http://MSSharePointDeveloper.com

There is a hash algorithm which makes us able to validate T.C. Identity Number that we take as an input in our projects. You can find the method that checks this hash below.

        private bool ValidateNumber(string parNumber)

        {

            for (int i = 0; i < parNumber.Length; i++)

            {

                if (!(char.IsNumber(parNumber[i]))) return false;

            }

            return true;

        }

        public void ValidateTCIdentityNumber(string TCIdentityNumber)

        {

            if (ValidateNumber(TCIdentityNumber.Trim()))

            {

                if (TCIdentityNumber.Trim().Length < 11)

                {

                    throw new Exception("T.C. Kimlik Numarası 11 karakterden az olamaz. Lütfen kontrol ediniz.");

                }

                else

                {

                    decimal identityNumberDecimal = Convert.ToDecimal(TCIdentityNumber.Trim());

                    decimal temp = Math.Floor(identityNumberDecimal / 100);

                    decimal temp1 = Math.Floor(identityNumberDecimal / 100);

                    int[] D = new int[10];

                    for (int n = 9; n >= 1; n--)

                    {

                        D[n] = (int)temp1 % 10;

                        temp1 = Math.Floor(temp1 / 10);

                    }

                    int oddSum = D[9] + D[7] + D[5] + D[3] + D[1];

                    int evenSum = D[8] + D[6] + D[4] + D[2];

                    int total = oddSum * 3 + evenSum;

                    int ChkDigit1 = (10 - (total % 10)) % 10;

                    oddSum = ChkDigit1 + D[8] + D[6] + D[4] + D[2];

                    evenSum = D[9] + D[7] + D[5] + D[3] + D[1];

                    total = oddSum * 3 + evenSum;

                    int ChkDigit2 = (10 - (total % 10)) % 10;

                    temp = (temp * 100) + (ChkDigit1 * 10) + ChkDigit2;

                    if (temp != identityNumberDecimal)

                    {

                        throw new Exception("T.C. Kimlik Numaranızı kontrol ediniz.");

                    }

                }

            }

            else

            {

                throw new Exception("T.C. Kimlik Numarası yalnızca rakamlardan oluşmalıdır. Lütfen kontrol ediniz.");

            }

        }

I spent 4 days in Seattle while attending Microsoft Mvp Global Summit 2008. Seattle is known as a technological city beacuse of the settlement of Microsoft and the Boeing Factory. However Seattle has a quiet and peaceful life style. Another intesting fact about Seattle is that the weather is cloudy and dark 75% of a year. It is also possible to see marines and houses  in the middle of nature that impress you. Even not as high as in Chicago you have the chance to see the city from the top by visiting Space Needle. If you have leisure time, you can join Underground Tour to visit Old Seattle or plan a trip to Seattle Aquarium to view sea life closer and see surprisingly cute animals. If you are enthusiastic about technology attending a tour to Boeing Factory is a great opportunity that you should not miss.

Today ISO have approved ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Office Open XML File Formats as an International Standard by support of 86% of 87 countries during approval process. To gain more information about Open XMl you can visit the sites below.

http://openxmldeveloper.org/default.aspx
http://www.openxmlcommunity.org/

Also you can reach ECMA's declaration from
http://www.ecma-international.org/news/TC45_current_work/ISO_and_IEC_approve_Office_Open_XML.htm

and Microsoft's press announcement from
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/apr08/04-01OpenXMLVotePR.mspx

We work as software developers in software development industry. However are we actually a .Net Programmer or a SQL Programmer?
You can easily decide what kind of a programmer you are after considering the differences between these two concepts.

*While .Net Programmer uses the objects and methods of .Net Framework to achive the functionality requirement of application, SQL Programmer uses the methods of Sql Server.
*While .Net Programmer manages the business rules by the decision mechanisms and loops in .Net Framework, SQL programmer prefers to use decision mechanisms and loops in SQL server such as cursors.
*While .Net Programmer manages the transactions in business layer, SQL Programmer manages transactions in Sql Server.
*While .Net programmer designs the application compatible and can be easily integrated to any database system, SQL Programmer uses commands and functions which are specific to SQL Server.
*While .Net Programmer uses stored procedures or queries which are short, easy to read and written for a specific purpose, SQL programmer uses complex queries, stored procedures or triggers.

Last Monday I installed Windows Server 2008 Operating System. My first impressions are that Windows Server 2008 is faster than Windows Server 2003 and looks more stable. Although I had some compability issues like the ones in Windows Vista, I solved every issue by searching the internet. Besides, in order to use the interface in Vista Themes and run some programs like Windows Media Player, you should install Desktop Experience Feature. I've installed Vs2003, Vs2005, Vs2008, SQL2000, SQL2005 and they all work fine. But I observed that Visual Studio 2008 and Sql Server 2005 are the most compatible versions that work with Windows Server 2008. I'd like to share the way how I installed these programs.

