re: My first GreaseMonkey script - MSDN Product Feedback

# CloudMark SpamNet@ Friday, February 07, 2003 4:16 PM

Thanks for the heads up - I'll check it out when I get home.

Personally, I've been using CloudMark SpamNet (http://www.cloudmark.com/products/spamnet/) for awhile, and it seems pretty good. It uses a whole trust system with individuals blocking and so on.

And my rules catch everything else :)

Tim Marman

# Another solution: WebServiceWrapper@ Friday, February 21, 2003 2:07 AM

When you want to expose your custom made business objects trough a webservice interface, and you want them to bind with a DataGrid, you have to problem that the generated proxy class exposes fields instead of properties. A possible solution is to generate at runtime a wrapper for your proxy class. See the article for more details and the full source code!

Jan Tielens

# re: Remote Desktop is the coolest@ Friday, February 28, 2003 5:29 PM

Are you familiar with the remote assistance feature in XP Home/Pro? Not exactly Remote Desktop, but, for assisting others, even better.

Jeff

# re: Remote Desktop is the coolest@ Friday, February 28, 2003 5:51 PM

Aha! I was under the impression that Remote Assistance also required XP Pro, but I was mistaken. Thanks for the tip.

Kevin Dente

# re: Remote Desktop is the coolest@ Saturday, March 01, 2003 12:00 PM

have you looked at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/rdwebconn.asp? You can host remote desktop (XP Pro) in a web browser, and not need to install anything client side... (Actually, an ActiveX control, but that's automatically done).

- Aaron

Aaron

# re: Remote Desktop is the coolest@ Tuesday, March 04, 2003 1:55 PM

Yeah, I saw the RD ActiveX control client. It's nice, but it requires a lot more setup work (ie need IIS). VNCs built in web server is super-light weight and takes no special setup.

Kevin Dente

# re: A chink in the side-by-side armor@ Monday, April 28, 2003 4:51 PM

Please don't overreact about stuff like that man. That kinda stuff really looks bad when newbies come in looking for information. Bugs are bound to come up just like anything else. There's no need to overblow it.

Robert McLaws

# re: A chink in the side-by-side armor@ Monday, April 28, 2003 5:36 PM

To me, this kind of stuff is a big deal. Customer's can be extremely skittish about upgrading production machines, and this kind of stuff fuels that fire. I mean, we're not talking about some obscure feature here - we're talking about something as basic as performance monitoring. And we're not talking about something that worked on 1.0 that's broken on 1.1 - we're talking about something still running on 1.0 that breaks merely because of the presence of 1.1. Avoiding these problems is the whole reason for side-by-side, so it's not good that it's broken right out of the gate. Credit to Microsoft for providing a fix quickly, but it's still troubling. It also kind of sucks that a) you have to call MS to get the fix, and b) the fix is for 1.0, not 1.1.

Kevin Dente

# re: Recently used applications....grrrr@ Saturday, May 03, 2003 2:22 AM

Use the classic start menu. :-)

JorgeCurioso

# re: Recently used applications....grrrr@ Saturday, May 03, 2003 4:41 PM

Oh sure, I could just disable the recent apps feature of the start menu (without even reverting to classic). But I want to have my cake and eat it too. :)

Kevin Dente

# Dan's .NET Brain Droppings@ Thursday, May 08, 2003 3:21 PM

Dan's .NET Brain Droppings

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# re: Trick for command-line junkies@ Wednesday, May 14, 2003 6:13 PM

cd %userprofile%\my documents works as well.

--Brian

Brian Desmond

# re: Trick for command-line junkies@ Wednesday, May 14, 2003 6:14 PM

Sweet, thanks for the link! I too am a CLI junky, but I had been creating batch files for things like this. e.g. desktop.bat:

cd \documents and settings\%username%\desktop

Cheesy, but it saved me some keystrokes. This junction tool is a much better solution though.

Chad Osgood

# re: Trick for command-line junkies@ Tuesday, May 20, 2003 12:08 PM

Look out! :-)

I had a bunch of junction points in my filesystem for this sort of thing, but I removed them recently.

Why? I found that most programs, and in particular Sophos don't bother to spot the difference between a normal directory and a junction point. This turned out to be a real pain with drive scanning programs.

E.G. One of the junction points I was using was from "My Documents" to the root of a large source tree (on another drive). Having the JP there meant that Sophos scanned it twice. As it was set up (by corporate IT) to do the scan every lunchtime, it was starting to really p**s me off. Also, it turned out that the (v. frequent) updates of the Sophos software cause it to dicard any exclusion lists you have set-up. Argh!

James Chaldecott

# re: RSS - the bad@ Tuesday, May 27, 2003 12:30 PM

Laptop, baby! :-)

Greg Reinacker

# re: RSS - the bad@ Tuesday, May 27, 2003 12:32 PM

Got one. Unfortunately, the conference center that I was at had no internet access, if you can believe that.

Kevin Dente

# re: The stagnation of IE@ Tuesday, May 27, 2003 4:32 PM

Get MyIE2. The benefits of the IE render engine and the advantages of tabbed browsing, groups, and popup filters/add filters. Google will bring you to the site :)

Frans Bouma

# re: The stagnation of IE@ Tuesday, May 27, 2003 4:33 PM

http://www.crazybrowser.com/

duke

# re: The stagnation of IE@ Tuesday, May 27, 2003 6:26 PM

I looked at MyIE2 ages ago, and wasn't impressed. Looks like it's improved a bit since then - I'll have another look.

Never heard of CrazyBrowser. I'll have a look there too.

Kevin Dente

# re: ZIP in the .NET framework@ Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:03 PM

I wonder if there were some features that Microsoft wanted in the core framework but excluded because they wanted to keep for core framework filesize down (I still wish that 21MB was smaller).

I'm not saying that adding ZIP compression would have made a massive change to this, just wonder if the framework size did impact on what was included in the core framework.

Ben Richardson

# re: ZIP in the .NET framework@ Wednesday, May 28, 2003 1:32 AM

Hi Ben,

Not sure that it was meant to keep the Framework small. For instance, the SharpZipLib assembly is only 45 Kb. So...

I think that like some other missing features, they weren't in the top priorities and we will have to wait until .NET Framework 2.0 to have them all implemented in managed code.

Christophe

Christophe Lauer

# re: ZIP in the .NET framework@ Wednesday, May 28, 2003 4:39 AM

This has always annoyed me. CAB compression was in the .NET Betas - it just got left out of the release. Not including compression is amazingly annoying - SharpZipLib is pretty good, but an in-framework compression would be better. Web services especially would benefit from this.

Scott Galloway

# re: Move to weblogs.asp.net@ Friday, May 30, 2003 6:24 PM

Yeah, I've been putting off buying it because of the dupes but I guess I'm just being thick. That was nice how it picked up the change.

I'll be shelling out my 30 bucks this weekend.

Paul

Paul Speranza

# re: Yukon release pushed back - what about Whidbey?@ Tuesday, June 03, 2003 6:40 PM

Wouldn't suprise me if that is the reason they are pushing Yukon back, not the other way around :-).

Jesse Ezell

# re: Yukon release pushed back - what about Whidbey?@ Tuesday, June 03, 2003 6:51 PM

I think that the Whidbey tie is hurting the schedule. But from what I know there is still more to do with Yukon also. I think the complexity of these two dependent initiatives is pretty high-- MS is doing the right thing by not rushing the release.

randy

# re: Yukon release pushed back - what about Whidbey?@ Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:58 PM

Coupling those two massive releases seems like a highly risky project management proposition. I can't even imagine trying to coordinate those two schedules - each by themselves is ridiculously complex. Hopefully they can pull it off. As an ISV I'm vastly more interested in Whidbey than Yukon (I have to write fairly generic platform-independent SQL code anyway), so it would suck if Yukon is holding up the process. Sounds like it's some of both, though.

That being said, I won't be making any concrete plans around that schedule. Software schedules more than a year out are generally about as reliable as...well...Microsoft software schedules.

Kevin Dente

# re: Disabling request validation in ASP.NET@ Thursday, June 05, 2003 6:48 PM

Hi Kevin,

Each version of ASP.NET (and the overall .NET Framework) has its own Machine.config file. These settings run independently of each other (in other words a V1 app won't see the settings of the V1.1 machine.config).

You can fix the problem you mention above by changing the machine.config file of the V1.1 version to either have validateRequest off by default (not recommend) -- or add a <location> directive within the file to just turn it off for a specific application or directory.

Hope this helps,

Scott

scottgu@microsoft.com

# re: Disabling request validation in ASP.NET@ Thursday, June 05, 2003 8:05 PM

This breaks xcopy deployment, doesn't it? This really does break forward compatibility pretty handily.

Am I right in seeing that in code, once the flag has been set to validate the request, it can't ever be un-set? Doh! So no way to fix this in code and still use an .aspx page.

Philip Rieck

# re: Disabling request validation in ASP.NET@ Thursday, June 05, 2003 8:40 PM

Hi, Scott. Thanks for the response. I didn't realize that you could have custom machine.config settings per-application. Interesting tidbit.

However, I'm not sure how much that helps me. The Visual Studio .NET installer stuff doesn't have a way to change machine.config, as far as I know. And even if it did, requiring changes to machine.config is definitely something I'd rather avoid. I'd rather just document the required changes for 1.1.

These kinds of issues cause significant forward compatibility issues between the runtimes. I hope Microsoft will consider this in future versions of the runtime.

Kevin Dente

# re: Media Player 9 shuffling@ Monday, June 09, 2003 6:45 PM

Some other folks have disliked the shuffle model as well, although I haven't really noticed... so I built my music playing app (http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/musicxp) with support for a IShuffle interface that allows you to build your own shuffle algorithm. I think the one I provide is pretty good at shuffling as well.

Duncan Mackenzie

# re: Media Player 9 shuffling@ Monday, June 09, 2003 7:30 PM

I agree with the WinAmp statement. I still use WinAmp 2.8 as my mp3 player (Windows Media Player is great for some things but I don't think playing music is one of them). WinAmp 3.0 has some cool new features but the features I require aren't there, so I uninstalled it after about 30 minutes of heartache and headache.

sirshannon

# re: Media Player 9 shuffling@ Monday, June 09, 2003 10:20 PM

Sticking to Winamp 2.8 as well. Still the best, and nothing more required!
Media Player is bloated, and Winamp 3 is buggy and they exchanged the good features with useless ones.

Fabrice

# re: .NET Framework 1.2?@ Friday, June 13, 2003 12:00 AM

I am not a MS guy, but I am aware of this framework version. My understanding is that it has been used with Whidbey and Yukon internal builds. I was also under the impression that by the time Whidbey and Yukon are released, that the Framework version would be a 2.0 version. I have no confirmation of that however.

randy

# re: .NET Framework 1.2?@ Friday, June 13, 2003 12:11 AM

can you get specific on where you saw this?

Robert McLaws

# re: .NET Framework 1.2?@ Friday, June 13, 2003 12:35 AM

Hmm. Maybe it was two different posts in one blog:

http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/suzcook/permalink.aspx/b3f8138d-eecf-47c4-9055-3f6c2335f035

http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/suzcook/permalink.aspx/f9f7be1e-ef53-453c-af11-1ad81536edeb

Kevin Dente

# re: .NET Framework 1.2?@ Saturday, June 14, 2003 2:14 PM

As you know, Whdibey is still under active developement. Current builds are stamped with the 1.2 verision number, but we have NOT made the final call on that the version number will be. My personal bet is that it will be a 2.0.... but we will see.

Brad Abrams

# re: Ever get the feeling you're being watched?@ Tuesday, June 17, 2003 2:39 AM

The aggregate feed is my primary reading material! I think it's so cool that I can browse through the blogs of so many different people that I wouldn't otherwise "discover" and subscribe to... and y'all are all talking about what I love: .NET!

Kenneth LeFebvre

# re: The stagnation of IE@ Tuesday, June 17, 2003 10:24 PM

About mozilla, you can run multiple instances in linux, so I'm sure it's possible in windows as well. Just out of interest, what do you use this for? Espeically in windows, where it was my understanding that there was only ever one IE process running (as it is embedded into the OS in that strange and unholy marriage type situation).

As for pop up killing, I doubt you'll ever see it. That's something that sounds very "anti-commericial" and MS doesn't like to piss off companies. Personally that sort of thing has driven me to mozilla in windows, simply because I honestly can't stand surfing with IE. They have ugly UI bugs (forgetting state on the cookie verification dialog box for example) that drive people who are a bit paranoid about things like cookies crazy. Putting pop up blocking in there is just crazy talk!

Maybe try Mozilla Firebird, which is a lot lighter and snappier than mozilla itself, and a lot less piggish.

Arcterex

# Julia Lerman Blog@ Friday, June 20, 2003 9:00 PM

Julia Lerman Blog

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# re: Media Player 9 shuffling@ Wednesday, June 25, 2003 11:03 AM

Yep, it really sucks... came here after a web search to see if anyone else had noticed. It's not hard to do random numbers... I presume it's a bug from a side effect to stop it repeating tracks if you're just shuffling one CD, but as I have 2200+ WMAs it seems to play about 10% over again - got the same sequence coming up twice in one morning

Martin Browne

# re: Bug in AxImp.exe@ Friday, June 27, 2003 12:31 AM

I have used aximp.exe for activeX controls that I need to embed dynamically into winforms. No problems encountered.

"Item" sounds like a good property for screwing automated processes up. It should probably be a protected name. So the converter was probably making some assumptions about it's existence there. (?)

I'm sure you'll hear from one of the interop pros on this one.

julie

# re: McWireless@ Wednesday, July 09, 2003 9:31 PM

A lot of us grew up thinking of a trip to McDonald's as a treat, something cool and fun. Even then the seats were too hard but I loved it anyway. I even had my 8th birthday party at the McDonald's in my town.
Now there is finally a reason for me to go back.
If only the cost of a meal really was a third of $4.95...

sirshannon

# re: McWireless@ Wednesday, July 09, 2003 9:35 PM

I had heard that they would give you like 30-45 minutes of wireless time with the purchase of a meal over like $3-4 or something. That would be cool... though it doesn't make their food taste any better.

Ken

# re: McWireless@ Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:24 AM

3 times the cost of a meal? certainly not in NYC!

Tim Marman

# re: McWireless@ Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:00 AM

You don't have kids do you?

This is the first I heard of this, but I can guarantee you that if they have this service here, I will be much more excited the next time my son asks to go play in the playground at McDonalds!

My Axim X5 + 802.11b will McRoxxor!!

Lance Hunt

# re: McWireless@ Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:50 AM

My understanding is that McDonalds makes money by selling their franchises equipment. Maybe they are not worried about who uses it.

bJoeyLouie

# re: McWireless@ Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:53 PM

1. I have two kids - we can stay at a mac donalds (with a play land) for HOURS. :-/
2. A happy meal is like 4 bucks

Paul

# re: HTML Editor synchronicity@ Friday, July 18, 2003 11:38 PM

Yeah. Pretty cool idea. I hope this gets finished.

Matt

# re: Personalization in RSS feeds@ Tuesday, July 22, 2003 9:42 PM

Just an idea...

On kbAlertz, have a number to represent each feed and call an rss.aspx page with a csv list of numbers which could represent what categories to get. This is nice, but would have a the URL length limitation.

Another solution, is to enable registered users to set up "RSS Preferences" which would contain what categorys they want in thier feed. Then, the user would request "rss.aspx?[SomeSortOfUserID]" and get a feed customized to them.

The downside to both of these solutions, is that a caching system would be difficult to implement.

Just some food for thought...

Tony Pino

# re: Blogvertising@ Wednesday, July 23, 2003 3:51 AM

what a freak

an

# re: Cell phone purgatory@ Wednesday, July 23, 2003 4:52 AM

hang on for a few more weeks.... soon you'll be able to take your cell phone number with you when you switch carriers.

Robert McLaws

# re: Blogvertising@ Wednesday, July 23, 2003 5:13 AM

That's right! I'm taking over!

First, my blog - Tomorrow, ad time during major sporting events!

I don't know why I do these things. Just for kicks, I guess.

Life is too short to not share images of your clammy chest with the rest of the world.

Rory

# re: Blogvertising@ Wednesday, July 23, 2003 12:25 PM

gotcha :-)

an

# re: Info on Whidbey and Beyond@ Tuesday, July 29, 2003 2:11 PM

WSE is a logical part of the framework, and is just an extension to ASMX handlers to add specifics like WS-Security and so on. They are complementary, not competing.

Generics / edit-and-continue features were mentioned again today at the VSLive! keynote. They sure branded them as language specific, though I would hope they're not. It might be a way for the "language divergence" so that certain languages can add specific value-add in certain realms - though I personally hope this isn't the case.

Tim Marman

# re: Info on Whidbey and Beyond@ Tuesday, July 29, 2003 2:47 PM

FWIW, generics are mentioned in the VB section, using nearly the exact same language as the C# section uses (minus the references to C++ differences and similarities).

"In addition, developers using Visual Basic will have access to a type-safe, high-performance, compile time-verified version of generics that promote code reuse across a variety of data types."

Dave Rothgery

# re: Info on Whidbey and Beyond@ Tuesday, July 29, 2003 2:52 PM

Oops. Must have skimmed over that generics comment in the VB.NET section. Thanks.

Kevin Dente

# <br> Jason Tucker's Blog@ Tuesday, July 29, 2003 4:02 PM

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# re: Info on Whidbey and Beyond@ Tuesday, July 29, 2003 4:26 PM

The way I read the VB part is that you can consume generics, but not create them. Of course, I could be extremely wrong here.

Phil Scott

# re: Info on Whidbey and Beyond@ Tuesday, July 29, 2003 5:45 PM

That's what I thought at first, but, as I said before, the language is pretty much identical in the C# section. Besides, generics that you can consume but not create are pretty nearly useless.

