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On a recommendation from Brad Wilson , I've switched from using WMP to iTunes. I'm not sure I'm going to stick with it, but so far I like it. But one problem that was bugging me was how to get the “Now Playing” feature of MSN Messenger 7.0...
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A few weeks ago my Thinkpad (T42) screen went blank on me. At first, I thought it was just the power management causing the screen to turn off but when I tried to "wake it up", the screen wouldn't come back on. I could get the screen to come back on momentarily...
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I installed MCE 2005 this weekend. Mostly subtle differences so far, although it looks like I can't put DACLs on shares anymore. One definite upside is the new theme that replaces the four year old Luna theme with a shiny new WMA10-ish look and feel....
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I've been working on a project recently that involves using the new GridView in ASP.NET 2.0 a fair amount. In general, I'm quite pleased with this new grid implementation - it feels more intuitive, more extensible, and lighter weight than the monstrosity...
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As someone who writes a lot, I spend a lot of time in Word, and often find myself using the Tools/Word Count... menu item to assess how far along I am in a particular article or chapter. I recently installed Office 2007 , and have been using Word 2007...
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One of my motivations for wanting to learn Ruby (or relearn Smalltalk) was for my kids. In my household, my wife owns the liberal arts upbringing of the kids (she's ABD in English Lit), and I own the math and logic upbringing (my BA was in math and my...
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I've recently been forced to had the pleasure of writing a fair amount of code in VB.NET 2.0, and one thing I was happy to see was the introduction of the 'Using' statement. You can now write code that uses disposable resources without having to author...
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I was over at SysInternals yesterday, downloading a new version of the most excellent Process Explorer , and I had a bit of a look around to see what else was cool. The answer, of course, is...everything. But I was particularly impressed by PsExec , a...
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Looking at this chart , it's unclear to me if I'm going to have to cough up for a VSS license in addition to dropping money on VS2005. Of course, I've never been too clear on VSS licensing in the first place. (And frankly, I'd pay quite a bit not to have...
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I finally had a chance to get back to looking at the new asynchronous page feature coming in 2.0, and contrary to my initial impression, I'm now quite pleased with the implementation. My last post on the subject discussed what actually happens when you...
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I'm becoming more and more enamored with the declarative databinding model of ASP.NET 2.0 the more that I use it. One issue that it deals with rather nicely is the asymmetric nature of join queries and their corresponding update statements, which I find...
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This question seems to come up quite a bit, so I thought I'd post the solution I prefer for everyone's reference. If you want to add a client-side prompt to a GridView's delete function, so that the user has a chance to say 'no, I didn't mean that!',...
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I’ve talked to a number of solution architects over the years and one thing that I always try and figure out is why they are where they are. Is it a mindset or personality type that typically fills this role, and if so, what did it take for them...
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I often find when using templated data-bound controls (in either ASP.NET 1.1 or 2.0) that my expressions become rather difficult to understand because of the need to fit all of your logic into a single expression. For example, I have seen databound expressions...
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Scoble's list of 2005 predictions inspired me to do a little crystal ball gazing this week. Naturally, if even one of these comes to pass, I'll look much smarter than I actually am. Firefox's browser share will be surpassed by new non-MSFT HTML browser...
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