Archives
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I am canceling all .NET Technical Publication subscriptions
MSDN this Month: 95% Longhorn
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Calendar only works if Outlook is open
I've gotten in the habit of closing applications once I am done with them. Well, duh, Microsoft Calendar only works if Outlook is open. Missing 2-3 appointments was a tough way to learn this.
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Update on our XPish process
We finished iteration #3, 2 days behind schedule. The customer knew this ahead of time and agreed to it. Actually, the customer suggested the extra 2 days.
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Why do I care what it looks like inside Microsoft
There is quite a bit of blog traffic regarding Channel9 and something about a video showing what it looks like inside MS. Me, I could care less. No more than I care what it looks like in other folk's office. Walls, pictures, floors, monitors, pens, paper, phones, etc.
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Brian Noyes
Finally ripped the plastic off my May 2004 msdn magazine, and I see Brian's Click Once article was published. Congrats Brian! Brian recently spoke at one of our .NET UG Meetings. He is a great speaker and is well versed in .NET.
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Assigning a DefaultValue for a sql server uniqueidentifier datatype: NewGuid
One of our Datatables pk is a uniqueidentifier. I could not figure out how to set the DefaultValue for this DataColumn.
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the dreaded licenses.licx file and the IDE
After about 2-3 hours of hair pulling, I now have this figured out (thanks Jose).
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why so many instances of devenv.ex running?
One of our developers could not get a build to work....'being used by another process' error.
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a stupid thing I do over and over and over....and then I did it again!
So today I am testing some code. I keep getting a NullRef Exception. I am beating my head against my desk why.
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VS.NET and versioning conflicts
Well, it finally happened. DLL Hell all over. The below comes from a very reliable source. When using a patch or new version of an assembly within the IDE, you will need to know this.
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Filtering Spam
If you use Outlook and need to filter spam, for free, use SpamBayes:
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DataAdapter.Update Bug
Our Select from a sql server table returns 15 columns. Back on the client, we add 2 custom DataColumns that have expressions assigned to them. We databind to these custom DataColumns for display purposes only.