Dave Rothgery

# re: Info on Whidbey and Beyond@ Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:03 AM

We're under NDA for most details on language stuff for now, but I will say, starting over on the grid controls was a great decision, IMHO...they totally rock and help towards no compatibility issues! :D

HumanCompiler

# re: Info on Whidbey and Beyond@ Wednesday, July 30, 2003 3:35 AM

I second that, DC! (Aren't we also not allowed to say we're even under NDA? ;)).

About Edit/Continue: isn't that already available for C# in vs2003?

About 'new' winforms controls: there are new controls. I haven't checked if the set of controls also available in the current vs2003 crop is still build using Win32 controls and SendMessage(), which I hope not.

Frans Bouma

# re: Info on Whidbey and Beyond@ Wednesday, July 30, 2003 5:08 PM

> Web Services - what's the continuing role
> of ASMX vs WSE?

http://weblogs.asp.net/Yassers/posts/9118.aspx

Phil Weber

# re: SideBar@ Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:40 PM

i downloaded desktop sidebar while the site was up and am really loving it. very nice tips kevin!

some google cache digging got me to the forums (http://www.tech-critic.com/forum/index.php?s=2ffee2c13f38e67c783c2eeda03e0330&act=SF&f=50) which are still running and explain the site is down due to "amount of consumed bandwidth" :)

russ

# re: SideBar@ Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:44 AM

Sounds a bit like Dashboard [http://www.snpsoftware.com/], which is written in C# by a friend of mine, Danny Smurf. I did a couple components for it a while back, and it's pretty nice. I recommend you check it out.

Dan Bright

# re: ZIP in the .NET framework@ Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:24 AM

Non

laogao

# <br> Ben's Blog@ Thursday, July 31, 2003 7:55 AM

Ben's Blog

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# re: Red vs Blue@ Friday, August 01, 2003 5:21 PM

Totally agree! Been watching since about Episode 1 or so...bring on # 14! :D

HumanCompiler

# re: SideBar@ Wednesday, August 06, 2003 8:39 PM

The new Desktop Sidebar site can be found at:
http://www.desktopsidebar.com/

Neil Negandhi

# re: Poking around the VS.NET CodeModel@ Friday, August 08, 2003 4:00 AM

Hi, some time ago I did the same thing (but a little bit simpler I think, less features). If you are intrested you can find an article on the code project: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/leaditwebservicewrapper.asp. Please let me know if you publish your solution.

Greetz
Jan

Jan Tielens

# re: Poking around the VS.NET CodeModel@ Friday, August 08, 2003 9:48 AM

Thanks !!
I was planning to do something similar over the weekend. Your post will definitely save me a few hours.

BTW Are you going to release the code?? That would save me a few more :)

Addy Santo

# re: Poking around the VS.NET CodeModel@ Friday, August 08, 2003 12:28 PM

Hmmm...Have you thought about doing it another way? The class that converts a WSDL to a client proxy class is available in the .NET Framework. It's called the ServiceDescriptionImporter and can be found in the System.Web.Services.Description namespace. For example, WSDL.EXE basically ends up using the this class to the real work. The cool bit is that the Import method of this class will generate just the code DOM for you given a System.CodeDom.CodeNamespace and a System.CodeDom.CodeCompileUnit instance. It is up to you to use an ICodeGenerator then to blast out the final code. But here's the thing then. Once you're finished calling Import, you should be able to go and party with the generated code DOM before calling the code generator. You should be able to, for example, remove the private field definitions, replace them with private ones and create properties to wrap 'em. It should work in theory, but I guess you'll tell me if it really does do the job. :-) Once you got that working, the next best thing would be to convert the process into a VS Custom Tool so that it can be used right from within VS. I've already written one such custom tool that would be a good starting point. Check out the following GDN Workspace: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=ef3d0a73-0468-46da-8780-ede0f12b6f22 and download build 4306 (very stable). See the class in the file WebServiceClientGenerator.cs. If you do end up going down this route, I'd love to hear from you. Perhaps you'd like to contribute a version of WebServiceClientGenerator.cs that does precisely what you're looking for. Anyhow, food for thought.

Atif Aziz

# re: Poking around the VS.NET CodeModel@ Friday, August 08, 2003 12:55 PM

Actually, originally I had looked into doing it exactly as you suggest, Atif. But I wasn't able to figure out where to hook in to the process. Thanks for the pointer to ServiceDescriptionImporter. I'll definitely look into it.

Kevin Dente

# re: Registration Free COM Activation@ Friday, August 08, 2003 3:23 PM

It doesn't work!

I've tried it with a VERY simple little set of projects, and it's not working. I challenge anyone to try. I'll give you a ZIP file with all of the source, so all you have to do is figure out what I'm doing wrong.

The sample has a .NET class library project (I'm aching to do interop this way), a VB6 ActiveX DLL project that interoperates, and a VB6 EXE project that shows the results.

Email me at jbuxton@nospam.appintell.com if you're interested in trying. I'll buy you a drink next time you're in Weldon Springs MO if you can pull it off.

Jason

jason

# re: Poking around the VS.NET CodeModel@ Friday, August 08, 2003 6:50 PM

My fingers got itchy so I had to try the theory out. Wanted to let you know that it worked without any issues (although I only tested against a simple WSDL). I made alteration to my WebServiceClientGenerator.cs but I haven't checked in the changes. If you want to check it out, download the latest release from Workspace (which contains the source code) and then send me a mail. I'll then ship the modified file to you.

Atif Aziz

# re: .NET naming conventions and protected members@ Wednesday, August 13, 2003 11:17 PM

When we were doing our coding standards for C# we came across this problem. We had a bunch of internal MS people pinged to see what they did. The result was there was no standard, apart from just using case in-sensitive fields.

We decided against that in-case we had some VB.Net development.

We now use m_, which works OK, but is not ideal.

Blair Stephenson

# re: .NET naming conventions and protected members@ Thursday, August 14, 2003 2:52 AM

Using a prefix (e.g. "m_") has its advantages when using intellisense, as shown here: http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/posts/21741.aspx

(Whether to use full, i.e. type-dependent, hungarian notation is a matter of choice and also depends on what the majority of a development team decides on.)

Roland Weigelt

# re: .NET naming conventions and protected members@ Saturday, August 16, 2003 2:19 PM

Well, not excatly what you are looking for, but one fix here is to not have any public or protected fields. There is just no reason to expose those. You can always use a property to abstract them. That will save your butt some day when you change some implementation details without breaking client code.

Brad Abrams

# re: String concatenation - + vs StringBuilder@ Wednesday, August 27, 2003 7:58 PM

I read somewhere on MSDN, maybe a .NET show transcript or something, that said around 10 strings is when the performance of StringBuilder becomes significant over the other methods.

Darrell

# re: String concatenation - + vs StringBuilder@ Thursday, August 28, 2003 10:45 AM

Yeah, I've always gone with the rule of thumb that for anything less than 10 concats the stringbuilder is overkill.

I've also been using String.Format for a lot of string building too. Works fine. And when I need to build a bigger string, .AppendFormat on the StringBuilder is there.

Phil Scott

# <br> UnknownReference@ Friday, August 29, 2003 9:18 AM

UnknownReference

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# re: New Microsoft Web Service@ Friday, August 29, 2003 12:28 PM

And ability to filter out that long long list of Microsoft products...

Aleksey Maksimov

# re: New Microsoft Web Service@ Wednesday, September 03, 2003 5:18 PM

If the KB UI really bothers you that much, you might want to consider creating your own UI to submit an appropriate get request to the KB search page. It would be a pretty trivial exercise, even if scraping of the product list from the live search page is included.

Nicole Calinoiu

# re: .NET Framework 1.2?@ Thursday, September 04, 2003 4:25 AM

Trust me, the next one should be 1.2 and available together with yukon beta 1

Derek L.

# re: New version of Process Explorer@ Wednesday, September 10, 2003 6:36 PM

True, these tools are indispensable

Phil

# re: Transparent image generation@ Saturday, September 13, 2003 1:07 PM

Wait a minute... IE supports transparent PNGs, just not directly. Check out this link: http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/pngbehavior/pngbehavior.html

Dimitri Glazkov

# re: Transparent image generation@ Saturday, September 13, 2003 7:01 PM

Yes, that's the filter hack that I mentioned. I hadn't run across the behavior that your link references before, though. Thanks, it could be useful. It still limits me to IE 5.5 or later, but that might be good enough.

Kevin Dente

# re: .NET naming conventions and protected members@ Saturday, September 20, 2003 10:40 AM

A clarification on what Brad said: you use protected properties, instead of fields. This is the standard in .net and I it is in the guidelines as well.

As he said, you should not allow the public to ever see a field. It just causes problems.

Frank Hileman

# re: The Magic is gone@ Thursday, September 25, 2003 3:44 PM

Sad song. I just can't seem to locate the place where the free previous version is. Can you point me to it, I'd like to have a look at it's licence.

Christophe Lauer

# re: The Magic is gone@ Thursday, September 25, 2003 3:48 PM

It's on Sourceforge.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dotnetmagic/

Kevin Dente

# re: The Magic is gone@ Thursday, September 25, 2003 3:59 PM

Thx. Weird, since the site contained the following statement in the past: "There is no licence or royalty fee to be paid at any time. You may include the source into your own projects which may then be used for personal or commercial use. The only restriction is the code cannot be resold as is, nor modified and sold as a user interface library for C#.".

Christophe Lauer

# re: The Magic is gone@ Thursday, September 25, 2003 4:23 PM

Great library. It was fairly stable for community code. But now its commercial.

Drew Robbins

# How sad...@ Thursday, September 25, 2003 7:28 PM

Too bad...
I used this as an example of the values and features to be found in open source...

Can't blame them for wanting to make a buck, but still.

Time to branch it and continue on with an open source version. Looking at the comment from Christophe Lauer that seems do'able (as long as it stays open source/free)

Greg Duncan

# re: The Magic is gone@ Friday, September 26, 2003 5:13 AM

Have you tried http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/genghis/

Jay

# Genghis@ Friday, September 26, 2003 9:49 AM

Very nice...

Greg Duncan

# re: The Magic is gone@ Friday, September 26, 2003 1:20 PM

As an alternative Tim Dawson has numerous controls available on his site, free of charge: http://www.divil.co.uk/net/

Derek Stone

# re: Element behaviors@ Tuesday, September 30, 2003 9:38 PM

Element Behaviors are extremely cool, but yes they suffer from that defect. The way I handle it is to serialize the element behavior and use XmlHttp obbject in MSXML to do the post. This is an early version of Web Services. If you ever need any Element Behavior help, contact me.

On a side note, the concept of Element Behaviors is taken to the next level in Longhorn's new UI engine Avalon.

DonXML

DonXML

# re: Element behaviors@ Tuesday, September 30, 2003 11:30 PM

Element behaviors are also problematic for screen readers that parse HTML because they're rendered as namespaced custom elements that the reader doesn't know how to parse. Best to stay away from them.

Have you looked at "normal" (attached) behaviors?

In any case, pure .js "include" files are much more performant and have no weird side-effects.

Jorge Curioso

# re: Element behaviors@ Wednesday, October 01, 2003 9:01 AM

Element behaviors "suffer" from this inability becouse they all tend to be "isolated" from the outside page. You can always create hiddens in the parent document from your element behavior and thus include data for reply. This is like "registering" for data submission.
anyway, I found these behaviors very heavy-weight and didn't use them finally, becouse they require very good computer with a lot of memory on the client side (thin-client does not apply then :-))
it also work only with IE... obviously :-)

Jakub Skopal

# re: String concatenation - + vs StringBuilder@ Monday, October 20, 2003 7:39 AM

On my blog is a small entry I wrote about making the syntax of StringBuilder slightly easier. Might be of interest. Thanks.

Steve Dunn

# re: EIF@ Wednesday, October 22, 2003 3:17 PM

the link is not valid anymore. Do you have any copy of the article?
thanks AM

andre moraes

# Stay back@ Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:58 AM

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# re: Microsoft's 99% Rule - or - sealed strikes again.@ Friday, October 24, 2003 12:42 AM

Your right on the money...

That was what I was looking at doing was creating a session state stored in Oracle when I ran into the same problem.

It is not inheritable... and does not implement an interface that I could.

ARG!!

Theron

# re: Whidbey PDC Questions@ Friday, October 24, 2003 6:58 PM

Hi Kevin,

Just posted a quick response to your questions: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/posts/33379.aspx

Hope this helps,

Scott

ScottGu

# re: Longhorn and Avalon@ Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:00 PM

So, now we have X-M-L and X-AM-L... great :-)

Jesse Ezell

# re: Longhorn and Avalon@ Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:57 PM

You think that's bad? Even worse - now we have XAML and SAML. :)

Of course, Microsoft isn't doing much with SAML, so I guess they're not worried about it.

Kevin Dente

# re: String concatenation - + vs StringBuilder@ Friday, November 14, 2003 5:37 AM

The problem here isn't the concatenation of 3 string many times, but the concatenation of many string a few times. I'm not sure, but I believe that in a few string concatenation the '+' could be better.

JC

João Cintra

# re: The trouble with web.config@ Sunday, November 16, 2003 8:16 PM

The Configuration application block allows you to have an external XML file from the web.config and not require a restart when its modified.

Its available on MSDN where all the rest of the application blocks are.

Paul Glavich

# re: The trouble with web.config@ Sunday, November 16, 2003 8:25 PM

I believe this will also mostly fixed in 2.0 as well. That is, there will be a number of sections where a change will not reset the application.

doug reilly

# re: The trouble with web.config@ Sunday, November 16, 2003 9:02 PM

This is fixed in ASP.NET 2.0.

But in the short-run, why not just store your own items in a custom config file and use your own CacheDependency to monitor changes?

On another note, how often do you really need to make changes? I always thought of the config section as a place to store machine/application related settings that really did not need change all that often.

-Scott

Scott Watermasysk

# re: The trouble with web.config@ Sunday, November 16, 2003 10:27 PM

Paul - I've tended to avoid the app blocks for non-internal applications. I've had the sense (perhaps unfounded) that there's a weaker commitment to ongoing maintenance and backward compatibility. Maybe that's just NIH syndrome silliness. :)

Scott - good news that it's fixed in 2.0. One of these days I hope to have time to really dig into Whidbey. Too busy right now, unfortunately.

Tracing is a good example of where web.config is changed on a running system. Debugging a production server by setting up trace switches to enable diagnostic logging is quite common. Dumping the cache to enable this is not ideal. BTW, that's also an example of where a custom config file isn't useful - the framework always uses web.config to control traceswitch behavior.

I like the idea of using a faux CacheDependency with a callback, though. That's a bit easier than setting up a FileSystemWatcher.

Kevin Dente

# re: The trouble with web.config@ Monday, November 17, 2003 6:05 AM

Not an issue because the use of Session variables is, overall, a bad architectual choice.

Wally

Wallym

# re: The trouble with web.config@ Monday, November 17, 2003 9:03 AM

You can always reference your appSettings from an external file:

http://weblogs.asp.net/pwilson/posts/5261.aspx

Kirk Allen Evans

# re: IE Favorites with Longhorn@ Tuesday, December 02, 2003 2:15 PM

What is superior about Netscape 2.0's bookmarking system?

You do realize the bookmark.htm is only a click away in IE. You can export your favorites pretty easily.

Jeff Gonzalez

# re: Duplicate cleanup...grrrr@ Tuesday, December 23, 2003 12:08 AM

This was more my problem. Url's, especially ones called "permalinks" should not change.

Under normal circumstances, I would have not made the change to the Urls, but since I turned on aggregator tracking most readers would have seen all of the of the posts as new anyway, so I seized the moment to clean things up a bit :)

Posts are now archvied at Archive / Year / Month / Day / PostID/EntryName

It sucks, but hopefully this will be the last time it happens.

-Scott

Scott Watermasysk

# re: Duplicate cleanup...grrrr@ Tuesday, December 23, 2003 6:56 AM

and I thought it was just me that was having problems. I'm using SharpReader and have had this problem for quie a while now. Couldn't work out what was actually changing. An example is Dino's asp.net weblog. Even though I'm subscribed to his independantly of the rest of the asp.net blogs I still keep getting them duplicated most times I refresh. I get the same problem with Mr Box's also.

Paul Edwards

# re: The stagnation of IE@ Tuesday, December 30, 2003 7:42 PM

Arcterex said:

About mozilla, you can run multiple instances in linux, so I'm sure it's possible in windows as well. Just out of interest, what do you use this for?

I say:

If two people want to share a computer and they need to login into the same web site with different user IDs, for example. Sure, I understand why there aren't multiple instances, but most people don't and it looks terrible.

As for Mozilla being "piggish", huh? Have you tried it lately?

G

# re: Pocket Outlook extension problems@ Wednesday, December 31, 2003 3:28 AM

I'm pretty sure that if you use the VS.NET Extensions for Windows Mobile 2003, you can add this functionality using the .NET Framework.

Robert McLaws

# re: Office 2003@ Thursday, January 01, 2004 6:58 AM

In Outlook (Haven't got it in front of me, working from homoe today) You can tell it to use Word as the default Editor for HTML and RTF emails , which is why it's loading.

I personally think that all HTML/RTF emails should be banned :) That would stop the worst spam.

Russ C.

# re: WINIPCFG for XP@ Sunday, January 04, 2004 11:40 PM

yepp!
but there is still "ipconfig /all" that makes exactly the same!

chris

# re: CodeGen and Partial Classes@ Monday, January 05, 2004 5:57 PM

Thanks for following up on my inquiry. I have also posted this question to a few other members on the team. Hopefully it will be addressed.

