A while back I got curious about how certain text effects could be acheived, and one of the things I explored was warping text along a curve to achieve a kind of sweeping effect. I created a prototype for this, to explore different solutions. This article contains some general notes on the subject, as I reflect back on this work. The information given here could be used as a kind of cookbook to replicate the work. The original work was done using C# and GDI+, although the concepts are applicable to other frameworks.

Performance counter registry hive consistency check has the status FAILED all the others items has PASSED and the setup stops here theonly option is CANCEL

I’m sure many of you would have seen this issue when running SQL 2008/2008 R2 setup on a new server. The setup will proceed to install Setup support files, the window will disappear but, strangely enough, the next window never shows up.