re: Preventing IE from opening Word, Excel, etc. docs in the browser

TrackBack said:

Scott Hanselman's Weblog : Scott Hanselman's Weblog

# February 24, 2003 11:57 PM

Royo said:

I'd love to some of the code for that... interested in how this was done..

# February 25, 2003 1:44 AM

Jeff said:

I wrote up a very simple sample..here's the link:

http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/misc/propertyinfosample.zip

-jk

# February 25, 2003 1:44 PM

TrackBack said:

GAC Mapping : Robert McLaws' Blog

# February 25, 2003 11:28 PM

Robert McLaws said:

Frickin cool man. This is really handy :).

# February 25, 2003 11:58 PM

Jeff said:

I'm glad someone else found it useful -- especially so quickly!

# February 26, 2003 1:31 AM

TrackBack said:

.NET RSS Aggregators : Dustin Mihalik's Blog

# March 2, 2003 7:33 PM

Jeff,

I wrote Wildgrape NewsDesk for .NET. NewsDesk satisfies all of Dare's functional requirements.

Do you have different requirements, or perhaps you aren't happy with the way NewsDesk and other aggregators work?

I appreciate any feedback,

Dave

# March 4, 2003 12:18 PM

Jeff said:

Hi Dave-

The few that I've looked at just haven't felt right to me. They've been capable, just not a pleasure to use.

I hadn't heard of yours before. I'll give it a go when I get home tonight and let you know how it goes. Looks good!

-jk

# March 4, 2003 1:28 PM

Dejan Jelovic said:

Looks useful. Please post the project.

# March 5, 2003 6:21 AM

David Peckham said:

Well? :)

# March 5, 2003 4:00 PM

Ben Richardson said:

Yeah, I'd like to have a look at that.

# March 23, 2003 7:09 PM

Ramesh said:

Looks great... I would definitely have a look at this. pls. post as soon as you can

# April 11, 2003 7:14 AM

Nox said:

Any TIP...

This forum is presented to those interested in discussing the creation of an Anti-Spam plugin for various e-mail clients, including Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape Communicator, and others.

URL:
http://4peakstech.com/antispam/index.php

# May 3, 2003 8:12 AM

Ben Richardson said:

Hey Jeff, what do you use to make your icons? They look great, in fact, all your UI work looks very slick.

# May 21, 2003 3:17 AM

Jeff said:

Thanks, Ben :) I usually just search for public domain Mac OSX icons..

# May 21, 2003 8:32 PM

William Rohrbach said:

The Enterprise Solution Patterns URL should be http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3C81C38E-ABFC-484F-A076-CF99B3485754

# June 3, 2003 4:21 PM

anonymous said:

A completed list of all guides/articles from patterns & practices group: http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/type/CompleteList/default.asp

# June 3, 2003 6:36 PM

TrackBack said:

Robert McLaws

# June 3, 2003 8:52 PM

Andrew Roberts said:

I have had the problem with programs blowing away your Visual Studio instalation. In my case I fixed it by re-registering mscoree.dll with regsvr32.

Hope this helps.

Andrew Roberts

# June 4, 2003 3:21 PM

JimS said:

check out the Aqua Data Studio here:

www.aquafold.com

# June 10, 2003 1:41 PM

Jesse said:

[quote]Of course this will be of no use to anyone doing commercial development on .NET[/quote]

Why should it not be possible to use for a commercial product? Just include the J# redist and this addon with the installer and no one will ever know you installed it. You currently ahve to supply the .net framework too as you can't expect for people to have it installed.

It all compiles to IL, so speed should not be an issue :)

# June 23, 2003 5:06 AM

Jeff said:

Sorry, I should've qualified that statement: It's not supported and very likely will never be. I can't imagine anyone taking the risk of shipping commercial software on an unsupported framework (MSFT's Swing in this case).

# June 23, 2003 10:53 AM

Dave Burke said:

Jeff, I really like your .net stuff index page at silver.com. I definitely want to go back there and spend more time. Thanks!

# June 28, 2003 8:01 PM

Chris Pirillo said:

Dude, that is AWESOME!

# June 28, 2003 11:06 PM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks, guys. Gotta love how you can whip up just about anything these days w/.NET in < 30 mins. Joy!

# June 30, 2003 12:23 AM

Ron Green said:

It is not neccessary to "massage" the OPML any longer. The current beta, 1a, will handle the OPML with or without the head tag.

# June 30, 2003 1:23 AM

Jeff Key said:

Good to know. Thanks, Ron.

# June 30, 2003 1:28 AM

Darshan Singh said:

I've been working on a RSS Feed reader using C# .NET. The project RSSConnect with complete source code is available at http://www.PerfectXML.com/RSSConnect. Some of the unique/salient features include ability to export to database and search (phase 1, improvements coming in next release), XSLT skins, check for new feeds, check for RSSConnect application update, Favorites list, OPML import/export, and many other options.

Be sure to check it out: http://www.PerfectXML.com/RSSConnect .

Any comments/suggestions: Please email me at darshan@PerfectXML.com. Thanks.

# June 30, 2003 4:06 AM

Derek said:

Jesse, the library FAQ specifically states that "the Supplemental UI Library is available for academic and other non-professional use only". Therefore I would imagine that there would be licensing issues involved in using it for commercial purposes.

# July 2, 2003 8:47 AM

Addy Santo said:

Have you found any profilers which support cross-domain profiling? The only one I know of is DevPartners, which I don't get along with that well.

# July 2, 2003 9:59 PM

Jeff Key said:

Unfortunately not, as I'm in the same boat as you.

# July 2, 2003 10:03 PM

Roy Osherove said:

I wrote an article about dynamic plugin loading using this technique:
http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/story/8048.aspx

You might also be interested in my .Net debugging resources page:
http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/story/7573.aspx

# July 3, 2003 5:52 AM

SBC said:

Jeff - thanks for the reference.

# July 5, 2003 11:00 AM

sak said:

this is one of excellent knowledge base site.
thanks for this contributuion

# July 11, 2003 5:32 AM

Ron Green said:

A folder name cannot start with a ".".

# July 12, 2003 5:46 PM

sirshannon said:

exactly, that's what the error message should say.

# July 12, 2003 6:34 PM

Dominic Hopton said:

The IE status bar issue isn't quite what you think it is - it's not randomly forgetting it.

Firstly, Under 9x & NT4(With active desktop), IE would by default run InProc with explorer.exe. This mean't that it would save settings only properly when you exited explorer.exe. You could change this by setting an option in tools/Internet Options.

Under 2000, this was the other way by default, and all seemed to be happy unless the last window you closed was a pop-up, which had hidden the status bar - which mean't it got set to off.

Under XP, that problem almost went away - normal ad popops don't screw anything up. But, some pop ups (found on certain forums) do screw it up still. Also, XP has a horrid problem off occsionally (dependant on where the link comes from) from starting IE inproc (back to the 98 problem). Additionally, because of this inprocness, the mix between the status bar showing in IE, and showing in Explorer is linked because of some quatum tunnel.

Needless to say, I understand (from observation) what is going on - I dont lose my status bar - Ever.

# July 13, 2003 8:17 AM

Dominic Hopton said:

Filenames: Filenames & directories CAN start with a . - just create them from a command prompt. It's mearly an explorer "feature" that you can't. I do agree, it's a bit retarded :)

# July 13, 2003 8:19 AM

Jeff Key said:

Dominic: I still consider it a bug; it's a user setting. If I don't turn it off, it shouldn't be saved as such. (Although your status bar history was very informative.)

Ah yes, the command line. It seems like I rarely need to go there for file operations these days. Didn't even think about that. Bravo!

# July 13, 2003 11:09 AM

TrackBack said:

Darrell Norton's Blog

# July 13, 2003 11:31 AM

Richard Tallent said:

Great minds think alike ;), something in the ether made me post last night about another defect/annoyance in My Network Places...

http://www.tallent.us/weblogx/permalink.aspx/ed9bec07-3ca3-4a00-8865-190a570a9b03

# July 13, 2003 1:37 PM

Jerry Dennany said:

Actually, this is a common problem at most retailers. There was recently a radio article here in Atlanta where the investigative journalists went to different major retailers (Target, CVS, etc) and purchased a set list of items. Over half the time they were overcharged on at least one item. At CVS, they were overcharged each and every time they shopped there.
I believe it is more a problem of keeping sales and inventory systems up to date than anything intentional.

# July 13, 2003 3:28 PM

Phil Scott said:

We had two network adapters here at work with the same MACs. They were some pretty generic (i.e. 8 bucks a pop) network cards.

Shut down the whole network somehow. Took a week to figure out. You just don't think "hmmmm, what if two nics have the same MAC address?"

# July 13, 2003 5:17 PM

Phil Scott said:

I worked at Target and I can say that they are pretty concerned about getting the pricing correct. The main thing Target has going for it is image, and price fixing ruins their image. Plus, each department seemingly was moved around weekly, and when that happens new price stickers got put out. Price stickers come from the same computer as what rings up front.

The worst time to shop is on sundays. That's when the ads roll over. So, on saturday night you could very well have a 17 year old kid working chemicals after the store closed flipping all the ads (taking down last weeks, putting up the new ones). That usually gets weeded out by 10am though.

Besides that, I'd say 99.9% of the time someone complaining at our store was trying to rip us off. It was a pain in the ass. People moving clearence stickers was a big problem. We even had some people that would move entire product displays onto a different shelf to make it look like the whole product was mispriced (very sneaky and would work if we didn't have security people).

God I loved working at target :)

# July 13, 2003 5:27 PM

Baby? Bathwater? said:

Of course by reusing only the concept and not the code, you're going to throw out all the little extras that the old codebase had to deal with along the way... gotchas, unknown requirements, bug fixes, etc, etc...

# July 13, 2003 6:23 PM

Jeff Key said:

Good point; however, I've found that the time it takes for someone to sculpt the code into its new context could've been used to write it from scratch. Naturally, this depends on the amount of code. Bug fixes, requirements and the like from the old code may or may not pertain to the code's new home. I've seen this happen too many times. People patch together code from different projects and spend weeks trying to get it to work together because there are so many implementation-specific bits floating around. Of course, YMMV.

# July 13, 2003 6:32 PM

Tim Marman said:

You'd be surprised how often people don't reuse code the way it should be done (ie a class library) and instead copy and paste.

It may save you some up-front development costs, but it sure as hell doesn't help maintenance costs and maintainability in general. In fact, it might even be worse if you have to keep the copy-and-pasted code in sync across different applications.

# July 13, 2003 8:51 PM

Jerry Dennany said:

The IEEE is the governing body for MAC address assignment, just as IANA governs the IP address space. The problem is that some hardware vendors are too cheap (or dumb) to follow the IEEE standard. (I once worked for a vendor that falls into the latter category).

# July 13, 2003 8:53 PM

Jason said:

Nice theory, but I work in the real world. Writing from scratch would be wonderful, but I have clients that pay me to deliver solutions, not continually improve with each and every line of code I right. We make the effort when we can, of course, but sometimes compromises have to be made.

As for general purpose assemblies, my experience is that it's sometimes much more efficient to just copy and paste instead of building "flea market" assemblies containing a raft of often unrelated routines. Again, there are exceptions and when you've got a large number of related routines it of course makes sense to package them up, but code reuse through libraries still has a place as well (esp. when you're talking about javascript or D/HTML snippets). Additionally, I'd suggest you consider that often routines need to be tweaked to fit the situation, and often it's more economical (and easier to maintain) to go to your code library as a starting point instead of generalizing or extending (and regression testing) your assembly routine.

# July 14, 2003 9:33 AM

Jason said:

"right" in my previous post should, of course, be "write". Dammit, it's early here and I destroyed the credibility of a reasonably decent pseudo-rant :(

# July 14, 2003 9:35 AM

John Cavnar-Johnson said:

Dude, It's the major league all-star game. You know, baseball. It's being played in Chicago tonight.

# July 15, 2003 10:01 PM

Jeff Key said:

Ok, so I am working too much. You're right. I'm a hockey guy, and a Wings fan at that. (It's OK since I grew up playing in Michigan.) I liked playing baseball back in the day but am a typical Cubs fan: The only games I watch are at Wrigley.

# July 15, 2003 10:05 PM

Aemca said:

Maybe you should read what Joel has to say about this sort of thing:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com

# July 17, 2003 10:12 AM

clue said:

"Hold down the shift key in the shutdown dialog to change "Stand By" to "Hibernate". "

This is my favourite. Which genius in the UI department at MS thought that this was more intuitive than providing 4 buttons in the shutdown dialog?

# August 2, 2003 6:22 AM

Observer said:

>>I've never completely understood how MSFT benefits from the platform-independent aspect of .NET.<<

Well, at least "more .NET (on Unix/Linux)" is almost equal to "less Java (on Unix/Linux)".

# August 6, 2003 12:33 AM

Fabrice said:

>>I've never completely understood how MSFT benefits from the platform-independent aspect of .NET.<<

To keep Office (and Media Player and...) running on other platforms (such as Mac), and at the same time keep these tools evolving and making benefit of .NET in the future, support for .NET is required on these platforms.

Marketing is even a greater reason: "look people, no lock-in wih .NET".

# August 6, 2003 6:20 AM

Jeff Key said:

Office I could see, but lower-leve stuff like Media Player definitely wouldn't work in this scenario unless there was a multimedia abstraction, and that certainly isn't done yet on any other platforms (AFAIK).

Your Office comment did spark something in my brain. I would be to MSFT's advantage if they could write a purely managed Office that would run on .NET implementations built by others. Interesting concept if they could ever get the WinForms API to work on other platforms; however, from what I've read, this won't happen anytime soon.

# August 6, 2003 11:46 AM

Fabrice said:

I agree with your remarks on Media Player and WinForms.
All this is just assumption, and we are far from seing anything like this soon I guess. But who knows when...

# August 6, 2003 7:14 PM

Michelle said:

Well, my problem is that every 5 times I run my app, one of them my icons doens´t show up at all, ANY icon, in my treevie, toolbar and even property grid.
I dont want to use a manifest cause I would have to do it every time I compile it.
:S

# August 7, 2003 10:21 AM

Jeff Key said:

So that happens _every_ five times? Haven't heard of that one. Ouch. If you can find a way to add a manifest to the bits via the command line, you could create a post-build event to do it.

# August 7, 2003 10:31 AM

HumanCompiler said:

I have a Tablet and love it. Now...could I live without it? Yes...and I think there-in lies the problem...once it gets to the point where people can't live without it (assuming that happens), then you'll see them EVERYWHERE, IMO.

# August 7, 2003 11:55 PM

Mads Nissen said:

Haha! You're right! the only one I've ever seen was in the hands of Microsoft Architect Steve Schwartz at the Architects Tour. I could never used it either, and my palm (even with a keyboard) is extreeemely dusty:)

# August 8, 2003 4:00 AM

Michelle said:

hehe sorry, language problems here.
I was trying to say that this happens a lot, at least _one_ time every five times I run it.
I mean, its very frequent.

And I'm almost giving up EnableVisualStyles. *sigh*

# August 8, 2003 8:15 AM

Rachel Reese said:

I've seen Marcie use hers... does that count? A friend of mine is looking at getting one. He's not a gadget geek like me (he's still on single-finger typing), but wants something easier to cart around than a laptop, where he can quickly write down notes to himself.

# August 8, 2003 12:44 PM

Michelle said:

So I gave up using EnableVisualStyles, and I no longer need to add the manifest after every time I compile cause now I puted the correct name on the manifest. Duh.
:)

# August 12, 2003 8:00 AM

Alex Hoffman said:

Fantastic!

# August 16, 2003 10:04 AM

David Stone said:

Hey that's cool. I hadn't thought about using it like that before. Nice! :)

# August 19, 2003 12:56 PM

Jamie Cansdale said:

I also like the way you can outline an entire assembly. This is a great way to see a summary of the API you're exposing to the world...

# August 19, 2003 1:58 PM

Stephane Rodriguez said:

WinCV.exe does this too. (Wincv.exe is part of the .NET SDK).
But then of course, if a single tool like Ref does this and many other things, I don't see any real objection to favor it.

# August 19, 2003 2:01 PM

Sheldon said:

I get "the application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application." on two different win xp machines.

Any suggestions?

lennoxs_at_lcoinc.com

# August 21, 2003 1:24 AM

G. Andrew Duthie said:

OK, so I'm trying to figure out how you managed to get an hour and a half of video onto a CD-R, when TMPGEnc claims that using VCD, only 70 minutes of video will fit onto a standard CD-R.

Did you modify some of the settings to reduce the amount of data being encoded?

# August 24, 2003 12:02 AM

Jeff Key said:

Oops, should've mentioned that. On the third wizard page in TMPG there is a checkbox labelled "Source Range". Check the box and a new dialog comes up where you can set the range to convert. For the latest .NET Show, which was 1.5 hours, I selected a range of an hour for the first, which happily fit on a CD. The last page in the wizard lets you create another project in which you can have it convert the secon half hour. Once you've done that it'll convert it into the two clips you've specified.

# August 24, 2003 12:06 AM

# August 28, 2003 2:38 AM

Clint said:

That's a great point. I've often had to dig in via Anakrino to find out these answers

# August 28, 2003 3:15 AM

Shannon J Hager said:

Yes, the firewall has been enabled for (I think) every connection I've added since it went gold. It caused me quite a bit of trouble the first few times (until I found a list of ports to open for Messenger file transfers).
I've wondered why everyone says it needs to be enabled by default when it always has for me.

# August 29, 2003 3:19 PM

Phil Scott said:

I've always had it enabled by default here at work too.

Perhaps the MSDN bits have it enabled, and the retail (or more likely the OEM) versions don't?

# August 29, 2003 3:27 PM

Paul said:

Visual Assist maybe??

# August 29, 2003 4:58 PM

Fons Sonnemans said:

I use QuickCode!

http://www.dvxp.com/downloads.aspx

# August 29, 2003 5:20 PM

Dan Bright said:

I think this was added with the "Advanced Networking Pack for Windows XP". It was installed via Windows Updae for me.

# August 29, 2003 5:35 PM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks Fons, I think QuickCode.NET is what I'm looking for!

http://www.dvxp.com/downloads.aspx#QuickCode.NET

# August 29, 2003 6:03 PM

Frans Bouma said:

yeah quickcode is what you need.

# August 29, 2003 6:20 PM

Roy Osherove said:

CodeSmart.Net(axtools.com) does that, plus lots of other things . It's not free though. (I'm planning to write a review about it)

# August 29, 2003 6:22 PM

Dave said:

XP Home.... OEM version on PC bought last October (Dell): nope. No firewall.

XP Home.... Ratail Upgrade version bought last April (upgrading an ME box): nope. No firewall.

XP Pro.... Retail Upgrade bought last January (upgrading a Win2k Pro box): nope. No firewall.

XP Pro.... MSDN Universal subscription version bought last April (upgrading an OEM XP Home box): yes. Firewall defaults.

Seems my experience differs from others. Maybe this is why I've been vocal about this Shannon. All I've asked is for the setup to check for new versions - and ensure this is defaulted. Seems someone in the 55,000 can figure out how to get this done.

# August 29, 2003 9:44 PM

Jeff Key said:

OK, finally making sense. I didn't think it was enabled by default on my home XP Pro box (which I think is retail) when I first got it.

# August 29, 2003 10:07 PM

Shannon J Hager said:

I am still hoping MS will package a XP SR-1 or XP SE or something with the SP1 and other patches rolled in. It is basically impossible for a new user to download and install the needed updates for a freshly installed version of Windows XP if they are on a dial-up. This would solve the problem for all future users, maybe...
For current users, this could be a BIG problem. Adding a firewall for most users is something they won't do so it would have to be done automatically, which means all of a sudden they can't transfer files and other things suddenly stop working. People who can't enable a firewall by themselves certainly can't figure out how to open the ports needed for MSN Messenger file transfers (among other things).

# August 30, 2003 1:43 PM

Jeff Key said:

I agree. The last time I counted I had ~30 hotfixes installed, consisting of who knows how many MB of data. I can't image how long it would take to download on a modem, much less a year from now when who knows how many hotfixes will exist then. The last few days I've read that they're considering pushing up SP2. The beta cycles for SPs are usually pretty long, so if that's the case, they better get on it quickly.

Regarding Messenger, it manages its own ports via UPnP, IIRC. I have no idea how this actually works, but I've been running the XP/Win2k3 firewalls for years and have only had to tweak their settings to let additional stuff like Remote Desktop and FTP through.

# August 30, 2003 1:58 PM

William Bartholomew said:

Also check out http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/hotkee.asp?target=hotkee it does a similar thing but works in all applications.

# August 31, 2003 5:57 PM

I wound up fixing the text not showing issue and added red sqiggly error lines. Good stuff! Hopefully I can get the Font issue resolved, as it works in #D, but not in my little test app. I'll need to dig into their code and see what they're doing.

# September 8, 2003 12:55 AM

Sorry About this Jeff. Me again

Any chance of allowing for a Search path for Other DLLs that I might already have that I could then (Import/using)

Rory

# September 19, 2003 5:27 AM

Eric W. Bachtal said:

I'll be sure and check out the GDN site. Thanks again for taking the time!

# September 19, 2003 5:41 AM

Am I the only person that thinks you'd strain your neck looking at one of those monitors? How far away from it would you have to be to see it all at once?

The start button is way over at the left -- probably have to turn your head quite far to even see it.

That's my excuse for not buying one and I'm sticking to it :)

# September 25, 2003 6:23 AM

TrackBack said:

# November 23, 2003 11:16 PM

Garrett Serack said:

Hey Simon :)

ScintillaNET is working quite great actually. You can find a recent build of it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/scide , and our mailing lists are at http://www.scide.net . You may wish to check it out.

It is still undergoing some changes, but is certianly usable.

Garrett

# November 26, 2003 9:48 AM

TrackBack said:

# November 26, 2003 1:58 PM

Jeff Key said:

Forgot to mention I got the link from Gunnersonsan: http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/EricGu/permalink.aspx/ec3e6df8-fddb-4ec1-9766-f7b0f165da55

# November 28, 2003 6:17 PM

brad abrams said:

Thanks for the plug Jeff... Yes, we do spend HOURS everyday discussing these issues... I have recently found it VERY handy to use comments and quotes from folks off from my blog in these discussions... Clearly helping us build a better platform API...

# November 28, 2003 7:51 PM

HumanCompiler said:

I don't think people who have been using VB.NET for a while use them anyway...I know I don't. Didn't know the technical details of it though...thanks for the read :)

# November 28, 2003 9:46 PM

SBC said:

I take a more "English grammarian" approach - basing the properties & methods by classifying the 'adjectives' and 'verbs' of the 'nouns' (objects/classes).. worked so far.. (touch wood)..

# November 29, 2003 7:28 PM

Shahn Hogan said:

I could absolutely use this type of utility. I'm getting ready to purchase a new drive myself. I'm sort of reluctant to do so, mostly because of the drive letter confusion for my wife. If you release it you'd have at least one download.

# November 29, 2003 10:33 PM

Jeff Key said:

Haha oops! I forgot to include the download link to the debug bits. I've since updated the post. Sorry about that!

# November 29, 2003 10:35 PM

Brian Desmond said:

Well, if you've got someplace to back all your stuff up, you can convert the disks to dyanmic disks in Computer Management, and create a RAID0 where all the drives are striped together as one. I forget what the limit is on the max # of GB in a partition, but its a decent size.

The better solution, but more expensive is to get an IDE RAID controller. They're not terribly expensive, and they're also a hell of a lot faster than Windows software RAID.

# November 29, 2003 10:41 PM

Jeff Key said:

Regarding the wife problem, if she sticks with "My Documents" as her file repository, you should be all set. Since My Documents is a logical folder, you can put it anywhere, including the new drive, and she'll never know. (Unless she's playing around in the command prompt, and if that's the case you've plenty of other things to worry about...)

# November 29, 2003 10:45 PM

Brian Grunkemeyer said:

That's a good workaround. However, you should consider using TextWriter.Null instead of writing your own class. We were thinking ahead in V1, providing it for this exact purpose. (Unfortunately it is a static field, not a property. We forgot to fix once properties were supported by our compilers. But you can of course still use it, probably with identical syntax.)

- Brian
CLR Base Class Libraries team

# November 30, 2003 4:55 AM

Jeff Key said:

Wouldn't you know it. I don't have my beloved MSDN docs installed locally for a couple days and look what happens. Glad to know it's there for next next. Thanks!