Rob Chartier

# re: CodeGen and Partial Classes@ Tuesday, January 06, 2004 4:08 AM

For showing classes in the solution explorer: you don't do that anymore. A piece of code is stored in a file, yes, but it can belong to a bigger piece of code, like 3 fragments of a class in 3 files make up 1 class. So you should work with the CLASS, not with the FILES. The file should not be the item you work with, it's silly, you work with code, classes, not with files.

The same weirdness is seen in Visio. You're modelling an ORM model and you work with PAGES. Erm... why? It's 1 model, why do I have to work with sheets of paper...

Frans Bouma

# from a computer moron@ Tuesday, January 06, 2004 12:13 PM

I have a Mac and am trying to access a site with an ashx file. It locks my computer up and shuts down the internet every time. Someone said it may be because the Mac can't read the ashx file and doesn't know what to do with it, so it kind of shrugs and dumps it. Can you tell me why and if there is anything I can do to make the Mac read this page? It's very frustrating. I get no prompt from the Mac to download a program to read the file, it just freezes on that page. I'm sorry if this isn't your area of expertise, but I'm just searching the web trying to find an answer.

Nancy

# re: Merging assemblies@ Tuesday, January 06, 2004 10:34 PM

Sounds a lot like something I did, too:

http://weblogs.asp.net/jdennany/archive/2003/09/24/29035.aspx

Jerry Dennany

# re: Copying files@ Thursday, January 08, 2004 6:01 PM

Or maybe let you roll back the copy operation? Now I know I'm asking for too much.

JosephCooney

# re: Copying files@ Thursday, January 08, 2004 6:06 PM

Good god, man, that's crazy talk.

;)

I wonder how many extra terabytes of information I've copied over the years because I had to duplicate a massive copy after one stupid file failed.

Kevin Dente

# re: Copying files@ Thursday, January 08, 2004 6:28 PM

Dear god! Who still uses Explorer for copying? Lots of very good tools out there (Total Commander being one of the most powerful file managers out there) just begging for your attention.

Roy Osherove

# re: Copying files@ Thursday, January 08, 2004 6:51 PM

Ahh Kevin - your dreams are too brave and powerful. Such a time may never in your lifetime come to pass.

Leon Bambrick

# re: Copying files@ Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:03 PM

Roy,
Something as simple as reliably copying files should hardly require a third-party tool. After all, dealing with files is one of the most basic functions of an operating system.

There was a time when I used third-party file management tools (back in DOS and Win3x days), but I would hope we've graduated beyond that - at least for most typical uses.

Kevin Dente

# re: Copying files@ Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:09 PM

Longhorn gives you the option to skip.

Rolling back the copy operation is insane. What if the rollback fails? What if you said "Yes" to overwrite an existing file. How do you roll that back? Do you attempt to resurrect the original file?

Raymond Chen

# re: Copying files@ Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:17 PM

Woo hoo! The dream lives! Thanks Raymond. I haven't dipped my toes into the Longhorn waters yet.

Kevin Dente

# re: Copying files@ Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:20 PM

So then the next question is - if you do skip, will it give you a summary of the files that failed when the copy completes? That would be sweet.

Kevin Dente

# re: Copying files@ Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:30 PM

Friendly file operations don't sell OSes, animated start menus do.

There should be several options when there is an issue :
Retry - So I can close the app that has locked the file.
No overwite - Just copy the files that are not already there.

There are lots of things like this. When I delete a file it is just going to the recycle bin, why force me to confirm? I don't feel the same about shift-delete, because it actualy deletes the file.

Rollback, just thinking about makes me want to write a tool that will enable it.

No Mr. Chen , I do not want it to attempt to resurect the original file, I want it to restore the original file. If your rollback fails, your problems are probably much more serious than a few files.

If there are files that will be overwitten, there should be an option to have them be saved/copied to some temporary location for the duration of the operation.

AndrewSeven

# re: Copying files@ Friday, January 09, 2004 2:39 AM

OK, restoring the original file is a bit crazy ... I mean, especially when you start condidering this function across a network. She skipped failed file thing would be great.

JW

# re: Copying files@ Friday, January 09, 2004 4:28 AM

"Longhorn gives you the option to skip."

Correction: Longhorn WILL give you the option to skip.

Fabrice

# re: .NET Framework 1.2?@ Friday, January 09, 2004 3:42 PM

The .Net framework version 1.2 is also referred to as 2.0.

Paritosh

# re: Copying files@ Sunday, January 11, 2004 2:43 PM

...only for local files.

AndrewSeven

# re: Copying files@ Sunday, January 11, 2004 4:39 PM

Ack, really? Locally only? Lame.

Kevin Dente

# re: Merging assemblies@ Tuesday, January 13, 2004 12:08 AM

I'll be damned. Looks like we were doing the same thing at about the same time.

Kevin Dente

# re: Encryption in .NET@ Tuesday, January 13, 2004 6:56 PM

I did notice this morning in my Whidbey bits that some encryption functionality that was previously only available by writing P/Invoke code to access the unmanaged libraries will now be available in the framework. Not sure how much is/is not NDA that I can talk about here, though.

Robert Hurlbut

# re: Encryption in .NET@ Tuesday, January 13, 2004 7:21 PM

Heh. But that's the point, really, isn't it? To make authors' lives more difficult? I mean, surely they aren't going around adding all this functionality just to make *developers'* lives *easier*? ;-)

G. Andrew Duthie

# re: The trouble with web.config@ Sunday, January 18, 2004 11:34 PM

have problem with web.config

can somebody help me pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee??

aljosa

www.runtothe101.com/mail/

aljosa@cox.net

# re: Indigo application concerns@ Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:14 AM

This is in fact a developer preview. The PDC build was based on M4 of Indigo and the programing model (especially for the Service Model) currently get revamped for M5 - as the guys sais a trillion times at PDC, in articles and in interviews :-)
So I would not worry too much at this point in time. Expect it to become a lot more 'convinient' ... but it definitey will differ from the ASMX model which is good, IMHO.

Christian Weyer

# re: Indigo application concerns@ Wednesday, January 21, 2004 5:26 AM

Indigo offers two general programming models, targeting very different levels of control.

The Service Model is the one you are looking for, it works much the same way that ASMX works today.

The Indigo Connector model is the more complex and low level messaging model. This is where you will manually create channels and configure all the low level details.

I will suspect that once beta 1 is out there will be a lot more focus on the Service Model.

Morten Abrahamsen

# re: Indigo application concerns@ Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:25 AM

You're sort of mixing apples and oranges here.

The fact that in v1 you can new up an object and invoke a remote operation transparently without knowledge of the messaging details is a by-product of three things: 1) the wsdl.exe utility, 2) the tight integration wsdl.exe has with VS.NET, and 3) some important BCL blobs living in System.Web.Services.Protocols. Your client proxy is auto-magically generated based on a WSDL contract that you feed in, allowing you - the consumer - to point, click, and fire SOAP messages as though they were local method invocations.

Whether this model is good or bad, well... that's still yet to be determined. I've heard a lot of arguments for the latter, and I tend to agree.

So, with Indigo you get a choice. You can take the red pill and control the messaging at a very low level (similar to the way in which WSE works today), tasking you with the orchestration of channels, ports, and messages; or, you can take the blue pill and allow Indigo to hop into the driver's seat (enabling such things as point-click-fire messaging), in which case you would deal mostly with the service model.

Both routes offer up a variety of messaging models like sync, async, pub/sub, but still live together within the same stack. It's clear that the surace area of the blue pill choice is smaller, and thus easier for the average programmer; but, that model isn't right for everyone.

Joe Duffy

# re: Indigo application concerns@ Wednesday, January 21, 2004 11:53 AM

Joe (and Morten),
Actually, I think I'm comparing apples to apples here. The sample I included is the Service Framework (SFx) sample from Yasser's article (the high-level framework), not the lower-level MFx version. It's fantastic that Indigo gives you access to the low-level stuff - I'm not debating that. My point is that the high-level stuff isn't high-level enough. At the moment, the blue pill is looking a bit on the purple side. :)

Perhaps, as Christian says, this is simply because Indigo isn't fully baked yet. But since I don't have access to anything beyond PDC bits, I'm limited to commenting on what I got. MS keeps saying "gives us your feedback" on their pre-release stuff, so I'm happy to oblige. ;)

Kevin Dente

# re: Indigo application concerns@ Wednesday, January 21, 2004 3:04 PM

I kind of lacked a point to my last post.

I buy the half-baked theory. Perhaps leaving the purple pill in the oven longer somehow strengthens the blue pigmentation... who knows. ;)

Now my point: wsdl.exe is what makes it so easy right now. I guess my [unstated] assumption is that tools will be layered on top of all of these crazy Indigo-isms once the foundation is stable enough to do so. At which point, the blue pill comes out of the oven, ready for some good ole' fashioned pill popping. X, eat your heart out.

Joe Duffy

# re: Indigo application concerns@ Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:43 PM

I hope you're right that the higher-level tools will improve as Indigo bakes. The article mentions the WSDLGEN tool, which presumably is the Indigo equivalent of WSDL.EXE. From the look of it, currently it only spits out an interface definition, which is then used in conjunction with the ServiceManager to communicate with the service. I'm hoping that the next increment of WSDLGEN (or another tool) will add an additional layer of insulation between the client and the ServiceEnvironment/ServiceManager/Channel goop.

Unfortunately, MS isn't talking yet about the final(er) programming model. I'm hoping we don't have to wait for B1 to hear more details, because by then I'm guessing things will be pretty much set in stone.

Kevin Dente

# Service Herald XI@ Thursday, January 22, 2004 11:48 PM

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# re: Indigo application concerns@ Monday, January 26, 2004 1:35 AM

It is very intereting to read your comments. here are my Comments:

(1) MS should develop a better template to abstract concept and let Developer write less code. I think code generate in Long Horn Whidbey tool is not that informative. eg. what does Service.Close() means ? In fact, I moved all code into a window Form and seperate out Close behind a button. But each every time the WinForm Close itself after client get out.

(2) I think Don Box alread made up his mind to made everything explicit. ie. no more "new HelloService()". From my field experience, using "new" is actually more confusing since we have to touch configure file for Remoting or WS Proxy file for tweeking. Wouldn't that be wonderful if we can write just code to made everything work ?

James Ding

# re: Indigo application concerns@ Monday, January 26, 2004 5:39 PM

If you take a look at the PDC SLIDES instead of the PDC BITS, you'll find traces of the much more refined M5 model. M4 (PDC bits) is frustrating for everyone ;)

Clemens Vasters

# re: The trouble with web.config@ Monday, January 26, 2004 11:43 PM

tell me how to fix web.conf under taxslayer.com

BrTrac4

# re: Personalization in RSS feeds@ Tuesday, January 27, 2004 10:39 AM

Great ideas. I'm working on a solution for personalized RSS feeds, but the main problem is server load, and a cache mechanism. I think I have it figured out, but the code isn't done.

Scott Cate, kbAlertz.com

# re: Red vs Blue@ Tuesday, January 27, 2004 6:51 PM

This is the funnest thing i've ever saw, but i cant get any of the old episodes

Daniel_anime62

# re: Encryption in .NET@ Friday, January 30, 2004 1:31 AM

how to use this string file

satyam

# re: Post-build events with VS.NET troubles@ Friday, January 30, 2004 4:41 PM

can you place the .bat file on a local folder, and have do whatever you need across the UNC's?

Derick Bailey

# re: Post-build events with VS.NET troubles@ Friday, January 30, 2004 5:45 PM

I don't think so. The IDE is calling a PostBuildEvent.bat file that it generates, and I don't see a way to control where that file gets created. The only option would be to put it in the Windows directory (where it defaults to) or build onto a local folder, neither of which is viable.

Kevin Dente

# re: Post-build events with VS.NET troubles@ Friday, January 30, 2004 6:44 PM

This problem apparently has a workaround and that is to map the UNC share to a drive and using that to load the project instead of UNC path.

Post build event will succeed in this case.

Thank you for reporting this issue, I am from C# IDE QA and I am happy to tell you that we are working to fix this in our future product release.

Thanks,
Suma[MS]

Suma

# re: Post-build events with VS.NET troubles@ Friday, January 30, 2004 7:47 PM

Suma,

Wow, customer service does house calls. :) Thanks, I also figured out that workaround. Glad to hear it'll be fixed in the future.

Kevin Dente

# MarkupCompilation: XAML, BAML, .g.cs Details@ Saturday, January 31, 2004 11:50 AM

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# MarkupCompilation: XAML, BAML, .g.cs Details@ Saturday, January 31, 2004 11:56 AM

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# re: Navigating to My Documents, keyboard style@ Monday, February 02, 2004 6:37 PM

If you want to bring up My Computer, why not just use Windows key + E....

Jason Olson

# re: Navigating to My Documents, keyboard style@ Monday, February 02, 2004 6:41 PM

That's too easy. :) Actually, I was just checking for completeness, I do use Win-E. But there's no Win-key combo that navigates you My Docs.

Kevin Dente

# re: Navigating to My Documents, keyboard style@ Monday, February 02, 2004 8:43 PM

You could also type Control Panel and viola!!

Jhai

# re: Navigating to My Documents, keyboard style@ Monday, February 02, 2004 8:53 PM

Aha! Nice one!

Kevin Dente

# re: Red vs Blue@ Thursday, February 05, 2004 2:25 PM

good

bob

# re: Double your pleasure, double your fun...@ Wednesday, February 11, 2004 12:16 AM

Just curious - what's the upload speed? If you think about all the wonderful things you can do with broadband, such as sharing your pictures or video with friends, using voice or video chat, work from home and so on - all these involve at least as much uploading as downloading. Yet everybody seems to be happy with triple the speed of a modem, 128Kbit... Dowload speed is nice if you're going to download music or videos though :)

Jerry Pisk

# re: Double your pleasure, double your fun...@ Wednesday, February 11, 2004 4:07 AM

My upload's at 256kbps and yeah I have comcast too.Lightning! Wooo!

MJ

# re: Red vs Blue@ Wednesday, February 11, 2004 4:54 PM

it was grate for what i'v seen on unscrwed it looked funny and i think it is going to be a big hit

jim patersen

# re: Double your pleasure, double your fun...@ Thursday, February 12, 2004 3:58 PM

My upload is also capped at 256kbps, which is unchanged. They only upped the download speed, unfortunately.

Kevin Dente

# re: IE Favorites with Longhorn@ Monday, February 16, 2004 5:53 PM

I've begun to use the Favorites menu as an alternative to a tree outliner, or to dumping current projects on the desktop. I actually save alot of my stuff here, files and all.

I will store any text, pdf, mhtml web archive or whatever stored in a folder, mixed up with links saved elsewhere, so I rely on the folder-plus-files stucture, and the Netscape system wouldn't allow this.

It works for me, and lets me leave anything important acessible in a drag/drop-able, easily reordered tree. I can have a million directories in My Documents or wherever for archiving big files, or achiving stuff out from the Favorites tree as it gets finished.

I have used Outlook and outliners such as Keynote extensively, to organize my work, but I hated the idea of locking up the only information I actually cared about in some proprietary DB or file, tricky to reach from any other application.

I want to have leave stuff on the filesystem, web-publishable, indexable, reusable... log files, documentation, whatever, and Favorites lets me hold it all together in some kind of stucture. It's kind of what MS were afraid you might use a browser for when they went to war with Navigator, seems to me.

The promise of Longhorn to treat this soup like a database only made me more determined to go on with this.

Steve Ryan

# re: IE Favorites with Longhorn@ Monday, February 16, 2004 5:54 PM

"... mixed up with links TO stuff saved elsewhere" - oops

/s

Steve Ryan

# re: String Concatenation Speed?@ Thursday, February 19, 2004 6:22 AM

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# re: Yukon release pushed back - what about Whidbey?@ Friday, February 20, 2004 9:17 AM

Can't find a definitive date, but 2nd half of this year seems to be the standard line. Probably means November... Would be nice if they release a beta before the summer.

Sparky

# re: Personalization in RSS feeds@ Saturday, February 21, 2004 1:01 PM

I recently turned on the personalized RSS feed feature for my personal site (Allen.com) and it's working well. It allows a visitor to check their interests on a profile form. Their RSS feed is then personalized with links just to articles that match their interests.

I write about personalization and one-to-one marketing, so when we added this feature to our content management system, I decided to publish a personalized RSS feed on my site.

While having multiple feeds -- one for each topic -- is one way to tailor RSS content, it's frustrating when a site includes an article in several of their feeds that I subscribe to. I'm sure RSS personalization will catch on when sites realize that their readers are becoming overwhelmed with content, and that multiple feeds is not the answer.

Cliff Allen

# re: WINIPCFG for XP@ Sunday, February 22, 2004 11:58 AM

paulette58@rcn.com can't get on internet.msn3204013135.mm;pcx2500

george e german

# re: Red vs Blue@ Tuesday, February 24, 2004 5:52 PM

halo is cool

sam

# re: Double your pleasure, double your fun...@ Tuesday, March 02, 2004 3:43 PM

I hope mine's been improved too. That would be great. Improving the upload speed would be great too, but I understand the difficulties, and its not like I can just switch to DSL. I'm too far away!

Matt

# Red vs Blue - it's official@ Tuesday, March 02, 2004 6:53 PM

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# re: Media Player 9 shuffling@ Wednesday, March 03, 2004 8:43 PM

I feel like if I click on songs that aren't playing, they'll quickly find their way to the top of the shuffle algorithm as well....odd, but somewhat useful at the same time.

ak

# re: Red vs Blue@ Thursday, March 04, 2004 7:32 PM

if you are still looking someone has the season one episodes on their site, but you will need divx.

http://www.uvm.edu/~pzahn/

Mike

# re: Setec Astronomy@ Friday, March 05, 2004 1:17 AM

Be Quiet

PJ

# re: Red vs Blue@ Saturday, March 06, 2004 2:13 PM

nobody messes with blue

bobby

# I HAVE A SOLUTION :-)@ Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:33 AM

You can get round the Media Player problem by selecting All Music (from your library) and then going to the NOW PLAYING tab. Then at the bottom of the screen (at the right hand side) you will find a button called select playlist options. From this choose sort and select RANDOMISE.

