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Google binding
Addy sent me this: "Hey dude, do a search on google for " winforms data binding "...
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Nemo bedroom
This is how I want our kids bedroom to look like (scroll down to “The four walls” header).
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WMI mind blower
If you have ever played around with WMI, specifically in .Net - this will blow your mind: Management (WMI) Extensions for Visual Studio .NET 2003 Server Explorer
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Idiomatic domains
Marc Fest has a list of a thousand domain names that no one has taken yet. some of them seem pretty cool. Apparently he did it using a small program he wrote. What's missing? The program code itself would be cool to…
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PDC: Show me the bits
Brad tells us what the PDC attendees will get: Longhorn! You have seen screen shots from leaked versions, now get your own copy! Not only will you get to see * some * of the new look and feel stuff we are doing, but you…
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Hard disk Space Managers
Oh, and John Tobler points out some very cool Hard disk space managers . What can I say - I'm a gadget freak!
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Google Calc
Yeah, the Google toolbar is out and final , BUT . Did you know that you can use google as your calculator as well? Just search google for “ 4 * 5 ” :)
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.Net Rocks with Brent Rector
Mark and Carl talk with Brent Rector about intellectual property , namely assembly and application obfuscation: techniques used, and the resultant binaries. They also talk about Remoting and get Brent's take on the…
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Catch ex As Exception (sometimes)
Mattias Sjögren quickly replied to my last post about the exceptions not being caught in VB.NET : “You don't get a DivideByZeroException because you're using the floating point division operator (/) and not the integer…
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Catch ex As Exception When...
I too would like to add a cool little thingie in VB.Net after reading Rachel's post . One of the coolest exception handling features (which I could not find in C# BTW) is catching exceptions only on certain conditions.…
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My new favorite book
It's pretty darn late now, so before I go to sleep - this is my new favorite book: Debugging Applications for Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows
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Caching in WinForms
Just out of curiosity I decided to try out some caching experiments in winforms. I wasn’t out to do any performance counting or anything, but I was playing around with the caching application block. After messing with…
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AppSight on eWeek
Our company just made eWeek . It's all about the .NET features that our main product - AppSight BlackBox will support. Less on the technical side, but still very cool stuff and I'm very proud to be a part of it.
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A new Data Access Application Block release
“ This is a new version for the DAAB supporting a common base code which uses only ADO.NET interfaces in an abstract base class. Then simple providers sets the correct instances for each ADO.NET provider. If somebody…
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Server.Transfer vs. Response.Redirect
I was recently faced with this question: What is the difference between Server.Transfer() and Response.Redirect()? I didn't really know the answer, because I'm more of a winforms kinda guy. However, my wife pointed me…
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OurNotepad
Marc fest recently contacted me to respond to one of my past posts regarding Chris Pirillo . After that he mentioned the new project he's working on: Our Notepad.com . “ If you want to you can also mention my latest…
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Can I please have my keyboard and mouse talking to my Win2k3 server?
Well, this certainly is not what I expected. For my coming birthday, my wife bought me two cool gadgets: the Logitech Cordless MouseMan Optical mouse, and the MS Natural multimedia keyboard . Very cool. One little…
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Short and sweet - I'm back
Got back from Crete, Greece a couple of hours ago It was a-m-a-z-i-n-g My skin is peeling and itchy from sun burn As folks were saying, it was a much needed time away from the computer It's a real downer coming back :(…
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Count anything in your open Word document
I'm using the Word 2003 beta, so I'm not sure if this applies to older versions. Ever wanted to know how many words, lines, paragraphs or even characters you have in your open Word document? Easy. Select…
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Out on vacation
I'll be on vacation in Greece, starting tomorrow(the 31st) up until august 7th. Me and the Mrs. are out for a full week of sea and sun, and I'll even make an effort of doing all this without a computer * shudder *. I'll…
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Visual Studio .Net tips page on MSDN
Just found this cool Visual Studio .Net tips page on MSDN, thanks to Sudhakar Sadasivuni .
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A directory of Israeli weblogs
I just discovered a directory of Israeli weblogs . I never imagined there were so much (but still so little) of them. Most of them are in hebrew, and are hands down b-o-r-i-n-g. Still, it's good to know our country is…
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As years go by
Now, this is amazing: http://zonezero.com/magazine/essays/diegotime/time.html “[Starting from 1976] On June 17th, every year, the family goes through a private ritual: we photograph ourselves to stop a fleeting moment,…
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Juval Löwy on .NET Rocks, talks about C# 2.0
“ Well, if you've been wondering what the next version of C# will bring to the table, you have to check out this interview with Juval Lowy. He got permission from Microsoft to spill the beans about the new features in…
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Amazon light
Oh goodie! Looks like my days of browsing Amazon, opening multiple pages at a time, clicking back and forward like crazy are gone, thanks to this cool site: Amazon Light which allows me to do exactly that, only from…
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.NetWeblogs coolness achieved
Oh.My.God. Great job Scott!! I love it! Let's try a different skin for a while. see what happens... One thing though - I can't seem to download the spell checker - “Bandwidth limit exceeded” :(
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Resolving DataSet Conflicts
One last one before I go to sleep. Resolving DataSet Conflicts Discusses working with data in a disconnected state and provides one possible solution for correcting DataSet conflicts. [ MSDN- Visual Basic .NET ]
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Broken window theory
Everyone should know about the Broken window theory . "Researchers studying urban decay wanted to find out why some neighborhoods escape the ravages of the inner city, and others right next door—with the same…