# November 30, 2003 5:03 AM

AsbjornM said:

Should we post bugs here?

System.IO.PathTooLongException: The path is too long after being fully qualified. Make sure path is less than 260 characters.
at System.IO.Path.nGetFullPathHelper(String path, Char[] invalidPathChars, Char[] whitespaceChars, Char directorySeparator, Char altDirectorySeparator, Char volumeSeparator, Boolean fullCheck, String& newPath)
at System.IO.Path.GetFullPathInternal(String path)
at System.Security.Util.StringExpressionSet.CanonicalizePath(String path, Boolean needFullPath)
at System.Security.Util.StringExpressionSet.AddExpressions(String[] str, Boolean checkForDuplicates, Boolean needFullPath)
at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission.AddPathList(FileIOPermissionAccess access, String[] pathListOrig, Boolean checkForDuplicates, Boolean needFullPath, Boolean copyPathList)
at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission..ctor(FileIOPermissionAccess access, String path)
at System.IO.FileSystemInfo.get_FullName()
at SingleDrive.MainForm.PopulateDirectory(TreeNode node) in D:\Documents and Settings\Jeff\My Documents\Visual Studio Projects\sliver\SingleDrive\_Project\MainForm.cs:line 519
at SingleDrive.MainForm.tv_AfterSelect(Object sender, TreeViewEventArgs e) in D:\Documents and Settings\Jeff\My Documents\Visual Studio Projects\sliver\SingleDrive\_Project\MainForm.cs:line 582
at System.Windows.Forms.TreeView.OnAfterSelect(TreeViewEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.TreeView.TvnSelected(NMTREEVIEW* nmtv)
at System.Windows.Forms.TreeView.WmNotify(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.TreeView.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

# November 30, 2003 8:17 AM

Wallym said:

Oracle has a similar problem.

Wally

# November 30, 2003 9:24 AM

Shahn Hogan said:

Jeff,
Yeah I try to keep our stuff in the MyDocuments, but sometimes I move our music around and that doesn't go over to well. :) Thanks for the download, I'll check it out today.

# November 30, 2003 11:02 AM

Tobias Luetke said:

But you do know that windows NT has this functionallity build in on filesystem level?

You can mount hard drives into the file system of your main harddrive in the Disk manager.

# November 30, 2003 11:13 AM

Jeff Key said:

Tobias: AFAIK you can't do that w/mapped drives, and that's what I really needed since more than half of my drives are on my server, not my workstation.

# November 30, 2003 1:08 PM

HumanCompiler said:

Very cool, Jeff! *thumbsup*

Isn't LongHorn doing something like this too eventually?

# November 30, 2003 1:11 PM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks, Eric. Regarding Longhorn: Kind of. WinFS is a layer of abstraction above your logical drives, but doesn't necessarily consist of each entire drive. Currently, only a couple "folders" in Longhorn are backed by WinFS (Documents, etc.). I've read that WinFS supports some pretty cool replication, but I'm not sure if you can transparently include metadata for files or objects that don't exist on your machine.

Disclaimer: I haven't been able to keep up my Longhorn reading lately so I may be completely wrong.

# November 30, 2003 1:40 PM

Dave Dustin said:

Very nice little application.

About the only thing I can think of that is also needed in it is the ability to move files/folders around inside the folders.

# November 30, 2003 3:32 PM

Thomas Williams said:

G'day Jeff, thanks for the utility mate! Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, would it be difficult to add:
- copy/paste
- icon/list views
- "real" right-click menu for each file
The potential for this utility reminds me of an old file manager XTreeGold...

# November 30, 2003 6:32 PM

John Frazier (Borland) said:

You should never install any Java application to a path that has spaces. Whenever one of these paths has to be resolved to the classpath, bad things happen and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) has problems. Since OptimizeIt is mostly written in Java, it is subject to this same precaution.

# December 1, 2003 5:22 PM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks, John, I had no idea. You may want to enforce that requirement in the installer, as I chose a folder with spaces (assuming the installer was from another era) and it let me proceed.

# December 1, 2003 5:28 PM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks for the comments. Hopefully I'll get some free time over the next week or two to add those things and get the source out.

# December 1, 2003 5:38 PM

Mel Grubb said:

You know you can detach the tool windows, right? SImply Un-pin a tool window like the server explorer for example. Once it's unpinned, you can grab the title bar and drag it around the screen, or if you really want a lot of space, onto a second monitor.

# December 2, 2003 4:28 PM

Ryan Rinaldi said:

Here Here! This counts as my vote for sepereate instances. VS.NET is a wonderful IDE, but I don't need everything under the sun running in it.

# December 2, 2003 4:39 PM

Paschal said:

I vote too for separation and better I vote for separate machines (if youc can)

# December 2, 2003 4:41 PM

Mike Gunderloy said:

Of course, you get more from XMLSPY integration than just avoiding the Alt-Tab. If you're used to XMLSPY, it's nice to double-click an XML file in Solution Explorer and have it open with the editing environment you prefer, rather than the somewhat pathetic tools that VS .NET natively supplies.

# December 2, 2003 4:48 PM

Jeff Key said:

Mel: Yup, I always have the call stack, immediate and debug tool windows on another monitor. Unfortunately, you can't "undock" code/content windows, which most of these things (data windows, for example) use.

Mike: Can't you set VS.NET's "Open With" to open XML Spy instead? I prefer to have the code referencing the doc and the doc itself both visible at the same time, thus my argument. Horizontal tab groups are an option, but not one that I like.

# December 2, 2003 5:20 PM

Paul Wilson said:

I too like separate apps.

# December 2, 2003 9:37 PM

Marc LaFleur said:

It really depends on the product. XML spy makes some sense. Others on the other hand feel shoe-horned into the IDE.

# December 3, 2003 8:16 AM

Dan Bright said:

Actually my friend tells me that Pro won't run on Server 2003, and Diskeeper Server is in the $225-$300 range.

# December 3, 2003 7:32 PM

marko said:

Winternals has some good disk tools. You may also want to check out Sysinternals for free stuff.

http://www.winternals.com/

# December 4, 2003 1:10 AM

Matt Berther said:

My favorite now is Raxco's PerfectDisk...

http://www.perfectdisk.com/

# December 4, 2003 2:19 AM

John McGrath said:

I do not think the issue has anything to do with modernity ("What year is this?"), but rather with compatibility. Optimizeit must run other programs that do not deal well with spaces in file names, and it must pass them the names of files that are within its own directory tree. If it is installed into a directory that contains a space, those programs will not work properly.

Many of those programs were originally written on other operating systems such as *nix, where spaces are often used as delimeters so they do not work well in file names. Windows programs have similar (actually more) restrictions with other characters, such as ":", ";", and "\".

# December 4, 2003 3:13 AM

Lorenzo Barbieri said:

Go to PerfectDisk... it's a lot better!!!

# December 4, 2003 3:34 AM

Frans Bouma said:

Beware, removing signatures from assemblies is easy using ilasm / ildasm. Once the signature is removed, the 'protection' is gone. (also check out sn -Vr, which will make that your assembly's signature will not be checked, so you can tamper the code.

I learned this the hard way, as I used this protection to make all code in my product be used only by one tool and not by other software. However some people took 5 minutes and removed the signatures and with that the protection and then could use the code in any other tool.

# December 4, 2003 4:00 AM

Darrell said:

Yeah, and PerfectDisk costs just as much as diskkeeper (~$45 for workstation, ~$200+ for server). So take your pick, but you won't save any money.

# December 4, 2003 8:07 AM

Chris Frazier said:

Yeah! Way to stick it to the man, you rebel you!

(disclaimer: the writer of this comment means this in jest. Jeff, you're awesome:)

# December 5, 2003 2:21 AM

SBC said:

Does one have a performance improvement (or hit) over the other or are both the same? I think it'll be upto the compiler and what code it generates.. That'd be good to test...

# December 5, 2003 8:03 AM

Phil Weber said:

> "...a list of statement-expressions separated by commas"

Funny, I don't see any commas in your sample code. Who wrote that spec?! ;-)

# December 5, 2003 9:02 AM

Jeff Key said:

No spec. The sample above was done using the XP methodology. I (the customer) needed an example for this post, so I worked on a simple use case with me, pair programmed it with myself and wound up with that. It was beautiful!

# December 5, 2003 9:25 AM

Andrew said:

Eeek, it ain't the man who would get stuck, its the guy a the next desk :P

Im a real stickler for "visually parsed easily" and the {} around the contents of the loop are definitely optimized out.

# December 5, 2003 9:29 AM

Ken Hirsch said:

Either one is a bad idea because the value of i in shares[i] may or may not be incremented. It's undefined by the C standard what the order of evaluation is.

# December 5, 2003 1:28 PM

Scott Cate, kbAlertz.com said:

i use quickcode in VS and I love it. I can't imagine replacing it, even in whidbey. Even if it does the same thing, i love my ALT+Q.

I also LOVE that I can copy/paste others items from the forums on their website.

# December 5, 2003 4:41 PM

Dylan Greene said:

I blog about this too.. http://www.dylangreene.com/blog.asp?blogID=277

# December 6, 2003 3:19 AM

Scott Watermasysk said:

With a good aggreator and commentRSS you should be able to keep up with what's going on...but I agree it should be much much easier :)

On another note, .Text 0.95 will allow you to turn comments off on a post by post basis.

-Scott

# December 6, 2003 9:14 AM

Andrew said:

I've always seen blogs as an unthreaded forum / messageboard with a recent posts page.

This makes it very difficult to have a dicussion, we all just spout what we think.

# December 6, 2003 11:25 AM

Michael Flanakin said:

I can think of two solutions to this...

1. Turn comments off on a post.

2. Turn comments off on a post and add a comments redirection link - a link to the originating blog's comment section.

3. When posting comments (in blog A), allow people to post a URL to their blog post (in blog B) on the same topic. This could also be handled if the blogger (of B) adds a link to his/her post, which would be tracked back in the comments (of blog A). The only reason to do this is if blog B's post was before blog A's post.

I hope this made sense :-) I think all three would be good solutions. Very flexible.

# December 7, 2003 4:10 AM

Michael Earls said:

What about blogs that do not have a comment system?
I feel that the trackback is for this purpose. You should be able to click on the Trackback link of the original entry and track it all the way back to the most distant comment.

I'm not sure that your solution is the best (read only) because it prevents others from exapnding on the thought.

Perhaps we should look more closely at the root problem... we need to be able to read all comments about a specific entry. So, we establish GUID-based Permalinks and we establish that comments should use the trackback link provided by your server. Then, wehn someone uses your trackback link when they post their comments, your server could serve up a special page that contains all the entries that tracked back to yours. Your server can figure it out based on track backs.

But, of course, that requires that the comment creator uses the trackback. I'd venture to guess that you might find more people willing to do that than to not post a comment at all.

After all, they're introducing their little circle of friends/readers to your original post. I don't see any problem with tacking on some editorial. If the readers didn't like it, they wouldn't read it, they would have found out about your original link on their own.

When I link to technical entries, I sometimes add a little background or information before linking off to the original post.

I think we need a better way to track those activities, not do away with them completely.

Again, this is especially important for those weblogs out there that do not provide a commenting system.

# December 8, 2003 7:02 PM

Michael Earls said:

I broke your rule and blogged about you breaking your rule about blogging about another blogging entry.

http://www.cerkit.com/cerkitBlog/Trackback.aspx?guid=965f1f9a-af2e-42cb-9dc8-2cc0c32bef14

# December 8, 2003 7:10 PM

MercuryCrest said:

I've been having a funny little problem. Let me first ask which version of WMP you are using. I've just d/l the latest, and everytime I try to burn a CD in iTunes, WMP pops up and the whole operation freezes. It seems as though there is some sort of conflict between the two. Although the idea of Microsoft and Apple battling it out on my PC is amusing, I don't have the patience for it. Right now I am trying to find something other than iTunes which can read those files and burn a CD, hopefully without complication. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
-MC

# December 9, 2003 1:14 AM

JosephCooney said:

I seem to remember Alan Cooper or Tog or some other "usability expert" shooting down the idea of "expert mode". I can't find a URL but I seem to remember the argument going something like "expert mode" hides an arbitrary set of functionality away from users. Users are often ill equiped to judge if they are expert or not. They may be an expert in a particular domain (like an expert at Excel), so when they open up something unrelated (e.g. SQL Server) they may feel they should turn on "expert mode" and be over-whelmed with options they don't understand. In other words there IS no "Advanced User". Also having an "expert mode" can be bad because in order to change an "expert setting" they have to go to some other place utterly unrelated to what they want to do. They may not even know those settings exist, and thus miss out on features they could benefit from. I wish I could find a link.....

# December 9, 2003 9:18 PM

JosephCooney said:

I just saw this related entry in Raymond Chen's blog
http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/raymondc/permalink.aspx/cc8dd84f-7605-4145-bd4b-26413e507b02

# December 9, 2003 9:24 PM

JosephCooney said:

Doh! That Raymond Chen item is linked in the comments on Scoble's blog....sorry for all the spam.

# December 9, 2003 9:26 PM

SBC said:

one possible solution - http://radio.weblogs.com/0112769/2003/12/09.html#a307

# December 9, 2003 10:33 PM

Darrell said:

I forget who this happened to, but some programmers on slashdot or whatever got the *physical mailing address* for one of the worst spammers, and signed him up for every direct mail catalog in the US. The post office was backing up trucks to deliver junk mail to him every day. And when interviewed, he said that what the programmers did was "illegal." Poetic justice reigns supreme.

# December 9, 2003 11:47 PM

Jon Galloway said:

Scoble is insane (http://weblogs.asp.net/jkey/posts/42381.aspx) and Michael Robertson is a crackhead (http://weblogs.asp.net/jkey/posts/33053.aspx). I'm gonna try to stay off Jeff's "axis of evil" list.

I like this approach to fighting Spam: http://tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/10/12/SpamPlan27. I'm cheap as hell, and I'd still pay a penny an e-mail to stop getting 200 spams a day.

# December 10, 2003 1:27 AM

Jeff Key said:

SBC: Definitely an interesting angle.

Darrell: Are you sure that's not an urban legend? If not, that's darn funny. Too bad they didn't sign him up for tons of manure.

Jon: You can't argue with the facts! :) Scoble's a good guy, he's just an easy target.

Thanks for the link. The thing that worries me about money-based spam deterrents is that I hear it's relatively easy for these guys to get stolen credit card info. Then, not only are the victims (the spammed) getting additional charges, but you wind up with new victims -- those whose cards are illegally being used to pay for the spam.

As for using the existing infrastructure, I actually favor the digital signature method, as it's been in a good number of mail clients for a while (at least MSFT ones), as he mentioned. Add to that a SpamNet-like "vote away spam" button and you're set. SpamNet was pretty effective for me, but it used some unknown technology to fingerprint the emails, which is getting harder and harder to do. With digital signatures, you pay for the _identity_, which is constant. Once you vote a _sender's certificate_ as a spammer, it works like a primary key and there's no question as to whether or not the sender is a spammer. Of course you run the risk of blacklisting legitimate folks like catalogs and whatnot, and that problem exists today with SpamNet. If the process of obtaining a digital ID is hard enough, it may make it ineffective to try to get a new one every time their certificate is banned.

The best solution I've used in the real world so far is SpamArrest. I've been using it for a couple months now and it's stopped over 6,500 spam and not let a single one through. Yes, I need to check what it didn't let through once a day to make sure something legitimate hasn't been stopped. BUT, having to do that is a heck of a lot better than dealing with false positives and false negatives.

# December 10, 2003 8:03 AM

Eric Gunnerson said:

Hmm. I'm not sure that "touching" is really what I was trying for, but I appreciate the link.

# December 10, 2003 2:11 PM

Shahn Hogan said:

Thanks, I'm setting this up for my wife. I appreciate you spending extra time to add some of those feature requests.

# December 11, 2003 8:38 AM

Pete said:

I used to love tape drives. Time for a cup of tea while you wait for it to load.

# December 11, 2003 10:40 AM

Jeff Key said:

I hadn't thought of that, but then again I wasn't drinking tea at that age. I can imagine full meals while using punch card machines...

# December 11, 2003 11:20 AM

Jeff Key said:

Good luck, Shahn!

# December 11, 2003 10:04 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 13, 2003 11:38 PM

Phil Scott said:

Very impressive little tool. Now I want to debug something to be able to use it.

# December 14, 2003 12:28 AM

Jon Galloway said:

Wow. The slashdot effect hits quick on an XBox. Server timeout. Next oddity of science: an XBox webfarm?

# December 14, 2003 2:04 AM

Rana said:

Hi,
I agree spamming has to be stopped!Period.

# December 14, 2003 2:13 AM

Frans Bouma said:

The form is great!, it would however be more usable if you added a strong name, so it can be referenced by signed apps/assemblies. :)

Perhaps it's 'sunday morning' but I can't seem to find a way to load the assembly dynamically. (well, loading is fine, putting the object tree to browse into the form is not possible, because the code requires to know the interface of the form, and I don't want to put the assembly in the references, because it's for debugging, not for distribution :).

You could perhaps rework this by reading the object to browse from the 'Tag' of the form. This way a developer could load the form dynamically, using 'Form' as the interface of the instance, set the tag with the object to browse and show the form. :)

# December 14, 2003 7:02 AM

Kirsty said:

I got ..

Service unavailable
Description: Error processing request.
Error Message: Service unavailable

Stack Trace: System.Web.HttpException: Service unavailable

# December 14, 2003 8:04 AM

Evain Jb said:

It should work again, until everybody connect and make it crash... :D

Stupid xbox ;D

# December 14, 2003 1:45 PM

Jeff Key said:

I'm just looking forward to the day XBoxes are hijacked and used as spam bots.

# December 14, 2003 3:44 PM

Zertox said:

i try stuff like that all the time ^o)

# December 14, 2003 4:07 PM

Evain Jb said:

My xbox can't bear this new celebrity.
The hard disk seems to be dead, maybe it is just the integrity of the root partitions, maybe it is the hardware ( 100 days of uptime ... )

Don't know if I'll be able to save it...

# December 14, 2003 4:26 PM

Jeff Key said:

Great idea, Frans! Unfortunately, the Tag property is not virtual(!). I changed it around a bit so now the control and form implement the new IStateBrowser interface, as well as strong-naming it. I've also included a sample project that loads the assembly dynamically, creates the form, sets the ObjectToBrowse property then shows the form. I've updated the website with the new zip.

# December 14, 2003 4:29 PM

# December 17, 2003 1:47 AM

TrackBack said:

# December 18, 2003 6:04 PM

Alex Hoffman said:

Great - I have exactly the same problem and this solves it perfectly!

# December 18, 2003 7:25 PM

Stuart said:

> everytime I try to burn a CD in iTunes, WMP pops up and the whole operation freezes

Have you got your PC configured to play CDs in WMP on insertion? Maybe when iTunes creates a recognisable CD, Windows tries to play it in WMP.

# December 19, 2003 7:17 AM

Robert McLaws said:

AMEN!

# December 19, 2003 8:11 PM

Raymond Chen said:

Even if it doesn't have a default button, if it has keyboard shortcuts you're still at risk. Support you were typing the word "bye" when the dialog popped up. The "b" goes to the dialog and beeps, then the "y" pushes the "Yes" button. Oops, you just allowed an unknown app to get through your firewall.

# December 19, 2003 8:50 PM

Drew Marsh said:

I agree. However, I would beg developers to stop using pop up windows all together. Find an alternate solution such as sticking a notification icon in the task tray with a pop-up balloon. Longhorn offers a built in notification API which totally rocks and standardizes things making it even easier for the user to handle notifications such as these. Ultimately though, the problem is that today's Windows still lets this happen.

# December 19, 2003 9:11 PM

Raymond Chen said:

At each new version, Windows has made it harder and harder for apps to steal focus, but on the other hand, developers are becoming more and more resourceful in finding ways to get around each layer of block we add. Just do a google search for the words (setforeground behavior) and you'll find gobs of people who don't like the behavior and are looking for ways around it.

Every developer thinks their program is "so important that the rules don't apply to me".

# December 19, 2003 9:51 PM

gimp said:

amen brother! preach the word!

# December 19, 2003 11:21 PM

Jeff Key said:

Good point about the shortcuts, Raymond. Microsoft is guilty of this, too, and the craziest thing just happened: As I was typing that, Outlook 2003 popped up a dialog letting me know it couldn't retrieve email from one of my accounts, stealing focus while I was typing. Also, the popup that was the inspiration for the initial post was a Microsoft product. :)

# December 20, 2003 12:20 AM

Shannon J Hager said:

manual trackback to my thoughts/frustrations with this issue: http://hdconsultants.us/posts/326.aspx

# December 20, 2003 12:39 AM

matthew said:

that's what you get for using ZoneAlarm!

# December 20, 2003 5:31 AM

Michael said:

Oh yes, I hope somebody from the SUS-Team will read this so they change their update-client so it doesn't request a reboot with a default-OK button.

# December 20, 2003 6:28 AM

Doug Reilly said:

One clarification:

"Not necessary. The runtime knows when objects are no longer used, even within the body of a method. For example:

1 MyObject o = new MyObject();
2 o.DoSomething();
3 DoSomethingElse();

If a GC occurs at line three, the object referenced by "o" may be garbage collected. (Note that this does not apply when a debugger is attached to the process.)"

The note actually applies to debug code, whether or not a debugger is attached.

# December 20, 2003 10:45 AM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks, Doug. I couldn't remember where I'd read/heard that (PDC?) and couldn't confirm.

# December 20, 2003 10:50 AM

Paul Wilson said:

Good document, although I can't stand the one about using spaces instead of tabs! Configuring VS.NET to use tabs means everyone can make the indents "appear" to be 2 or 3 or 4 spaces, thus allowing room for personal preference, without messing up file diffs in VSS. Using spaces on the other hand, if people use different values (and they always want to) means that diffs are impossible for all practical purposes!

# December 20, 2003 11:29 AM

Darrell said:

I second what Paul said! Also note that Visual Studio can take spaces and turn them into tabs and vice versa (Edit-Advanced-Tabify/Untabify) or even format code your way, with curly braces on a new line or trailing the IF statement. That will work, but it will still hose up your file diffs.

# December 20, 2003 12:03 PM

Brian Noyes said:

If you would like another coding standard to compare against, we have posted one on our site at http://www.idesign.net. This was authored by Juval Lowy, the principal of our company and one of the Microsoft dubbed "Software Legends". He works closely with the C# team in Redmond, and the standards he has in our coding standards are being used a significant portion of the Microsoft .NET team as well.

# December 20, 2003 3:07 PM

Basil Hawkins said:

Is single Drive compatible with Windows XP? I can't get it operating. Error report says "cannot initialize"

# December 20, 2003 3:31 PM

Jeff Key said:

Yes, Basil, it is. Do you have the .NET Framework installed?

# December 20, 2003 3:36 PM

Ilya Ryzhenkov said:

Another reason to nullify local variables could be preventing misuse of outdated information. For example, if some method call invalidates local variable value (e.g cached data), it makes sense to set it to null.

# December 21, 2003 9:19 AM

Jorge Curioso said:

http://www.priceline.com/ is your friend

# December 21, 2003 9:17 PM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks, Jorge. I finally got something through Expedia. I'll give Priceline a shot next time.

# December 23, 2003 12:08 AM

Darrell said:

Yeah, there's a furniture store in the Richmond and Hampton Roads area called Haynes (and some of their subsidiaries) that have the "lowest price you'll find on furniture anywhere this weekend... at Haynes." Oooooh, let me hurry up and get there! It's not like they don't have a sale *every* weekend, holiday, every other Wednesday, and sometimes Thursday too.

And guess what, they make really shitty furniture!

# December 23, 2003 8:52 AM

Darrell said:

More interesting tips on making your Win2k3 server "workstation-friendly" available here (http://www.msfn.org/win2k3/).

# December 23, 2003 8:54 AM

Ed Kaim said:

Yeah, I got shafted when I went furniture shopping for my first job after college. I was a little less understanding: http://www.postget.com/get/article.php?newsid=79699.

# December 23, 2003 5:26 PM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks, Darrell. Excluding the DirectX stuff, that's my mental checklist! (The mental checklist is missing the screenshots.)