You are quite right SHUFFLE SUX - but RANDOMISE is great.

Hope that helps,
Gordon (from London)

Gordon

# Borgworks@ Wednesday, March 10, 2004 8:21 PM

Magic is gone but hopefuly a new star is born. One part of the Borgworks Buissnes Framework Project is a powerful set of Windows Forms Controls and Web UI controls. We are just in the planing phase.... and UI Controls is only a small but importernt part of the whole Project but we have a lot of Developers working hard on this project. I think GUI Control Libarys `ll be in first and very experimental released in the End of April this year.
The GUI Libarys of the Project `ll be released under LGPL License so and `ll never change to an unfree version.
In the first experimental Release we`ll support the Features of Magic and some others more like O2003 Look. In the Versions after 0.1 we `ll support a lot of more Features like Outlook style Timeline Shedule extendet Datagrid only to name some of the planed Features

www.borgworks.net

Christoph Sedlaczek (Co founder of Borgworks Found

# Borgworks@ Wednesday, March 10, 2004 8:23 PM

http://sourceforge.net/projects/borgworks/

Christoph Sedlaczek (Co founder of Borgworks Found

# re: Yukon release pushed back - what about Whidbey?@ Thursday, March 11, 2004 2:04 PM

Fresh news
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1153430

1hour ago =)

JFortin

# re: Red vs Blue@ Friday, March 12, 2004 11:36 AM

Rest in piece pinkey toe, you shall be avenged. Kabose is the best chr ever!!!!

Sefer

# re: Red vs Blue@ Saturday, March 13, 2004 5:23 PM

I cant get them to work!

Alex

# re: Red vs Blue@ Saturday, March 13, 2004 5:25 PM

I mean from http://www.uvm.edu/~pzahn/

Alex

# re: Red vs Blue@ Thursday, March 18, 2004 1:21 PM

You guys are all wrong with the character. the best of them all is Donut with his littish red armor..... lol.

Frank the Spleen Cow

# re: Media Player 9 shuffling@ Tuesday, March 23, 2004 4:06 PM

Thanks for the tip, Gordon... not entirely intuitive, the way it does that, but it's nice to now know it's possible.

FT

# re: Media Player 9 shuffling@ Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:53 AM

thank you Gordon!!!

russ

# re: WINIPCFG for XP@ Friday, March 26, 2004 12:28 AM

huy

hoang

# re: WINIPCFG for XP@ Friday, April 02, 2004 6:18 AM

aaaaaaaaaaaaa

Piotrek

# re: Red vs Blue@ Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:59 PM

this was funny as heck

wyatt

# re: Red vs Blue@ Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:00 PM

i loved it very much

T-I-M-Y

# re: Whidbey Tech Preview MSDN Help@ Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:39 PM

I'm experiencing the same error. No luck in finding a workaround. Sorry.

Klaus RM

# re: Whidbey Tech Preview MSDN Help@ Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:57 PM

http://weblogs.asp.net/wallym/archive/2004/04/06/108545.aspx

Wallym

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Wednesday, April 07, 2004 2:15 PM

Its official, You are an Idiot, you wouldnt know funny if Tim Conway kicked your ass with it, do the world a favor and shut the fuck up, also close down your lame ass sight, season 2 not funny? your such an ass dude

DireWolf

# re: Whidbey Tech Preview comments@ Tuesday, April 13, 2004 1:07 PM

Could someone please kill the gradient guy before it is to late?
Soon there will be gradient on the background, and code in gradient in the foreground.

Fabrice

# re: Encryption in .NET@ Tuesday, April 13, 2004 5:59 PM

Hi Kev,
I had a chance to use the .NET Encryption recently (for encrypting a password that is being persisted locally). I'll admit that I had to learn a bit more about cryptography that I might have, but my overall impression was that it was fairly simple and remarkably better than what we've been able to do in the past (remember the early VS encryption? ;))

It was a bit of a pain dealing with the character set issues, and it would have been nice if the Base 64 encoding were optionally built into the API.
Tom

Tom Clement

# re: Whidbey Tech Preview comments@ Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:25 PM

Are you sure that they changed these shortcuts, and you're just not using a different profile than you're used to? I recall having problems selecting a developer profile when starting up Whidbey, and the keyboard shortcuts were different. I wasn't too worried about it, because I figured that sort of thing cleaned up by RTM.

milbertus

# re: WINIPCFG for XP@ Wednesday, April 14, 2004 5:04 AM

give ip address password for xp

imran

# re: Whidbey Tech Preview comments@ Wednesday, April 14, 2004 2:48 PM

Hmm, interesting thought. However, I'm using the VCS profile, which I assume is for C# developers. It actually looks like they're moving to a different style of shortcuts entirely - fewer three-key-at-once combinations. For example, CTRL-W, J rather than CTRL-ALT-J for the Object Browser.

Kevin Dente

# re: String concatenation - + vs StringBuilder@ Wednesday, April 14, 2004 3:53 PM

Thanks, great post!

Sharbel

# re: Outlook 2003 Follow Up items mystery...solved.@ Thursday, April 15, 2004 6:23 PM

If I had to guess, I'd say that it didn't. The reason that I say this is because of the larger pressence of Follow Up flags in Outlook 2003 - complete with all those different colors. As I recall, Outlook 2000/XP only had the flag state, not the variety of colors.

milbertus

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Friday, April 16, 2004 6:28 AM

I am having problems with my new MR814v1 also... It appears to drop the connection periodically (802.1 disabled - XP running... only 6 meters between laptop & MR814) I have the latest drivers... & signal strength perfect :-) I'm confused - How do I tell if it is the MR814 or my ISP (a G3 service?) (new also) I have noticed that HTTPS maybe a forerunner to problems...
Any suggestions? (& yes, Netgear are NOT responsive!)

Robert

# re: Whidbey Tech Preview MSDN Help@ Friday, April 16, 2004 1:18 PM

I reposted as no one has said anything negative about the original post. So, I assume that I have not violated anything. Keep your fingers crossed..........

Wally

Wallym

# Keyboard Shortcuts@ Saturday, April 17, 2004 1:21 AM

If you are a keyboard fiend (I know that I am), you prefer to use the keyboard over the mouse whenever possible. While Windows does have a keyboard equivalent for nearly everything in its UI, there are some keyboard shortcuts...

TrackBack

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Sunday, April 18, 2004 1:25 PM

I'd have to agree with both sides of the argument. I just started watching not that long ago and season 1 is f**king awesome. Season 2 not as cool but its still pretty funny. I think there should be more killing but its not my creation. I'll keep watching RedVsBlue.

Tance

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Sunday, April 18, 2004 3:29 PM

i agree with DireWolf, ur a dumbass red vs blue is and will always be great

ray

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Monday, April 19, 2004 12:38 AM

I am kinda in between myself. The cursing did make the short clips funnier but I wouldn't go to the extend of saying that season 2 sucks completely becuase the removed certain choice words. Its still pretty hilarious to me whether the curse words are there or not.

eb

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Tuesday, April 20, 2004 1:50 PM

just shut up and die dumbass Red vs Blue will forever be awsome.....as long as they keep finding ways for caboose to say "Tucker did it!"

Pres of Caboose Fan club

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Tuesday, April 20, 2004 1:58 PM

I see the 15 year old, can't-spell-to-save-their-lives crowd is taking over the blog comment space, as they invariably take over all public forums. Wonderful.

Kevin Dente

# re: Registration Free COM Activation@ Monday, April 26, 2004 12:58 PM

can i get myphone cut on for free.

celeste thomas

# re: Mac and PC Interoperability@ Monday, April 26, 2004 8:17 PM

Your company actually let you connect to the LAN using Microsoft's PPTP implementation? Cool...

Jerry Pisk

# re: Mac and PC Interoperability@ Tuesday, April 27, 2004 1:14 PM

Take a close look at all the microsoft OS boxes, they are all Upgrades. Microsoft will only sell upgraded os' as they only sell original copies to OEM's like dell or IBM.

So if you put together a box from spare parts and try to install a MS OS you bought at the store you are in violation of the license agreement.

Mud

# re: Mac and PC Interoperability@ Tuesday, April 27, 2004 3:59 PM

Wow, Mud, could you be any more wrong?

You can buy full versions of any Windows OS still on shelves. Or upgrades. At many computer stores, such as the huge Fry's chain here in Calif., you can even buy the OEM versions they "only" sell to Dell and IBM, as long as you buy hardware justifying the purchase (think motherboards or even hard drives).

XP Pro full:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005MOTH/qid=1083095692/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-2708312-8600914

XP Pro Upgrade:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005MOTG/qid=1083095692/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/102-2708312-8600914

XP Pro Upgrade OEM:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=manufactory&catalog=368&manufactory=1149&DEPA=6

I recommend doing your homework before speaking, in the future.

Not Mud

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Tuesday, April 27, 2004 8:59 PM

Season one is essentially a series of running jokes and one-liners that reflect, by accident if not by design, the bureaucratic stupidity of the government, military, and corporate world. Everyone can relate to that. Episodes from season 1 are very funny, but that style of humor would wear very thin very fast if stretched over 30 or so episodes. As Kevin said, there is only so much you can do within the confines of the Halo universe.

Season two, I believe, is an attempt on the part of the creators to weave the irreverent satire and the bizarre interpersonal aspects of season one with a more engaging plotline that works within the confines of Halo.

I agree that in season two RvsB has lost some of its hilarity (due in some part to the dulling of the edgy dialog). The plotline certainly brings me back to find out what happens next, but in recent episodes exposition takes priority over humor. This is a product, I believe, of the short episode length.

Anyway, I think that the creators will find a way to strike a balance between a meaningful plot and "teh funny."

p.s.: 1 4m l33t h4x0r! 411 u b33()7ch3z r 0w|\|3d! LEARN TO SPELL!

Orwellpet

# re: Mac and PC Interoperability@ Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:20 AM

...Mac ease of use is not at all overblown in general, but some parts definitively need ironing out. I don't VPN (though I could, being a part-time OS-X "mobile helpdesk") so I couldn't judge on that particular point.

As for upgrading from Mac OS X 10.2 to 10.3, OS X "Panther" is $129.- for a full retail version (with no authentication number of process whatsoever) shipping with features that XP Home users can only dream about (eg. iPfw, Postix, Apache, full Java implementation, Perl, Python, a cool Bash terminal and a barrel of other free BSD open-source goodies); Apple's XCode development tools install disc (that ships with each copy of Panther) is a great geek-perk that's worth mentioning as well.

Methinks 129 smackeroos for a full version is pretty in the same ballpark as Windows upgrades (which ship with the pain of Stalin-era authentification), so there!

flyermoney

# re: Mac and PC Interoperability@ Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:23 AM

erratum: "...no authentication number of process whatsoever..." should read: "...no authentication number OR process whatsoever..."

My bad...

flyermoney

# re: Mac and PC Interoperability@ Wednesday, April 28, 2004 10:27 AM

There's no doubt that OS X is a slick and easy to use OS. But sometimes it's held us as a paragon of usability, and I don't think it always lives up to that. It has its quirks, just as all OSs do. I'll cede the activation point, but that's one of those "victims of their own success" things.

As for the features, I don't think too many XP Home users are dreaming about Apache, Perl, Python, or much of the other stuff that you mentioned. Those are for developers and power users, and can be easily obtained on the PC for those who need them.

And I still think Apple is dopey for refusing to ship a two button mouse (and the one button mouse that they ship is ergonomically terrible). Even my Mac addict fiance agrees with me on that one. She long since switched to a third party two-button mouse.

Kevin Dente

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:52 AM

If you only laugh when people are uncontrollably cursing, then you might want to revamp your sense of humor. They've had some great one liners this season without the cursing. Get over it

rvb fan

# re: WINIPCFG for XP@ Friday, April 30, 2004 10:45 AM

Why am I not able to get the router to communicate to the second computer?

ttiellen@bresnan.net

# re: WINIPCFG for XP@ Friday, April 30, 2004 10:47 AM

Why am I not able to get the router to communicate to the second computer? (Second try: address on first one wasn't correct.)

dottiellen@bresnan.net

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Saturday, May 01, 2004 3:07 PM

Red vs Blue season 2 is moving out of the crude humor and into the intellectual humor. Its reflects youre intellegence.

no

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Sunday, May 02, 2004 7:14 PM

I agree with no and a lot of others here. Season 1 was just completely hilarious because it was someone really stupid. Now, they spread out the humor and add a more vivid storyline. I think Season 2 is really cool, and is still hilarious. Keeps me wondering what will happen next and incorporates comedy into the mix.

Good stuff RvB, keep it up...

BTW: I don't like Halo too much... America's Army all the way! http://www.americasarmy.com ;)

Hoot

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Monday, May 03, 2004 10:13 AM

RED VS BLUE IS GREAT I LIKE FIRST ONE I SAW ONE TECH TV.

IM 10

Spooky

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Tuesday, May 04, 2004 3:37 PM

I hate to agree withthe kiss-ass, but your right. There could be many reasons why RVB isn't so funny this season.

1) RVB is trying to conserve jokes
2)You are a god damned idiot
3) They ran OUT of jokes.

This could go on forever, but I should just say that RVB rocks. Stay tuned for a sidewinder series called blackvswhite. Click my url and take a sneek peek

BVW King

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Tuesday, May 04, 2004 11:26 PM

So you think Red Vs Blue has lost its touch. Well allow me to justify the context of which I say it does not. It was a a tedious day at work when I heard the conversation of Tucker and Caboose from the other side of the room. Within a minute the entire class of fresh young Army Lieutenants became addicted to the charming, foul mouth satire of a cartoon which seemed to represent everything inwhich we had undertaken. Before long our soldiers were "Team killing Fucktards" and and we called formations with such memorable one liners "this ain't no ice cream social". Ahh the memories. The show mirror our growing discomfort of the organizational madness. Alas now that I live in a bad episode of MASH, my onle comfort is watching the plot unfold without the R rating and classical humor at which it once evoked. But I'm not worried I feel that as the show continues we will all see the evolution of a larger character base and language advisory code. And we're not even Halo Fans and we love Red VS Blue.

Iknowshit

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Wednesday, May 05, 2004 10:22 AM

i found rvb 4days ago and i downloaded every episode of both seasons + the extra stuff

i watched all this one after another and i didnt noticed a difference between season 1 and season 2... i laughed almost the whole time...

sry if my english is not so good, i'm just learning this language..

mr.szing

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Wednesday, May 05, 2004 12:51 PM

Where can i download all of the Season 1/ Season 2 episodes? The site only puts up a few at a time, and id like to start from the beggining instead of starting at episode 13.

Joe

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Wednesday, May 05, 2004 6:13 PM

Well, Season 2 isn't so much of a cussing and low-end joke series. It's an attempt (and pretty good job, for an on-the-side project)at a higher level of humor. I'm just going to stick around for season 3. Maybe it'll be a nice blend of the two.

To answer the guy above me, there are mirrors posted elsewhere on the internet, but I read in the FAQ that they don't want people doing that.

vitr0x

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Thursday, May 06, 2004 8:34 AM

RED VS. BLUE IS AWSOME. YOU ARE SUCH AN IDIOT TO THINK ITS NOT FOOL. BURN!

Church

# re: .NET Framework 1.2?@ Thursday, May 06, 2004 2:33 PM

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# re: .NET Framework 1.2?@ Thursday, May 06, 2004 2:33 PM

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# re: .NET Framework 1.2?@ Thursday, May 06, 2004 2:34 PM

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# re: .NET Framework 1.2?@ Thursday, May 06, 2004 2:34 PM

what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?what?

what?

# New location for the PINVOKE.NET add-in!@ Thursday, May 06, 2004 6:08 PM

Due to an initial uploading snafu, the add-in has moved to here: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=75122f62-5459-4364-b9ba-7b5e6a4754fe

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Adam Nathan

# @ Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:02 PM

TrackBack

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Friday, May 07, 2004 6:39 PM

RED VS. BLUE IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS TO HAPPEN TO THE INTERNET!!!!

ANYONE WHO THINKS OTHERWISE CAN BURN!!!!!!

Tucker

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Friday, May 07, 2004 6:42 PM

.....and i seccond that!!!!!

----------------------------------
What the hell are you guys doing?!?!?!!
^proves my point

Lenard Church

# re: Reflector 4.0 coolness@ Saturday, May 08, 2004 8:54 PM

Yes, this is freaking cool!!

F

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Sunday, May 09, 2004 10:18 PM

I dont have a comment so ha!!!

WARGOD

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Sunday, May 09, 2004 10:29 PM

this has nothing to do with any thing but I SHUD BE IN HALO RED VS BLUE BECUES MY NAMES WARGOD and i coud do this *_* ha!!!!!! <o><o>

WARGOD

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Monday, May 10, 2004 3:16 AM

After many episodes of Season 1+2, I would have to say season two is possibly funnier although I think the story is becoming progressively worse...who cares its just for laughs...well at least for me.

SHIBBY

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Monday, May 10, 2004 3:16 AM

After many episodes of Season 1+2, I would have to say season two is possibly funnier although I think the story is becoming progressively worse...who cares its just for laughs...well at least for me.

SHIBBY

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Monday, May 10, 2004 8:39 PM

Yeah well I have to post again saying that todays episode was hilarious and if you dont think it was you can suck Caboos's image of Tuckers cock fucktard

Church

# re: Personalization in RSS feeds@ Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:55 AM

Findory News (http://findory.com) has personalized RSS feeds of headline news. You don't select categories of interest; the site learns your interests from the news you read. As you read more and more news, the site (and your personalized RSS feed for the site) change and adapt to your interests.

