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Book Gripes, Safari Bookshelf, And a .Net Desktops Prize
One of the biggest(and most common) mistakes a tech book publisher can make is not knowing to quit while your ahead. Much like bad movie sequels, You'll often see a good book followed by a bunch of totally redundant…
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Kudos to MSFT
This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to work at microsoft and is the main reason they keep "winning".
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How To Know When An External Application Exits
I was asked how one can launch an external application and know when it is finished. Her'es the code (Console Application): using System . Diagnostics ; static void Main ( string [] args ) { Process p = new Process ();…
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Winforms DataBinding Bliss
Played around with the Winforms DataGrid some more yesterday. Boy, it's nice. real nice. DataBinding Rocks . In VB6 I almost never used DataBinding, since I was mainly into N-Tier development, thus DataBinding would…
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Very Good Winforms FAQ
You probably know this one, but here goes anyway... I've been playing a lot with the winforms DataGrid and binding stuff. One of the best FAQ's i've found on the subject was George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ . Apart…
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SQL Server is Missing NextVal Functionality
I really like working with SQL server, but there is one feature that's missing that I can;t understand why: Sequences. In ORACLE, I could do a "Table.NextVal" to get the value of the next insert unique ID. In SQL Server…
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Free Full Tech Books
A friend just let me know about this very cool site: [Content removed] Sorry guys, but until I'm sure this site holds legal content, I won't publish it. A big "Sorry " goes out to all the authors who are losing their…
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About Interfaces
Duncan writes about punitive UI, and I totally agree. I've always been a big fan of Design and interaction. Tha's why some things just toally annoy me that other people don't even notice: Why should I have to press a…
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Scoble, Come Back!
Heh. Now that scoble is spending some more time away from his blog, I almost *miss* him, in a weird, egotistical sort of way... Hey scoble ! Leave all that "family" stuff behind and write something :) Boy, I'm a rebel.
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.Net Shortcuts + Automate GAC and COM operations using this Cool Add-in
Date: 6/2/2003 Author: Enrico Sabbadin Versions: VS.NET Level: Advanced File Size: 315K download Summary: This add-in for VS.NET 2003 automatically: 1) Registers the assembly in the GAC right after it has been built. 2)…
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More About Desktops
We're starting to get some real content into the desktops gallery . If you'd like to add your own desktop, see the guide . I really like how it's turning out. Looking at all these really gives you a feel for the…
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"How Do I Get There From Here?"
In a comment to one of my posts I got this: " I'm a poor college student living in the middle of nowhere... I know a bit of Java, a lot of HTML, and I've got the gist of XML... I was wondering, what should I focus on if…
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My Baby Hits The Road Tomorrow
Just wanted to brag a little - Tommorow I'm releasing an alpha version of our companie's latest tracing software.I built this thing entrely myself. It's mostly built using VB6, with the the remoting extentions built…
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Funny Behaviour
Tamar, a friend of mine, alerted me to this funny behaviour. can anyone tell me why the following code: static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine(21 - 5.45); Console.WriteLine(21 - 20.45); Console.Read(); }…
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Data Binding Woes - A Simple Solution
Wooho! Found the solution to the Data Binding problem I was having . I got it from this free book chapter: How to use Data Views from this book . I'll explain the problem and then the solution. Problem : How do you get…
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Late In The Evening
It's all quiet now. Everyone has left work and went home. When all the busy sounds of the day disappear, this is when I feel most comfortable. I find I get the most work done after 5PM. We're at the 11 th floor,…
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Family Vs. Technology
Scoble writes about the daily struggle between family and technology. I totally understand and share a lot of what he's going through. Sometimes we all need to face the mirror and say to ourselves " OK. Just turn off…
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Winforms Data Binding Woes
I recently needed to get into Data Binding in win forms. I’ve read several articles( 1 , 2 , 3 ) and came up with several conclusions/questions: 1. Win forms Data Binding is very cool and powerful Using The…
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About Reflector, Encoding, And an Article Error
Yes. Lutz Roeder's Reflector is one cool tool. I just found out using it that my latest article has some bad code in it because of reflector. The article mentions that in order to write to a memory buffer instead f a…
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Yet Another Book Chapter
Since I'm currently in the process of learning/revisiting a bunch of .Net subjects, I keep fininding free book chapters all over the place. The latest chapter I've (just) found, is called " Windows Forms Data Binding "…
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Some Good Book Recommendations From the Experts
When in need of a good book, it's always best to ask the experts which book is best. I just saw on GotDotNet that the Wintellect folks posted a whole section of recommended reading , both about .Net development and on…
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AppDomains Reloaded
Oh man . Reading Chris Brumme’s Post/Book Chapter about AppDomains was a bit like the first Matrix Movie. I figured I was in for a ride, but I never knew just how in-depth it was going to be. After the beginning, I kept…
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Free ADO.NET book chapter
FTPOnline.com has a link to a free chapter download from the book Murach's VB.NET Database Programming with ADO.NET download the PDF file here . About the chapter: " How to use Data Views You'll learn how to create and…
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Coolest Birthday Ever
" To celebrate the night before your birthday I re-installed my windows box, played with Norton Ghost to keep my pristine and newly installed system safe, and discovered the joy of a system that has a hard drive that…
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Google Is Blog-Crazed
You know google has gone crazy over weblogs when: Searching for ' ISerializable ' ,the first result is not related to the Iserializable Interface, but to a weblog Searching for 'IUnknown ' ,the first result is not…
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BillG Joke
Here's a good one I heared: Bill Gates goes fishing. Suddently he notices he catches somehting. When he rolls in his catch, he sees a gold fish on the hook. The fish suddenly opens its mouth and says " Hey bill, how…
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101 Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Applications
Oh man. I've got to get me Early & Adopter's new book. Even though it's in VB.NET, it's all about the framework, remember? Once you know the framework classes and how to use them , all the rest is just syntax... This…