# December 23, 2003 7:08 PM

SBC said:

hmm.. regarding the rebates: who do you send the *original* UPC and receipts to? TDK or buy.com? sometimes these rebates are puzzling..

# December 23, 2003 7:28 PM

Paul Bartlett said:

I had a spate of trying to close Word with :wq. I'm sure a few of my docs even ended up with it hidden in them somewhere...

# December 24, 2003 4:57 AM

DZee said:

Jeff: I believe as a beginner and intermediate computer user this sounds like a great protentional idea. Keep up the good work here. Never let anyone discourage you from making a new program. Do accept constructive critizim of how to improve the program. I will down load this program and give it a try. Any up grades to it let us know and I will down load any improvements.

Looking forward to a great relationship here.

Many thanks, Jeff.

From,

DZee.

# December 24, 2003 7:52 AM

Jeff Key said:

Holy cow. What a mess! Seems like you read about this stuff every week these days. I'm sure my number will be up sooner or later.

# December 24, 2003 10:10 AM

Jeff Key said:

Good question. Unfortunately, Best Buy just put a store in the ground floor of a new condo a couple blocks from here and I've been spending too much time (money) there. If you buy something with a rebate, you get an additional "rebate receipt" (or two). Not sure about the UPC. Seems like not everyone is requiring it like they used to.

# December 24, 2003 10:14 AM

Amy and Nick said:

Jeff, we unlike so many here, actually understand your point and sympathize about the fact that you have had to deal with sooo many brainless idiots that can't understand simple reasoning. You handled them all very well!!

# December 25, 2003 9:35 PM

BAS said:

To follow up on the same problem, I am trying to convert my AAC files to any format my iRiver will support. Neither iTunes nor dbPowerAmp supports the conversion from AAC to MP3. Any suggestions on a program that does?

# December 29, 2003 2:13 AM

Richard Thompson said:

Thank you. Thank you.

Now I can let my head recover from that stone wall.

# December 29, 2003 1:09 PM

Jon Galloway said:

If you do use Priceline, check www.biddingfortravel.com first. Public board where people post their winning bids so you can get an idea of what the going rates are.

Orbitz gets me with the bait and switch all the time. Agree that an evil presence is likely involved.

# December 29, 2003 11:48 PM

ravenmeifter said:

try System mechanic, its an all in 1 app also does context menu defragging.. i run the 30 day trial of it and it had no spyware or other smacktard stuff in it!

You decide i think the url is www.iolo.com

# December 31, 2003 1:29 PM

Greg Duncan said:

Thank you for the sanity check! (i.e. I'm glad it's not just me :)

I run into this problem ALL the time when printing from MSDN... and I too get pretty pissed off when I print a bunch of articles only to have to reprint them so I can actually read them (though the "I bet this line ends with" game can be fun sometimes).

# December 31, 2003 4:11 PM

bertcord said:

how are you printing? I didnt look at this entire article but.....

If you print by goign to file rint the page is cut off. IF you click the print icon on the top of the main page it does not apear to be cut off

# December 31, 2003 4:14 PM

Jeff Key said:

I was printing by clicking the "print this page". Interesting about the Print toolbar item. I'll give that a shot next time I print something. Thanks.

# January 2, 2004 11:32 AM

Darrell said:

I hate to say I scooped you both! :)

My (short) list of predictions is here (http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/darrell.norton/posts/4827.aspx), posted on Dec 22, 2003.

# January 4, 2004 8:08 PM

Brent Morgan said:

Welcome to my world?? Haha

# January 5, 2004 2:28 AM

Ben Lower said:

Of course MS is susceptible to blunders, but $50 million is nothing to them. The very end of the ieee article hints that maybe SPOT is just a way to test the waters for bigger plans.

Maybe MS is just looking at this as a research project. They have succeeded in piecing together a network that covers a large number of people using "worthless" (= cheap) FM radio spectrum. So maybe we'll see Intel start integrating the receiver for the SPOT network into its Centrino chips and architecture. Just one more network option to use to get data...

# January 5, 2004 2:06 PM

Pum said:

Which drive is the data saved to?

# January 5, 2004 10:16 PM

Pum said:

Nevermind...

# January 5, 2004 10:16 PM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks, Amy and Nick. :)

BAS: Sorry, don't know. I've stopped ripping to AAC because of this, although I do prefer it. I need something my MPIO will play, which is either WMA or MP3.

# January 6, 2004 12:19 AM

Duncan said:

Thanks for the link - I have signed up.
Unfortunately the European price is EUR320 (approx $400) but it is still a significant saving.

# January 6, 2004 6:16 AM

Michael Earls said:

Thanks for posting this. The Microsoft Action Pack is exactly what I've been looking for.

# January 6, 2004 9:15 AM

Shannon J Hager said:

Be sure to read the part where is says that the license is for 1 year only. At the end of the year you must either uninstall the software or renew your subscription if available. That part scared me away from signing up because they make it clear that you may not be able to renew the subscription which would mean you have to uninstall the software or buy retail licenses.

# January 6, 2004 11:47 AM

in distress! said:

i couldnt use this program because it gave me an error!!

# January 6, 2004 12:39 PM

Jeff Key said:

Distress: Do you have the .NET Framework installed? If so, what was the error?

# January 6, 2004 1:11 PM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks for the info, Shannon, I didn't notice that. Considering the risk, I still think it's a great deal if you're like me and take advantage of more than a product or two. At home I have my home machine on XP, an old box w/Win2k3 EE + SQL Server 2000, Office 2k3, etc., etc. Even if it's only for a year, $300 for all that stuff is amazing. I don't have time while at the office to do research and keep up to speed on all the latest and greatest stuff, so it's a win-win for everyone: I can learn and test just about anything my heart desires when I have time and MSFT gets another soldier in the field designing solutions using more of their products, resulting in more license revenue. Unless people abuse the program, I think it's in MSFT's best interest to keep this thing alive.

# January 6, 2004 1:24 PM

Chip said:

Check out this program for ISVs:

http://members.microsoft.com/partner/isv/empower/default.aspx

This includes 1 MSDN Subscription (5 Licenses). This is certainly a great deal for small companies.

I find it strange that neither of these programs have been promoted very well. Especially after a recent coversation on Scoble's blog (he's since deleted his comments).

# January 6, 2004 5:34 PM

Buc Rogers said:

3.2.2: For public fields and constants, I use Pascal not camel - in part so that if a public field or constant later gets converted to a property, public interface stays the same. But I also recognize that 7.2.1 is a good idea (don't have public fields in the first place). 10.2.4 shows public constants in Pascal case...

3.2.2 I also use the leading _ for member variables that JK and sourceforge projects including NAnt use.

4.2.5: I find the <list> tag useful for documenting preconditions and postconditions within the <remarks> block, with a <para> header saying "Preconditions" or "Postconditions". Note that NDoc does support <list>. This complements in-code assertion checking described in 7.2.7, 7.2.8.

5.2.2: I avoid the ? : operator because it's too cryptic, agreeing with the SourceForge NAnt coding standard, except in member-field initialization expressions.

5.2.6: I agree with JK that this is not necessary for GC, but do sometimes do this in the Ilya scenario.

8.2.7: I always try to throw custom exceptions only out of public interfaces, derived from ApplicationException, which may include inner .NET exceptions. I also use an enum "Code" field sometimes within an exception type such as "CustomComponentException", rather than typing every exception.

8.2.10: My understanding is that ApplicationException is intended for use as a base for all app custom exception, differentiated from Exception which is the base for all that come out of the framework. The MS Exception Block included exception derives from ApplicationException, I believe for this reason.

# January 6, 2004 11:43 PM

Jeff Key said:

Wow, that is nice. What's the deal w/Scoble deleting comments?

# January 7, 2004 1:10 AM

Shannon J Hager said:

He moved his comment system away from haloscan and lost all his comments.

# January 7, 2004 1:46 AM

Jeff Key said:

Gotcha, thanks. I was looking for a controversy. ;)

# January 7, 2004 1:48 AM

Jif Johnson said:

Al Michaels is a genius.

In other news: They forgave the short shorts, the tart tops and even the juicy smooch with Madonna but the confiscation and slaughter continued today in Guangdong Province, where officials trying to prevent a new outbreak of Britney Spears fans also announced plans for a "patriotic campaign" to eradicate teenagers.

The sweep came as health officials in the Philippines announced that a woman quarantined as a suspected case slinks behind a wall of publicists—without cause. "She loves cornbread," said Hu Jintao, whose wife runs the Civet Basket, “Where the hell am I supposed to get cornbread? Next the kids will want cheese.”

In Guangdong Province, the 32-year-old man who became mainland China's first male Britney fan of the winter told the Chinese news media that he had never eaten cornbread, and that his only symptom was occasionally wearing tart tops. One Guangdong newspaper quoted him as saying he had handled Justin Timberlake with chopsticks.

The flurry of activity this week comes as Chinese officials are severely disappointed after Britney Spears married a hometown boy last Saturday and then cut him loose after 55 hours saying, “Let's do something wild and crazy.”

The confiscation of teenagers began in earnest on Tuesday, and the state news media reported that workers were drowning them in disinfectant. The World Health Organization has cautioned that such a slaughter must be carried out carefully to avoid the risk of causing more infections or contamination.

Guangdong officials have estimated that they plan to confiscate and kill about 10,000 teenagers by Saturday. The exact number put to death so far is not known, but the official New China News Agency reported that on Tuesday more than 1,500 government workers in Guangdong inspected 67 shopping malls, 797 sleepovers and 137 high schools. They reportedly seized 171 fans.

"Man," one Guangdong official said, scraping the gum off his boots, "what was Britney thinking?"

Al Michaels will never have too many fans.

Thank you,

Jif Johnson, Esq.

# January 7, 2004 4:04 PM

Jon Galloway said:

Jeff-
On this subject, seen this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3324883.stm ?
Mail sender pays, but pays computationally so the worry of stealing to pay for spam (something I'd never considered) goes away... or does it? I guess this might just unleash zombie farms of spam computers (even more so than they are now). Interesting, anyhow.
- Jon

# January 8, 2004 3:16 AM

TrackBack said:

# January 9, 2004 10:14 AM

TrackBack said:

# January 9, 2004 10:15 AM

Talk about splitting hairs. I bet he was one of those guys who stood around Time Square on Dec 31st 1999 telling everyone that the millennium doesn't start until 2001. Some people are just to "geek" for their own good.

# January 20, 2004 11:55 PM

TrackBack said:

# January 21, 2004 10:49 PM

Jim Argeropoulos said:

Care to share any tricks? I also got no result using it.

# January 22, 2004 9:37 AM

Dave Wanta said:

Thanks for the kind words.

Cheers!
Dave

# January 22, 2004 9:47 AM

Jeff Key said:

Jim, I think the key is the case of the assembly to watch. This works:

"d:\Program Files\NCover\ncover.exe" /c NetPing.exe /a sliver.NetPing.Core

Whereas this doesn't:

"d:\Program Files\NCover\ncover.exe" /c NetPing.exe /a sliver.netping.core

(Note the "NetPing.Core" bit.)

# January 22, 2004 10:27 AM

SBC said:

Good posting. I would read those analyst reports only with a little thought - they don't code. I am not sure about their technical competence that's needed to truly gauge the potential of the technology. Most say only what would sell their reports to corporate clients.
To answer the question - "
Show me a company that isn't driven by revenue and I'll show you a company that's soon to be out-of-business". Answer: $un. Look at their stock market performance. :-)

# January 22, 2004 9:33 PM

mjm said:

Not to interrupt the masses of geekdom here who insist on bringing everything down to the endlessly exhausting Mac vs PC debate...that debate is as '97 as people using 128 encoded MP3s. Shit, head's-up here comes the flamebags...

No really, how about some of you lazy format espousing bastards actually do some serious tests in various formats with various musical genres and various encodings to actually let us know what SOUNDS GOOD. These are after all audio formats and frankly most of what I've heard about AAC/mp4 is that it doesn't cut the mustard. Here's one of the only real-world comparison tests I can find: http://www.xciv.org/~meta/audio-shootout/

If all you blowhards think the latest and greatest is also the best, then why don't you put up or shut the hell up - prove it. As far as I can tell, the main emphasis of Jeff's original discussion is the loss of audio quality. The primary function of this new format hasn't been to increase audio quality, it has been to find a secure format so "the Man" can control music distribution once more, therefore despite a +1 over mp3, i doubt there is much of a audio quality increase especially one that can't already be achieved. But btw, the new one also isn't supported on older Mac OS's either, hmm i'm sure Apple's not just using it to force more suckers ahem, users to upgrade hardware and software. The sizes certainly haven't improved much so you're dealing with the same amount of bits, just rearranged. There's not suddenly that much more magic in your pants geekwads.

Clearly, quality has been all downhill since vinyl succumbed to Sony's boss' love of opera music, so where is the line currently?! Let's see some more real world tests comparing just how low we can go and whether or not we're there yet.

My piss in the pot:

Having used MP3's for years, a LAME encoded MP3 at 192 or 224 (depending on the type of music) will be indistinguishable to your ears on a high-end home stereo system from the original CD - try it yourself - set them both up playing at the same time through the CD & AUX channels of your stereo and have a friend switch the output channel between the 2 and see if you can tell correctly which is which.
If you would like to DJ or use the MP3s on a club or professional system you would need at least 256 or 320. These rates however begin to defeat the purpose since the file sizes are getting large (when considering a large collection) and you are probably better off keeping the original CD format.

now back to the next 5 morons repeating the same damn posts that have been repeated by their brethren above ad nauseum - "itunes DOES encode MP3s", "AAC is so great my dick is 3 inches longer" waa, waa, waa...asshats...

# January 22, 2004 10:25 PM

SBC said:

Since the Linux industry is maturing (and about time), you'll see quite a few companies shutting their shutters.

# January 24, 2004 9:13 AM

rido said:

I've tried Ncover (from SF) this weekend, here is my impression:

It works modifying the .cs files (original files are backed up in *.cs.uninstrumeted files), looking for code branches and adding instrumenting code inside the NCover namespace, so you will need to add a reference to NCover.dll before you compile it again.

As you suppose you need to "re-reun", and you will get a xml files with the code execution data.

The first thing I've missed is the ability to recover your original files, so you must be working on a separate tree.

Note that I ¡m not capable yet to produce any results..

My 2cents (rido)

# January 25, 2004 6:02 PM

Jeff Key said:

Great info, rido, thanks! I still haven't played around with that one yet; now I know not to until I have some free time.

# January 26, 2004 4:07 PM

Anon said:

I continue to hear people complain about the advertising. Screeming "FALSE ADVERTISING"!!! and saying stuff like "Im not really geting a sale price".

Haynes does not carry the same merchandise every week. Our buyers are very agressive and go after furniture that we can sell and move out quickly. They buy in bulk and get very good prices as a result. We do have a sale every week because we are always bringing in new merchandise that we buy at discounted prices from the vendors. Sometimes I think customers come in just to complain. They never inteded to buy anything in the first place. Just because they merchandise they are looking at is not 65% off they go off the deep end. What is on sale may not always be what you like. You could tell them its free and it still would not be good enough. Unless its free cofee and cookies. Oh, they will come running for that lol. My advice to you is if you dont belive its a good price, shop around before you start complaining. No one is forcing you to purchase anything. To save you some time and agrivation, walk away if you feel its not a steal.

And another thing, if you see the advertising. LISTEN and READ it completly. It says UP TO 65% off. Not everything is 65% off lol. I love my customers to death, without them I would not make a living. I just ask for some people to use common sense and act in a professional mannor when your dealing with a salesperson. You will always get better service that way.

# January 28, 2004 10:58 PM

TrackBack said:

# January 29, 2004 12:34 AM

Joseph E Shook said:

Recently I proved this scenario out myself using NUnit. I had previously used Nunit but many times it was bolted on after the GUI was well on its way. I was the only developer on a web based user admin so I basically said my GUI will be NUnit and I wrote my tests firsts. With tests running green against my facade layer, I moved on to the creations of my aspx pages. To my surprise this process went amazingly fast because a lot of the thought process and the code need for hooking GUI to Facade, was in my unit tests. I new the pay back near the end of the project would be there, but I didn't realize the transition form unit tests to GUI were going to be so fast and smooth.

# January 29, 2004 5:15 PM

Marc said:

You could also use conditional compilation, like:

#If DEBUG Then
Console.WriteLine("Debug mode is enabled")
#End If

The call to console.writeline will not be compiled into the release build.

# February 3, 2004 2:02 PM

Peter Waldschmidt said:

Very cool! Thanks for putting this together. I really need to upgrade the NCover user experience when I get some time.

# February 4, 2004 8:00 AM

Pete McKinney said:

If you are interested in NCover, please also take a look at NCoverViewer. It takes the output and integrates it with Visual Studio as a plug in.

# February 4, 2004 9:28 AM

Jeff Key said:

Peter: No problem. Thanks for the app!

Pete: I'd love to, but Google doesn't provide any results for "NCoverViewer". Can you provide a link?

# February 4, 2004 11:16 AM

Jeff Key said:

Found it:
http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/ncoverviewer

# February 4, 2004 1:17 PM

Grant said:

I would have preferred that C# use a hybrid approach to properties, indexers, operators, etc. You'd define members with a specific syntax (e.g. setName, getName, opAdd, opIndex, etc.). These members would be mapped to the appropriate syntax in the language.

For example:

A.Name=B.Name;

would be mapped to:

A.setName(B.getName());

so you get the benefit of the terse syntax.

But you also get the advantage of a consistent image of the reflected class because all these special operations are exposed via ordinary methods.

You get the benefit of being able to call these functions naturally from languages that do not support the terse version of the syntax. And you get the terse syntax for classes written in languages that don't natively support the terse syntax.

Note that this would have alleviated the need to add the "new feature" of differing access levels for getters and setters in C# 2.0. It would potentially allow for virtual operators. It would remove the need for special operator or property declaration syntax.

Anyway, just thinking out loud...

# February 5, 2004 9:25 AM

Eric Brunsen said:

I just tried Ctl-M, Ctl-O to collapse all the folder tree in Explorer, and it took me a few seconds to determine why it didn't collapse the folders.

Eric

# February 5, 2004 1:50 PM

Eric Brunsen said:

Personally, I would like for MS to offer long documents (>5 pages) in MS Word format as a download.

Eric

# February 5, 2004 1:54 PM

Jeff Key said:

Agree. They already do this for a good number of things already. My guess is that those docs are stored as XML already; transforming them into WordML shouldn't be hard at all.

# February 5, 2004 9:30 PM

ive heard you're mean to dogz too. whats with that?

# February 13, 2004 2:40 AM

TrackBack said:

# February 13, 2004 3:47 PM

Julie Lerman said:

hmmm - I got one too! That two timin' .....
http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog/#a6660602f-47c9-4f34-8eaa-1561e2baf4f6

# February 13, 2004 11:28 PM

Young said:

Can't seem to find the info on the free single user. Where can this be found?

# February 14, 2004 1:30 AM

Jeff Key said:

It's actually the default -- when you download Vault, you automatically have a single license. Details are here in Eric's weblog:

http://software.ericsink.com/20040213.html#10151

# February 14, 2004 1:37 AM

TrackBack said:

1 .Net, 1 Perl, 2 Rant, 2 WILY, 1 WTF?, 1 XML
Line du jour:

# February 14, 2004 12:26 PM

Mauricio Feijo said:

I thought about metioning that on the blogger. it is really very nice.

I keptthinking how they did it.

Does anone know?

It is jkust so nice to have the toolbar alive. I LOVE GOOGLE.. xoxoxoxoxoxo

8^)...

# February 14, 2004 12:30 PM

Mauricio Feijo said:

Sorry! I forgot to iSpeel my msg ... :(

# February 14, 2004 12:31 PM

John said:

I love the subtle humor in their branding. Last winter they had a whole sequence of events playing out a goofy snowman drama.

# February 14, 2004 3:48 PM

Louis Parks said:

Looks like the love is over. Sadly, my toolbar is back to normal.

# February 15, 2004 6:00 AM

af said:

The real question is thr long time budgeting needed, not only the installation part.

# February 15, 2004 1:08 PM

Jeff Key said:

Yup, the love is indeed gone. Looking forward to future holidays to see if they do it again. I figure they must if they went through the hassle of coding in the ability in the first place. Bring on St. Pat's day! (Will the Os become pints of Guinness?)

# February 15, 2004 4:30 PM

Jason Nadal said:

Nice title. The problem is, what advice do you give the noob?
1) "Don't download anything" -- bad since then people don't download critical updates and security problems
2) "Download anything" --I hope this doesn't need an explanation why it's bad
3) "Download selectively" aka "Don't download something that seems suspicious" -- right, but the average person isn't probably going to realize that the link to microsoft, saying it's from microsoft on a site that looks like microsoft isn't really microsoft.

This is a tough problem with no easy solutions.

# February 16, 2004 11:01 PM

Jerry Pisk said:

There is an easy solution - double click the lock and make sure the subject is who they claim to be. But then - it's easy to spoof that window too...

Of course if you're not using the default UI style you're ok.

# February 16, 2004 11:25 PM

Jeff Key said:

The easy solution is to tell people to just stop using the web; with new forms of trickery appearing weekly, it seems pointless to try to keep casual users up to speed.

Since that isn't the most practical solution, I stand by what I said in the original post: If new browser windows are created in script that hide toolbars and/or the status bar, don't allow any content from the Internet zone. Pretty simple.

Also, it would be great if MSFT built in a Verisign or BBB toolbar that showed either the registered owner (Verisign), or even better, the name in the BBB registry. The latter would be much harder to fake, AFAIK.

# February 17, 2004 9:09 AM

Jonathan Cogley said:

We starting using the SF NCover a few days ago. Very impressive product! We easily integrated it into our continuous integration process and impressed technical management with the coverage report. It doesn't appear to catch all the coverage "points" in our code (doesn't get all branches in logic) but peeking through their source (which compiled and passed all its tests out of the box!) - it looks like it should be easy to adjust the regexs to catch all coverage points. I highly recommend SF NCover.

# February 18, 2004 5:03 PM

Jeff Key said:

Great to hear! Thanks Jonathan.

# February 18, 2004 6:03 PM

Richard Hsu said:

Hi,

"...If it a class in an application, then the latter is fine. The behavior is known and expected. However, if it's in a library such as the FCL, I prefer the latter..."

Both case, you are suggesting latter ??
here latter refers to using of ReadOnly flag in the class.

What I understand is that Application - ReadOnly flag is fine, Library - separate ReadOnly class ('former'). I think this is what you meant ?

# February 20, 2004 1:59 AM

Louis Parks said:

The homepage of my blog is 35% evil. Should I take the glass if half full approach and say, "I'm glad I"m 65% good" or half empty and say, "I have some repenting to do"?

# February 22, 2004 5:44 AM

David Cumps said:

http://www.microsoft.com is
50% evil, 50% good

http://www.linux.org is
58% evil, 42% good

:p

# February 22, 2004 5:48 AM

anonymous said:

Try out the four letter F word - it's 1% evil :p

# February 22, 2004 6:37 AM

Darrell said:

I'm cruising in at 32% evil. Just one calorie, not quite evil enough!

# February 22, 2004 11:45 AM

Jeff Key said:

I'd say 35% evil is pretty darn good. Nice job!

# February 22, 2004 1:09 PM

TrackBack said:

# February 23, 2004 4:17 PM

TrackBack said:

# February 23, 2004 4:26 PM

ShadowChaser said:

Your version checking code is flawed. If Microsoft releases Windows 6.0, the code will not execute.

It will only execute if all versions end in .1! ie/ versions 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 will fail, but 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, etc will work.

You might want to update your code...

Also, you should probably mention that not only does it require XP to work, but that XP Themes also need to be enabled. Doh! :(

# February 23, 2004 9:08 PM

Stuart Laughlin said:

I really dug those articles, too. The timing is coincidental because I'm on the 12 year plan (and that's generous) to get my BS, and this semester I'm taking CS121 -- Data Structures. My class happens to be C++ instead of .NET, but as you said, the subject matter of these articles is really language agnostic so they apply as much to my class as to what I do at work with .NET. Good stuff!

# February 23, 2004 9:34 PM

Gamut said:

I don't see the point of this. There are tons of data structures books around.