More information at http://www.findory.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi?rss=1

Greg Linden

# re: WINIPCFG for XP@ Tuesday, May 11, 2004 4:52 PM

K

OMID

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Tuesday, May 11, 2004 5:03 PM

Hey, season 2 is coming around!!! the episodes 30-33 are funny... so uh, maybe just because the first part of season 2 slacked off, doesnt mean it cant be saved, bring in more characters, and stick with the vulgarity!!!

Grif

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Monday, May 17, 2004 10:55 AM

"Hurry up and get the tank fixed! So I can say hi to sheila!... And Start Killing Everyone!"

"You mean all the reds right?

"Of course... For starters.."

Private O'Malley

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Monday, May 17, 2004 11:13 PM

go to hell, man. The cursing actualy added SOMETHING, but if you need cursing to make something funny, your stupid. The humor takes more intelligencem which you *coughdonthavecough*

excuse me, nasty cough.

GTH

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:00 AM

*burp*

Burp

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Tuesday, May 18, 2004 2:42 PM

I think that some of your comments are validated. Season 2 started out a little slow, but I think that it's really improved, and that it kicks ass again. And have you been watching it lately? If you want cussing, there's always Caboose's image of Church.

oh_wise_one

# re: Whidbey indentation changes@ Tuesday, May 18, 2004 4:50 PM

I actually prefer spaces over tabs because it allows code to format "consistently" in editors other than Visual Studio.NET. For example, complex HTML created in VS.NET and using tabs don't always fare well when viewed in another editor (say Notepad). Tabs sometimes don't translate consistenly over multiple editors.

I actually welcome the switch because whenever I do a fresh install of VS.NET, that's one of the first settings I change.

Lamont

# re: Whidbey indentation changes@ Tuesday, May 18, 2004 5:01 PM

I figured I'd hear from a "space-r" pretty quickly. :)

I'm not sure what you mean by "translate consistently". I realize that the amount of "space" a tab takes up can vary from editor to editor (Notepad is particularly bad with that), but the spacing is still consistent, so the formatting should still be consistent (different, but consistent).

I prefer tabs to spaces primarily because I find it faster to navigate and indent/unindent code using tabs rather than spaces (in any editor, not just VS).

But that really wasn't the point - it's the change of defaults that worries me. The inevitable mixed tab/space code that will result will be seriously ugly to deal with. At the very least I would like it if VS.NET made this readily apparent - maybe by asking me the first time I run it which option should be the default. Then if people pick space, so be it, but at least they won't blunder into it.

Kevin Dente

# re: Whidbey indentation changes@ Tuesday, May 18, 2004 7:02 PM

Should also have the option to convert spaces to tabs (eg: 4 spaces = 1 tab char), and vice versa in the current document/project.

I would find that convenient as well. It'll also help you clear out all of the mixed tab/space code.

William Luu

# re: Whidbey indentation changes@ Tuesday, May 18, 2004 9:04 PM

As I write this, my display name in MSN Messenger is :"Indent with spaces and die!"

I prefer tabs. Even though I don't really think space-based indenting is inherently evil, most of the people I have encountered who do it, do it poorly.

None of the programmers I work with use spaces and I think a lot of people will be annoyed about this change of default.
Which customers did were you listening to for this one? :P

AndrewSeven

# re: Whidbey indentation changes@ Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:36 PM

While I prefer spaces, I do agree that making a change to the default at this point is a bad idea. If it was a tab character in the last version, then it should be in the next.

That being said .. anyone that uses tabs should be shot on site!

Roy J. Salisbury @ VsDevCentral

# re: Whidbey indentation changes@ Wednesday, May 19, 2004 12:21 AM

If tab is consistent on ALL editors, it would be great and then again it is not. I will this this change.

anonieko ramos

# re: Whidbey indentation changes@ Wednesday, May 19, 2004 6:32 AM

If you write a tab character to a source file, you are losing information (ie how much whitespace the tab represents).

How the editor presents the indentation to the user doesn't really matter - it can show sequences of spaces as tabs according to taste.

So I'd prefer that VS *always* converts tabs to spaces before saving.

Vaci

# re: Whidbey indentation changes@ Thursday, May 20, 2004 2:49 AM

I've become a fan of tabs for one simple reason: I can change the number of spaces they represnt in most good editors.

I'm a big fan of four-space tabs, but that is not the same for everyone. I've been working with some code that used three spaces and I feel compelled to change them all to four (or just to a tab).

In addition, when working in mixed projects (e.g. XML or HTML), the indentation can get pretty deep... it's handy to switch to two-space tabs while editing these.

I agree with the feedback on Notepad. That's why I don't use it. Try out Notepad2 or TextPad as an alternative. These allow you to make the change.

Rich C

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Thursday, May 20, 2004 1:46 PM

Does anyone know what the Microsoft connection to rvb is?

CluelessGirl

# re: The trouble with web.config@ Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:13 PM

I have a small issue with web config.....Everytime I go to a specific location, I get this

http://www.page.com/directory/(oiuoi23oiuoiu23)/index.html

my question is...how do I set up web config so it doesn't show that session ID number
(oiuoi23oiuoiu23) ??

CheX MiX

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Friday, May 21, 2004 1:05 PM

red vs blue will always kick ass. you just probably have the intelligence of a stump and can't understand the jokes. the swearing just told you where to laugh.

Mark

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Friday, May 21, 2004 9:59 PM

Same here. It just disconnects me from the internet, and I have to un-plug and plug-in the power cable, only for a few more minutes of connection time. Its horrible, and incredible annoying. But it's not just wireless, even wired connections get dropped.

I have no way of getting internet to stay steady in this room because I have no phone line, so I can't leave downloads rinning all night.

Unfortunately, this has convinced me to never purchase a Netgear router/wap ever again...

RPG Donkey

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Saturday, May 22, 2004 8:49 AM

Your an ass you fucker. RVB is the best thing on the net (PSA #5) as you can see in the chart. Season Two doesn't suck, you mom does. Go back to hicktown and buy some glasses you moron.

Protus

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Saturday, May 22, 2004 10:36 AM

Ok, I have found a solution. Turn on Wireless Encryption. The problem is caused by 2.4gHz cordless phones, but if you have encryption on, the phone can't interphere.

RPG Donkey

# re: VS 2005 May CTP on MSDN Subscriber downloads@ Monday, May 24, 2004 10:20 PM

To bad every time I try to download it I get an error telling me it can't find the file on the server... Good way to shoot my hopes down the toilet. I’ll get it one day I guess...

Justin Long

# re: VS 2005 May CTP on MSDN Subscriber downloads@ Monday, May 24, 2004 10:53 PM

Yeah, I had that problem too, the first couple of times I tried it. Eventually, it worked for me though (although it's still downloading, so I guess I shouldn't be counting my chickens quite yet).

Kevin Dente

# Visual Studio 2005 CTP@ Tuesday, May 25, 2004 1:58 AM

For all of you MSDN Subscribers, a new version of Visual Studio 2005 has been made available (the same version that TechEd attendees can pick up). Get it while it's hot. :) Via Kevin Dente....

TrackBack

# Correction@ Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:10 PM

They didn't cut out the swearing "in an effort to reach a wider audience". They cut the swearing because it gets old if the only source of humor is profanity. Swearing is funny in moderate dosis; but using it as a crutch get's pretty lame.

Gdog4evr

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:28 PM

I like the second season of red vs. blue. Personly I think swearing is a sine of stupidity. I think kaboos is even funnyer in the second season same with all of the rest of the charicters. I think it should stay the same way.

Mr.mister

# I agree with mr. mr.@ Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:44 PM

i agree with mr.mr.

Monkey man

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Thursday, May 27, 2004 5:23 AM

i like both seasons but i do think they should bring back some of the cursing episode 1 and episode 20 are the best if u have not wacthed them do so now

kyle

# re: Whidbey May CTP first experiences@ Thursday, May 27, 2004 5:35 PM

Kevin,

I tried to repro the problem around help and I was unsuccessful. Here is what I did.

- Created a clean Virtual Machine with WinXP on it.
- Installed VS and documentation.
- Disconnected the VM from the network.
- Started VS and selected the VC# profile.
- Launched search and it came up (without showing MSDN Online or CodeWise provider and that was expected as we are not connected to the network).
- Opened a topic from Index and TOC and they both loaded properly.

Hence I suspect it might be some bad state on the machine (may be a previous install of VS, the last CTP?).

Can you try to bring the machine to a "clean" state by either creating a new account on the machine or doing the following and see if you are still not able to load help.

- rename HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStuio\8.0 registry hive.
- rename HKCU\Software\Microsft\MSDN\8.0 registry hive.
- rename %APPDATA%\Microosft\VisualStudio\8.0 directory.
- rename %APPDATA%\Microsoft\MSDN\8.0 directory.

This should result in a fairly clean state (not fully as we haven't touched any machine specific stuff).

Saurabh Jain

# re: Whidbey May CTP first experiences@ Thursday, May 27, 2004 6:08 PM

Hi, I work on the team that owns Help and was wondering if there is anything else you could tell us.
1. Do other help features work (F1, Index,How do I, etc)?
2. Was this a clean install (Not uninstalling other builds first, new machine/image, etc)
If you have any other information could you send me mail to jledgard@online.microsoft.com (remove the "online.")
Thanks,
josh

jledgard

# re: Whidbey May CTP first experiences@ Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:00 PM

In fairness disclosure, I used an internal share to install the preview and didn't use the image that people downloaded from MSDN to install VS. I am glad that we now have a workaround. We will investigate why did this issue happen and how we prevent it from happening in next community release.

In the meantime, lets have some feedback on Help.

--
Cheers,
Saurabh

Saurabh Jain

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Friday, May 28, 2004 5:56 PM

HEY I WANT TO KNOW WHERE I CAN GET THE FIRST 6 EPISODES QUICKLY NOT AT GAY FILEPLANET! PLEASE HELP ME OUT!

DAMN I'M GOOD!

MANDUDE

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Saturday, May 29, 2004 8:28 AM

I think you are the most stupid person to ever converse on the stability and comedy of R vs B season one was a random assembly of stupid shit and it wasnt until season two that the creators figured out a FUNNY AND INTERESTING plot ( conserning the evil A.I in Tex then O'mally and now DOC )

ZAC

# re: Red vs Blue@ Saturday, May 29, 2004 10:30 PM

U r all a bunch of little fucking geeks who live in the moms basements. U know what, get a fucking life! Quit bitching about shows on the internet. That show has gone down hill but still fucking keep it to ur self u cum guzlers. If ever met any 1 of u i would laugh in ur face amd then kick ur ass. Who ever made this web site OVIEOSLY has no life and should go get a fucking girl friend. That is all. (P.S. Church rulez)

Anarchy Wizzard

# re: Whidbey Help System comments@ Tuesday, June 01, 2004 12:32 AM

Kevin,

Regarding grouping (or more exactly sorting) by location (among other things) is something we have been considering. It won't make its way in beta 1 but likelihood of it making after that is high (but no promises;-)).

Smooth transitioning from index to search is also being considered (though at a lower priority compared to sorting). We are open to ideas.

Saurabh Jain

# re: Whidbey Help System comments@ Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:47 AM

I'm with you on this one - I prefer the old system. I really liked the concise-ness (is that even a word?) of it. I'm probably a grump too, so you're in good company.

Dave Sussman

# re: String concatenation - + vs StringBuilder@ Tuesday, June 01, 2004 6:12 AM

this is a great site to take help in string concatenation..

hardeep

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Tuesday, June 01, 2004 9:58 AM

CluelessGirl, to your question im not really sure what you mean, But I believe what you asking is why they use the microsoft name. Its because they are using Halo to do the movies and they have to have microsoft's permission from which they have gotten hence the reason they use the microsoft(R symbol-thingy) at the end of each short film.
And to Kevin Dente, RvB did have more swearing in the first season, but that never made the series funny. The wit makes it funny. The first 4 episdoes of season one had little if at all swearing in them and they were completely hilarious.

Major Shrinkage

# re: Whidbey Help System comments@ Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:37 AM

I want the grouping!!!! :)

Dennis v/d Stelt

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, June 01, 2004 11:19 AM

I will have to try the WEP configuration. I just installed a 2.4GHz phone with built in Tele-Zapper this weekend and last night, I could not access the internet on my 2 PC's. I even tried using the laptop and I was only a foot away from the router and the signal strength was only 29%.

Brian

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:06 PM

you are joking ...right it's as funny as ever!

Pickle

# where u can find rvb@ Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:50 PM

mandude go to www.wodinn.com they have all the episodes

Mr.mister

# wodinn@ Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:53 PM

how long dose it take the to make episodes

Mr.mister

# www.wodinn.com @ Tuesday, June 01, 2004 5:00 PM

at www.wodinn.com you can download all the episodes from both seasons 1 and 2

Mr.mister

# re: Navigating to My Documents, keyboard style@ Wednesday, June 02, 2004 9:28 AM

is interesant

Staicu Andreea

# dumb@ Wednesday, June 02, 2004 5:01 PM

private o'mally thats just stupid

Mr.mister

# dumb@ Wednesday, June 02, 2004 5:01 PM

private o'mally thats just stupid

Mr.mister

# dumb@ Wednesday, June 02, 2004 5:02 PM

private o'mally thats just stupid

Mr.mister

# Saving searches in VS CTP release@ Thursday, June 03, 2004 7:24 AM

TrackBack

# re: Whidbey Object Test Bench@ Thursday, June 03, 2004 11:13 AM

It does work, although sporadically...

You need to create a class diagram to use it. Create a class diagram, add a class to it, then compile. Now, open up the Object test bench window "View | some menu I don't remember | object test bench". Now, in your class diagram, choose "create instance" (or some such. Whatever you name your instance in the next dialog will show up as a box in the object test bench. You can call methods, check properties, and so on.

I think it will be great for things like code reviews, debugging, etc.. but it's no substitute for unit tests which should cover everything you could do here.

Philip Rieck

# re: More Whidbey Help comments@ Friday, June 04, 2004 1:45 AM

Kevin,

The VS 2005 Help system absolutely supports saved Help searches. In fact, they can be exported as saved user settings and moved to other machines or sent to other users too.

What version of Visual Studio 2005 are you running? If it is the latest Community Tech Preview we gave out at TechEd last week (May CTP), there is a toolbar button that will save your search.

What would your preference be for an easier way to save searches? I'm the PM on this feature area and would definitely like to hear your thoughts on what we should do here...

Scott Swanson
Visual Studio Help/Community Team

Scott Swanson

# re: More Whidbey Help comments@ Friday, June 04, 2004 2:01 AM

Scott,
Thanks for the response. Saurabh's response blog posting (see the first comment to this post) nails the issue - the method to save a search isn't very discoverable. His idea of putting a "Save Search" button on the search panel sounds like just the right solution.

Kevin Dente

# re: HttpHandlers in ASP.NET@ Friday, June 04, 2004 1:33 PM

Do you happen to have an example of what you mean by "just reference the code-behind class in the Class attribute of the WebHandler directive." ? I'm doing it, and I get a parser error, "Parser Error Message: Could not create type 'Res'".

My directive is:
<%@ WebHandler Language="C#" Class="Res" %>

If I change that to "Res.cs", the name of the code-behind file, I get the same error.

Tom

# re: HttpHandlers in ASP.NET@ Friday, June 04, 2004 4:12 PM

You need to put the full name of the class, including the namespace. For example

Class="MyNamespace.MyClassName"

Kevin Dente

# re: Whidbey Object Test Bench@ Monday, June 07, 2004 2:44 AM

Actually, you don't need to create a class diagram. You can go to the Class View and right click on a class and select 'Create Instance' to create an instance of the class. The Object Test Bench wasn't fully functional in the May CTP, but the Beta 1 bits will have a fully working version.

Umesh Unnikrishnan [MSFT]

# re: Whidbey Object Test Bench@ Monday, June 07, 2004 2:53 PM

Umesh,
From your comment, I'm uncertain - should "Create Instance" be available on the class view for the May CTP? I don't see such on option on my installation.

Kevin Dente

# re: Whidbey Object Test Bench@ Tuesday, June 08, 2004 2:28 AM

I'll have to check, but I'm pretty sure it should be there. If your class has a public constructor, then if you right click on that class in Class View, there should be a 'Create Instance' menu item.

Umesh Unnikrishnan [MSFT]

# re: Whidbey Object Test Bench@ Tuesday, June 08, 2004 10:22 AM

btw, this works only in C# and J#

Umesh Unnikrishnan [MSFT]

# re: Whidbey Object Test Bench@ Tuesday, June 08, 2004 2:05 PM

Nope, no luck. I created a trivial C# class with a public constructor, right click on it in class view, but no "Create Instance" option. Perhaps I need to wait until beta 1. Thanks anyway.

Kevin Dente

# re: HttpHandlers in ASP.NET@ Tuesday, June 08, 2004 3:08 PM

I am trying to get the code behind stuff working but am getting the same error Tom got. I am referencing the full name of the class. I figure I'm doing something stupid. My ashx file has 1 line in it which is:
<%@ WebHandler Language="C#" Class="ASHTest.MyTestBoxASH" %>

and I get
Could not create type 'ASHTest.MyTestBoxASH'.

Any Ideas?

Ben Spigle

# re: DataTips in VS 2005@ Tuesday, June 08, 2004 5:06 PM

Thanks Kevin!

Jim Griesmer

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Wednesday, June 09, 2004 11:19 AM

Thanks for this, it solved a problem I have been trying to fix for a while.

