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[Vista] What does Vista do when it Sleeps? by jdanforth

I have to say the new "power button" which puts Vista into the new "Sleep" mode seems nice. My 2 Ghz laptop (which doesn't have much on it yet I must admit) goes to sleep in 1 second and starts up in pretty much the same time. Superfast - I like it. As...
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[Ajax] GWT - Google Web Toolkit by jdanforth

Related to what I wrote in my previous post about Script#, there is already GWT - Google Web Toolkit , which does something similar but with Java. You write your front end in the Java language, and the GWT compiler converts the code into JavaScript and...
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[Ajax] Check Out the Script# Prototype by jdanforth

This should interest all of you who are into AJAX, Atlas and that kind of stuff no the ASP.NET platform - Nikhil (who is an architect on the Web Platform and Tools team at Microsoft) releases a prototype of a C# to Javascript/Ajax compiler and looks for...
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Stylish Quotes in Blog Posts by jdanforth

I found a few CSS tips and tricks to format (in my view) prettier quotes in your blog posts. For example: This is a quote. For the above, I added this CSS: blockquote { background: transparent url(quoleft.png) left top no-repeat; } If you want to add...
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[Vista] Is Sami the Default Swedish Language? by jdanforth

I had heard about this before, but someone had also said it was going to be fixed for beta 2. Looks like it wasn't because when I selected Sweden as my region, it defaulted to Sami, Lule (Sweden) as language :) There were actually 3 different Sami dialects...
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[Vista] Beta 2 Available on MSDN Subscription by jdanforth

Guess I'm not the first to notice, but beta 2 of Vista is available for download to MSDN subscription owners. 3200 MB ISO :) EDIT: There still (day after release) seems to be a problem with generating license keys for any other Vista version than the...
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[.NET 2.0] Anonymous Methods by jdanforth

My mate Eric blogs about how useful Anonymous Methods could be when calling on multiple asynchronous methods. Check it out.
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Using .NET Stored Procedures in Oracle 10g R2 by jdanforth

I've not been doing too much 10g development lately, but this was completely new to me. Quote from an OTN article about this feature : If you are a .NET developer, one of the most exciting features of Oracle Database 10g Release 2 for Windows is the ability...
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Copy Code and Paste as HTML From VisualStudio 2005 by jdanforth

There are 100's of macros and add-ins and plug-ins doing this, but I got this one from "CodingHorror" installed and configured an ALT-C shortcut to copy the code as HTML. It's a manual installation process, but it's good enough for me. Now why VS 2005...
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[.NET 2.0] Testing Generics, Collections and Yield Return by jdanforth

I've not looked too much at the yield return statement in c# 2.0 yet, but if you learn how to use it I'm sure it will become something you use "every day" when programming. Whenever you need to do some conditional iterations on a collection, array or...
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