# February 24, 2004 1:36 AM

Jon Galloway said:

No way can I trust this - the title of the download link (http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/ClipboardViewer/) is "Create Shortcut Util". Will it view my clipboard or create a shortcut?! I'm paralyzed with fear and will probably turn to the open source community.

I guess you did give enough waringins in your post, and even in the about box...

Seriously, though, I figured some bozo would point that out so it might as well be me. Feel free to delete this comment when your QFE team fixes this "show stopper" defect.

# February 24, 2004 2:29 AM

Jon Galloway said:

P.S. I know how to spell warnings, but the above issue really threw me off.

# February 24, 2004 2:31 AM

Jeff Key said:

Uh oh, I've been found out. I guess it was bound to happen. I've shown the entire sliver.com web development team[1] the door and I can assure you this will never happen again!

BTW, I cannot be responsible for any interaction between CreateShortcut and ClipboardViewer. If you require more information, please contact the sliver.com legal department.

[1] Except for the design guy. I don't think I could ever find someone to replace the exceptional design skill displayed on the site.

# February 24, 2004 2:42 AM

Jeff Key said:

Correct. There are tons of books on everything. That doesn't mean Joe .NET Developer is going to search them out and read them. The fact that it's published on MSDN is what's significant. There seems to be a push @ MSDN to get more articles published that aren't solution-based. This is a good thing -- it brings topics to people that otherwise wouldn't think to research them.

# February 24, 2004 2:53 AM

kevin white said:

Those articles were a perfect introduction for the newer members of my development group. They are also an excellent short refresher for experienced programmers, like me. I can't wait for the next article in the series.

# February 24, 2004 10:47 AM

Metawizard2 said:

I have found a solution; ironically, it requires using the Opera browser with the following stats:
Version 7.23
Build 3227
Platform Win32
System Windows XP

I open the MSDN page:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/sql/reskit/sql2000/part5/c2161.asp

Then press the Print Preview button on the small toolbar twice. The view of the page changes from one that looks "weird", and then looks like a Word document. Printing at this point prints just the article, without trying to print the treeview menu, and the whole doc prints without getting cut off edges.

# February 25, 2004 3:40 PM

Metawizard said:

Forgot one thing:
When the MSDN article opens, right click on the frame that has the article, and choose Frame, and then Open in New Page.

Then you can use the trick with the Print Preview button.

# February 25, 2004 3:54 PM

Scott Mitchell said:

Thanks for your kind words and review, Jeff. Reminds me that I've got to get my butt in gear on Part 6! :-)

# February 25, 2004 4:58 PM

Russ911 said:

My computer was running extremely slow in accessing files, such as 20 seconds to change a directory when I opened Word's or Wordperfect's "save as" window. When I tried to use Windows' defragmentation, it hung up -- absolutely useless! The Windows defragmentation had worked in the past, so there may be a point of percent defragmentation, where Windows' defrag cannot function. You need a third party solution.

I have Windows XP Professional on my computer, so checked out various disk cleanup programs. Decided to spend the $49.95 (which also included a copy of Undelete 4.0 on this date, 26Feb04).

In running Diskeeper Pro 8.0 (note the one "k") on my "C" drive, the analyze command showed that of 147,205 files, 11,630 were fragmented into 123,660 fragments.

Diskeeper took just 25 minutes to defragment my 35MB drive. My programs are back to their original speed.

For me, Diskeeper was worth the money.

# February 26, 2004 3:12 PM

Christophe Lauer said:

Ben Spigle said:

Also might want to check out CoverageEye.Net on GotDotNet -- this one is IL based... Also Clover http://www.thecortex.net/clover/index.html is releasing a .Net version. I haven't personally worked with any of them (yet), but work with some guys who are involved in the Clover port from Java. Sounds good.

# March 12, 2004 3:01 PM

Art said:

Impressive indeed! Thanks for the tip.

# March 13, 2004 9:24 PM

Matt Hawley said:

I actually ran across this (pointed to it actually Dmitry at BlogJet) last week. Very impressive, however I haven't tried it out yet.

# March 13, 2004 10:30 PM

MArtin said:

The fix mentioned above doesn't seem to work when the keyboard is connected using USB instead of PS/2. Too bad :-((.

# March 14, 2004 5:00 AM

Brian Desmond said:

I'm interested - northsider here.

--Brian
desmondb@payton.cps.k12.il.us

# March 14, 2004 2:57 PM

TrackBack said:

Jeff Key is starting a Chicago branch of the Pragmatic Practitioners after reading the posts about our Denver group. Congrats!...

# March 14, 2004 5:04 PM

Darrell said:

Awesome.

# March 14, 2004 5:43 PM

Andrew Carlson said:

I am interested. I work in the Loop and live in Wicker Park.

ajc@andrewcarlson.org

# March 15, 2004 12:31 PM

Adam Kinney said:

Oh dang, no CHAO :p

Well it looks like you found more people in downtown Chicago, then you thought.

/runs off to go read about "Pragmatic Practitioners"...

# March 15, 2004 11:42 PM

christian ehrhardt said:

one of my favorite (and still referenced!) books is "data structures and algorithms in pascal" from 1982 because the manner which the author explains everything ... there are nice illustrations and examples i can visualize.. helped a lot when first trying to "see" a sorting algorithm or trying to "picture" a queue ... loved theses links

# March 16, 2004 2:43 AM

Harper Reed said:

I am also interested. I work in the Loop and live in Logan Square.

-harper
harper@nata2.org

# March 17, 2004 10:48 AM

John Miller said:

You have to understand that when you rent the theatres you have to use there ticketing system. It is not the choice of the company or sketch group. Go to the box...cheapo.

# March 17, 2004 5:11 PM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks, John, but that's not entirely convenient for everyone, especially when we don't have cars.

# March 17, 2004 9:09 PM

Paul Wilson said:

That's just sick. :)

# March 17, 2004 10:14 PM

Darrell said:

I'm up for some unnecessary pain and suffering!

# March 17, 2004 10:48 PM

Scott Sargent said:

I'm up for some suffering as well, bring it on. March 22, no intellisense. I will probably wear out my F7 key (compile) on that day.

# March 17, 2004 10:53 PM

Ryan Farley said:

OK, I am up for it. I'm such a man that you can call me a Man.NET

# March 17, 2004 10:53 PM

timh said:

are you insane?!?! choosing to remove developer productivity!?!?!

intellisense is the #1 most underrated and underawarded tool in the world. period.

well, okay that and solitaire (hey it's bug free)

# March 17, 2004 11:36 PM

Robert McLaws said:

I know a blogger that doesn't read blogs. I sat down with Chris Brumme at PDC, and he says he never reads a single blog. I don't blame the dude. Betweeen writing novels and building the framework that practically every team at Microsoft depends on, I wouldn't have the time either.

# March 17, 2004 11:40 PM

Paul said:

I don't have a blog! :)

# March 17, 2004 11:41 PM

Jeff Key said:

Haha, sorry, Tim.

I agree that it's convenient, but I do see people hunting through the IntelliSense looking for stuff they know is there just so they don't have to type it, and that usually takes them longer than actually typing it! :)

# March 17, 2004 11:42 PM

Matt Hawley said:

Sometimes I hate intellisense, like when your editing HTML and you want to type just an "a", but "AccessKey" gets placed in instead. Err. I may try it, but then give up on it after 10 min :)

# March 17, 2004 11:49 PM

TrackBack said:

# March 17, 2004 11:54 PM

Jerry Dennany said:

Hmmm.. Maybe I should attend Intellisense Anonymous. I'm hooked, and I don't think I can give it up.

# March 18, 2004 12:53 AM

Dave Rothgery said:

I think I'd rather try programming one-handed. It sounds less painful.

# March 18, 2004 12:58 AM

Scott said:

Does it count if you stopped using VS a while back and started coding your ASPX, ASCX and code behind pages in a text editor because the flipping environment kept switching off intellisense and you'd have to restart it to bring it back?

Heck I don't even have VS installed at home on any of my machines, I just use Editplus and NAnt. I don't suffer foolish environments long.

Been that way for a while. Me.Manly++; :)

# March 18, 2004 1:03 AM

Ryan Rinaldi said:

This is by far the most twisted and sickest thing I've ever heard.

I'm in. :)

# March 18, 2004 1:03 AM

Jon Galloway said:

Must... resist... urge... to try... to... hack... poll!

# March 18, 2004 1:25 AM

Jon Galloway said:

Make it "No Google Day" and you'll have me scared. Probably fired, too.

# March 18, 2004 1:27 AM

O said:

I don't have a blog, and I vote.

# March 18, 2004 1:51 AM

Richard Tallent said:

Good idea...

http://www.tallent.us/CommentView.aspx?guid=4f06e7c4-5aed-4f6b-aa25-293f0a556216

# March 18, 2004 2:31 AM

TrackBack said:

# March 18, 2004 3:05 AM

Thomas Freudenberg said:

Do I have to disable Visual Assist (http://www.wholetomato.com/) and ReSharper (http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/Home) as well?

;-)

# March 18, 2004 4:07 AM

SBC said:

this is non-intellisense..
:-)

# March 18, 2004 6:31 AM

David said:

No blog here.

# March 18, 2004 7:19 AM

Matt Hawley said:

LOL nice SBC

# March 18, 2004 8:04 AM

The Penton-izer said:

Why not just use your favorite text editor instead? That and occasional Anakrino or Class Browser trips and I am good to go!

# March 18, 2004 8:46 AM

P said:

Does one have to have a blog to come? :)

In da loop.

# March 18, 2004 8:56 AM

Darrell said:

You know I have a blog...

# March 18, 2004 9:00 AM

Jon S. said:

No blog for me (yet, anyway!).

I suspect the poll might be skewed in favor of the "no" response, since your text preceeding the poll makes people who read blogs but don't have their own feel "special" somehow, and therefore more likely to respond to the poll!

# March 18, 2004 9:04 AM

AndrewSeven said:

I have a whole buch of projects in each solution, so IntelliSense stops working regularly. No need for a special day.

# March 18, 2004 9:08 AM

Scott Galloway said:

Sorry...but you are a bad, bad man for even suggesting this - shame on you!

# March 18, 2004 9:21 AM

TrackBack said:

# March 18, 2004 9:38 AM

# April 2, 2004 5:45 PM

# April 5, 2004 5:48 AM

TrackBack said:

# April 5, 2004 6:19 AM

JD said:

Cheers.. thanks!

# April 5, 2004 5:57 PM

TrackBack said:

Jeff Key describes, how to disable this annoying

# April 6, 2004 1:17 PM

Andrew Connell said:

Is there a place other than digging through all the VS.NET shortcuts that lists all the VS.NET shortcuts?

# April 6, 2004 1:18 PM

TrackBack said:

# April 6, 2004 2:25 PM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks for the heads-up, Jeff. Unfortunately I was totally tapped out that night since I only slept maybe one hour the night before. :| Sounds like you folks had fun!

# April 6, 2004 4:24 PM

B Scott said:

Just saw the link on brad site. I'd be intrested. Work in downtown. A co-worker may be too, I'll forward him the link.

# April 6, 2004 5:39 PM

John Schroedl said:

Sweet! I love the command completion and I will definitely use this tip in my large directories.

Thanks for sharing!

# April 7, 2004 3:10 PM

John Schroedl said:

This seems slightly appropriate to share here...

While I love the command prompt, sometimes you need to go to details view in Explorer. My rarely-documented tip to share for that view is Ctrl-'+' (NumPad plus) -- autosizes all the columns. Very nice!

# April 8, 2004 10:01 AM

Jeff Key said:

Too cool! Thanks, John. I'm always in details mode and always double-clicking the column handles to resize one at a time. How have I missed this all these years? An instant classic.

# April 8, 2004 10:09 AM

Eddie Ann said:

I am going to miss Bob Edwards, I let NPR know my feelings about it.
I suggest checking out Amy Goodman / "Democracy Now"
A very hard hiting daily news program. Can be found on Pacifica stations ...check out on the web.

# April 11, 2004 6:31 PM

gert said:

I am trying to get a free online scan to see if I have a virus but don't want to install something that I will have to pay for afterwards as I do not want to purchase anything right now.

# April 11, 2004 6:44 PM

Mike Schinkel said:

The PDF you linked is gone.
Here's an alternate:
http://www.rockymountain.com/ref_microspeak.htm

# April 11, 2004 11:11 PM

alan said:

microsoft - windows 95 startup sound...now where can i download the .wav?

# April 13, 2004 11:58 AM

Ken said:

You know, it would be awesome to integrate SmartTags into System.Attribute. Imagine, you decorate your class with an attribute that generates the appropriate SmartTags, which can be used as a XAML file, thus dynamically generating a class.

# April 16, 2004 11:57 AM

Kiliman said:

Do you know if there's a shortcut for Duplicate Line?

Another thing... do you know how do disable the "feature" where Ctrl+C will copy the line if nothing is selected?

<rant>I don't know how many times I've accidentally hit Ctrl+C when I meant to press Ctrl+V (paste). Luckily you can press Ctrl+Shift+V to cycle through the clipboard to paste the thing you wanted to paste before it got overwritten by the stupid Ctrl+C behavior.</rant>

Kiliman

# April 16, 2004 3:19 PM

Jeremy Brayton said:

I use both Windows and Linux pretty extensively in our work environment. I also use both open source and commercial programs as well.

Linux does have a greater cost with it. Because it's free to use doesn't mean it's free to maintain. The same can also be said for certain areas of Windows (which I believe should be free but apparently no one else thinks so).

With Linux I have to rely on the open source community to make an app I can use. I spend way too much time actually doing things I need to do to try to program or tweak something to my liking. A lot of Linux is scripting or tweaking where Windows has usually less of it. There is a lot of tweaking but you usually only need to do it once or twice.

A very good product I use for Linux is webmin. It allows me to control both my work and home machines over the web. I can control them using ssh and command-line but there are cases where I don't need to really type in all of the commands. Without webmin I would probably be spending a lot more time out of EVERY day just to upkeep my systems.

So there are costs with Windows but there are often 'hidden' costs with Linux. There's usaully a lot more upkeep and tend to be a huge learning curve. I hate man pages because they're written by technical retards who can't make anything simple apparently. If there's no HOWTO doc or some tutorial, I generally don't mess with it. The reason is I don't have hours of my day to read through the tech specs to understand every last little mudane detail. I know Linux is made by programmers for programmers but there are cases when some of us don't want to spend every waking hour trying to learn that little peice of code you just made.

Also about the whole Linux distro thing, the only real differences are in the applications. SuSE, RedHat, Slackware (which I use), and all the rest all have the SAME EXACT kernel. The kernel or the operating system itself basically doesn't change. The only thing RedHat has that Slackware doesn't is more user friendly programs and different 'bundles' of software. The funny thing is Redhat would charge for software that I could get right now for free. So why in the hell would I pay for that? I'm not that stupid.

# April 16, 2004 5:21 PM

Jeff Key said:

Unfortunately I dont...BUT:

I didn't know about the Ctrl+Shift+V! Bravo!

# April 16, 2004 7:46 PM

Adam Kinney said:

Yeah I enjoyed the show. It was just neat because it wasn't just about people sitting around and talking or starving the wilderness. It actually had business concepts and it was placed in the mysterious world of Trump and New York. Good stuff.

Hope you run into Bill (the winner, not Gates) somewhere... ;)

# April 17, 2004 9:24 PM

overkill said:

I am with you Jeff, like Shawn I couldn't keep up with all the gab, but for what its worth here is my opinion. I am mostly a linux guy, but I use Microsoft for music and my mp3 player(Wintendo's). I won a bunch of music from Pepsi. They won't play on my mp3 player or they won't burn in a format that plays with my cd player. My Mp3's work great. I would not purchase I-tunes mostly cause they aren't compatible with my players. Also what would happen if I decided to re-install my OS? Would I lose them, can I save them somewere. I haven't tried yet. I haven't found a fool proof way to convert yet. I have tried 3 different suggestions on this forum alone, and none of them worked for me yet. I can play all my mp3's on anything including my truck player. That is my 2 cents worth.

I got your message Jeff.
Mike

# April 19, 2004 2:38 AM

ha ha said:

Ha ha, whoever wants to kill me can go to hell, but I don't know how the conversation turned from defragging to al qaeda.

# April 21, 2004 11:51 AM

Hugo Vale said:

Wow, nice article! It is so dificult to find information of this sort. If you have any more links to designer information, i would be greatly appreciated.

# April 21, 2004 2:29 PM

Jeff Key said:

Kiliman: Today's release of Resharper (http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/Changes) includes a duplicate line feature. :)

# April 21, 2004 2:39 PM

Eric G. Harrison said:

Jeff, I agree that it was a success. Last night was great. I had a good time meeting everyone, and look forward to the next one. Perhaps we need a cool name for the group. Maybe something like the "No Homers Club"? :)

# April 22, 2004 9:36 AM

Cunning Mind said:

duh, if you have a grievance with disk keeper - just get a crack. bonzana. To hell with you mister culty culty. I agree with that Huge Ass dude about the Scientology. I'd like to think that post's intentionally ironic [it's sehr funny], which is unusual because I'm an amazingly cynical person...

Do not trust the Mother Hubbard - she dwells in yonder caves beneath the sea...

# April 22, 2004 6:23 PM

Jeff Key said:

Sorry, Hugo, I don't. I did write a forms designer using .NET, so feel free to hit me up for any related questions.

# April 22, 2004 11:03 PM

Gar said:

a couple o' GEMS in there! You da man!!!!

# April 24, 2004 1:53 AM

Jon Galloway said:

Cool! Kind of like http://www.csszengarden.com except it's not so "look don't touch".

Nothing can beat Strange Banana (http://www.strangebanana.com/generator.aspx), though. These people have analyzed the HTML spec and have created the most beautiful designs allowed by law.

# April 25, 2004 4:58 AM

Jon Galloway said:

P.S. The Strange Banana recommendation was a joke. It is quite amazing to watch, though. Lime green and hot pink, together again!

# April 25, 2004 5:00 AM

Frans Bouma said:

"Background images were the hot new thing and tables had just been introduced into HTML, IIRC. Those were the days!"
Yeah! The days where mosaic users looked at your screen (I was still on a sun box back then) and said: what's that? Why can you have images on the background? "Oh, this is Netscape, you should try it" :)

But don't fear, most designers know nothing about code, it's like Constant = AmountOfDesignTalent * AmountOfSoftwareEngineeringTalent :)

(uhoh, looking at that, one of my first websites where I used photoshop proofs I have less talent for writing code than I thought ;) http://www.xs4all.nl/~perseus )

# April 25, 2004 6:22 AM

HGH said:

FP2003 is really great. Sharepoint does look interesting. Great upgrade.

# April 25, 2004 11:54 PM

dru said:

Any comments on how us punks can capitalize on the XP balloons?

# April 26, 2004 12:37 PM

ajc said:

I had mentioned my growing dislike of <a href="http://blog.andrewcarlson.org/archive/2004/04/16/188.aspx">pop up notifications</a> a week or so ago, but this puts me in a tough spot. I suppose I would prefer to see a pop up notification instead of hearing a ding, but I would ideally just prefer to have the taskbar flash for any app with really important news. For less important news, I prefer a pop up notification which I can easily turn off. Dings are right out, as are sounds in general-- was that a new AIM message, a new e-mail message notification from Windows Messenger, a new Windows Messenger IM, a new Dell Support Alert, iTunes telling me it's done ripping a CD, or some new trojan that likes to make noise? I can never keep them straight.

# April 26, 2004 1:01 PM

ajc said:

I guess HTML is not allowed in the comments. Oops!

# April 26, 2004 1:02 PM

Thomas Williams said:

G'day Jeff - I too hear the random "ding!", but I reckon I would definitely, absolutely turn off a balloon notification (I could handle a taskbar button flashing). Please don't let an app steal focus for a ding!

I don't know about you, but most of the time for me it's SQL Enterprise Manager dinging letting me know my results have been discarded to save memory.

# April 26, 2004 7:29 PM

Jeff Key said:

Andy, Thomas: I agree that pointless or overused balloons, toast, etc. are annoying. It's the responsibility of the developers to realize that their app isn't the most important thing in the world and that people may want to turn these things off. BUT I'll take these over a modal dialog any day.

As for the taskbar blinking: I think of that as the program telling me "Hey, I need your attention", whereas the balloons, toast, etc. are the apps saying "Hey, I thought you'd like to know this".

Dru: I can write up a .NET example if you'd like one.

# April 26, 2004 8:42 PM

Jeff Key said:

Jon: Crazy! A designer friend pointed me to the Garden before. That's some cool stuff.

Frans: I think you're right! :)

# April 26, 2004 8:44 PM

dru said:

Try placing this in the <HEAD>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
(Assumes UTF-8)

And this at the top:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
(Assumes XHTML 1.0 Strict)

# April 26, 2004 10:16 PM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks, Dru!

# April 26, 2004 10:37 PM

clarson said:

Not only this, error messages should hava a link to a website that could have much more detail about the problem and solution than the typical terse message. For example, Microsoft could put a link in all their error mesages that pointed to a support article or list of articles. Also, add some detail about the error link in a querystring to further fine tune the solution provided. They could log all the hits they get from these error message links and build up a database of error inquiries to highlight where they need to make improvements.

# April 26, 2004 10:42 PM

Jerry Pisk said:

Jeff, even when you add those tags you still need to setup your web server so it serves HTML as HTML, not as plain text. You complaining about that is like me having an executable named program.txt and complaining that Windows won't execute it (it actually will but not from the shell).

As for what the W3C's HTML/XHTML validator handles - HTML (text/html) and XHTML (application/xhtml+xml). They don't try to validate plain text (there are no rules as to how should a plain text document be structured). Unfortunatelly the best browser on the Earth does not handle XHTML very well...

# April 26, 2004 11:37 PM

secretGeek said:

i was just bloggin 'bout this last week -- as clarson says, links to relevant articles would be excellent.

if big software companies did this, it would also lift a few technical writers out of the ranks of the unemployed :+)

cheers
lb

# April 26, 2004 11:37 PM

Jeff Key said:

Jerry: The site has an textbox to upload a web page. I save the HTML from a page and uploaded it. What did I do wrong?

clarson: Definitely agree. Nice to see that MSFT is starting to do this in some areas. I hope the trend continues.

# April 26, 2004 11:42 PM

eddie said:

need help...just learning how to use a computer, might have a virus problem

# April 27, 2004 12:38 AM

Adam Kinney said:

I'll second the .NET example request :)

I like toast/popups. I think they fit the purpose perfectly as long they do not display too long and have a close button.

+1 to hearing Enterprise Manager dinging - "The results set has changed. Do you want to kee…"

# April 27, 2004 12:41 AM

trace;y said:

still needing help,

# April 27, 2004 12:42 AM

Jerry Pisk said:

Jeff - if you use the file upload then you did nothing wrong, but since you're not uploading the response headers (because you simple can't, no fault at anyone's end) you need to explicitly set your content type and encoding. The validator is really built to validate live pages by pulling them off of the web server, since HTTP pushes a lot of metadata with each response that is not preserved when you save the HTML content to a text file.

Or you may just need to save the file as .html, not .txt (since your browser will set the content-type on the file you upload, text/plain in case of .txt files).

# April 27, 2004 4:15 AM

dru said:

If you are using the w3c validator they should have a suggestion box. Ahh, but they don't how very bad of them. I have written an email to the w3 validator team asking for a suggestion box and that they rework that error message. We will see what happens.

# April 27, 2004 8:41 AM

michael said:

How about balloons that get increasingly bigger, the longer you ignore them?

Annoying? Yes. Better than the *dings*? Hell yeah!

# April 28, 2004 7:42 PM

TrackBack said:

# April 29, 2004 4:07 AM

Cornilius van Berkel said:

I find using paired Boolean conditions to test one state distracting, especially when they are used in a complex relational equation.
e.g.
if ((a != null && a != “”) && (b != null && b != “”) && etc)

I therefore make use of the function String.Compare.
e.g.
if ((String.Compare (a, “”) > 0) && (String.Compare (b, “”) > 0) && etc)

# May 2, 2004 7:42 AM

RM said:

The "stealing focus" issue was a major issue of debate between IBM and Microsoft when OS/2 was in development. Since Windows had from the start allowed focus stealing, they wanted to keep it that way. IBM vehemently said this was bad UI design and fought it. IBM would remove the capability, MS would put it back.