Duncan Godwin

# re: Whidbey May CTP first experiences@ Wednesday, June 09, 2004 5:26 PM

I had the same "downloading" forever experience when tring to get Whidbey help. I took the suggestion above (renaming the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSDN\8.0 key). I put an "x" after the 8.0. I don't know what the bad side effects will be, but it did get my help functions to work. Cool.

Thanks,
Tom

Tom

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, June 10, 2004 4:49 AM

Hmm. I'm having similar problems here with a WGR614 at a friend's house. WEP is enabled here however. Will try the 802.1x authentication setting and see what happens. Also check for 2.4GHz cordless phones. Interestingly no such problems observed at my house and another that have D-Link gear. Coincidence?

Trevor

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Friday, June 11, 2004 9:54 AM

I just bought a Netgear WGR614 the other day and have been having similar problems. I'll try disabling the 802.1x authentication and see what happens.

Karen

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Friday, June 11, 2004 3:09 PM

yes things have definetly slowed down!!! innovation is the seed of success the fruit. and season one had it, i think the group can pull it off and come with something new that will give those hoping for improvment the much need enjoyment.

U dont need to no

# re: Whidbey Object Test Bench@ Friday, June 11, 2004 7:20 PM

My question is how the Object Test Bench differs functionally from design-time expression evaluation now available in the Immediate window? At first glance, I expect OTB gives you a lot more features.

Peter Bernhardt

# not that bad@ Friday, June 11, 2004 11:37 PM

i like episodes 33 and 34. Doc-"It's like a purple...thing" command guy-"use your words dude..."

dr, pumpy

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Saturday, June 12, 2004 2:40 AM

I had problems with dropped connections a couple of months ago and fixed it by upgrading the firmware on the router -

http://kbserver.netgear.com/products_automatic/MR814v2.asp

Download it and then load the upgrade to the router through the 192.whatever webpage. It fixes compatibility problems with the centrino chip set.

Haven't had any problems since I've done this.

Mary

# re: Red vs Blue@ Sunday, June 13, 2004 1:57 PM

Yo Wizzard
Shut the fuck up you god dam pissy hole you can't even mother fucking spell properly so go suck ur moms saggy tits and go watch ur spiderman videos again you tosspot
(P.S caboose is the shizna)

Wizzard Hunter

# re: Whidbey Object Test Bench@ Monday, June 14, 2004 12:10 AM

Hmm, work's great here. I just type in an expression (MyClass m = new MyClass();) and away it goes.

I'm using a newer build than the May CTP, so maybe it's been fixed.

Michael Giagnocavo

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Monday, June 14, 2004 6:56 PM

Haha i totally agree with what Kevin Dente said. If a forum is going to be used for conversational and debating purposes, at least know how to spell what you are saying.

scrumtious

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Monday, June 14, 2004 7:00 PM

Mr. Mister, you especially need to further your education and learn how to use vocabulary in an atleast post-neolithic age manner.

scrumtious

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Monday, June 14, 2004 7:02 PM

For further reference, I know that "scrumtious" is the wrong spelling of "scrumptious", it's just to stress my point.

scrumtious

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Monday, June 14, 2004 7:07 PM

hey one of my comments were erased

Mr.mister

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Monday, June 14, 2004 7:08 PM

yahoo the 36th episode is out

Mr.mister

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Monday, June 14, 2004 7:12 PM

the people who quote red vs. blue you can stop and dose anyone actualy like the game

Mr.mister

# re: Red vs Blue@ Tuesday, June 15, 2004 12:12 AM

wizzard, for a fucking 9 year old you sure know nothing to life bitch, you say you would kick are asses, but you get your ass kicked by your dad every fucking day. What do you know about life anyway you little shit fuck, you cant even fucking spell, why dont you find a girlfriend that can teach you how to.

P.S. i thought you said that show fucking sucked, but here you are telling us that one of the characters is cool, wow, what a fucktard you are.

Modemboy

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Tuesday, June 15, 2004 5:35 AM

Red vs Blue - it's official that the guy who posted the original message is abviosly a very dull person but beside that Red Vs Blue and Halo are to of the best things ive ever played or seen. See im not resorting to cursing cause 1. it doesnt suit me
2. beeping out the cursing can be funny, and besides i believe all of us get the point of what they are saying anyways you wanna here the cursing substitue the beep for the word in your head.
3. im still laughing at Red Vs Blue to this day and hope they do keep up the great work.

Sno

I also cant wait for Halo 2, Season 2's conclusion, and Season 3.

Sno

# re: Red vs Blue@ Tuesday, June 15, 2004 11:08 AM

And then there are the people that don't get certain types of humor...

blast

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Tuesday, June 15, 2004 3:29 PM

whats wrong with you?

comrade

# re: Red vs Blue@ Tuesday, June 15, 2004 3:42 PM

How can a guy with a name like "Anarchy Wizzard" call anyone a geek? I don't get it, I just don't get it.

comrade

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Tuesday, June 15, 2004 4:43 PM

Oh thank you, thank you, thank you.

I've been looking for this fix for literally years. I kept reading that it was hard-coded into the OS, but this fixes everything. Now I don't scream at Windows when it reports I'm out of memory when I have a GB of memory free.

Thank you again.

Bionic-Badger

# re: The trouble with web.config@ Tuesday, June 15, 2004 5:12 PM

You just have to turn off cookieless sessions in the web.config. Beware that this may cause you other problems that you don't want to encounter either. You only need to have cookieless sessions enabled if you don't want to require your users to have cookies enabled on their browsers.

KMPDEV

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:09 PM

The guy who posted the original message really has some problems. Personaly the less swearing the better. I cant let anyone watch me when I watch season 1.

Montag

# re: Red vs Blue@ Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:45 PM

wow, that guy is an idiot. rvb rocks, and he does need a girlfriend...with a dictionary. someone besides his mom or dad needs to suck him off. and no wizzard...not your siblings. and certainly not your dog you sick fucker

BobCat

# re: Red vs Blue@ Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:28 PM

ya this show is awesome and you sir anarchy wizzard are an asshat

wage

# re: The trouble with web.config@ Thursday, June 17, 2004 5:12 AM

What about performance issues?

I've written my own procedure to deal with constants in my web application. An xml file are loaded in a static / shared class, and the values can be accessed by specifying XPath. Since it is in a static / shared class, it will be loaded initially only (resided once only in memory over all class instances), except if the file's modified date changes, it will be reloaded - obviously without having to restarting the application.

Here is the code in VB.NET:

------------------------

Public Class INIHandler

Private Const strINIFile As String = "c:\Wherever\INI.XML"
Private Shared objFile As File
Private Shared INIFileLastModifiedDateTime As Date
Private Shared oXMLTextReaderINI As New XmlTextReader(strINIFile)

Public Shared oXmlDocumentINI As New XmlDocument()

Shared Sub New()
oXmlDocumentINI.Load(oXMLTextReaderINI)
oXMLTextReaderINI.Close()
INIFileLastModifiedDateTime = objFile.GetLastWriteTime(strINIFile)
End Sub

Public Shared Function GetFromINI(ByVal SubXPath As String) As String
If objFile.GetLastWriteTime(strINIFile) <> INIFileLastModifiedDateTime Then 'Refresh the INI XML File contents
oXMLTextReaderINI = New XmlTextReader(strINIFile)
oXmlDocumentINI.Load(oXMLTextReaderINI)
oXMLTextReaderINI.Close()
INIFileLastModifiedDateTime = objFile.GetCreationTime(strINIFile)
End If
Return XMLHandler.GetValue(oXmlDocumentINI, XPath) 'Returns the value from the xpath reference
End Function

End Class

------------------------

Then I will use the web.config purely for configuration settings only.

This works very confeniently, the question(s):
What are the differences in performances / confenience or ease of use between this procedure, and the web.config? ...if say, for instance I rather use the web.config to add all these constants or not?

Ferdie@Cipro

# re: The trouble with web.config@ Thursday, June 17, 2004 5:24 AM

Sorry, the code for line in the function decleration of function GetFromINI reads:

Public Shared Function GetFromINI(ByVal XPath As String) As String

and not

Public Shared Function GetFromINI(ByVal SubXPath As String) As String

Ferdie@Cipro

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, June 17, 2004 10:34 PM

The firmware update and the 802.1x disabling didn't help. I need more suggestions.

Karen

# re: WINIPCFG for XP@ Saturday, June 19, 2004 7:47 AM

araz-sa@noavar

araz.m

# re: HttpHandlers in ASP.NET@ Sunday, June 20, 2004 5:10 AM

It's too bad Kevin didn't include an example to show us how he managed to use a CodeBehind file for ASHX files, because I'm as confused as the rest of you in that respect.

Erik

# re: HttpHandlers in ASP.NET@ Sunday, June 20, 2004 5:18 AM

Ok, well, I've tried placing the 'codebehind' file in the bin folder, in the application root folder, etc., but simply referencing the name of the class in the ASHX file just isn't working. Tried fully qualifying the class name like you recommend and everything -- just isn't working. Perhaps some more specific information would be helpful.

Erik

# re: HttpHandlers in ASP.NET@ Sunday, June 20, 2004 5:31 AM

Ah hah!

I think you're getting CodeBehind confused with dynamically loaded assemblies. :P At least, as far as I can tell.

I removed the httphandler code from the ASHX file and stuck it in a compiled assembly, then copied the assembly DLL over to the web application's BIN folder, and ran it -- and yes, that worked. :)

The reason it worked is because when .NET compiled the ASHX file, it saw the reference to the class in the class= tag, and noticed that the class didn't exist in the ASHX file itself. So it looked in the web application's dynamically loaded assemblies for the class definition. When it didn't find it there, it scanned the assemblies in the BIN folder, and when it *did* find it there, it dynamically loaded my assembly into the web application's appdomain and used the implementation found there.

*whew*

This is great news for those of us who don't want the source code to our http handlers available to everyone we sell our products to, but at the same time don't want to mess with configuring IIS for all of our customers. :P

Thanks for the pointers, though, Kevin. I knew this had to be possible somehow.

Erik

# RVSB @ Sunday, June 20, 2004 6:42 AM

This shit rocks! CRUNK FO SHIZZLE!
oh, if any1 has all da episodes could u E-mail them 2 me. Shit. i cummed on my jacket. My bitch cant suck 4 shit! huuh oh well.

the fucked1

# re: HttpHandlers in ASP.NET@ Sunday, June 20, 2004 11:52 AM

Ah, now I see where the confusion lay. I meant CodeBehind in the sense of "separating the code from the content file (ASHX)". I guess you meant it as "dynamic compilation of source code". As you discovered, the code needs to exist in a compiled assembly somewhere in the web project. In my case, that was in a server control. If you use the standard code-separation mode of VS.NET, then the web project always has its own assembly, and the class can just goe there.

Kevin Dente

# re: Running Assembly Reflector Add-in@ Sunday, June 20, 2004 6:56 PM

Nice. I love it :-)

Andrea

# re: Running Assembly Reflector Add-in@ Sunday, June 20, 2004 7:01 PM

1) Can you set the font to Tahoma and the labels to use FlatStyle.System?

2) What about using a normal TreeView instead of TreeListView? I don't like to copy around the extra files.

Andrea

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Monday, June 21, 2004 2:18 AM

ur a f***ing p***y

ray

# re: HttpHandlers in ASP.NET@ Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:47 PM

Yeah. =)

Actually as it turns out, we're both right... =P Read someone else's comments on the subject, and you can apparently have a true ASPX style codebehind just by supplying the 'codebehind' attribute along with the 'class' attribute in the ASHX file.

I haven't tested this yet, but if it works like that, then cool. =P

I'll still be compiling my asynchandler into an assembly, though -- I don't like leaving such vital bits of my application out in the open for any customer to tamper with (subsequently yelling for tech support =P).

Thanks for the help though! =) Was a learning experience indeed. =P

Erik

# re: Red vs Blue@ Tuesday, June 22, 2004 11:35 PM

Funny how Anarchy Wizard actually came to this website to complain on how Red vs. Blue sucks. Think about the irony.

Petra

# re: Microsoft's 99% Rule - or - sealed strikes again.@ Wednesday, June 23, 2004 9:31 AM

Apperantly (I've just started working with it) - you should use an already exists variable called "Session" - It is a HttpSessionState object.

Tomer

# re: Red vs Blue@ Wednesday, June 23, 2004 2:10 PM

OMFG! i thought i waz the only one who liked RVB, all the guyz @ my skool think "who the heck is this guy!?" when i start re-enacting the parts to myself, i got 2 get the DVD!!!

PS 1: Caboose is best! fav. quote = "Sometimes, when i sleep at night, i dream about my parents having sex and i get really mad for some reason..."

PS 2: I'm not so much a loner (because i talk to my self :P ) its just when talking about RVB & peeps don't even heard of it ;)

.:ZinK:.

ZinK

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:00 PM

I also have been having this problem for YEARS. It happens regardless of which version of Windows you're running (98, 2k, XP), and figured it was related to some max limit on the number of allowable window handles or GDI resources or something. What gets me is how few people report having this problem - are we the only ones who typically have more than 10 IE browser windows open? Also frustrating is that killing the IE process consuming the most GDI inevitably winds up killing all your other open IE windows, and also the fact that process does not seemed to be tied to any one particular window (closing any and all browsers except one will still leave the ("master"?) memory-hogging IE process running)! I was researching alternative browsers when I saw your post; I will try this fix.

Edward H. Lee

# Partial Success@ Thursday, June 24, 2004 3:51 AM

TrackBack

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Thursday, June 24, 2004 6:43 PM

dumass is a dumass for thinking red vs blue could ever be bad you dumbass

a guy

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Thursday, June 24, 2004 6:50 PM

i just started watching the series and ive seen 1-3 and 16-36. i dotn want to have to wait a whole weeok to see 4-7 ans so on or bye the dvd. anyone know a site i could download them all?

bill

# re: Red vs Blue@ Thursday, June 24, 2004 7:39 PM

I love rvb!!! I want Caboose!!! So bad!!! HEHEHE! I am so jealous of sheila...boohooo....

The Lovely Aura

# re: Whidbey May CTP first experiences@ Tuesday, June 29, 2004 5:04 AM

Hi ! Friends,

Here is my new site on whidbey. You can download some latest whidbey code from http://dotnetdrives.blogdrive.com

It is real fun, working with whidbey.

Regards,
Saurabh

Saurabh Verma

# re: SSE, Visual Studio, and XCOPY deployment@ Wednesday, June 30, 2004 2:13 AM

Reality check: webhosting.

You make a new web based application, upload the database to you hosting center and ARE DONE.

And this IS A valid reason. Not everyone has to do only with local apps.

Thomas Tomiczek

# re: SSE, Visual Studio, and XCOPY deployment@ Wednesday, June 30, 2004 2:50 AM

Of course you lose all your existing data if you just rewrite the database every release. Just another useless feature...

Jerry Pisk

# re: SSE, Visual Studio, and XCOPY deployment@ Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:50 AM

Thomas,
Yes, you're quite right, in a web app this feature makes a lot more sense. But that's not the only context in which it was discussed (and clearly I've got Smart Clients on the brain these days. :) ).

Kevin Dente

# re: SSE, Visual Studio, and XCOPY deployment@ Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:52 AM

I cannot define myself a web developer, but I guess having MDF files installed in the application virtual directory may pose some security risks. What do you think about?

Luciano Evaristo Guerche

# re: SSE, Visual Studio, and XCOPY deployment@ Wednesday, June 30, 2004 1:29 PM

In the next beta, non-admins will be able to connect directly to the MDF as well. So, you'll be able to distribute your application with the .exe and the MDF without having to create any connections on the target machine. It will just work.

Networking is turned off by default with SSE so the external security risks from a slammer type attack go away.

Also, both the web and rich client scenarios have been pretty carefully thought through. Try it.

lance delano

# re: SSE, Visual Studio, and XCOPY deployment@ Wednesday, June 30, 2004 2:01 PM

Lance,
I've been waiting for the B1 release of the full VS2005. Once it's released, I'll check it out.

Kevin Dente

# re: .NET naming conventions and protected members@ Wednesday, June 30, 2004 3:51 PM

Assuming you have valid reasons for needing protected fields, there actually are two CLS-compliance issues which led us to settle on using m_:

1) We elminated using camel/pascal casing to differentiate protected fields and public properties since protected fields and public properties of the same name, varying only by case, are not CLS compliant. Therefore, if you use pascal casing for a property (e.g. Foo) and camel casing for the protected field (e.g. foo), you will not be CLS-complaint, and therefore your component can not be used by some CLS-compliant languages (such as Visual Basic .NET in this case).

2) We eliminated preceeding fields with an underscore, since protected fields with an underscore (e.g. _foo) are also not CLS-complaint, thus may be inaccessible by some CLS-compliant languages (although happens to work fine with C# and VB .NET)

Therefore, we settled on m_ for fields, since this works for protected fields as well, assuming you have protected fields.

RC

# re: Unit testing in Visual Studio 2005@ Thursday, July 01, 2004 5:13 PM

"unit testing is a core part of your development process"

http://weblogs.asp.net/jaybaz_ms/archive/2004/06/02/146887.aspx

jaybaz [MS]

# re: Whidbey Unit Testing Generated Code - yikes@ Thursday, July 01, 2004 5:15 PM

Luckily, VS2005 also includes a very reliable Rename Refactoring for C#.

jaybaz [MS]

# re: Whidbey Tech Preview comments@ Saturday, July 03, 2004 12:22 PM

>>One thing I still don't understand is why the ToolStrip/MenuBar/MenuStrip show up both on the design surface and in the component tray (it was that way pre-Whidbey as well). It seems redundant.

This is here so that if you're designing 10+ toolbars (like VS has) - you can set them visible=false and still get to them.