1)Installation Of IIS 7.0
2)Installation Of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
3)Installation Of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SP1
4)Installation Of Microsoft SQL Server 2005
5)Installation Of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2
6)Installation Of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
7)Installation Of .Net Framework 1.1 SP1
8)Configuring the IIS Server to run ASP.Net 1.1 applications (http://www.iis.net/articles/view.aspx/IIS7/Hosting-Web-Applications/ASP-NET/How-to-Run-ASP-NET-v1-1-on-IIS7?Page=1)
9)Installation Of Microsoft SQL Server 2000
10)Installation Of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP4
11)Installation Of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

I've enhanced some properties and uploaded the ExtendedDataTable component which I previously wrote an article about. You can view and download it with the source code.
http://www.codeplex.com/ExtendedDataTable

DECLARE @rowCount int
SET @rowCount = (SELECT ParameterValue FROM Parameters WHERE ParameterId=12)
SET ROWCOUNT @rowCount
SELECT * FROM MyTable ORDER BY MyColumn
SET ROWCOUNT 0

CREATE PROC MyQuery
@rowCount int
AS
SET ROWCOUNT @rowCount
SELECT * FROM MyTable ORDER BY MyColumn
SET ROWCOUNT 0
GO

Math.Round function is commonly used in many applications. However this function may not operate as expected and return expected result in some situations. This is a crutial issue to prevent wrong calculations in our applications.

Math.Round(1.44, 1); //Expected: 1.4 Result 1.4
Math.Round(1.45, 1); //Expected: 1.5 Result 1.4
Math.Round(1.46, 1); //Expected: 1.5 Result 1.5

Math.Round(1.54, 1); //Expected: 1.5 Result 1.5
Math.Round(1.55, 1); //Expected: 1.6 Result 1.6
Math.Round(1.56, 1); //Expected: 1.6 Result 1.6

As seen above when we rounded value of 1,45 to one digit the result was 1,4 instead of 1,5. However same problem was not seen while rounding the value of 1,55 to one digit. The reason of this result is that .Net Framework uses bankers rounding as default rounding system. In bankers rounding system if the value of the digits in d to the right of the decimals position is halfway between the digit in position decimals, that digit is rounded up if it is odd, or left unchanged if it is even. If the precision of d is less than decimals, d is returned unchanged. 

private decimal MyRound(decimal number, int decimals)
{
return decimal.Round(number, decimals, MidpointRounding.AwayFromZero);
}

As a solution of this problem we can use Decimal.Round(Decimal, Int32, MidpointRounding) overload instead of Math.Round function. MidpointRounding enum has AwayFromZero and ToEven options. While ToEven acts as default behaviour in .Net Framework AwayFromZero option acts as we commonly use.

Mesaj : The operation completed successfully
Detail : System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The operation completed successfully at DevExpress.Utils.Drawing.XtraBufferedGraphicsContext.CreateCompatibleDIB(IntPtr hdc, IntPtr hpal, Int32 ulWidth, Int32 ulHeight, IntPtr& ppvBits) at DevExpress.Utils.Drawing.XtraBufferedGraphicsContext.CreateBuffer(IntPtr src, Int32 offsetX, Int32 offsetY, Int32 width, Int32 height) at DevExpress.Utils.Drawing.XtraBufferedGraphicsContext.AllocBuffer(Graphics targetGraphics, IntPtr targetDC, Rectangle targetRectangle) at DevExpress.Utils.Drawing.XtraBufferedGraphicsContext.AllocBufferInTempManager(Graphics targetGraphics, IntPtr targetDC, Rectangle targetRectangle) at DevExpress.Utils.Drawing.XtraBufferedGraphicsContext.Allocate(Graphics targetGraphics, IntPtr targetDC, Rectangle targetRectangle) at DevExpress.Utils.Drawing.XtraBufferedGraphicsContext.Allocate(Graphics targetGraphics, Rectangle targetRectangle) at DevExpress.XtraTabbedMdi.XtraTabbedMdiManager.DrawNC(DXPaintEventArgs e) at DevExpress.XtraTabbedMdi.XtraTabbedMdiManager.DrawNC() at DevExpress.XtraTabbedMdi.XtraTabbedMdiManager.UpdateNCIfNeeded(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.InvokeMarshaledCallbackDo(ThreadMethodEntry tme) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.InvokeMarshaledCallbackHelper(Object obj) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.runTryCode(Object userData) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.ExecuteCodeWithGuaranteedCleanup(TryCode code, CleanupCode backoutCode, Object userData) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.InvokeMarshaledCallback(ThreadMethodEntry tme) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.InvokeMarshaledCallbacks()
Target Site : IntPtr CreateCompatibleDIB(IntPtr, IntPtr, Int32, Int32, IntPtr ByRef)
Source : DevExpress.Utils3

1. People Related Mistakes
   • Undetermined motivation
   • Weak personnel
   • Uncontrolled problem employees
   • Heroics
   • Adding people to a late project
   • Noisy, crowded offices
   • Friction between developers and customers
   • Unrealistic expectations
   • Lack of effective project sponsorship
   • Lack of stakeholder buy-in
   • Lack of user input
   • Politics placed over substance
   • Wishful thinking
2. Process Related Mistakes
   • Overly optimistic schedules
   • Insufficient risk management
   • Contractor failure
   • Insufficient planning
   • Abandonment of planning under pressure
   • Wasted time during the fuzzy front end
   • Shortchanged upstream activities
   • Inadequate design
   • Shortchanged quality assurance
   • Insufficient management controls
   • Premature or overly frequent convergence
   • Omitting necessary tasks from estimates
   • Planning to catch up later
   • Code like hell programming
3. Product Related Mistakes
   • Requirements gold-plating
   • Feature creep
   • Developer gold-plating
   • Push-me, pull-me negotiation
   • Research-oriented development
4. Technology Related Mistakes
   • Silver-bullet syndrome
   • Overestimated savings from new tools or methods
   • Switching tools in the middle of a project
   • Lack of automated source-code control