This was also the case with client versus System redraw of windows. IBM said System, meaning if a window was obscured the OS would save the bits on the screen and redisplay them when it was visible without calling the client app to do so. MS said "no", call the client app to redraw wasting memory and countless CPU cycles.

Someday MS will pull they heads out. It is just bad UI design and a major privacy and security hole.

# May 3, 2004 2:09 PM

Chris Nahr said:

I agree, disallowing duplicate case values looks like a C holdover that never had a good reason in the first place.

Duplicate values on different case statements are clearly an error but what possible reason is there to disallow duplicate values on the same statement, enum or not?

I can't think of any. The compiler could simply fold them; maybe optionally emit a warning at the highest level.

# May 9, 2004 4:31 AM

Andrew said:

Odd,

I have cancer in my leg AND a pair of size 9 Bauer inlines....

Andrew
adouble_uu@hotmail.com

# May 11, 2004 3:13 AM

Blackfox said:

Im trying to get the Product Key to install Longhorn Beta 4074 does anyone have it. If so could you plz e-mail it to blackfox3818@hotmail.com thanx. :)

# May 13, 2004 2:58 AM

Eric G. Harrison said:

Okay Jeff, okay! I promise, I'll get on DotNetBugs.com soon! :)

# May 14, 2004 9:15 AM

GuyIncognito said:

http://www.error-bank.com/

# May 14, 2004 9:57 AM

Scott Mitchell said:

If someone offerred to pay me $3,000 an hour, I'd work one 40 hour week, and then take a 51-week vacation.

# May 14, 2004 3:03 PM

Stuart said:

I'm sure you've already done the math, but just to state the obvious...

Figuring 40 hrs/wk and 52 wks/yr (or 2080 hrs/yr) that makes 6200/2080 or appx. 3 yrs of work.

I guess that's somewhat feasible, i.e. the lawyer spent 3 years working on essentially nothing but the MSFT case. Since his asking rate is $3000/hr that of course means he's asking $18,600,000.00 for his 3 years -- that's $6.2 million per year. What an ass. And all because he got Microsoft this *sweet* deal whereby all they have to pay is a measly (?) $1.1 billion?? Uh huh.

All this to say: +1 on the lawyer outsourcing. ;)

# May 15, 2004 1:21 PM

JBT said:

I'm also after a product key for longhorn 4074. Please e-mail to jamesturner80@aol.com. Cheers!

# May 16, 2004 5:13 PM

Jeff Key said:

Yup, we're definitely in the wrong business. :)

# May 17, 2004 1:52 AM

HumanCompiler said:

It just so happens there is a place, but it's currently in beta right now. I think it's supposed to be officially out this summer some time.

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback

Basically, it will be a place to post bugs, get feedback from Microsoft, vote on which bugs are the most important and post known workarounds.

I don't believe it's a public beta yet though, but know it's coming! :)

# May 17, 2004 1:54 PM

Jeff Key said:

Cool! Thanks, Erik.

# May 18, 2004 1:43 AM

Ryan Farley said:

I totally agree. Just another reason why I love blogs. You get to hear of news from people on the inside as well as the community take on it. If it weren't for some of the big name bloggers out there we'd have a tough time getting real and accurate info (even though it's usually not an "official" word, it is nice to hear it from big named in the industry - just as if you were talking about it around the water cooler at work.)

-Ryan

# May 19, 2004 11:56 AM

Jeff Key said:

I agree. Now if I can only find one or two good enterprise Java/Linux blogs...

# May 19, 2004 12:14 PM

15Seconds said:

I'll shamelessly promote our sister site www.internetnews.com and let you decide for yourselves.

BTW, here is a passage from a CNET.com article (http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5212077.html?tag=cd.lede), "Advanced search features that Gates has termed the "Holy Grail" of Longhorn, the next major version of Windows, won't be fully in place until 2009, Bob Muglia, the senior vice president in charge of Windows server development, told CNET News.com."

The article continues ... "The technology, called WinFS, is an add-on the Windows file system ..."

Still continues ... "WinFS will be included in the server version of Longhorn, slated to debut in 2007. However, "some of the functionality of WinFS and some of the scenarios may be limited in terms of what it can do."

So, this is where they get 2009 from. The reasons for the misinformation or bad analysis, however, I cannot say because I do not know.

# May 19, 2004 12:38 PM

Eric G. Harrison said:

Does Slashdot count? After all, they proclaim themselves as "News For Nerds". :)

I kid, I kid...

# May 19, 2004 12:44 PM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks, 15Secs, I'll check it out.

Regarding the article, I read that too. Still don't know where they got "Microsoft postponing the release WinFS until 2009". Missing a feature is one thing, but "postpoing the release" of the entire product is malarkey. :)

# May 19, 2004 1:37 PM

15Seconds said:

You may also want to check out crn.com and newsfactor.com. These aren't part of our network, but they are similar to internetnews.com in that they are trade publications, rather consumer publications such as news.com and zdnet.com.

# May 19, 2004 1:44 PM

TrackBack said:

# May 19, 2004 3:15 PM

Rich C said:

I suffered from the same moment of shock when I read the article regarding BlackBall. I had to stop and think, "Have I been out of tune that much in the last week?" (answer: NO!)

I consider the possibility that Bob Brown mentions to David Berlind, "You know, WinFS is postponed until 2009. Yeah, you guys even ran an article about it." At this point, Berlind does a quick check, sees 2009 and WinFS in the same sentence and runs with it. Brown gets a much bigger plug for his product and no one is the wiser... 'cept us in the blog community that talk too much!

# May 19, 2004 10:24 PM

Jerry Pisk said:

Wouldn't your method fail when I call with an in array parameter? Because it would return the type of the array element, which is not what I want for in parameters?

# May 23, 2004 4:07 PM

Jerry Pisk said:

And to suggeste a solution: how about using Type.IsByRef instead of Type.HasElementType?

# May 23, 2004 4:09 PM

Jeff Key said:

Good call, Jerry. I posted late at night and before I wrote the unit tests; I should've known better. I'll update the post w/better info.

# May 24, 2004 1:48 PM

Zing said:

So does String.Compare work for nulls then? It says _nothing_ about that in the manual.

# May 24, 2004 9:48 PM

Jeff Key said:

A quick check shows that it does indeed work, but compares can be expensive if you're doing a lot of them.

# May 24, 2004 9:54 PM

Eric W. Bachtal said:

Did you see Eric Sink's post?

http://software.ericsink.com/20040524.html#10169

# May 25, 2004 12:06 AM

Jeff Key said:

Yup. Also just got my answer at the very end of a great FAQ[1]:

Q: Is this the tool that Microsoft uses internally?

A: Not yet. However, once Visual Studio 2005 Team System ships, the Developer Tools Division at Microsoft will be using the source code control system full-time. This is one of our core tenets for change management: we will build the product we use internally.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/burtonfaq.aspx

# May 25, 2004 12:11 AM

Jon Galloway said:

Sounds like you have your answer, but you may want to ping Korby (http://blogs.msdn.com/korbyp/ / http://blogs.msdn.com/korbyp/contact.aspx).

I hope Perforce is better than StarTeam. Maybe it's just poorly implemented at my company, but it's so bad I wish we were back in VSS.

# May 25, 2004 12:41 AM

Stuart said:

Jeff,

Before you buy Perforce you owe it to yourself to check out Subversion. Have you tried it yet? Sweet and free, my friend!

# May 25, 2004 12:48 PM

Eric said:

I'm not a big user of Source Control software (only experience was with VSS), but I have been using SourceGear Vault and like it very much.

Eric

# May 25, 2004 3:47 PM

Bogdan said:

Is it possible to get a Longhorn 4074 product key for free?? I'm a student and don't have the financial possibility to subscribe to MSDN.
Could you send a product key to bogdan_007@hotmail.com ?

Thx,
Bogdam

# May 25, 2004 6:23 PM

Brian Harry said:

Yes, the plan is that we will use Visual Studio Team System internally. Of course we are a big company and we don't roll out anything at the drop of a hat. Further this is pre-release. Today the source code control team is using it. We have near term plans to roll it out more broadly within the Team Foundation teams, then into the rest of team system, then Visual Studio, ...

You get the idea :)

Brian

# May 26, 2004 12:43 PM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks Brian, I appreciate the feedback!

# May 26, 2004 2:52 PM

Hernan said:

I tried to use NCoverGui with csUnit but it fails to execute.
Follows the command line I use:
d:\apps\ncover\ncover.console /c "D:\APPS\csunit.org\csUnit 1.9.4\csunitcmd.exe" " /recipe:..\..\..\Scheduler.recipe" /a "SchedulerMain" /w "D:\Proyectos de Visual Studio\_Scheduler\SchedulerMain\bin\Debug"

Note the directories with whitespaces and also note the whitespace before /recipe argument.
I downloaded the source files of NCoverGui so had I fix it, I could send you the patch. Regretably, the source doesn't correspond to the last binary version.

# May 27, 2004 7:12 AM

stefan demetz said:

sql server scalability
http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/stefandemetz/archive/2004/05/16/13724.aspx

# May 28, 2004 6:46 AM

Jeff Key said:

Stuart: Yup, gave it a shot. The final decision isn't up to me. One of our guys is in charge of the build process and related items and there was something about Sub that he didn't like -- don't remember what it is. I might give it another shot at home, though!

# May 31, 2004 4:54 PM

Woody Pewitt said:

WOW I love this tool!

I will be using this thing all the time but I would like to give some feedback to try to help improve it.

I don't know if you are still working on this but if so I will start firing off my list from the first day of use. I am sure there will be more as I use it more.

I am more then willing to help implement my suggestions if that would help.

By the way I teach at UCSD and will be using this now to show .NET code up to now I have been using Notepad and the command line in class.

Thanks for a great tool!

# June 2, 2004 7:00 PM

Paul Brantley said:

If you find out where to download it, please email paulbrantley@mail.com

# June 5, 2004 7:47 PM

R. M. said:

If I read the article correctly, they're including hardware sales, including everything from Linux based Thin Clients to Linux based Itanium servers to Linux based supercomputers as "Linux-related products".

If you're suggesting that hardware costs are part of the of the cost of computers that can run Linux - of course they are. And while Microsoft publically announced that they believe hardware is free (covered in the mark-up of Windows?), this typically isn't the case for Linux systems.

# June 7, 2004 5:32 AM

gas scooter said:

good

# June 10, 2004 3:06 AM

Donny said:

I got the same SEHException Problem when using ShowDialog() of a form. You have mentioned about "Interestingly, using a manifest file to get the same results does NOT cause the app to crash." Does it mean I can bypass the problem by using a manifest file? Do you have the latest info about the crash problem raised by EnabledVisualStyles?

# June 15, 2004 10:49 PM

Doug McClean said:

It is possible to create a delegate to a property accessor. Simply use Delegate.CreateDelegate() and pass a MethodInfo object obtained from either PropertyInfo.GetGetMethod() or PropertyInfo.GetSetMethod(). This doesn't work for other accessors, like Let accessors, that you may have, but should solve any common problem.

# June 17, 2004 5:05 PM

Jon Galloway said:

I've got this... um... friend... who uses Virtual PC often but hasn't used Virtual Server. Not me, you understand. Anyhow, I'm having difficulty explaining how the two differ. He guesses it's just that Virtual Server is a server edition of Virtual PC, but as much as I try to explain the finer points to him he says he'll only listen to a Chicagoan. And he owes me $5.

So, my question: can I take him to small claims court?

# June 19, 2004 1:12 AM

Jeff Key said:

Forget small claims court and go right for the big time: The People's Court. Justice is served.

I was going to explain here, but it might make sense to make a post of it. Here we go..

# June 19, 2004 1:39 AM

Jon Galloway said:

Rokken like Dokken. Good explanation - better than http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/evaluation/virtualizationfaq.mspx. Thanks.

P.S. I'm also a math enthusiast.

# June 19, 2004 2:21 AM

TrackBack said:

# June 19, 2004 3:11 AM

Mr Lizard said:

We all pray for the end of the format war: let every player and every software jukebox play every format.

Hurrahh!

# June 20, 2004 1:03 PM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks, Woody, fire away!

# June 20, 2004 8:14 PM

mearls@hotmail.com (Michael Earls) said:

Thanks for the post. I've been hesitant to jump in. I'm having "issues" with my VPS. Most notably, I am unable to access it on the network. But, that's a user error, I'm sure.

# June 22, 2004 4:40 PM

Jeff Key said:

Let me know if you don't get it resolved. I've set up a few of these now and might be able to help.

# June 22, 2004 5:08 PM

Eric W. Bachtal said:

Not to be contrary, but there a lot of ways to develop using XML technologies that one might consider distinct from traditional languages and environments (and one might certainly consider distinct from "comma-delimited" and "binary" data manipulation, which largely rely on the use of traditional languages and environments). For instance, one might code XSL transformations, or model data using XSD. These activities have tools, environments, best practice standards and the like that could easily warrant it's own category. In other words, someone could do this full-time.

Nonetheless, I agree it's hard to capture this distinction in a cheesy salary survey. You have to wonder, if an XML developer makes $X and a C/C++ developers makes $Y, does a C/C++ developer who knows and regularly utilizes XML technologies make $X + Y$? ;)

# June 23, 2004 12:52 AM

codemann8 said:

please send me the product key for longhorn 4074 to codemann8@elite-techs.net

# June 23, 2004 2:35 AM

SBC said:

I was under the impression that XML is used in conjunction with other technologies (be it Java, .NET, SQL2K Server, etc). Can't say if it stands on its own.

# June 23, 2004 8:47 AM

John Askew said:

I fixed this problem in my application and learned something more specific about this bug.
You must call EnableVisualStyles & DoEvents BEFORE you instantiate your main form.

[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
// Enable XP Theme support(?)
Application.EnableVisualStyles();
Application.DoEvents();
ClientMainForm clientMainView =
new ClientMainForm();

// .... more code here ...

Application.Run(clientMainView);
}

# June 23, 2004 12:36 PM

Ayman said:

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# June 23, 2004 3:21 PM

^DevelopAll said:

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# June 26, 2004 2:08 AM

Kiliman said:

I noticed that too :(

I have XP SP2 RC2 installed and our corporate LAN is behind ISA 2000. Oddly, I was able to download the files just fine.

I haven't tried installing the bits yet, so it's possible the problem occurs when the installer tries to download the files, instead of manually downloading them.

But I agree, it would be a shame if that was the standard policy... disable the firewall! UGH.

Kiliman

# June 29, 2004 1:49 PM

TrackBack said:

# July 1, 2004 2:25 PM

KnightsTemplar189 said:

Wow, it's amazing how heated people get over MP3 vs AAC vs OggVorbis vs Mp4. I've just used iTunes, downloaded 1 track and I'll never use it again unless and until it supports DOWNLOADS (not importing etc) but DOWNLOADS in other formats. The important thing is portability of format and how easy it is for me to do it.
I don't have an iPod and possibly never will. I have a small (512MB) MP3/WMA player and that's enough for me as I'm not a music geek, I rip in 192VBR MP3 and that suits me fine.
At the moment the apps/methods to convert M4P to MP3/WMA are too much of a pain in the arse. I'm not going to burn an iTunes playlist to CD then rip it MP3/WMA - I'll do what I did last week; go on eBay or 101CD and purchase that shiny circle of plastic and rip straight from that.
And don't bother flaming the 'board audiogeeks, iPod Geeks or xxx is the best format-geeks as I won't be coming back to read your pissy posts weasels
;)

# July 1, 2004 5:47 PM

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) said:

It is good to eat less :-)

# July 4, 2004 12:49 AM

sean said:

That was a very kind help

# July 4, 2004 6:37 AM

Darrell said:

Manufacturers play that game all the time. The funniest one was where they decreased the number of feminine hygiene products in a box from 40 to 36 and charged the same price. Women revolted, and the company had to go back to the higher number. Draw your own conclusions for the moral of the story! :)

# July 6, 2004 11:00 AM

JPS said:

lol - good observation. Coming soon
"D2: Frito-Lay Bag-o-air"

# July 6, 2004 4:17 PM

alex said:

Well if you were smart, you would know that if you copy a cd in itunes you can use it anywhere else, even in DVD players.

# July 7, 2004 7:42 PM

Tony John said:

I have always preferred to kill 2 birds with 1 stone and so to make sure I catch both, null as well as not null empty strings, I do it like this:

// Append empty string to str, so if it was
// either null or empty string, the result
// would still be an empty string.
if ( (str + "").Length > 0 )
{
// Perform operations on not null or not
// empty string
}

The only caveat is that str+"" always creates a new string and so it needs to be used diligently. If the above expression is part of a loop, then the mutable StringBuilder class should be used to avoid unnecessary copies of str.

# July 8, 2004 7:58 PM

Ali Moeen said:

How about .NET programmers?

# July 11, 2004 10:27 AM

Gary van der Merwe said:

I hope you know the Bauer was bought by Nike.

# July 12, 2004 11:09 AM

Greg Osborne said:

Does anyone know how to enable visual styles on VS.NET 2003 addins?

# July 15, 2004 12:36 PM

Defragmented said:

You people sure know how to go from semi-intelligent to full blown azzholes in a matter of a few posts

# July 15, 2004 1:07 PM

Jerry Dennany said:

I had the same problem. I signed up for earthlink last week, and had to end up cancelling because I could not work with their tech support.

# July 15, 2004 9:41 PM

Jerry Pisk said:

I use Earthlink's online chat, with roughly 50/50 split between talking to complete idiots (suggesting I empty IE's cache when I can't even ping a host I know is up, let alone connect to any services running on it) and talking to guys who absolutely know what they're doing, to a point that I wonder somebody this knowledgable works customer service.

As for using cable companies to access the net - I'm staying w/ Earthlink because my upload is 384 kbit and I get three public IP addresses (so I don't have to NAT my home network). I love calling cable companies' sales and asking about upload speeds. They always say that a normal person only uses download, and all the stuff you can do with broadband, like sharing pictures, video conferencing or telecommuting and so on don't really use upload at all ;)

# July 16, 2004 1:54 AM

Darrell said:

Comcast has upload at 384k as well, and up to 4MB download. I've been very impressed with their service, and the price (the plan I am on gives me cable and Internet for LESS than the price of cable alone) is great!

# July 16, 2004 9:51 AM

Geoff Plitt said:

Hey Jeff! Same problem, but with AT&T. Also, I wanted to make a complaint after 7 calls with no results and talking to a rude guy, but he wouldn't give me a last name or employee #. plus AT&T doesn't actually escalate calls to management when you demand it (i finally got a letter saying to go back through their customer service line), so i said F U and switched to speakeasy DSL. With Speakeasy, I won't even need local telephone service. Yay!

# July 16, 2004 11:25 AM

Erik Porter said:

That sux...sounds like a good idea to switch. I've been on Mediacom (sister company of Comcast) Cable for a few years and have been very happy.

# July 17, 2004 1:32 PM

Jeff Key said:

Jerry: Haha, I tried chat. Told the guy the same thing (no ping, nothing) and he wanted to know what error I was getting in my browser. Click. Sounds like you have a good deal. The new cable upload speed is as good or better than my old DSL, which was pretty pitiful. The only stuff that's going through that side of the pipe are Remote Desktop and music, so I don't need much.

Darrell: Bravo! I'm getting ~3Mb. 33% faster than my old DSL.

Geoff: Ouch, what a mess! I'm glad you mentioned the local telco -- now that I'm on cable I won't need it either!

Erik: Glad to hear it. I've been leery about the whole cable thing for a while, but from what I've heard it's much better than it was a few years ago. I'm a very happy camper so far.

# July 17, 2004 11:15 PM

Noel said:

My recent descent into dsl hell... I've been an earthlink/mindspring customer since '98 (dsl since early 2000). In March, I decided to move all the way across the hall to a bigger place. Earthlink told us they first had to cut the service before moving it, and it would take a week to get it on in the new place. Since I'd be moving stuff in the evenings after work, a week without dsl didn't seem so bad. On March 9th the dsl went away in the old place. After a few weeks earthlink said they couldn't deliver service to the new location! Great, whatever, so fine, I'll use someone else. Two weeks later (late-April) I had sbcyahoo working for two days, then it suddenly dies. After a few days and some phone calls, come to find out that earthlink has, without any warning, asking, getting permission, whatever, just up and decided they can provide service at my new location after all and takes over the line for themselves. Called them and they said they'd release the line immediately, but after a few weeks they hadn't (also there was also no dsl signal on the line to try to use). Cut to the end (over 50 phone calls)... had to get a second phone line and finally got sbcyahoo up and running on that line June 11th.

# July 18, 2004 9:53 PM

Adam Kinney said:

+1 for Comcast Cable

I've have had their service here for about 4 years. Good support response and good speed.

# July 19, 2004 12:21 AM

what is all the big deal with NullOrEmpty said:

Every application needs to have a util class

Just set up

public static bool IsNullOrEmpty(string stringVar)
bool b;
if(stringVar == null || stringVar.Length == 0)
{return b;}

and be done with it and stop whining about whidbey?

call it from anywhere:

if (!Util.IsNullOrEmpty(myString))
{myString="a good one"}

Isn't programming about creating stuff. Then why are all these "experienced" programmers begging to be spoon fed?

Rob

# July 19, 2004 10:56 AM

if ( (str + "").Length > 0 ) is the said:

this is the worst performance. It invovescreation of a string object and concatenation too.

Rob

# July 19, 2004 11:01 AM

Rob said:

Sorry got to typing too fast:

public static bool IsNullOrEmpty(String s)
{
bool b;
if (s == null || s == 0)
{
b=true;
}
return b;
}

rob

# July 19, 2004 11:11 AM

TrackBack said:

# July 19, 2004 1:55 PM

Helen said:

I have really enjoyed the sites, especially the Zen Garden! I find it a kind of professional fun :)

"But don't fear, most designers know nothing about code, it's like Constant = AmountOfDesignTalent * AmountOfSoftwareEngineeringTalent :) "

I do not claim to know much about code! Still I do insist that basic knowledge of HTML and CSS is absoltely necessary to a graphics designer!

# July 19, 2004 4:35 PM

Klong said:

Well alex, if you were smart, you would know that he's talking about playing m4a/AAC files (around 9 albums in 1 CD) in his Home DVD player.

# July 21, 2004 7:46 AM

Creepy said:

Yes, I would also like a product key, please. ironbeanerman@yahoo.com thanks.

# July 21, 2004 11:17 PM

Jeff Key said:

Since everyone's asking for a product key, here it is: 7

Enjoy!

# July 21, 2004 11:31 PM

Jeff Key said:

Bravo, Noel! You definitely win first prize. Ugh.

Adam: That makes me feel better..

# July 21, 2004 11:33 PM

Firey said:

7??

# July 25, 2004 11:07 AM

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# July 25, 2004 9:38 PM

Brian Scott said:

I noticed this once with the low fat Milky Way. It had some% less fat than a regular Milky Way on the wrapper, but the bar was about 30% smaller. Someone thinks everyone is stupid I suppose.

# July 28, 2004 11:14 AM

Christo said:

Jeff Key:

Hey, thanks a lot! You don't know how much time I spent googling for a working one ;-)

I did however find an article saying that as a debug feature, if you use the Product Key "7.1" then LH starts a LOT quicker!

-Christo

# July 30, 2004 5:53 PM

asss said:

aaaaa

# July 31, 2004 10:42 AM

B said:

Comparing a horrible audio codec to the most advanced music jukebox program is bad. Your portable audio device is not worth much now since Apple made it obsolete with pushing Dolby's Mp4 AAC. Down the road your HD-DVD players will play the M4a files.

# August 2, 2004 12:44 AM

Eric-Paul said:

Now this is a thread long dead, don't even know if it's still possible to post a comment, and whether anyone will read about it, but I'm in need of HELP! Last week my PS/2 port died, so I'm desperately looking for a *wired* alternative for my beloved MS Natural Keyboard Pro, that has proved to just work and work for several years in a row now.

I figured there must be some USB natural/ergonomic keyboard out there that doesn't require you to pay $200 for a wireless, mouse-included bundle, right? As you all know, the wireless products actually require *more* wires than the wired ones, from PC to the radio-module, from anywhere to the battery-loading-dock, sometimes even a regular power-supply is needed. What's up with that?!~I would just "for old time's sake" like to have these two simple features combined in one keyboard:

* Wired USB connection
* Natural/ergonomic design

Does anyone know what company one should turn to, to obtain such a keyboard?