JFo

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Monday, July 05, 2004 11:57 AM

I've started having the exact same problem when running mIRC and several copies of IE. I get very similar problems...the right mouse button doesn't seem to work, context menus won't open, pushing ctrl-shift-esc won't open task manager, even the run dialogue box won't open. mIRC starts giving saying "error creating window" whenever I try to do anything. I'm going to try your little fix here, and hopefully it will help.

Thank you!

Grant

# re: Media Player 9 shuffling@ Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:03 AM

thanks Gordon...this has been pissing me off for months!

just in from google

# re: The trouble with web.config@ Tuesday, July 06, 2004 3:08 AM

Hi,

We have used your "URL Rewriter" Program on some of our websites to convert Dynamic URLs into static URLs. I mean that in global.asax file Application_BeginRequest calls the function of the "ThunderMain.dll" which interprets the Rules written in web.config file.

We are using it for the past 10 months and it runs correct with almost all the site except one for which we have lot of Rules in web.config though it was running ok for last month as and when we added some rules its behavior become strange.

When i upload it or restrats the application, runs very well with all rules but after 10-12 hours it automatically fails for the URL added last and says resources not found 404 Error which indicates the Rule written for that URL is not being interpreted.

Please Help. Is there any way to refresh the web.config after sometime because it runs when i upload the same web.config file again or restarts the server.

The type of URLs added are as:

<rule>
<url>/(.*)/mBoatsbyCategory\.aspx</url>
<rewrite>/mboats_category.aspx?manufacturer=$1</rewrite>
</rule>

It is run with the URL http://www.boatquest.com/Sea-Ray/mBoatsbyCategory.aspx

A single word from you may help me, Please respond.

Shri Pal

# re: Mouse wheel scrolling the Web Browser control@ Tuesday, July 06, 2004 4:38 AM

Thanks for the patch! I applied it yesterday to the CVS source tree of Rss Bandit. A build with that patch included can be found at http://rssbandit.sourceforge.net/builds/Bandit.2004.07.05.bin.zip

TorstenR

# re: Red vs Blue@ Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:34 AM

If you want Season 1 just download it on Kazaa Lite...I found all of them in a few minutes.

knicknack

# re: WINIPCFG for XP@ Thursday, July 08, 2004 4:16 AM

rrr

roya

# re: They don't want to be my buddy...@ Thursday, July 08, 2004 3:51 PM

I'll be your buddy! Just give me the following info and I'll try signing you up on the internal site:

name
company
e-mail
country

I can't promise I'm the best buddy for you (I know coding, testing, COM, and web services), but I'll give it a shot.

Bruce Williams [MSFT]

# re: They don't want to be my buddy...@ Thursday, July 08, 2004 3:52 PM

BTW, I'm bwill@microsoft.com

Bruce Williams [MSFT]

# re: Red vs Blue@ Thursday, July 08, 2004 5:42 PM

why cannt i download alot of the episodes on the site. pisses me off. i have the right players and everything.

holycow

# re: Ask and ye shall receive...a Sysinternals RSS feed@ Friday, July 09, 2004 3:48 AM

It doesn't work though!

DJC

# re: VS.Net 2002/2003 Open With...the real answer@ Friday, July 09, 2004 2:36 PM

I am now having a problem that may be related. In the win explorer, when I click on a .c or .cc file, the msdev7 will load. However, with the message:

"The file referenced by the shortcut file 'C:\myfile.c' cannot be opened.".

It works for .cpp files, and until yesterday also for .c & .cc files!

The only difference in HKCL\.cpp and HKCL\.c is the PersistentHandler for .cpp which contains the string {5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}.

However, after adding PersistentHandler for .c, I still have the same problem. I thought maybe you have some idea as to why.

Thanks for your time.

Bing
bing@iname.com

Bing Huang

# re: Red vs Blue@ Saturday, July 10, 2004 9:32 AM

Wizzard can go sit on his dick and rotate 360 degrees if he knows how! (he'll probably go sit in the oven) RVB is NOT going downhill!

U SUK

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Monday, July 12, 2004 3:07 PM

Thank you Kevin!!!!!

This problem has been plauging my computer for years!! I thought it was hardware so I replaced the RAM and motherboard, but it was still there.

I appreciate you documenting your find. Thank you.

Wing

# re: Disabling the web service looking in the "Open With" dialog of Windows XP@ Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:22 PM

Holy crap, that's awesome. Great tip.

Phil Scott

# re: Disabling the web service looking in the "Open With" dialog of Windows XP@ Tuesday, July 13, 2004 3:51 PM

Thanks a lot!!! I too was annoyed when getting the first dialog. Now I disabled it after implementing your tip.

This is really a cool tip.

Varad

# re: Disabling the web service looking in the "Open With" dialog of Windows XP@ Tuesday, July 13, 2004 4:49 PM

SWEET

John S.

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:03 PM

I have a MR814v2 and the wireless access is totally dead. It's only two months old, and I have been using only the wired ports. Now I just got a chance to try using the wireless - and no luck. Updated firmware as suggested. My Belkin USB device shows NO other devices found - even when I'm only 6 feet from the Netgear. Borrowing a friends laptop showed that the Belkin is OK. Now I'm waiting for more feedback from Tech support.

Brian

# re: Disabling the web service looking in the "Open With" dialog of Windows XP@ Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:25 AM

Thanks!

Jon Galloway

# re: Disabling the web service looking in the "Open With" dialog of Windows XP@ Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:31 AM

To do this with a reg file, you can copy the text following the --- line into a text file, name it whatever.reg, and double click on it:
---start---
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system]
"NoInternetOpenWith"=dword:00000001

---end---

Jon Galloway

# re: Red vs Blue@ Thursday, July 15, 2004 6:29 PM

Wizzard gets points for the Discworld reference. He gets negative points for being a fucktard. He gets more negative points for thinking that he can "get" a girlfriend - like they're possessions. He gets more negative points if the 'wizzard' thing was accidental.

And more negative points for being an anarchist.

Mort

# re: Netgear wireless router problems - waiting for replacement@ Friday, July 16, 2004 1:50 AM

I've heard back from Tech support with one more useless suggestion. But... to get a RMA I must call the tech support hotline. I spent over a half an hour with a service rep trying to get it to work. She was thorough - going through all the usual stuff -- latest firmware, SSID, cordless phone interferance, disabling security..., but she didn't seem to understand the testing that I did earlier. I used a friend's laptop (with his wireless card) and tried to connect to the netgear router - no luck. But I could connect his laptop to my belkin USB adapter via ad-hock mode. This proves the belkin works, and the netgear doesn't. The point was lost on the rep. Finally after resetting the router several times and running through all the setup again, she was convinced that the router was bad. Now I have to ship it back, and wait for a new one. There was one piece of strange advice I got from her. She recommended using channel 1,6 or 11 only - but 6 was supposed to be the best she said. She made no mention of any possible heat related problems that others have discussed.

Hopefully the new one is good.

Brian

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Friday, July 16, 2004 2:00 AM

Oops - I just noticed that there are two Brians on this discussion - I'll go by 'Brian H' from now on. I posted the previous two messages with the name 'Brian'.

I read through the previous postings, and one by RPG Donkey seems a bit peculiar:

Posted @ 5/22/2004 7:36 AM
Ok, I have found a solution. Turn on
Wireless Encryption. The problem is
caused by 2.4gHz cordless phones, but
if you have encryption on, the phone can't
interphere.

This seems incorrect to me. Sure a 2.4 Ghz phone can interfere with wireless data communications, but I don't see how turning on encryption will help any. Better error correction would help, but encryption only helps keep your data private. (Yes - I know it's weak encryption)

Brian H

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Saturday, July 17, 2004 1:50 AM

idiot

tex

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Saturday, July 17, 2004 1:54 AM

oh... you backstabbing cockbite

yeah, i said it

you teamkilling fucktard

tex

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Sunday, July 18, 2004 6:49 AM

Yo Red vs blue is good tru( god the first time i watched them i almost died) But it comes down to it when u watch them a few times after there not really funny(most movies are like that) and I play aa and halo my clan has been planning out a funny sitcom for about 5 months before i ever heard of RvB . And well RvB gets alot of attention(almost to much) I watched a video from the FTC or FCT or some shit from that clan( < doesnt kno name) and OMG there videos were hilarous.( expecally there latest one) I mean RvB has no EXTREME editing these guys are like going to E3 and all this and all they did was write and film whats so hard about that they added like the robots and flowers all i have seen in there. Talking about low budget film. They havent improved yet with any effects. But if u want to see what i mean check out the FCt or w/e there fucking calling them selfs. They had some scetchy shit from the start but there alot more flashyer. But Look out for [UGK] Clan for AA (americas army) and New clan to HALO. Looking to put some videos on the chart. But like im saying RvB is getting to much which is taking away from others who have worked just as hard. Personaly i just think Microsoft is spreading name cuz HALO was made by and on there powerful system XBOX. But again Red vs Blue is a great show Cant wait for season 3.

N/L

# re: Red vs Blue@ Sunday, July 18, 2004 3:48 PM

Wizzard apparently did nor does have the cognative capacity to use any words other than 'fuck', 'bitch','suck', etc. It seems his obviously angry remarks were used to 'project', a psychological term referring to the behavior of accusing others of malices or irregularities the accusing party is guilty of.

It is also possible that he is simply an angry 'redneck' (for lack of a better word) with a lasting hatred for intelligence. However, as is evident by the discrepancies and ironies in his brief and pointless commentary, it is highly doubtful that this is actually the case.

Therefore, I am led to a final prognosis;my conlusion: Wizzard is just another angry dickwad.

Slightly_Misaligned

# re: A theory as to why IE and explorer windows load sl...oo..w...ly...@ Monday, July 19, 2004 9:05 AM

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# re: Red vs Blue@ Monday, July 19, 2004 10:06 AM

First, RVB pwns. I truely love it, despite hardly anyone in The Great South Land (Australia for all you ppl that have never heard it being refered as that before) knowing about it. Its great because the stories can be carried over to other situations, such as TFC etc.

Secondly, I have to agree with Mort. Discworld requires a level of intelligence to understand its more subtle humour(Small gods and The 5th Elephant are my favourate so far), so I'm going with the Wizzard reference being a simple mistake on his behalf. Probably hasn't ever read a book in his life, and that's banking on the fact that he *can* read.

Wit that being said, I think we can safely say that he won't be making a return. Just some loser with nothing better to do than to inflame everyone else here.

P.s Wizzard is pure arsehat :) nuff said

Lews Therin

# re: Post-build events with VS.NET troubles@ Tuesday, July 20, 2004 8:21 PM

Microsoft have a knowledge base article about this issue: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;156276

You only need to add a registry key called DisableUNCCheck (DWORD) to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor and set it to 1 hex.

Tried it, works great.

Geoff Bennett

# re: HttpHandlers in ASP.NET@ Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:05 AM

Could not find any docs on @ WebHandler nor the System.Web.UI.SimpleHandlerFactory at all.

This is in the machine.config for .ashx handler.
Is the System.Web.UI.SimpleHandlerFactory is "hidden class" and used in the .NET infrastructure only. I could not find this class under the System.Web.UI namespace at all.

Any hints/docs/guidelines would be appreciated.

TOM

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Wednesday, July 21, 2004 12:46 PM

I got one thing to say.... Your a f**king retard. How can you hate RvB season 2? dumbass

P.S. faggot

Dex

# re: Red vs Blue@ Wednesday, July 21, 2004 10:18 PM

Red vs Blue is the greatest online tv hit series EVER! I have downloaded all their series and even the extra's they added for mother's day and 4th of July etc.. Red vs Blue is greatly recommended by me to all of you team killing fucktards out there.. All game lovers, this is your series to watch!!

Matt

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Thursday, July 22, 2004 6:24 PM

ok, there were some episodes which were kinda weird... thy didnt make as much fun as season one.. but i saw episode 38 2min ago and now I CANT WAIT 4 SEASON 3 DAMMIT!!!! ^^

mr.szing

# re: Red vs Blue@ Thursday, July 22, 2004 9:04 PM

man red vs blue is perhaps the most awsome thing iv ever saw but plz if somone has the episodes or knows where 2 go get them make a reply on this page cas i dont have an email k? :)

I.R.S. {irresistable rouph slutt}

# OMG THIS FUCKIN ROCKS@ Thursday, July 22, 2004 9:14 PM

this is one gut bustin hellv a good show! i just cant beleave how cool it is and dont know how u thought it up, normally i dont have mach 2 do around the house so when in dout i go watch a funny action pact episode of red vs blue & u know it never ever gets old or boring one bit if anything it gets better because i see somthin i never reconized b4. ne-way the point is it rocks and so deos everyone who watches it. yep even me lol thnx :)

jo shmo

# cock bite # re: Red vs Blue @ Thursday, July 22, 2004 9:18 PM

plz dont ever stop makin these radical shows k? :) .

gohst

# {sigh}@ Thursday, July 22, 2004 9:24 PM

somone plz help im hearing how cool the show is and i want 2 see it 2 but i cant find n-e of them not even eps. 1 also is it free? :) HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sad red vs blue lover

# # re: Red vs Blue @ Thursday, July 22, 2004 9:34 PM

First, RVB pwns. I truely love it, despite hardly anyone in The Great South Land (Australia for all you ppl that have never heard it being refered as that before) knowing about it. Its great because the stories can be carried over to other situations, such as TFC etc.

Secondly, I have to agree with Mort. Discworld requires a level of intelligence to understand its more subtle humour(Small gods and The 5th Elephant are my favourate so far), so I'm going with the Wizzard reference being a simple mistake on his behalf. Probably hasn't ever read a book in his life, and that's banking on the fact that he *can* read.

Wit that being said, I think we can safely say that he won't be making a return. Just some loser with nothing better to do than to inflame everyone else here.

P.s Wizzard is pure arsehat :) nuff said

Lews Therin

# re: Green vs Yellow@ Thursday, July 22, 2004 9:39 PM

ive accually always wanted to start my own little sow called green vs yellow ever cince uve inspierd me by makeing Red vs Blue. i love u guys :)

Modemgirl

# grl on grl war@ Thursday, July 22, 2004 9:45 PM

your show is so great i would show my goods 2 n-e one who inspierd this or helpd pass the word around. my motto is u pass the word around u pass me around. ;)

hot mamma

# reply 2 the girl on girl action@ Thursday, July 22, 2004 9:47 PM

whell i just told 5 people about it what will that get me? ;)

joshmo

# {sigh} PLZ HELP!@ Friday, July 23, 2004 5:05 AM

somone plz help im hearing how cool the show is and i want 2 see it 2 but i cant find n-e of them not even eps. 1 also is it free? :) HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY E-MAIL ADRESS IS (JOSHMO_440@HOTMAIL.COM)

SAD RED VS BLUE LOVER

# re: Red vs Blue@ Friday, July 23, 2004 4:19 PM

Yes its free... There is one thing well number 38 says to be contunied well when is 39 going to come out?

Blue Guy

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Friday, July 23, 2004 9:40 PM

well I have the wgt624 v2 router and it is hooked up to my computer with windows 98se and i am trying to get internet on a computer with wp pro and it is not working any help is appreciated.

jason

# FTC@ Saturday, July 24, 2004 10:01 AM

HEY N/L.
the other clan is FTC or Fire Team Charlie. They are out of Ottawa Ontario, Canada.
I am assuming they use a modded xBox for all the added features.

me

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Sunday, July 25, 2004 5:19 PM

Holy crap! You suck! I think season 2 is way better than season 1! It has way better jokes and stuff! Season 1 was very funny, though!

Alienfreak

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Sunday, July 25, 2004 5:23 PM

I love it when Lopez sings the song in #33!

Alienfreak

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Monday, July 26, 2004 2:29 AM

HI, I fried my netgear wgr614 v2 flash memory. It happened after I upgraded to wgr614v2_v_2_00. The firmware I uploaded took more than 30 minutes, my pc froze, so I had to restart.

Hard resets/revert factory settings don`t work.

I can`t connect to router: no browser configurations, no DHCP resolution, doesn`t recognize (Win XP) IP addr manually entered, no ping replies. Router is unreachable by telnet/hyperterminal. Even if I plug the router, its not transmitting anything wirelessly. No signal whatsoever. Wired or not.

The lights on the panel doesn`t flash or show anything out of the ordinary.

Other than going to Best Buy, buying an identical netgear unit, do an innard swapping (since the unit MAC address and Serial No. are in the shell casing anyway), and returning the "tweaked" router the next day, I have no solutions.I found this option very tempting as a way to get back at netgear for pushing their premium support scam.

Uh, help? Please? How do you upload firmware to a router`s memory when you can`t seem to connect to it?

shudav bought belkin

# re: Red vs Blue@ Monday, July 26, 2004 9:04 PM

Red vs blue ep 39 will come out as the Premier for season 3, And rumor says it wont be coming along until october

Trevor Terry

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Wednesday, July 28, 2004 1:32 AM

I too had the same problems with WGR614 V4. I downgraded to firmware version 3.3.37 Dated Dec 2003. Things seemed to be OK, but then, I agsin started seeing the dropped connection - The Local line (wired line through which my PC was conneted did not light up. The router icon that flashes also did not come up.

Finally, I ran 'ping -t 192.168.0.1' on a DOS window on my PC which is connected via the wired ethernet.

Initially, ping was returning host unreacheable. After a few attempts, the ping was successful. I let ping run for about 15min. After that, the connection seems to be stable.

If I experience a dropped connection, I plan to run the 'ping -t' command again.

Bala Ramakrishnan

# re: So....@ Wednesday, July 28, 2004 8:23 PM

I don't have definitive proof, but my theory is that this stems from presenter training that some folks at Microsoft receive from Waggoner-Edstrom. I went through this training as a guest of an organization I belonged to, and one of the things they suggest is to avoid worse verbal tics, such as 'um' and 'uh' by choosing an actual word, such as...'so'.

