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Copy MsgBox Text
when you get a message box with lots of text (mainly on error messages) and you need to copy the text of the message, simply press ctrl+c , you'll hear a beep from windows, then you can paste it every where and you'll…
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Cool Lecture!
Wow. Today's User Group meeting was one of the best I've ever attended. The session was about UI design guidlines and how people percieve things. I'll write more about it tomorrow, but for now I'll just say that if you…
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VB User Group meeting Tonight, Hope to See You There
IVBUG moved to a new location Microsoft Israel 2 Hapnina St, Raanana (09) 7625-100 Floor 0 , Dekel Room It is the new building across from Amdocs. After the first traffic circle, there is an area for parking on the…
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What's Up With That?
What's up with people mass mailing recipes of salad dressings and coockies to all their internet lists? I swear that the next time I get a salad recipe from 3 different sources I'll... I'll... What's up with windows…
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User Interface Design For Programmers
Just discovered this gem on Joel's site: User Interface Design For Programmers It's a full book, and its very very good an entertaining. Recommended!
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Why I write in Both C# and VB.NET
I keep getting this question: Why do I write some posts in VB.NET and some in C#. Short answer: · Future employers like to see that I’m fluent in both · I want to be able to move between them seamlessly, as I believe…
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.Net Rocks with Tim Huckaby
Cool! new .Net Rocks show is up online, and this week its Tim Huckaby
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Chris Sells talks about Learning to Learn
Chris Sells talks about Learning to Learn [via scoble ] Totally interesting.
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Wasted Years
Oh boy. This funny article brought back a lot of memories. I remember once receiving some legacy VB code, and trying to figure out what the hell was happening. It was a nightmare. 3 or four modules containing huge…
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Automatically Create DataRelations Based On OleDB Schema
I was frustrated about the lack of automatic support for DataRelation creation via the DataAdapters , and the less-than-friendly OleDBConnection.GetOleDbSchemaTable() method, so I've decided to create a small class,…
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User Groups
If you're in Israel, there's the IVBUG meeting tommorow. Also, on the 9th, the Web developers .Net group meets and there's supposed to be some real interesting stuff going on there. Yosi wrote about that as well. Ever…
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More about .Net Deep Dive
Just wanted to add the following items about yesterday's event: People: · I got to meet some of my old work colleagues · I got to meet the head of the ASP.NET user group , Nimrod, which is a cool guy. The idea came up…
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.Net Deep Dive Recap
Today was a long and cool day (Although it was hot outside). The “.Net Deep Dive” full day event at the Hilton (a.k.a ‘Teched for the financially challenged”) took place today, and I got to attend four lectures. 3 of…
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Scripting News Is Down. I'm Sad.
Dave took down scripting news . I really feel for what he writes there. I have nothing to say to make him feel any better. I can only offer my sympathy as someone who "tries" to undestand what he's going through. In the…
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FillSchema and AddWithKey Don't Operate As Promised?
uuugh! I've been struggling with this one for a few days now, so after hitting all the relevant newg groups, let's see if anyone has a good answer: Given a DataTable, I need to know all the Other DataTables that have a…
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FeedDemon Likes And Dislikes
I have to admit it. FeedDemon totally rocked my RSS reading world. I like it even better than NewsGator. The interface(I'm a GUI guy) is very very slick and intuitive, and I really like the browser oane being positioned…
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Nice page of ADO.NET notes & tips
http://kristopherjohnson.net/cgi-bin/twiki/view/KJ/AdoDotNet Update: Oh, and also: ADO.NET Best Practices (via Chris Kinsman )
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Quick & Easy ADO.NET Speed Improvements
OK, I coudn't resist... 1) It’s about 20 times faster to create DataTables in your dataset using code, than letting your DataAdapter create them. 2) A very good potential for speed improvement lies when filling a…
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Still Alive
Just wanted to say that I'm still alive, but I am in the middle of so much "stuff" right now, I can hardly find any time to blog about stuff. Hopefully in a few days the situation will settle down a bit and I can…
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.Net Rocks Rocks, INETA, and Starting A User Group
> Boy. I have to say, the last .Net Rocks show totally rocked . Julie - you were great There was so much talk going on about all the user groups around the world, and all the cool speakers, it re-sparked my old flame -…
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Stop The Silliness
Sure, I could write a long post regarding Eric's post about the future. I could even make it really deep and insightful , so Scoble will link to me. But I won't. I find it very hard to get real interested in this issue,…
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Disabling Connection Pooling
ADO.NET Data Providers automatically use connection pooling turned on. If you want to turn this functionality off: In an SQLConnection object, Add this to the connection string: Pooling=False; In An OLEDBConnection…
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A Little Macro To Automate Creating Connection Strings
I've created a little macro that automatically creates a connection string and inserts it in your code. It pops up the infamous " Data Links " dialog for you, saving you, the poor programmer, from having to remember all…
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More About Processes
I wouldn't delude myself into thinking that this is because of my earlier post about Processes , but Early & Adopter posted a small and helpful post about Debugging Process.Start by redirecting the Standard Output…
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Winforms Data Binding Lessons Learned
Over the past week or so, I've been learning quite a lot about Data Binding in WinForms. I've decided to put the most important lessons I've learned in a short article . Her'e are its headlines: Lesson 1 : Displaying…
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Winforms Data Binding Lessons Learned
I’ve been dabbling with Winforms Data Biding and the DataGrid control for the past week, and here are some lessons I’ve Found (The code is in VB.NET): Lesson 1: Displaying Many-To-Many Relationships Using DataBinding…
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More Free Chapters
Silly me. I never noticed that CodeProject has a whole section devoted to free book chapters online . Cool! Update: Steven points to even more free chapters on ASPAlliance . yey! SBC points to free Regex chapters ...
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Typed Dataset Q&A
Q: I need to get the best possible performance out of my middle-tier components, so I'm using untyped DataSet objects on the server. But strongly typed DataSet objects are so handy when I build the client portion of the…