# August 2, 2004 6:30 AM

Eric-Paul said:

Still going strong on the issue: One USB wired natural/ergonomic keyboard. I phoned MS and the friendly person that answered gave me this link:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

For all you people that always wanted your wishes to come true. And don't forget to mention a wired USB Natural keyboard!

# August 2, 2004 7:18 AM

Dessi Bravo said:

I am trying to retrieve the system icons to add into my completed application such as a calculator. But it seems that I can't find it when depressing the icon elipses i n the property window of vs.net. The system 32 folder pops-up, but no icons retrievable. When I deploy the completed application I would like to add an icon when pointing the application to the usesr's desktop. When the user installs the program into his computer, a shortcut will appear in his desktop with the embedded icon. How can I retrieve a icon into the completed application?

# August 4, 2004 2:17 PM

kevin said:

what do u mean by thad debug thing :S
what do i have to do to start faster ?

# August 5, 2004 9:12 PM

thu trang said:

removal mydoom

# August 5, 2004 11:48 PM

Spamboy said:

Sure, dings suck, but the worst are web pages with music or sound when inappropriate. Very embarassing at work when some sort of music pops up or someone says anything. Only once did I open a page, and a banner talked to me. How evil that was. I hope we're not going to have that everywhere for the rest of the existence of the internet. I'd just stop surfing.

# August 10, 2004 2:14 AM

TrackBack said:

# August 14, 2004 12:50 PM

Oops -- thanks, Adam. The assembly is in the non-source download in the meantime.

# September 2, 2004 7:34 AM

Darrell said:

I think it's only quicker for you since you actually do Windows development (I'm an ASP.NET jockey). :)

# September 2, 2004 8:35 AM

Jeff Key said:

Are you saying you can't do that in ASP.NET?! What's all this praise I've been hearing? :)

There is a bit of a learning curve, but once you're familiar with the System.Windows.Forms namespace, it's really a matter of just banging things out -- and quickly.

# September 2, 2004 9:38 AM

TrackBack said:

# September 2, 2004 11:24 AM

TrackBack said:

# September 2, 2004 11:27 AM

Jason Perry said:

Same problem here. It goes through the motions of starting to install and then it ends up launching WMP 9. Apparently doesn't like 2k3 at all.

# September 2, 2004 11:27 AM

Scott said:

It no workie on Win2K either.

http://www.lazycoder.com/weblog/archives/2004/09/02/nifty-wmp-10-is-xp-only/

But that's OK because it doesn't know what system I'm running anyway.

http://www.lazycoder.com/weblog/archives/2004/09/02/huh/

# September 2, 2004 11:50 AM

TrackBack said:

# September 2, 2004 1:33 PM

Flip said:

Appologies for the formating...
<PRE>
line 26:
private bool _Flipped = false;
line 61:
_menu.MenuItems.Add(new MenuItem("-"));

mi = new MenuItem("Flip");
mi.Click += new EventHandler(MenuHandler);
_menu.MenuItems.Add(mi);

Line 215:

if (Flipped) {
// Width
e.Graphics.DrawString(Height + " pixels", Font, Brushes.Black, (Width / 2) - (Font.SizeInPoints / 2), 10);

// Ticks
for (int i = 0; i < Height; i++) {
if (i % 2 == 0) {
int width;
if (i % 100 == 0) {
width = 15;
DrawTickLabel(e.Graphics, i.ToString(), i, width);
} else if (i % 10 == 0) {
width = 10;
} else {
width = 5;
}
DrawTick(e.Graphics, i, width);
}
}
} else {
// Width
e.Graphics.DrawString(Width + " pixels", Font, Brushes.Black, 10, (Height / 2) - (Font.Height / 2));

// Ticks
for (int i = 0; i < Width; i++) {
if (i % 2 == 0) {
int height;
if (i % 100 == 0) {
height = 15;
DrawTickLabel(e.Graphics, i.ToString(), i, height);
} else if (i % 10 == 0) {
height = 10;
} else {
height = 5;
}
DrawTick(e.Graphics, i, height);
}
}
}

Line 258:
private void DrawTick(Graphics g, int xPos, int height)
{
if (Flipped) {
// Top
g.DrawLine(Pens.Black, 0, xPos, height, xPos);
// Bottom
g.DrawLine(Pens.Black, Width, xPos, Width - height, xPos);
} else {
// Top
g.DrawLine(Pens.Black, xPos, 0, xPos, height);
// Bottom
g.DrawLine(Pens.Black, xPos, Height, xPos, Height - height);
}
}

Line 273:
private void DrawTickLabel(Graphics g, string text, int xPos, int height)
{
if (Flipped) {
// Top
g.DrawString(text, Font, Brushes.Black, height, xPos);
// Bottom
g.DrawString(text, Font, Brushes.Black, Width - height - Font.SizeInPoints, xPos);
} else {
// Top
g.DrawString(text, Font, Brushes.Black, xPos, height);
// Bottom
g.DrawString(text, Font, Brushes.Black, xPos, Height - height - Font.Height);
}
}

Line 315:
case "Flip":
mi.Checked = !mi.Checked;
Flipped = mi.Checked;
this.Refresh();
break;
</PRE>

# September 2, 2004 2:36 PM

Flip said:

uhg.

Basically, for flipping, add a property and a menu item, and change the resize method and two drawing methods.
Flip flop hieght & width, and change the DrawTick and DrawTickLabel XY from/to parameters

# September 2, 2004 2:41 PM

TrackBack said:

# September 2, 2004 6:48 PM

TrackBack said:

# September 2, 2004 6:48 PM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks, Flip. I went with a couple of Graphics' transform methods instead.

# September 2, 2004 8:35 PM

Louis Parks said:

I wonder if it's related to DirectX. Perhaps the new UI relies on DX, which by default (IIRC) isn't installed on Server 2003.

# September 2, 2004 8:40 PM

Drew Marsh said:

Awesome.

Quick suggestion, enable key board support for pixel nudging. Maybe move a configurable amount of pixels on keypress unless CTRL is held down, then move one pixel at a time.

# September 2, 2004 9:51 PM

Jeff Key said:

Good idea, Drew. I added that plus CTRL+Shift+ArrowKey to resize.

# September 2, 2004 11:44 PM

Ole said:

Great tool!
One suggestion, though:
You might want to provide a tooltip showing the current horizontal *and* vertical extent of the ruler.
This will make the switch to vertical mode unnecessary most of the time. Also, currently when measuring small things, you can't see the 'xxx pixels' text on the ruler.
Thanks,
Ole

Super cool, I am actively evangelising it now.

# September 9, 2004 10:42 AM

Shahn Hogan said:

Once again, you've created a free utility that I can use again and again. Thanks!

# September 11, 2004 10:34 PM

Jeff Atwood said:

CURSE YOU, DECIMAL POINT! YOU ARE AN ENIGMA WRAPPED IN A MYSTERY SLATHERED WITH SECRET SAUCE!

# September 12, 2004 3:47 AM

Julie Lerman said:

you might want to check out the discussion in the comments on this post I wrote about this as it relates to VB6. Basically it's about floating point conversion etc.
http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog/CommentView.aspx?guid=99b9edf1-237e-4ade-91d5-e6d00d186e89

# September 12, 2004 8:49 AM

Darrell said:

Most excellent!

# September 13, 2004 8:49 AM

Darrell said:

Have you found a way to import an OPML file? I can't. Maybe I'm just missing it...

# September 13, 2004 8:51 AM

Nils Jonsson said:

This is really cool. Nice work, as always.

One tip though: have you checked out the free edition of xmlspy? It does all this and more.

http://www.xmlspy.com/support_freexmlspyhome.asp

# September 13, 2004 10:05 AM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks, chaps.

Yes, I tried the free version of XML Spy. There are probably a dozen other apps that do this and more, but this does what I need exactly how I need it to be done and in the most efficient way for me. :)

# September 13, 2004 7:15 PM

Jeff Key said:

I think so. "Edit" your subscription list, then click "Import", which is in the list of "Extras" below it.

# September 14, 2004 11:43 AM

Ryan Heath said:

Consider adding features as Inches and Cms too ;)

# September 16, 2004 3:33 AM

Martín Salías said:

I concur. Have you used GMail?

They Click-Boomed the webmail client the right way.

Maybe is time to start building a Web-UI Hall of Fame to show people how things should be done.

Poor Jakob Nielsen. Nobody seems to read him...

# September 19, 2004 10:54 PM

TrackBack said:

# September 22, 2004 3:33 PM

TrackBack said:

# October 4, 2004 6:48 PM

Bian Scott said:

Cool Jeff, another thing I was looking for and you provided. Oh, and welcome back.

# October 8, 2004 7:50 AM

Jeff Key said:

Excellent, I hope it's useful. Glad to be back, too. It had been years since I had a proper vacation, so it was good to get some time away..

# October 8, 2004 8:24 AM

Darrell said:

Awesome!

# October 8, 2004 11:31 AM

R. Aaron Zupancic said:

Three

# October 9, 2004 3:13 AM

Or Ron said:

Two

# October 9, 2004 3:26 AM

Jon Galloway said:

16384 +/- 0.00006103515625

# October 9, 2004 3:35 AM

Mladen Mihajlovic said:

Four?

# October 9, 2004 4:06 AM

Mark said:

One

# October 9, 2004 4:22 AM

Tom Guinther said:

What the hell? Three (3)

# October 9, 2004 8:10 AM

Dario Fruk said:

zero...

# October 9, 2004 8:58 AM

Ross said:

Six !

# October 9, 2004 9:43 AM

Jeff Key said:

In the interest of time, let's go with the five folks that picked numbers within the acceptible range (0-5).

Aaron, Ron, Mladen, Mark and Tom, please email me from the Contact link above.

(Sorry Jon, you were SOOO close!)

Thanks for playing.

# October 9, 2004 11:21 AM

Jeff Key said:

BTW, the answer was Four. I owe you a beer next time you're in Chicago, Mladen.

# October 9, 2004 11:29 AM

Or Ron said:

Thanks Jeff- This was fun...

# October 9, 2004 12:07 PM

TrackBack said:

Drazen Dotlic said:

This is indeed nice. Those that haven't tried getting tab control with theme support correctly drawn when tabs are upside down could not appreciate this enough, though.

There is a completely free solution for this particular problem WITH source on CodeProject [http://www.codeproject.com/tabctrl/XPTabApp.asp] for several months now but in native C++ (not managed). I guess it can be (easily?) converted to C# if necessary.

# October 16, 2004 7:11 PM

TrackBack said:

# October 16, 2004 10:46 PM

fd said:

Oh, you couldn't be funny if you tried. At least Jimmy Fallon could get on the show, you loser. And he is freaking hillarious. I don't see a best of you, whatever your name is, on SNL. So get bent, a hole

# October 17, 2004 2:19 AM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks for your thoughts, fd. Like most things, comedy sketches are subjective. If your idea of a good time is watching a dope with no skills laugh his way through every skit, then you're a better man[1] than I. Enjoy Taxi, I hear it's a hoot.

[1] I've read countless times that Fallon's presence on the show was to cater to the teenage girl crowd ("he's so cute!"), so chances are you're a better teenage girl than me. My apologies.

# October 17, 2004 8:52 AM

Jeff Key said:

Oy. My website is flaky today. If the first two links don't work for you, here they are:

http://www.inrule.com
http://mappoint.msn.com/(m45ytm55doktvr55iisbrh2d)/map.aspx?L=USA&C=41.88672%2c-87.64422&A=7.16667&P=|41.88672%2c-87.64422|1|W+Fulton+St+%26+N+Desplaines+St%2c+Chicago%2c+IL+60661|L1|

# October 18, 2004 3:10 PM

jean said:

three!?

# October 19, 2004 12:04 AM

TrackBack said:

# October 19, 2004 5:01 PM

# November 12, 2004 11:42 AM

# December 3, 2004 10:38 AM

But of course!

# December 15, 2004 6:45 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 16, 2004 1:16 AM

TrackBack said:

# December 24, 2004 1:32 AM

Wallym said:

Hmmm, I've got the VS.NET 2005 that runs with the December SQL Server CTP up and running on my Windows 2k3 x64 build 1289 machine.

I haven't tried any of the other builds, but I'm due for an reinstall of something. I think i'll try a more up to date build with regards to the .NET framework on x64. Hmmm, I wonder which is a better day 41129 or 41202. Only a true expert knows (and I am definitely not one of them).

# December 24, 2004 10:06 AM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks for the info, Wally. I did some Googling and didn't see many other people with my problem -- but there were some. I just tried installing the October C# Express CTP and it crashes while attempting to download the x64 .NET SDK. Same thing happens with the November CTP.

I'm not worried. There's plenty of time left in both betas and free time will be at a minimum for the next month or so.

# December 24, 2004 10:25 AM

Jeff Atwood said:

x64 is the ultimate "runs on my machine" experience.

I love Athlon64s-- they compile code 2x faster than a Pentium 4 of equivalent rating due to the on-die memory controller-- but until Intel gets off their ass and enables x64 on their newest P4 chips, I can't see x64 achieving critical mass anytime soon.

Anyway, until more x64 hardware is available from the only vendor Dell buys CPUs from, it's kind of a moot point.

Is there an actual planned release date for Windows XP 64?

# December 25, 2004 12:42 AM

Jeff Key said:

Compiling: Yes! My old machine was a 2.4Ghz P4, the Athlon is ~2.2 (IIRC, I'm not on it at the moment) and the compilation speed is jaw-droppingly faster. It still blows my mind.

XP x64 Edition is on the Win2k3 SP1 code base and I think they plan on releasing both at the same time, so 1H 2005.

# December 25, 2004 8:13 AM

TrackBack said:

# December 27, 2004 12:09 AM

Darron said:

I've been very pleased with www.discountasp.net.

# December 29, 2004 11:19 AM

karl said:

This question was asked a couple weeks ago on the aspnet newsgroup and a handful of people suggested discountasp.net to the person who asked, don't have any experience with it, but thought I'd pass it on. Two of the people who recommended it were Steve Orr and Scott Allen

Karl

# December 29, 2004 11:22 AM

John said:

I've had pretty good luck with CrystalTech http://www.crystaltech.com/

# December 29, 2004 11:26 AM

Joey said:

I use both ServerIntellect, formerly EAServe (www.serverintellect.com) and DiscountASP.net (www.discountasp.net) and they've both been great. EAServe even gives me 2 SQL databases. And the prices are very good.

# December 29, 2004 11:29 AM

-e said:

I've been happy with webhost4life. I haven't had a production site there, but the e-mail seems to be working fine, and I get ASP.Net 1.1, 2 SQL Server databases, and 600 MB for $9.95/month.

# December 29, 2004 11:36 AM

uber1024 said:

I use flarehosting.com. Their tech support is fast and accurate, their service is good, and their prices are reasonable.

# December 29, 2004 11:47 AM

Eric said:

Here's another plug for DiscountASP.Net... we've had really great service from them, and I can't remember a time that they were down.

Eric

# December 29, 2004 11:53 AM

Steven J. Ackerman said:

I second Crystal Tech. They're running a developer special right now. I have two production sites there and have been very happy with their service.

# December 29, 2004 11:54 AM

Nathan Maffeo said:

I use brinkster.com

Not the cheapest kid on the block but still very reasonable. Never had any problems with them and I've used them for almost a full year.

# December 29, 2004 12:13 PM

Mike said:

Check http://www.devbizhost.com as well, worth taking a look.

# December 29, 2004 12:38 PM

Bill Brown said:

I like my current host http://www.uplinkearth.com/ very much. Never had an outage, never a slowdown, and never any email interruptions.

# December 29, 2004 12:59 PM

Eric W. Bachtal said:

Ditto the CrystalTech:

http://ewbi.blogs.com/develops/2004/12/goodbye_interla.html

# December 29, 2004 1:10 PM

Andrew Connell said:

I am currently on WebHost4Life as well and have noticed where I couldn't get my email or hit my site for a few minutes at a time... but for $10/mo it couldn't be beat.

I used to be with CrystalTech... and if I got fed up with WebHost4Life, I'd jump back to CT. You always have the latest and greatest, as well as very fast and responsive servers. I left because I couldn't get up and running with SQL for an inexpensive price.

# December 29, 2004 1:24 PM

bertcord said:

I also vote for CrystalTech. I have used them for over 3 years. Shared hosting is shared hosting and you get what you pay for. I tihnk I have only had down time (that I know of) maybe once in the last 3 years

# December 29, 2004 1:43 PM

Scott C Reynolds said:

I'll also shill for webhost4life. great service so far, technical staff is extremely helpful...unlimited domains, asp.net, sql server, the whole nine yards, very inexpensive.

Stay away from brinkster. Their tech staff are idiots, lots of downtime, too many restrictions on what you can and cannot do. I'm going to be moving my blog from my brinkster account to my webhost4life account when I get the time to migrate it and just leave brinkster dormant until my year runs out.

# December 29, 2004 1:56 PM

Sumeet said:

Never had any regret moving to Infuseweb (http://www.infuseweb.com). Great and friendly tech support (in the rare instances that I have needed it)

# December 29, 2004 1:58 PM

Paul Wilson said:

I used M6.net and TopHosting.com before switching to WebHost4Life.com -- and I would still recommend either. I've found far more options with WH4L, and they're always keeping up with the latest, which is why I moved to them. I've found the service and support at WH4L great, but I would recommend either of the others listed if they haven't worked for you.

# December 29, 2004 2:07 PM

Rich C said:

Have you called in to their tech support yet? I've found them very responsive and the one time I had problems with email, they moved me to the 'new' system and haven't had a serious problem since.

I think it's worth giving them an other chance. They've made me happy several times.

# December 29, 2004 4:02 PM

Adam Kinney said:

I've been using WebHost4Life for a couple years now with barely any problems. I think they just avoid bigger city support like Chicago and aim to support those in the smaller more numerable cities like Fort Wayne.

Yep, I think that's it. Sorry Jeff.

# December 29, 2004 4:51 PM

Scott said:

Hi Jeff,

I would have to recommend that you do not sign up with DiscountASP.net (DASP) if you are looking for reliable email. I currently have 2 clients hosted with them. Both clients have been hosted with DASP for about a year and a half. Almost every couple of months there are problems with their email hosting. About three weeks ago, they were down for at least 5 hours.

I could live with this if it was just me, but I have paying clients that almost immediately phone me when the email goes down. Then, to add insult to injury, the only way to get support from DASP is by filling out a form on their site and then subsequently emailing back and forth with their tech support. There is no phone number to call. It is an email support only type of thing and if their email goes down, you feel kind-of helpless.

Well, on the last occasion - as on every occasion – I filled out the silly little form as soon as I knew there was a problem. Other than an auto responder, I had no idea if they had even received my support ticket for about 3 hours. Since my clients are looking to me for answers, all I could tell them was that “the host is having problems and I sent in a support ticket”. I would have felt so much more at ease if I could have heard a technician on the other end of the phone at least acknowledging the issue. Eventually they did post an acknowledgement on their site, but as you can see here - http://community.discountasp.net/default.aspx?f=15&m=5220 - even that took a few hours.

I just moved my own site away from DASP and on to CrystalTech. The prices are very competitive and in most cases you actually get a lot more for your money at CrystalTech. I have only been with them for a couple of weeks, so I can’t remark on reliability yet. However I can say that my web site is a bit snappier with them and their control panel is far better than DASP. Plus I have read that it is written in .NET – which makes me like them even more. And they actually clearly publish their phone number on the top banner on their web site. Wow! Very refreshing.

If all goes well with CrystalTech in the next couple of months, I will be migrating my client sites there too. Sorry for the long verbiage, but I thought it was relevant to your situation. Good luck with your change!

# December 29, 2004 5:47 PM

yogesh said:

i've been using redfox hosting (formerly cheap unlimited hosting...) for a while now. As their name indicates, they are really cheap. Haven't had any problems for around a year now. Got my hosting package through the UK ebay site so cost me around 12GBP (thats 20 us moolahs methinks) for a year for 2 SQL dbs, 500mb of space unlimited emails etc asp.net php etc. They are a UK outfit though so dunno if it suits you...
http://www.redfoxhosting.com/products/

# December 30, 2004 5:27 AM

Jeff Key said:

Wow, thanks for the great input, everyone. I'm in the process of a switch now and will explain why I left WH4L in a later post.

Thanks again!

# December 30, 2004 12:55 PM

TrackBack said:

You know, there is a lot of grumbling in the blogsphere about webhost4life. I wanted to relay an experience that I had with them today; an experience which resulted in them keeping me as a client. Late yesterday evening, I...

# December 30, 2004 11:36 PM

Wim said:

I posted about them (WebHost4Life) before, see here: http://weblogs.asp.net/wim/archive/2004/08/19/217003.aspx

# December 31, 2004 12:24 PM

J Donnici said:

+1 for EAServe (now Server Intellect). Cheap, fast, full-featured, and timely support.

www.serverintellect.com

# December 31, 2004 10:15 PM

Chris said:

Hey Jeff. I run a few dedicated servers which I have a control panel set up on. I run windows server 2003 and version 2 of the dot net framework. I server up on IIS6, and ASP.NET is installed. Both boxes are barely used, and go up to 10mbits / sec. You can check out basic info about my servers and uptime at http://move-media.com/health.php

I offer 1GB of space, and 15GB of transfer per month for only $5. Plus, I'm a little guy. If you need something custom installed, just send me an email and we can work something out.

Shoot me an email or IM if you like :) Contact info is on my site.

# January 3, 2005 6:20 PM

Jeff Key said:

Doh! Just a couple days too late, Chris. Thanks for the offer, though; I'll keep you in mind for the futuer!

# January 3, 2005 9:01 PM

Tim Rayburn said:

I also would recommend www.serverintellect.com, I've been with them for nearly a year now. Great service, and tech support that is timely AND empowered to make the changes you need themselves (not 6 levels up the line).

# January 4, 2005 12:19 PM

Josh said:

I had the same trouble with WebHost4Life and recently switched to Fluidhosting.com. Although I see that it looks like you've already switched, if anyone else out there is looking, I'd recommend Fluidhosting.com. They have great service, and with the Fall special they are running, it's almost as inexpensive and WH4L.

# January 5, 2005 10:13 AM

Chris said:

Aww.. man :( Thanks for considering me though.

Side note, thanks for putting all those dot net projects out there. Very cool stuff :)

# January 6, 2005 12:17 AM

Dennis v/d Stelt said:

We're using EasyCGI.com for our blogs at www.bloggingabout.net

It's $27 or so per month, 6GB space, 150GB bandwith, unlimited (pop) email, 50 FTP accounts and pretty fast responses from helpdesk. Pretty fast, because I post from Europe and it probably takes a while for USA to get up from bed! ;)

# January 6, 2005 7:52 AM

Lee said:

I've used boundgrid.net quite a bit, the nicest thing about them is that you can host unlimited domains on your account, (they all share the same bandwith and diskspace quotas). I have an ASP.NET with SQL Server account for $9.99 / month.

# January 6, 2005 10:45 AM

Alek Davis said:

Hi Jeff,

So which hosting option did you pick? Why? Are you happy with it? Please share this info if you do not mind; it can help a few readers (myself included).

Thanks,
Alek

# January 10, 2005 8:36 PM

.Net Adventures said:

Check out http://www.jodohost.com

# January 12, 2005 6:38 AM

TrackBack said:

Chicago Symphony Orchestra: There's a different type of UI for choosing a seat here... the left pane shows all seats in the theatre, and when you roll over a seating area, the right pane will show a representative photograph of...

# January 13, 2005 9:05 PM

Ryan Rinaldi said:

That UI does rock. The first time I used I was absolutely amazed at how great it was. What's even more amazing is that they have been using that UI since at least '01-'02!

# January 14, 2005 9:44 AM

Jeff Key said:

Wow, cool! The best part is that it's absolutely unnecessary: It's not like people aren't going to "shop" with them if the experience isn't this nice. :)

# January 14, 2005 6:43 PM

chris ehrhardt said:

CSO lauched that site in 2000; Lynch2 did the flash work (http://www.lynch2.com/); I remember looking at that site when I was doing research right before I had planned to bid on a job to redesign the Bass Performance Hall of Fort Worth (www.basshall.com) web site. Maybe I should have made that effort, cause their tickting system compared to CSO is laughable. =]

# January 15, 2005 3:55 AM

Jeff Key said:

Sorry, unsuccessfully tried formatting the code three times to make it more readable.

