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I put in the Alan Parsons Live In Madrid DVD again the other day, and I noticed a couple of subtle Pink Floyd references. I was probably extra-sensitive to those because I had listened to Pulse and In The Flesh before. During the "spooky" section...
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Maybe this has been possible for some time, but I finally got the combination of ReSharper , DXCore and GhostDoc to co-exist peacefully on my Vista machine. I'm using: Resharper 3.0.2 DXCore 2.5.10 GhostDoc 2.1.2 Why is this important: it enables...
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I started experiencing a Cryptographic failure while signing assembly: Unknown error (8013141c) after moving my Visual Studio 2005 solutions to Visual Studio 2008. The reason: I'm using strongly named assemblies, and I was running Visual Studio 2005...
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(*) "High" as in "more than 96" I have a frustrating issue with VS2008 on my Vista machine, but luckily I found a solution. Here's the issue: As long as my Windows DPI settings are set to the default of 96 DPI, everything is fine...
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A friend of mine told me about Wishmaster - The Misheard Lyrics on YouTube. Hilarious!
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LINQPad is a tool for learning LINQ, and incidentally for replacing SQL Management Studio. Playing around with Linq and seeing how much more elegant it is to phrase queries in Linq rather than SQL, I really feel sooo tired of SQL. I'm missing Linq...
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The ÖBB , Austria's (formerly) federal railroad agency, offers companies (and people I assume) the possibility to endorse a train. So I could go ahead, endorse a train, and have the seductive female voice in stations announce "ICE 123 Dirk Rombauts...
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I was working on one of my pet projects the other day, and wanted to implement this behavior: I have a text box for entering a time, and I use a masked textbox for that purpose. The text box has a default value, but the text should be selected so that...
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One of the things that makes me go berserk is a program that minimizes to the notification area of the Taskbar and animates itself all the time for no good reason. This is incredibly distracting: I keep looking down to it to see what's happening....
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Today I was looking for the AcceptButton and CancelButton property on System.Windows.Forms.UserControl . Guess what? They don't exist. A bit of Googling (*) pointed me to this blog entry, which works like a charm: delarou's weblog - AcceptButton...
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A shameless plug for a conference where I will be speaking: DevCamp 07 , and specifically Track 3 at 14:00: Ein Tag im Leben eines WPF Quiz Show Entwicklungsteams (yes, the conference is completely in German language). Together with my colleague Gregor...
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An interesting article about using Electronic Business Cards (EBCs) in E-Mail signatures. I gotta play around with that a bit on Friday :-) Link to Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog : The 1-2-3's on EBCs
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Architecture, Analysis and Design The Domain Tree : a thought-provoking comparison between domain models and the WPF visual tree. CSLA .NET 3.0 available for download Part III. Grabbing the ScreenShot Development tools and tips IE Developer Toolbar Tools...
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A lot has happened in ASP.NET 2.0 when it comes do databinding. There are the data sources that make it really easy to grab some data from a SQL database. There is even the ObjectDataSource so Microsoft effectively introduced the middle tier in ASP.NET...
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Design Science have finally released version 6 of MathType , the "professional version of Equation Editor". I definitely need to give this a spin when I've got time (yeah right).