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Latest IE7 Beta 3

The latest IE7 Beta 3 is thinner and faster than Beta 2 in my opinion... Not bad. :o)

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Online Office System

Apart from Writely and Spreadsheet from Google family, Marcus told me that he's trying another online spreadsheet system (EditGrid) at a MVP gathering event last night. :o)

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HKSqlUG look like HKUmac?

I met a member during the last SQL UG wine tasting gathering, and he gave me a little surprise:

"Your user group and this gathering look like HKUmac user group"

AFAIK, The Hong Kong MAC user group haven't organized any gathering at Cellarmaster in the past (Did you, Belle?). Obviously, we are focusing on different technology as well, so I don't understand why he have this kind of feeling. :o)

Anyway, Let me know what do you feel about SQL UG, or more specifically let me know how I can improve our user group like the successful Mac user group.

(Is it just our look & feel like HKUmac... or it's a common impression that Microsoft technology tends to copy from others? ;o)

Colt Kwong

SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition

A new member to the SQL Server 2005 family:

SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition

• Benefit?
• Different from SQL Server Express?

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Chinese Input Language Failure in Windows XP

I faced problem of Chinese input in my Windows XP few weeks ago but I haven't get any possible solution. I even posted to a local IT Pro community without any hints. I haven't solve this problem for few weeks because it's not critical and doesn't affect my day work in fact...

Today, there's a Windows XP installation disk on my desk (I don't know why though) so I try to locate and extract 3 necessary files (A15.TB_, A234.TB_ and ACODE.TB_) with the help of Billy. Yeah, Billy remind me a good command for extracting this file - EXPAND. I expanded these files and then copy to the System32 folder - Done.

I jot down all of the file names and necessary command because you may find lots of solution for this error message / problem from Google, but no one can tell you what're the exact file names or procedure indeed.

Hope this helps,

Colt

FindControl Failed For The Error Provider Control

I have a User Control containing a Error Provider, and I need to find and parse it out of my Action Pane control. So, I get a reference to the parent control and then loop all children recursively (pretty common approach, right?) Once I find the Error Provider, I can cast and further work on it ideally.

However, I can't find this control from the control tree (surprise me) because I'm able to see the parent control (ContainerControl) of the Error Provider is the User Control itself...



What I finally did is to create a Get property on the User Control and expose the Error Provider.

Colt Kwong