# January 15, 2005 1:58 PM

Chris Frazier said:

http://PostXING.url123.com/main

Let PostXING do it for you. :)

# January 15, 2005 2:38 PM

Jeff Key said:

Godd stuff, thanks Chris.

# January 15, 2005 3:07 PM

david said:

GOD STUFF \m/

# January 15, 2005 5:38 PM

Steve said:

xblogs.org will host your blog for free. .TEXT of course. :) You get two free blogs and tons of custom made templates included. Not to mention two FTP accounts, 10 gigs of space, and an @xblogs.org e-mail. :) Plus, It's free!

# January 17, 2005 10:34 PM

TrackBack said:

# January 19, 2005 3:57 PM

Eric G. Harrison said:

Wow, that's an absolute bummer.

We've started using those monsters on all our dev boxes, and the 10k rpm speed is a wonderful thing!

Now we'll just keep our fingers crossed that ours don't fail as early as yours!

# January 24, 2005 8:40 PM

Kartal Guner said:

This has never happened to me with the November CTP, but was a problem with the December CTP on my laptop. Thanks for the tip. You saved me from uninstalling and reinstalling everything.

# January 24, 2005 8:43 PM

Jeff Key said:

Yup, they're like crack. I bought the exact same drive as a replacement. ;)

Also picked up its 74GB sibling for the workstation at the office. The seek time on that is even faster!

# January 24, 2005 8:46 PM

Jeff: I'm a big fan of that feature, too, but haven't really kicked into hardcore mode enough to require jumping around a lot. I'll try to keep my eye out for it.

# January 27, 2005 7:37 PM

TrackBack said:

# January 28, 2005 12:55 AM

Jeff Key said:

FYI: That's grouping; Tiles is an alternate view.

# January 28, 2005 1:50 AM

Conrad Agramont said:

So this won't work on a Windows 2000 box? That's kind of lame, but I understand. I guess that's one of those ties to the underlying platform. Doesn't that take away from the portability of a .NET App?

# January 28, 2005 2:41 AM

Matt Hamilton said:

Is there some easy way to tell whether a group already exists? The Groups property has a 'Contains' method, but it takes a ListViewGroup object rather than a string...

# January 28, 2005 2:51 AM

Snorrk said:

Btw, whats that program?

If it's a WMI thingy for looking up info on networked computers and has a workspace somewhere - can I join?

>S
(snorri.beck<att>gmail.com)

# January 28, 2005 5:55 AM

Snorrk said:

Found the NetPing page at sliver.com..

>S

# January 28, 2005 5:58 AM

Tarek Hannoudi said:

I don't like the standard UI components of MS, Infragistics and DevExpress are far more powerfull...

# January 28, 2005 7:11 AM

Jeff Key said:

Conrad: Correct, dont work on Win2k. The docs say that if you're on an supported platorm that the feature is "ignored".

Matt: ListViewGroupsCollection class has a string indexer. My guess is that it's keyed by Name.

Snorrk: That's it, but I haven't released a .NET v2-specific one yet.

Terek: Aren't they solutins to differnt problems? ListView is purely read only, whereas Infragistics is data-entry, correct? Just checked out DevExpress an it looks like a great solution, but a little too involved for something like showing the computers on a network. :)

http://www.devexpress.com/Products/VCL/ExQuantumGrid/i/main_screen.png

# January 28, 2005 9:41 AM

Jerry Dennany said:

Yes, but does it maintain file history?

# January 28, 2005 10:35 PM

Jeff Key said:

Yup, and it looks like it renames your _class_, too! Even better: It doesn't tell you. Better yet: As far as I can tell, there's no way to turn this off.

# January 28, 2005 10:52 PM

Jerry Dennany said:

Sounds cool.

# January 28, 2005 10:55 PM

Sahil Malik said:

Yeah except atleast Beta 1 seems to keep forgetting the "Prompt before checkout" option.;

# January 29, 2005 12:53 AM

Jon Galloway said:

diggin the series. expecting daily "fav vs 2005 feature of the day" for rest of year.

# January 29, 2005 3:02 AM

ozczecho said:

yahooooo....it took Microsoft 8 years to come up with this...maybe in 10 years they will allow you to resize some VSS dialog boxes

# January 29, 2005 7:00 AM

Jeff Key said:

Also works with deletes. Cool.

Jon: Anything for you, sir.

ozczecho: What, a 5cm square window isn't big enough for you?

# January 29, 2005 6:18 PM

Darrell said:

Nice. I guess in September when this is released for real I'll see if Subversion still isn't better. :)

# January 29, 2005 7:12 PM

Darrell said:

Dang, left a comment with the OLD blog url.

Time to delete the cookies.

# January 29, 2005 7:13 PM

Jeff Key said:

Don't hold your breath! ;)

While these things are nice (and a long time coming), it still has the fundamental differences with CVS-like systems. These are still nice changes for those that don't have more involved requirements.

# January 29, 2005 7:20 PM

orangy said:

Agreed! I can't wait to see IDE built by JetBrains. I may forget VS name some day :)

# January 30, 2005 9:50 AM

David Hayden said:

I hear ya, Jeff. ReSharper has all the features that should have been in Visual Studio in the first place. It not only makes coding productive, but also a hell of a lot of fun.

# January 30, 2005 10:31 AM

fdncred said:

Every heard of Visual Assist X? Give it a try.

# January 30, 2005 10:55 AM

david said:

woo hoo i'll install that tomorrow.

# January 30, 2005 4:41 PM

Michael Teper said:

Agreed. The only other product that I feel just as strongly about is TiVo. I can't even think of a third, no matter how distant.

# January 31, 2005 6:48 PM

Jeff Atwood said:

> One of the most powerful and helpful features in ReSharper is its ability to quickly detect and highlight errors in code, without the need to compile it. ReSharper automatically analyzes your code while you work and will highlight a variety of possible syntax or logical errors. It can also detect and emphasize statements or constructs that you should be warned about (e.g., unused or uninitialized variables).

MY GOD ITS ALMOST LIKE.. BACKGROUND COMPILATION!

Sarcasm aside, I would like a version of Resharper for vb.net.

# January 31, 2005 7:34 PM

Tarek Hannoudi said:

I was'nt sure if the topic is 'the listview' that can theoreticly show any thing or 'showing a list of computers'.. if it's about the list of computers then you are correct, this is simpeler en easier to handle (and a cheaper solution;-).. but if you talking about 'good' and features-rich listview's then my love will go to infragistics of DevExpress.. I'm using DevExpress UI-components for a while now - if you try them, you will never return to the MS components - trust me:-)

PS: Maybe I will switch to infragistics now, I'm comparing the two solutions now..

# February 1, 2005 7:26 AM

TrackBack said:

Inspired by Jeff Key's "if loving Resharper is wrong I don't wanna be right" soliloquy, I emailed JetBrains to see if they had plans to bring Resharper-- currently a C# only tool-- to VB.NET. This was their response: Of...

# February 2, 2005 1:48 AM

Scott Galloway said:

Absolutely, the new 1.5 beta is srunning as well - the ability to extract interfaces, implement base classes...etc...etc...is just fantastic.
Also saves some brain-storage with the insert using function (which was always there but is just the BEST feature)

# February 2, 2005 9:48 AM

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# February 2, 2005 10:35 AM

JavaKid said:

Jeff,

I think Dave is asking how do you de-register (stop listening for that event).

This is something I had in Java a long time ago and used quite often. Great for simple quick event registration... not to be a total replacement for Delegate definitions of course.

JavaKid.

Nice, hehe

# February 4, 2005 12:58 PM

TrackBack said:

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# February 4, 2005 1:33 PM

TrackBack said:

Definition of recursion

# February 4, 2005 2:29 PM

verbat said:

well, it's in the jargon file, actually better:
n. See recursion. See also tail recursion.

;)

# February 5, 2005 4:52 AM

TrackBack said:

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# February 5, 2005 10:02 PM

andy said:

I've seen this on a few of the pop-ups in Louts Notes 6.5 as well.

# February 6, 2005 9:44 AM

Olivier Vanderstraeten said:

Ok- just installed this based on your somewhat forceful endorsement and I just have one question:

Why in the heck is this not being advertised on TV, cereal boxes, men's bathrooms walls and various other places??

# February 8, 2005 8:21 AM

Amir Kolsky said:

Hear hear!

I've been using it since it's early days (releases 40-something), and it just gets better.

The only hope is that JetBrains will continue to improve it whilst their onto VS2005 and their own IDE.

# February 11, 2005 3:51 AM

# April 20, 2005 12:16 AM

Rutger said:

You can't see that she's running Remote Desktop for the Mac to a Windows 2003 Server ;)

# April 20, 2005 2:48 AM

TrackBack said:

# April 20, 2005 4:59 AM

Scott Galloway said:

VirtualPC for Macintosh :-)

# April 20, 2005 5:04 AM

Ryan Heath said:

Recently installed w2k3 sp1? ;)
I did and needed this same hack afterwards...

# April 20, 2005 10:47 AM

TrackBack said:

# April 20, 2005 2:36 PM

TrackBack said:

<ul><li><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/johnlawr/archive/2005/04/19/409821.aspx" target="_blank">Visual Studio Team System Beta 2 Extensibility Kit is Live!</a></li><li><a href="http://www.

# April 21, 2005 6:04 AM

pardeep said:

i want its source code please mail me at
pardeep_sharma74@yahoo.com within 2days because my project is near to submit on 30April 2005 please

# April 24, 2005 7:27 PM

sancho said:

amen

yawn-yawn-yawn-horn

LonghornBlogs - ego maniac McClaws site is boring

vs2005 is taking forever
sql server is taking forever

# April 27, 2005 7:16 PM

Eric G. Harrison said:

Yeah, it's a fine line they need to walk, and it appears that they are whipping across it with the speed of a speed addict.

Last year, it was Longhorn all the time! Scoble got deep into it and would blog about seemingly nothing else.

That was about the time I posted a comment on Channel 9 that Longhorn was looking more and more like the next Cairo. While not exactly prescient on my part, Longhorn currently holds little value in my view. We'll see how things are in a year I guess. In the meantime, the excitment for me is in VS.NET 2005, and as Sancho pointed out above, that too is taking forever. <sigh>

# April 27, 2005 8:49 PM

Robert McLaws said:

Well, think of it this way... if you print an Adobe document on Longhorn, it WILL be transformed into a Metro document before it hits the printer. That might be a tad too much conversion going on for me.

# April 28, 2005 3:40 AM

Robert Scoble said:

Jeff, I interviewed Jim Allchin about Longhorn yesterday morning and I put the video up here:

http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/04/27.html#a9949

# April 28, 2005 4:22 AM

Hannes Preishuber said:

diffrent question
whoch tool did you use to make this kind of screenshots.
I like the kind of dark graying

# April 28, 2005 6:37 AM

Jeff Key said:

I used Paint.NET. Select one or more regions, then Invert Selection. Crank down the brightness and you're done.

# April 28, 2005 8:20 AM

Charles Chen said:

It will solve the problem of cross platform compatability for the document space and it will come packaged, out of the box, making it an easy, de-facto choice when working with documents which are intended for a cross platform audience?

# April 28, 2005 9:30 AM

Jeff Key said:

Didn't Acrobat solve that problem years ago?

# April 28, 2005 9:47 AM

Scott said:

The problem Microsoft has with Adobe having a cross-platform document format and Microsoft not having one.

# April 28, 2005 10:26 AM

David Grant said:

I'm still looking forward to that "Next-gen command line interface" they spoke about 2 years ago.

# April 28, 2005 11:01 AM

Jeff Key said:

Believe it or not, I looked into that earlier in the week. They hadn't put out anything since Q3 (or so) last year, but just yesterday said that a newer build is forthcoming. I could've used it. Wrote a 20-line C# program instead.

# April 28, 2005 11:12 AM

Walter Lounsbery said:

When I first read about Metro, it seemed that Microsoft was redoing the OS-level print drivers to make that their uniform print file format. In other words, Notepad sends its format to the print driver, which converts to Metro, then to the physical printer format. If it supports Metro, no conversion needed. If it supports PostScript, convert to PostScript. Same situation for Publisher sending its format to the printer, or Word, or Word Perfect, or IE. Most programs have to talk to the OS print driver, Metro is just a change of the low-level format.

So what problem does it solve? Maybe it allows the OS to handle a lot more sophisticated layout for print at the low level than in the past.

It just seems to me that the folks that came up with Metro for low-level stuff also realized that it could be a uniform cross-platform print format. Basic PDF isn't all that capable, so that's a low bar. But will Microsoft put in the bookmarks and security and other advanced Acrobat features? That's the big question right now.

# April 28, 2005 1:25 PM

Omar Shahine said:

http://www.shahine.com/omar/OfficeDocumentsOpeningInIE.aspx

Is much faster :-)

# April 28, 2005 10:45 PM

Omar Shahine said:

http://www.shahine.com/omar/OfficeDocumentsOpeningInIE.aspx

Is much faster :-)

# April 28, 2005 10:45 PM

Dave Burke said:

Thanks for posting that Rhapsody worked for you, Jeff. I signed up for the free 25-a-month package, but stopped short on downloading the app to my Windows 2003 Server OS. I'm just happy iTunes works on it. I didn't want to press my luck.

# April 28, 2005 11:28 PM

Jeff Key said:

Good to hear it helped, Dave. Unfortunately, it _doesn't_ install on my home (XP x64) box, so I'm stuck running it solely at work on Win2003. Still worth the $25/quarter or so I'm paying!

# April 29, 2005 12:00 AM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks, Omar. I'll give it a try next time!

# April 29, 2005 12:02 AM

Adam Kinney said:

Well Jeff, at least there was some good humor there. I'm off to go watch Scoble's video now.

# April 29, 2005 2:27 PM

TrackBack said:

Been slow blogging period for me. Like I said in one of my last posts, I have been writing up a storm at work so I haven't been feeling must like writing for the rest of the time. One of...

# May 1, 2005 4:42 PM

Eric G. Harrison said:

Everyone needs to spend some time looking at that site! I never appreciated Charles Barkley until reading some of those quotes!

# May 1, 2005 6:18 PM

Jon Galloway said:

I think it has some promise, just a few years out. Longhorn may not fly off the shelves, but in five years, it will probably dominate the desktop since it will come preinstalled on most new computers.

Now, PDF is a semi-open format, but relying on the blasted Adobe Acrobat or whatever it's been rebranded as nowdays is a pain in the neck. It's another variable - in addition to the OS and browser, there's a special viewer just for PDF files. If Adobe releases an update, tech support desks get calls. I know ours did when Acrobat 6 came out - I think it was something to do with progressive rendering of streamed files, but I don't remember the specifics.

It makes as much sense as adding basic support for compressed files in Windows so everyone could stop pretending to agree with Winzip that they were only evaluating the software every time they opened a compressed file.

I will return to this post in 2010 to mock your short sightedness.

# May 1, 2005 7:16 PM

Jacob Cynamon said:

Jeff, using that math, are you now running on 1/10 of a computer?

# May 2, 2005 5:06 PM

TrackBack said:

# May 4, 2005 11:48 PM

TrackBack said:

# May 6, 2005 4:54 PM

Corey Haines said:

Glad to see that I'm not the only person who has it as a morning ritual. :) They definitely did add much more than I was expecting. Now, if I can just get my work to okay it ASAP!

# May 6, 2005 6:09 PM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks for sharing. I feel a little less guilty about it now. ;)

# May 7, 2005 3:25 PM

Dave Burke said:

That's good stuff. I unzipped and looked through them. You're right, that magenta transparency color is pretty annoying.

Nice Little Image Browser app!

# May 17, 2005 12:23 AM

Kjell-Åke Andersson said:

Hmm, couldn't find that on my computer. I have installed both VS C# Express 2005 and VS Web Developer Express 2005.

# May 17, 2005 2:53 AM

Jeff Key said:

Maybe it's only included in the non-Express SKUs. That would be unfortunate.

# May 17, 2005 7:47 AM

do you no any music downloading websites

# August 6, 2006 6:42 AM

Connie said:

All I want to do is get Diskeeper off my machine! Add/Remove Programs does NOT work for this. Very weird. All other programs have the familiar change/remove", right? Not Diskeeper. Nothing in that place but it's sized and how often used.

Reading the documentation is confusing, but only says to remove it manually, go to the directory. How do I do that?

Want to make it more puzzling? It is the Trial Version, which ran out months ago!

# August 9, 2006 12:34 PM

Victor Boctor said:

I remember that Virtual PC 2004 SP1 (that's the RTM + SP) was smaller in size than the RTM. So did you compare the size to RTM or SP1?

# August 17, 2006 8:29 PM

poona said:

a simple solution for problems with compatibility when burning iTunes formats: ALWAYS burn with Toast! Never burn with iTunes. I realize this is only a Mac solution, but I suspect there are equivalent apps on PCs that do the same thing. With Toast 7, the playlist in iTunes stays in order instead of using file names in alphabetical order

# August 27, 2006 1:52 PM

Markus The said:

There is a new version of QuickCode available for VS 2005, free for registered users at http://www.geekonamission.com/QuickCode.aspx!

# September 1, 2006 4:47 AM

Olivier's .NET Blog said:

Read here: ( Using Explorer to get to physical files in the GAC http://weblogs.asp.net/jkey/archive/2003/02/25/3006.aspx

# September 1, 2006 4:35 PM

Hemanth Kumar said:

Alex

This is tutorial I was looking for to speed up on MSBuild.

Thanks

Hemanth

# September 6, 2006 4:26 AM

Nitin Mistry said:

Hey Jeff

Sorry to bug you on your blogsite re. InRule, but i just started using InRule.

I work for Bell Canada as an Architect & Framework designer. I needed some info re. the InRule architecture. Can you point me to some docs etc. for the Architecture of InRule?

We are designing enterprise systems which are web based.

my email is nitin.mistry@bell.ca

Thanks in advance

Nitin Mistry

nitin.mistry@bell.ca

PS: You've done a great job with InRule!!

# September 7, 2006 9:49 AM

Jeff Key said:

Thanks, Nitin! You can get arch docs & questions answered via our excellent support team @ support@inrule.com. I've forwarded your request -- they should be getting back to you shortly.

Jeff

# September 7, 2006 11:10 AM

NLRO said:

My computer very aotu shut down then i scan virus also cannot find the virus...like then how ??? help me

# September 9, 2006 9:55 PM

iqazi said:

I am beginner..how to get start with nCover before using nCover browser

# September 12, 2006 9:44 AM

Arshad Ali said:

please send me the product key for windows longhorn

e-mail malikdiscover@yahoo.com

# September 17, 2006 6:20 AM

Dude said:

iTunes is nice but not compatible. I would say it's time for Microsoft to step it up a notch. I mean, I like windows media player but it is not as organized as iTunes. Audio quality, by the way, is slightly better on Windows Media Player, and WMP supports surround sound better than iTunes. So... iTunes needsto improve compatibility and Microsoft needs to improve Windows Media Player.

# September 18, 2006 10:06 PM

Anonymous said:

Your site seems to be down..... I was really looking forward to this tool.....

# September 21, 2006 2:29 AM

Sven Devriese said:

With regard to syntax highlighting, you could re-use the syntax highlighting control that's included in sharpdevelop.

I found it was a tad slow-ish but it worked well enough for me.

# September 21, 2006 4:48 AM

Tarniya said:

Take a look at this blog:

http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=45456

Looks like you can play iTunes files in WMP without re-ripping. As for playing your WMA files in iTunes - no help there sorry! At least you can still make use of the iTunes service without any further degradation of the audio file in order to play in WMP.

Surely most mp3 players also play mp4 also...?

# September 24, 2006 11:11 PM

Oliver said:

I use an excellant host called www.asp-host.co.uk. They were recommended by other web developers. They provide hosting on secure servers in proper data centres and they provide an account manager and point of contact if any problems. Their support is fantastic! value for money

# September 28, 2006 5:52 AM

Offshore Guy said:

It looks to produce some nice report but for some reason my VS failed to install. any help will be appreciated.

# October 2, 2006 8:38 PM

Offshore_MarketPlace said:

too bad, you should take frequent backups they can be life saver :)

# October 2, 2006 8:42 PM

Gator said:

I also had prob of Diskeeper trial keep popping up on every restart. It does not delete easily, simplest solution is use a free program called "Starter" by CodeStuff. It works along the lines of msconfig but way more versatile and easy to use.

# October 6, 2006 8:45 PM

Gator said:

Once you get it to not load up, it can be deleted

# October 6, 2006 8:46 PM

Norvy said:

I lose my number of serial key please assist me on

# October 14, 2006 7:30 AM

Ganesh said:

Hi,

I have a dot net site hosted with godaddy.Whenever I try to send email uisng forms in the site, mail never goes to the receipient and it always bounce back to the sender with either with delay or failire notification.I called my servcie provoder and he told me that everything looks good.

My code works just fine with same smtpserver when I run locally.

It would be great i?f you could thru some insights if any one has similar exp?

# October 16, 2006 1:38 PM

ALEX said:

hi guys a lovely kingdom of hearts is an em peror

# October 27, 2006 7:02 AM

Dez said:

Guys.. i need help badly.. im not a computer freak and i have no idea wat to do.. >.< - I tried reformatting my computer with Windows XP but it says that my harddisc "SATA" or sumthing is missing so it wont continue.. i need to know how to fix it any help plz? i got a message saying "Primary Master: HL-HD sumthing sumthing and below that it says "Secondary Master: SATA not found"

it wasnt like this b4.. and i realli need to re-format my comp.. please help me ~!!!

# October 30, 2006 10:38 PM

HappilyDeFraged said:

well...it seems that we have entered a new era folks...

two weeks ago, diskeeper released a new version of their defrag software that completely blows everything else out of the water.

you install it and that's it. no really, that's it!

it seems that due to a new technology created by diskeeper, dubbed invisitasking , you no longer have to even schedule diskeeper to run.

after you install it, it automatically runs in the background at all times, defragmenting files AS THEY BECOME FRAGMENTED! also, it seems that it only uses "free" idle resources, meaning it will never bog down your system.

defragging will never be the same.

as you can tell, i'm really excited about this release... have any of you tried diskeeper 2007 yet?

# November 1, 2006 2:24 PM

diskkeeper said:

i use Diskeeper 2007. besides being truly automatic, it's got this kind of history graph that's running live at all times, simular to task manager's cpu and page file usage history, which shows you how diskeeper is only using idle resources NOT currently being used by windows...and never exceeds the idle resource barrier either.

# November 2, 2006 11:57 AM

David B said:

Twice now I've had to do a System Restore and go earlier than the install of this product. I'm running it on a Dell 2.13 Mhz with 1 Gig Mem...yet twice now it's hung up on start up. Requiring me do the System Restore. DEFINITELY not enough work on this product before it's released. Too bad it has a lot of potential.

# November 16, 2006 8:03 PM

HGH said:

I would love a job like that.

# November 18, 2006 11:28 PM

Raheel said:

you guys are awesome, i was stuck at the kinda prob cept i had an array. long story short i used arry[f] == null and it works like a charm

# December 1, 2006 10:55 PM

Arbiorix said:

Thanks,

Your comment saved me some hours of troubles!

# December 5, 2006 11:20 AM

Mike said:

I would really appreciate if someone could email me the product key for Longhorn as I would like to try it out. Send the product key to smithm21@yahoo.com...thx so much.

# December 6, 2006 8:47 PM

Jonas Stawski said:

Check this post out:

http://jstawski.com/archive/2006/12/08/String.Empty_2C00_-null_2C00_-Length_2C00_-or-String.IsEmptyOrNull-_3F00_.aspx

# December 8, 2006 9:25 AM

Joe Bob said:

What a wasted history of crappy reponses in a blog. Surely the blog owner checks and cleans out this crap from 3 years ago??

# December 23, 2006 3:49 PM

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# December 24, 2006 11:00 AM

Al said:

I agree with Wow’. If the software works – use it. Basing the quality of a piece of software by the company that developed it rather than its proven functionality is just plain stupid.

I use Diskeeper 2007. Why…because it works. I recommend it to my client base of over 600 for the same reason and have had much success in doing so.

The religious practice of a company’s executive is an invalid reason for not purchasing its products.

# December 25, 2006 6:31 PM

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# December 31, 2006 7:00 AM

JC said:

We only "helped" to develop certain aspects of AAC. AAC or "HE AAC" uses a technique called Spectral Band Replication(SBR), which provides room for higher levels of compression without loss of sound quality. HE AAC encodes high-frequency sounds with SBR and low frequencies with regular AAC. Other groups in the development pool are, Coding Technologies, AT&T, Sony, Philips, NEC and the Fraunhofer Institute, one of the co-developers of MP3.

It should be noted that audio file compression started as way to crunch music files down to more affordable spaces. Remember, RAM used to be very expensive, and Hard Drives had well under 1GB of space.

One final note... AAC(MP4) encodes at 128Kbs and lower will not "convert" well to other formats no matter what you do. My advice is to only encode at 256Kbs or above. Also, remember all compression formats are lossy, but at higher bit rates, humans hearing is not perceptive enough to tell the difference.

Finally Dolby Labs is always looking to improve audio quality in many formats, even WMA.

Jeff, use which ever software and hardware that pleases you and suits your needs. Personally, I use iTunes and a creative MuVo.

J.C.

Dolby Labs

Come to our site sometime.

http://dolbylabs.com/

# December 31, 2006 1:40 PM

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# January 7, 2007 1:15 PM

Feras Kayyali said:

Stored Procedures will run fractionally slower if they start with a prefix of sp_ This is because SQL Server will look for a system stored proc first. Therefore never start stored Procedures with a prefix of sp_

# January 8, 2007 3:48 AM

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# January 11, 2007 4:00 PM

Me said:

Go to O&O Defrag. Price okay and works good.

# January 15, 2007 8:51 AM

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# January 19, 2007 7:45 AM

Sacha Vieux-Roy said:

When I declare a local variable within a subroutine, I can't access its methods and properties through intellisence.

Am I doing something wrong?

# January 23, 2007 2:34 PM

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# January 25, 2007 3:15 AM

Damon Carr said:

Hi all,

We took over all development of the tool from Anticipating Minds mentioned above. We offer this as a free tool which can be found on www.download.com or here:

http://www.agilefactor.com/assemblymetadata2xmi.aspx

Our next version (due in the next 2 weeks or so) will have full XML 2.1 and .NET 2.0 support.

Kind Regards,

Damon W. Carr

agilefactor

# January 26, 2007 2:34 PM

Balachandar said:

Hi,

I have to write a new custom IDE for one of the in-house language here. I would like to know if you can point to some useful resources or share the code of snippet compiler

# January 30, 2007 3:00 AM

Sanzio said:

hi,what about adding reference to user's assembly and support intellisense for that?

Expect that will be implemented in the next version.

for example(c# codes):

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using MyProject;

public class MyClass

{

public static void Main()

{

//SampleClass is defined in assembly "MyProject"

SampleClass sc = new SampleClass();

sc.SomeMethod();

}

# January 31, 2007 10:41 PM

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# February 4, 2007 1:45 PM

Nick said:

Am I an idiot or not?

Now it's February 2007, I just bought a new PC with a Gigabyte MB and Core 2 Duo 6300 CPU and a SATA 250GB HDD

I use a Hiren boot CD to partition and format the primary partition as NTFS

Then I go on to install Windows XP. It installed smoothly without any problem and without any damn floppy and driver stuff (the system doesn't have a floppy drive)

The funny thing is the MB manual did instruct the same thing about making a driver floppy for SATA drives!

Did Hiren boot CD do some wonders here or am I just lucky?

Weird, isn't it?

# February 9, 2007 4:31 AM

ebizteam.com » Blog Archive » said:

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# February 11, 2007 2:15 AM

Dave said:

Is it possible to renew the mb without reinstalling xp on to my existing sata drive.

# February 15, 2007 1:30 PM

ebizteam.com » Blog Archive » said:

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# February 17, 2007 7:45 AM

Florian said:

I am getting this error when I run the exe.

Snippet compiler encountered a error and needs to close.We are sorry for the inconvenience.

I am having trouble formatting my SATA drive. I have a sata drive and a ide connected with the sata holding my OS and ide just for storage. I have tried using Maxllf but in DOS it wont pick up my sata drive just ide. I disconnected my ide then it did not pick up any drive. The windows CD i am using does not boot on startup. How can I reformat my SATA drive? thanks to any who can help. It Western Digital

Jorge said:

This is false, SQL will look first into the current DB then it will go to look at the master if not found

# May 14, 2007 11:06 AM

traaaash said:

this is traaaaash and your website tells *** all

# May 14, 2007 7:36 PM

Kivela » Blog Archive » Installing windows on a SATA drive without a floppy drive said:

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# May 15, 2007 4:01 PM

Paul said:

I have already installed windows on my hard drive

(a 500g sata) without the floppy driver. Can I slipstream in the driver without re-installing windows? Or more specifically, can i install the driver without starting over from scratch? I have already installed everything on the drive I need and dont want to start over.

# May 18, 2007 8:59 PM

Lance said:

Hi.

I've just added another 500GB Sata drive into my computer and it is recognised but dosnt show in MyComputer and i cannot communicate with the drive.

It shows as working perfectly in the device manager, But dosnt show in MyComputer.

Is there a way i can fix this without a reformat? A reformat would be a desperate last resort for me as i have 200GB 99% full of beloved files and i can only backup 120GB of it.

# May 19, 2007 7:43 AM

Lee said:

Just had this issue with a Philips, GET YOURSELF a compatible USB floppy drive and it will work fine.

Dell, TEAC and only 1 SONY is in the list that works with Windows XP setups.

No need to slipstream..

# May 22, 2007 1:36 PM

Phill said:

Lance, I'm having that exact same problem. A new SATA in a system that's been running an IDE fine. The new drive shows up in device manager and everything but I can't access it from anywhere. Anyone know how to fix this please?

# May 24, 2007 9:46 AM

Phill said:

An update on that drive: I went to control panel -> administrative tools -> computer management -> storage -> disk management. From there I was able to right-click on my new drive and hit create partition, which set a drive letter and formatted it for me. It works now.

# May 24, 2007 10:49 AM

Dean said:

That's right Phil, another way is to type in "mmc" without the quotes, into your RUN dialog, to get into the Microsoft Management Console. From there you need to Add/Remove Snap-in "Disk Management". from there you can assign or change drive letters, format and install drives/partitions, etc. etc.

# May 26, 2007 11:12 PM

doltran said:

Diskeeper 2007 is the best defragger i have used so far. Its well worth the money spent. Really smooth and efficient on the fly defragmenting. Doesnt hog system resources and havent experienced any system stability problems with it running perpetually in the background.

# May 28, 2007 4:16 AM

red said:

Diskeeper is the best automatic defragmenter in the market today. Nothing can beat the 2007 features. Its so cool, just leave it on and forget about this part of drive maintenance. It really does it super efficiently for you, and not at the cost of system stability. Definitely worth purchasing.

# May 28, 2007 10:43 AM

JoBob said:

You F*****er

# May 29, 2007 12:24 PM

Tim said:

You are a Fat Man

# May 29, 2007 12:34 PM

Matthew Mauger said:

Please note these scripts don't seem to work with the latest version of MSBuild as shipped with Visual Studio 2005 - I guess Microsoft changed the standard since then.

# June 7, 2007 6:38 AM

Steve said:

Does anyone know if Diskeeper works on RAID configured drives without problem?

# June 13, 2007 8:52 PM

varuj joshi said:

dude get a life .. progtam in java

# June 15, 2007 2:21 AM

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# June 20, 2007 3:13 AM

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# June 20, 2007 4:08 AM

C# coding standards « ilivewithian said:

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# June 20, 2007 8:06 AM

Ross said:

We use Diskeeper 2007 on 3 W2K3 servers all running multi RAID 1 arrays and it works very well...

# June 21, 2007 10:01 AM

rdrainer said:

I started using it three days ago and noticed a definite drop in defrag time. My system is a 6-month-old HP with one 180GB internal drive and three 400GB USB drives, and frequent defragging is a necessity. The time saved is large and the rearrangement of disk contents is improved, I think. I won't hesitate to switch to something else if I feel my system is endangered, but Diskkeeper seems Ok so far.

As for the Scientology issue, that is useless as an arguing point when it comes to software and the person who brought it up should simply be ashamed for their bigotry. At least the company president believes in SOMETHING other than himself as the center of the universe. I wouldn't join but that's his choice. I'm a happy Mormon. Go Oracle, Go Netscape.

# June 23, 2007 2:40 PM

Alexandru S. said:

I UNINSTALLED WINDOWS DESKTOP SEARCH AND WHEN I SEARCH ON MY COMPUTER THE EXPLORER IS BLOCKING! :( PLEASE SEND ME THE ANSWER AT alexfprot@yahoo.com . SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH

# June 24, 2007 3:22 AM

Dave Bost said:

Thanks to Mickey Gousset and his awakening from blogging slumber, I've been sucked into this tagging

# July 16, 2007 1:04 PM

I Like Diskeeper said:

People, the Hugh Jass guy was joking! : ) He was being ridiculous to make fun of prejudiced people, and stir the pot with gullible people too.

Shaking head and laughing over internet humor...

# July 25, 2007 1:07 AM

Nat said:

"Comparing a horrible audio codec to the most advanced music jukebox program is bad"

iTunes is hardly "the most advanced music jukebox program." It can't play FLAC, WMA, OGG, etc. Haven't you ever heard of VLC or Foobar?

# August 16, 2007 2:04 PM

John said:

I found this post when trying to install Win Server 2003 Standard and do not have a floppy. I downloaded nlite and was sucessful with creating a new CD with the drivers but when I got to the Partition Selection it kept wanting to write files to the non SATA drive. My configuration was 120gb SATA and 160gb EIDE. I wanted everything to be on the SATA drive.

The result of all this is, after spending several hours, creating multiple new install CD's, when the EIDE drive is present, Windows will try to write data to that drive. I unplugged the power to the EIDE drive and now the installation is working just fine. It seems to me that when you tell the installer to use s specific device that shoulld be the end of it. Had the EIDE drive not been without a partition, the installer would have written filles to that device and I would not have known the difference.

# August 19, 2007 7:13 PM

jagdeesh said:

please help my Asus K8VSE DEluxe mother board refusing Xp instalation on my segate sata 250Gb hard disk..Updated bios .still not not recognising sata.Provided Sata drivers with F6 during installation.Blue screen with software/hardware conflict message coming.

thanks in advance

# August 22, 2007 11:14 PM

anothr user said:

One new subscriber from Anothr Alerts

# September 4, 2007 2:01 AM

Dee Jay said:

You just want to do it quickly with no fuss right? Also want a Free utility you can use to create a CDROM bootdisk that will do the same job as the floppy bootdisk?

Go to the website below and download the "ISO image to burn a CD" at the bottom of the page. I haven't tried this yet, but I'm about to. Hope this works for all that try.

hddguru.com/.../2006.02.10-Magic-Boot-Disk

# September 9, 2007 12:31 AM

tool said:

"iTunes is hardly "the most advanced music jukebox program." It can't play FLAC, WMA, OGG, etc. Haven't you ever heard of VLC or Foobar?"

Why should it play Windows Media Audio? Nobody sane uses WMA.

I don't see a music shop in VLC, nor do I see a catalogue with album covers and a powerful search. VLC is crap in usability. Doesn't even deinterlace DVDs.

# September 13, 2007 4:38 AM

Phishybongwaters said:

The first step is to check your BIOS and verify that you do NOT have the option to turn off "native sata mode".

Depending on your BIOS it will be different. For my desktop it gives me the option to run the sata drive as RAID or IDE. RAID means you need the sata drivers, IDE means it will be discovered just like any standard drive

In this newest latop (hp 6710b) it's under device configurations, and you have to disable "Sata Mode Native" then it works.

I spent an hour messing around with flashkeys trying everything short of remaking my custom disc. If you do not have that option in your bios (newest bios) then you'll have to try the other methods outlines.

As for hiren, i thin kit's got a default set of sata drivers integrated into the disk, which is why you could format it from dos, depending on your drive it might not work.

# September 25, 2007 11:57 AM

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# October 1, 2007 2:56 PM

Fr0sty said:

THis is great thank god some one has got one of these now. . . I used to spend Hrs try to figger out how to do it till one day i bought a floppy disk drive again i just formated my harddrive like 2 days ago put my floppy disk drive in my computer try to run the drivers gess what my floppy disk drive is broken :S :'( Well anyway thanks for the guide i am about to reinstall windows (Letz hope it workz!!!)

# October 8, 2007 3:17 PM

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# October 12, 2007 9:16 AM

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I went into the bios on this Dell and changed the bios option to something OTHER than what it was and now it continues past the "No hard drive" point.

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# October 24, 2007 7:16 AM

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i have a dell inspiron7000 laptop 98se os on it and then all of the sudden i went to boot up and all that came up was operating system not found the only way i can make a boot disk for it is on cd but i haven't been able to find place that i can do that any help would be nice i put my email address up here to send me the info or links thanks

# October 25, 2007 12:20 PM

Siva said:

Hi Jeff,

From where can I download snipper compiler?

Thanks in advance,

Siva.

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# November 5, 2007 1:09 AM

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I've just started at a place where the coding standards mandate the use of m_ for member variables, p_ for parameters and prefixes for types, such as 'str' for strings.

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# November 15, 2007 8:31 AM

Yakov said:

I like Mordakk's way. But thanks to everyone for making it available.

# November 21, 2007 5:49 PM

Mark said:

I have a similar problem but a little different with a twist. I am building a new system with a WD 500 GB SATA. Got ready to install XP and got to the create partition screen and it showed me the max size was 131062 MB! Now math wasn't my strong suit but me thinks that is in the neighborhood of 369000 MB (+/-) short!!! Do I have a funky drive, or is this XP sp-1 maybe, or what should I do from here? Thanks.

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# November 28, 2007 9:45 AM

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# December 10, 2007 3:31 PM

Rakesh said:

Dear Sir/Madam

Greetings

I have sata disc i dont know why its want floppy drive or not. i am new with this type of drive & want to install it but whenever i will try to install xp on my pc it show that the hard drive is not connect.,

ple help me in this regard. for this my heartly thank to you

with regards & warm wishes

Rakesh

# December 14, 2007 3:28 AM

Mischa Kroon said:

Hi Jeff, I see the domain sliver.com doesn't contain your .Net tools anymore.

It expired ?

is there a new home for the Snippet compiler somewhere ?

# December 14, 2007 8:26 AM

luscher said:

Jeffrey -

i must be the only dunce to install this program improperly ... when i try to compile a message on the Errors tab appears. the description reads : ''An exception occurred while compiling: Compiler executable file csc.exe cannot be found''

i've checked everything i can think of ... is my mistake an easy one to overcome ?

thanks ! ( loving this program so far )

-luscher

# December 19, 2007 11:45 AM

luscher said:

D'Oh ! it never fails, as soon as i ask for help ...

apparently i had uninstalled VS 2008. the older Snippet version works flawlessly with my _installed_ MS VS 2005

[ disappears, slinking sheepishly into crowd ]

-luscher

# December 19, 2007 11:53 AM

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OK.I am new to the computer.How do I burn wmv file foremats,that are stored on my computer.?These are music videos/uncut. All I want to do ,is to be able to play these in my cd player,in my 98 blazer.It's just a plain CD Player..and is it possible to burn these wmv formats to play in a like a 3-4 yr old Playstation,so a person can view the video as well??? these are stored on my computer on my quickcam..Thanks...Mike..

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# December 31, 2007 6:06 AM

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# January 29, 2008 9:28 AM

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# February 11, 2008 6:14 AM

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Exactly, nice to see I'm not the only one :)

The steps I had to pass to find how it goes, just to express my happiness:

1. You write a VBS with calls to some 32-bit application DLLs, and it works fine on your local machine (WXP I guess).

2. You put it on the x64-server... And get the message "ActiveX component can't create object: 'XXX'", Code: 800A01AD.

3. You check the application on the server - it works, and obviously able to find all its DLLs!

4. You try to call CreateObject for some other system class like FileSytemObject - it works too!

5. You go to registry and see all your keys under WOW6432Node key.

6. That's when You become enlighten - the 64-bit version of wscript can not find Your 32-bit registry keys at all. Thanx to MS again - just another gift in x64-platform - "registry redirection which is transparent to the user" (support.microsoft.com/.../896459).

7. You write "x64 wscript" on google and here You are :)

# February 12, 2008 6:09 AM

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# February 24, 2008 8:35 PM

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# March 16, 2008 3:22 PM

Brian said:

Mark, it would appear as if your have XP and not XP SP1, XP won't recognise your full drive, it has a limit of that 131062 MB which you have experienced.

# April 8, 2008 1:33 AM

Nubs said:

ok, seriously, thank you *very* much!

# April 9, 2008 12:24 AM

amin said:

this question is a bit vague. i think RUP works better for big projects and big teams.XP could be easier for small problems.my personal choice is RUP cuz it has well-supported application(e.g rational rose) that could ease the development process

# April 10, 2008 10:52 AM

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I was writing a simple contact form which would send an email to a set address as if it was sent by the email which they entered. Of course some people might not want to enter there email address so a default one would be needed.

to do this I did something like this

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# May 6, 2008 7:14 PM

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# May 8, 2008 4:01 AM

Mario Deligi said:

I bought a Mac Pro recentely and the only problem so far is with the external DVD burner, which is not designed for Mac.

I tried Samsung for drivers but to no aval. Is there a place where I could find the necessary drivers, or I just can't use the burner at all?

Will appreciate any help.

# May 21, 2008 7:47 PM

Alexander Mikhed said:

A connected USB floppy disk drive does not work when you press F6 to install mass storage drivers during the Windows 2003 installation process

I have found a solution.

In a microsoft website ( support.microsoft.com/.../916196 ) you can see only a part of solution. Below is full info:

You need to modify txtsetup.sif in i386 folder of your windows 2003 setup disks (this will work with windows 2003 R2 installation!).

See Microsoft website:

--------------------

The following USB floppy disk drives are included in the Txtsetup.sif file and are therefore supported for use during Windows XP installation:

USB\VID_03EE&PID_6901 Mitsumi

USB\VID_057B&PID_0000 Y-E Data; Sony part number 09K9835

USB\VID_0644&PID_0000 TEAC; IBM option part number 27L4226, FRU 05K9283

------------------------------------

Find in txtsetup.sif:

USB\VID_03EE&PID_6901

or

USB\VID_057B&PID_0000

or

USB\VID_0644&PID_0000

and, below, add for USB floppy disk drive models (HP, Sony, Y-E Data, NEC, SMSC):

USB\VID_057B&PID_0001 = "usbstor"

USB\VID_0409&PID_0040 = "usbstor"

USB\VID_0424&PID_0FDC = "usbstor"

USB\VID_08BD&PID_1100 = "usbstor"

USB\VID_055D&PID_2020 = "usbstor"

It is easy, BUT, this is not all! You need to change another block!

Find (these strings will be below strings that you have added):

USB\Class_08&SubClass_02&Prot_50 = "usbstor"

or

USB\Class_08&SubClass_05&Prot_50 = "usbstor"

or

USB\Class_08&SubClass_06&Prot_50 = "usbstor"

and, below, add:

USB\Class_08&SubClass_04&Prot_00 = "usbstor"

Das it alles! :) That's all!

Just write new distributive to a CD and boot!

# May 26, 2008 11:45 PM

collector said:

Its funny to see so many approaches for resolving so simple task :)

# May 29, 2008 12:09 PM

Javan said:

PHISHYBONGWATERS solution worked perfectly for me, thanks a million!

His advice:

The first step is to check your BIOS and verify that you do NOT have the option to turn off "native sata mode".

Depending on your BIOS it will be different. For my desktop it gives me the option to run the sata drive as RAID or IDE. RAID means you need the sata drivers, IDE means it will be discovered just like any standard drive

In this newest latop (hp 6710b) it's under device configurations, and you have to disable "Sata Mode Native" then it works.

I spent an hour messing around with flashkeys trying everything short of remaking my custom disc. If you do not have that option in your bios (newest bios) then you'll have to try the other methods outlines.

As for hiren, i thin kit's got a default set of sata drivers integrated into the disk, which is why you could format it from dos, depending on your drive it might not work.

# June 1, 2008 6:39 PM

chel said:

Okay I was having problems with my sata and I also got feed up with the old floppy BS. I found a VERY simple solution for my problem that may help others.

In BIOS you can set your SATA to auto detect where it will read it as an IDE. Mine had already had that on BUT I also had RAID enabled. Disabled that ran winxp and everything went smooth. It auto detected my SATA drive like it would an IDE.

I'm still a newb but I hope I helped someone out, GL guys.

# June 3, 2008 2:52 PM

SaurabhKV said:

You can also map a drive directly to your GAC and then you'll be able to see the actual directory structure.

# June 9, 2008 10:41 AM

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# June 17, 2008 12:22 PM

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# June 19, 2008 11:03 AM

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For over A year now Eric Carlson has been going by the name gashel, last name unknown by me, he dyed his hair black, and Walmart agreed to hide his Identity from my daughter, who also worked at that store.

Joan and Eric have friends in Authority protecting Joan and Eric from prosecution.

I have reported this repeatedly to the Authority's and they are ignoring Joan and Eric's CONSPIRACY.

I would be more than happy to Testify to this but the Authority's are covering this up so my testimony would simply dissapear.

My name is Terry Wagar and Im backing up these charges.

Nomatter how many people Joan and Eric poisoned the Authority's here in portland Oregon refuse to arrest them.

Im making these charges public because of the blatent coverup of these charges.

why is Walmart hideing A BodyDouble?

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I-ve een surfing and yet no clues in vista

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# August 17, 2008 11:10 AM

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Hey whats up everyone?....well, i just bought a new motherboard (ASUS-M3N72-D) and a new processor (8450-AMD Phenom x3) and tried to hook them up with a 250g SATA2 HDD that has a copy of windows on it, but i want to format it and put a fresh copy of windows on it, but i keep getting either this same error or it will not boot off the windows XP disc......i think it has somtin to do with a RAID driver or somethin but not sure wat to do, any help would be greatly appreciated.

# August 20, 2008 5:35 AM

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# October 13, 2008 11:28 AM

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its implementing is more simple and is best option for

small and medium size teams.

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# November 6, 2008 5:20 PM

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AHCI (advanced Host Controller Interface)

worth trying to understand this feature which allows better SATA hdd performance.

When you change your BIOS settings to 'compatible' /IDE+SATA /etc, you bypass F6 and XP 'finds' your hdd and installs. Vista does not need F6 and works directly with SATA features.

nlite is simplest solution. Especially for laptops and newer PCs without fdd.

google AHCI and nlite

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# May 8, 2009 5:30 PM

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# June 23, 2009 9:19 AM

Ron Deere said:

Actually, I have installed XP several dozen times without the use of a floppy. However, when I upgraded to SATA earlier this year, my old IDE based floppy drive would no longer work. I have tried to find a SATA based floppy drive, but to no avail. Can anyone help me locate a SATA based floppy drive?

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# November 12, 2009 8:30 PM

Juri said:

Conditional compilation seems to work fine for me, I have also tried the following:

#If Config = "Release" Then

Console.WriteLine("Release Mode")

Console.ReadKey()

#End If

and it also works.

# November 23, 2009 10:45 AM

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# December 12, 2009 3:59 PM

Rick O'Shay said:

LOL! The whole reason for the standard is to avoid personal preferences. So whey you say "I prefer an underscore on private variables", nobody is going to ask you to articulate what possible benefit that has (millions of developers prefer to use this.field to distinguish local variables from class variables, for example). Having dozens of standards makes a mockery of the term "standard".

I will say, however, that the utterly ridiculous pattern of slapping a type prefix on a variable (which came from the lack of type safety in Visual Basic) was pushed by Microsoft for eons, so they are not generally to be trusted.

# December 20, 2009 12:19 PM

Gabriel said:

Conditional compilation seems to work fine for me, I have also tried the following:

#If DEBUG Then

Console.WriteLine("Release Mode")

Console.ReadKey()

#End If

and it also works.

# January 5, 2010 12:55 PM

Sagar said:

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# January 7, 2010 9:25 AM

abhilash said:

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# February 10, 2010 11:58 AM

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# February 17, 2010 8:04 AM

Abdul Wakeel said:

you can check like

string.isnullorEmpty(){}

# February 22, 2010 2:02 AM

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