Once enough MSFT presenters got into this habit, it became self-perpetuating. Or at least that's my theory. And while it may be distracting once you notice its prevalence, I still think it's better than 'um'.

G. Andrew Duthie

# re: So....@ Wednesday, July 28, 2004 8:29 PM

Yep, it's a hard habit to get out of. I don't even hear it anymore.

I went to Canada over the weekend and they end every sentence with "A."

I guess everyone has their language placeholders.

Robert Scoble

# re: So....@ Wednesday, July 28, 2004 8:43 PM

GAD - At last, an explanation! :) Good to know it's not some sort of mass psychosis, or an unpleasant side-effect of the red pill.

I do find it distracting once I notice it - but then, my tendency to fixate on verbal ticks may be more my problem than other peoples. I really notice that stuff. I do agree that it's better than um, though.

Robert - ah yes, the Canadian "eh". Most of my extended family is Canadian, so I know it well.

Kevin Dente

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, July 29, 2004 4:14 PM

Same problems with the MR814 router as mentioned here, connection is stable for about 3-20 minutes at a time then drops out on my laptop. Just the laptop. I also have a desktop connected which seems to be fine. I have no 'wired' connections, all wireless. Also, the dsktop and laptop can only see each other a few minutes after reboot. Then they become isolated, but internet remains. I have the latest firmware installed, and use WEP.

Ian Todd

# re: So....@ Friday, July 30, 2004 10:26 PM

Well there goes my point of view...

I'd always considered the "eh" sound from Canadian women as attractive. Now that I realize it's nothing more than thier version of "um" it's really going to bother me.

Nice post though.

Shawn Anderson

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Saturday, July 31, 2004 4:05 PM

Same problems- with both my cable modem and the DSL connection at work. I think its a lemon. Anyone heard of any recalls for Netgear?

Dave

# re: Red vs Blue@ Sunday, August 01, 2004 11:54 PM

hey how can i get the season 1 episodes, i only saw part of the first episode at a friends house and want to see them all

jordon weinmeier

# re: Red vs Blue@ Sunday, August 01, 2004 11:55 PM

and thats a fake last name.....

jordon

# re: So....@ Tuesday, August 03, 2004 5:32 PM

In Microserfs one of the characters notes that Bill Gates NEVER uses "um". DOn't know if that's true or not...but I've tried to curtail my own usage.

I think instead of "so" I'd pick something more obvious like "Chatanooga". That way I'd be more likely to notice it and stop it.

Of course people would probably just think I have Tourettes.

Yo Kev!

ScottMcW

# re: Red vs Blue@ Thursday, August 05, 2004 7:37 PM

The site is under reconstruction now- no eps for download. But if you can get kazaa, you can find all eps out there if you're patient.

I think they said the site'll be back up in a couple weeks or so - not long to wait, considering we get a weird new story arc. Episode 38 had a strange, strange ending.

Mort

# re: Red vs Blue@ Saturday, August 07, 2004 10:50 AM

or you could try

http://www.thatweasel.tv/hbo_mirror.php?page=1

They seem to have heaps of the episodes both old and new.

NZ RVB FAN

# re: Red vs Blue@ Tuesday, August 10, 2004 3:27 PM

Good deal, NZ.

Mort

# re: Nice Tool - PureText@ Friday, August 13, 2004 3:48 PM

http://www.thornsoft.com Clipmate does that and much much more. Anyone using it brifely can not live without it.

Charles M. Carroll

# Nice Tool - PureText@ Thursday, September 09, 2004 9:23 PM

Nice Tool - PureText I just found out about PureText, a very nice (and free) little utility for scrubbing formatting...

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# Windows XP Tweak: Skip Internet Open With Dialog@ Tuesday, October 12, 2004 12:05 PM

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# re: I'm baaaack@ Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:02 PM

Dude...I can see ditching your sister for a movie...but ditching ME? That's just totally uncool! :)

Seriously, congratulations on everything. Now git yer skinny white azz back to work.

ScottMcW

# No support for ASPCOMPAT in ASMX for Whidbey - disappointing@ Friday, December 03, 2004 10:08 PM

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# re: Google Suggests@ Friday, December 10, 2004 4:42 PM

th cd lk fn to me.

Brian

# re: Google Suggests@ Friday, December 10, 2004 9:21 PM

呵呵，那个javascripts 当然被obfuscate过了。

这里有篇偶的分析。
http://www.donews.net/roydebox/archive/2004/12/11/199791.aspx

http://www.8fang.net
- 搜索、发现有趣的blog

roy

# re: ISO CD burning @ Saturday, December 11, 2004 5:18 PM

There's also ISORecorder by Alex Feinman, which is real neat, and to go into simple mode, the XP/2003 resource kit includes a command line iso writer too :)

Geoff Appleby

# re: ISO CD burning @ Saturday, December 11, 2004 5:30 PM

Nice - didn't know about either of those. The reskit wouldn't be my first choice, as it's a hearty 12MB download and includes tons of other stuff. But ISO Recorder looks quite nice.

Kevin Dente

# re: ISO CD burning @ Sunday, December 12, 2004 3:56 PM

Maybe this post can help bring a few other alternatives:

http://sphear.demon.nl/weblogs/mischa/archive/2004/06/10/997.aspx

Mischa Kroon

# re: ISO CD burning @ Sunday, December 12, 2004 9:40 PM

Heya:
No, XP SP2 is not a requirement. There's two versions, one for XP-pre sp2, and one for with SP2 and windows 2003. I think he's stopped development of the first version, however.

Geoff Appleby

# re: ISO CD burning @ Monday, December 13, 2004 10:55 AM

I personally prefer UltrISO. It's not free but it's worth the $30.

Willy

# re: Can someone explain why this VB.NET code fails to compile?@ Tuesday, December 14, 2004 5:11 PM

Dim Mode as New Mode = Mode.Mode1

Robert McLaws

# re: Can someone explain why this VB.NET code fails to compile?@ Tuesday, December 14, 2004 5:17 PM

Uh - that doesn't compile either.

Kevin Dente

# re: Can someone explain why this VB.NET code fails to compile?@ Tuesday, December 14, 2004 5:29 PM

Try using a fully qualified class name in the attribute. The VB compiler is getting confused on just which Mode you are referring to.

Imports System.ComponentModel
Public Enum Mode
Mode1
Mode2
End Enum

Public Class Class1
<DefaultValue(MyNamespace.Mode.Mode1)> _
Dim Mode As MyNamespace.Mode = MyNamespace.Mode.Mode1
End Class

I believe that there is a design guideline to not name public properties the same as a class name. This applies to public fields as well.

MartinJ

# re: Can someone explain why this VB.NET code fails to compile?@ Tuesday, December 14, 2004 5:36 PM

That does in fact fix it - unfortunately, the actual class is being autogenerated by the framework, so I can't actually fix it by directly editing the code. But I am trying to understand why exactly it breaks.

I hadn't run across that design guideline before (I should check whether FxCop complains about it). There are lots of examples in the framework where property names and class names are the same (Control.Size and Control.Region are two examples).

Kevin Dente

# re: Visual Studio 2005 November CTP install surprise@ Wednesday, December 15, 2004 2:51 AM

Darn.....Because I cannot even get VS to install in a fresh Windows XP VM. I am using Virtual Server.

Maybe something got corrupted in the MSDN download?

But..I have wasted 3 hours today...and that is going to have to do until the next CTP...Any experience like this says to you....it was a bad drop.

David Taylor

# re: Can someone explain why this VB.NET code fails to compile?@ Wednesday, December 15, 2004 3:19 AM

No offence, but who cooks up code like:
Dim Mode as Mode ....

NEVER name a variable after a type. It's sad enough that VB.NET allows that apparently.

Frans Bouma

# re: Can someone explain why this VB.NET code fails to compile?@ Wednesday, December 15, 2004 10:27 AM

The exact code that I've listed is an artificial repro case that we're having for the problem.

The fact that the member is field is a byproduct of the fact that this is a generated web service proxy class. On the web service server side, this is property, where in fact the MS recommendation is that you DO name the property the same as its type.

Kevin Dente

# re: Visual Studio 2005 November CTP install surprise@ Thursday, December 16, 2004 7:27 PM

Excellent And
Merry Christmas

法国

# Work with Visual Studio 2005 begins in earnest@ Saturday, December 18, 2004 4:32 AM

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# Generics are now CLSCompliant@ Tuesday, December 21, 2004 3:21 PM

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# re: Christmas Fun@ Saturday, December 25, 2004 8:04 AM

Ouch. At least you have power and an internet connection<g>. Hope you have a great holida anyway!

Douglas Reilly

# re: Can someone explain why this VB.NET code fails to compile?@ Monday, January 03, 2005 5:41 PM

Just get a Macintosh computer and xCode, you'll be making much more efficient programs on a highly superior OS in no time.

http://www.apple.com/

http://developer.apple.com/macosx/

Have a great day!

Tom

# Windows Briefcase@ Monday, January 17, 2005 12:25 AM

I had one of those moments a few weeks ago. I was wanting to work on a .NET project on my laptop, and sync the changes back to my home PC. While just clicking around, I hit the right mouse button on the desktop and noticed something that I had seen a thousand times, but had never even thought about using since Windows 95. It was the Briefcase.

I actually had to click on "Start/Help" to read up on how to use this thing. It turns out that the Briefcase support is a lot better than it was back in '95. In XP/2003, you can create a new Briefcase that acts just like a folder in every way, except that any file you drag into it can be syncronized by right-clicking the folder and clicking on Update All.

It works very well, and I've been using it for a few weeks now with no problems. Very nice.

Anyway, I know how you feel.

- Joshua

Joshua Bair

# Work with Visual Studio 2005 begins in earnest@ Friday, January 21, 2005 11:05 PM

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# re: Microsoft's Fiddler PowerToy?@ Wednesday, February 02, 2005 11:33 PM

Fiddler was written by a Microsoft employee, alway has been.

Omar Shahine

# re: My Favorite Firefox Extensions@ Sunday, February 06, 2005 9:20 PM

....but your blog aint Mozilla friendly...

I use the SwitchProxy Tool as well as plain text link

ozczecho

# re: My Favorite Firefox Extensions@ Sunday, February 06, 2005 10:33 PM

" ....but your blog aint Mozilla friendly..."

Yes, I know, and I'm very annoyed by it. But I'm not sure if there's anything I can do about it - it's a weblogs.asp.net skin. I'll do some research to see if there's anything I can do.

Kevin Dente

# re: My Favorite Firefox Extensions@ Sunday, February 06, 2005 11:45 PM

I posted about my firefox setup on my blog yesterday http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/archive/2005/02/05/367820.aspx.

Also to fix your blog you have to play around with some custom CSS. I did some work on my blog awhile back and I believe I got it to work pretty much the same in firefox and IE.

Wes Haggard

# re: My Favorite Firefox Extensions@ Monday, February 07, 2005 6:29 PM

Nuke Anything http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/">http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/

TinyURL Creator
http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/">http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/

xKiosk (a.k.a Paranoia button)
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/xkiosk

JavaScript Debugger
http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/venkman/

Kant

# re: My Favorite Firefox Extensions@ Monday, February 07, 2005 11:25 PM

I'm liking AutoCopy https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&version=0.8&os=Windows&id=383
and just now d/l'd ForecastFox https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&version=0.8&os=Windows&id=398

(as well as some others already mentioned - esp. TinyUrl creator.)

Kathy

# re: If it ain't broke, don't upgrade it@ Tuesday, February 08, 2005 1:45 AM

I have never met a router where this didn't hold true.

Omar Shahine

# re: My Favorite Firefox Extensions@ Tuesday, February 08, 2005 8:34 AM

All-in-one gestures rocks for those lazy days in bed with the wireless

https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=12&vid=741

Kevin

# re: My Favorite Firefox Extensions@ Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:18 PM

I put together a list of my favorites as well.

http://cory.deppen.us/index.php?p=61

Cory

# re: Separated at birth?@ Friday, February 11, 2005 2:33 PM

Really incredible... :))

Stefano Demiliani

# re: Tip for Windows Forms developers - use Form.CancelButton @ Saturday, February 12, 2005 1:17 AM

Obviously you're working with the same set of developers I am: weaned during the 1997- internet boom, so all they know is HTML GUI conventions (such as they are).

I actually had one guy say that checkboxes should *only* check if you actually click the 16x16 box itself. Exactly like they do in default HTML.

Lunacy.

Jeff Atwood

# re: My Favorite Firefox Extensions@ Saturday, February 12, 2005 4:50 AM

New extension on the block. Chat'N Search - http://www.chatnsearch.com/ - Chat with people searcing/surfing for similar content on the web. But why ?

foxing

# re: Suggestion to Microsoft: .NET Static Anonymous Classes@ Saturday, February 12, 2005 2:48 PM

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# re: Separated at birth?@ Saturday, February 12, 2005 3:21 PM

Come on...his head is round and my hair is more "Arsenio Hall."

Crap...now I have to change my picture. ;)

Scott Hanselman

# re: Microsoft's Fiddler PowerToy?@ Tuesday, February 15, 2005 4:46 AM

Yes, Microsoft always owned it, but it wasn't an official-unofficial project until rather recently. ;-)

Eric Lawrence

# re: Cool app - Foxit PDF Reader@ Wednesday, February 16, 2005 12:27 AM

Acrobat reader ever again.

PDF Speedup
http://www.acropdf.com/products.html

Cheers
Rob

Rob

# re: Cool app - Foxit PDF Reader@ Wednesday, February 16, 2005 1:09 AM

Sure does load fast...

Unfortunately the first PDF I tried it on (one that I created the other day) didnt show one of the images.

Might have been the converter I used though.

Sam

# re: IE7 - hard to be excited@ Thursday, February 17, 2005 1:20 AM

Wait until you see it. You might change your mind.

Robert Scoble

# re: IE7 - hard to be excited@ Thursday, February 17, 2005 1:56 AM

Robert,
I hope you're right - I'd love to be pleasantly surprised.

Kevin Dente

# re: IE7 - hard to be excited@ Thursday, February 17, 2005 7:52 AM

I'll use whatever browser I believe is best. For me that was IE, now it's Firefox. I'll certainly be trying the beta's of IE :)

One thing that has annoyed me is Gate's latest:

"In fact, we just announced that we'll have a new version of the browser so we're innovating very rapidly there and its our commitment to have the best. "

I can't stand how often Microsoft come out with the innovation line when. Don't get me wrong, I really do like most MS products especially Windows but it's rare they innovate. Mostly they simplify and integrate which could perhaps be classed as innovation of usability but not on features.

Before they "innovate" with IE7 they have to first play catch up on:

Tabbed browsing, RSS bookmarks, better PNG and CSS standards support.

And before somebody says Average Joe doesn't need these features I'll remind them Average Joe is probably still using IE6.. They want the Firefox userbase back they'll have to give them the features they have plus a little extra to be worth the switch. Just like Firefox did to IE6 users.

[)

Damien Guard

# re: IE7 - hard to be excited@ Thursday, February 17, 2005 1:47 PM

Damien,
I've heard the "MS doesn't innovate" argument before, but I don't buy it. They do innovate. Take development platforms, for example (which is their strongest suite, in my opinion). When most people were doing CGI, they created ASP. When the Java world was using servlets, MS created ASP.NET (still the best web development platform out there). Yes, they innovate.

What annoys me is when they claim to be responding to what the users want. Users have been clamoring for a better browser for ages, and MS did nothing. Firefox gave that desire an outlet, and now MS is worried. I fully believe that if Firefox was never created, we'd be stuck with IE6 for several more years. It's the classic example of why monopoly is bad and competition is good.

BTW, although I love Firefox, I don't think it's dazzlingly innovative. Firefox didn't invent tabbed browsing. RSS bookmarks are worthless, as far as I'm concerned. Better standards support is an incremental improvement, for sure, but nothing more. I don't need radical innovation, necessarily, I just want an ever-improving web browsing experience. If MS offers me that in IE7, I'll look at it, for sure (Firefox has plenty of annoyances, and still crashes too often - but then, so does IE).

Kevin Dente

# re: IE7 - hard to be excited@ Friday, February 18, 2005 1:43 AM

One big thing I've learned to love about Firefox is the simple extensibility model. MS Extensibility for IE will probably always involve installing something that may or may not trash my system and can't be uninstalled. Firefox extensibility is really simple, and I've gotten hooked on all the cool extensions.

Jon Galloway

# re: IE7 - hard to be excited@ Friday, February 18, 2005 3:06 PM

Jon,
Yes, the extensibility model in Firefox is fantastic. I just wish it was easier to develop against. The documentation sucks, the tools suck, the whole developer experience around extensions pretty much just sucks. I got some basic stuff working, but it was a royal pain, and figuring out how to do things inside the object model takes a lot of work.

Kevin Dente

# Naming Conventions, CLSCompliantAttribute, Underscores, etc@ Saturday, February 19, 2005 3:18 PM

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# Naming Conventions, CLSCompliantAttribute, Underscores, etc@ Saturday, February 19, 2005 3:23 PM

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# re: Wow, it finally happened@ Tuesday, March 01, 2005 3:07 PM

I wouldn't hold my breath that it will improve much of anything. The Web designer in 2002/2003 is so hopelessly broken that the only way it can be fixed is to replace it.

The 2005 version was better even as an alpha!

Jeff

# Acrobat alternative@ Wednesday, March 02, 2005 11:58 AM

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# Remove Open With webservice dialog in Windows XP/2003@ Monday, March 07, 2005 1:40 PM

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# Remove Open With webservice dialog in Windows XP/2003@ Monday, March 07, 2005 1:40 PM

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# re: Visual Studio 2005, Web Sites, and Test-Driven Development@ Friday, March 11, 2005 12:47 AM

With VSTS you can create a "Test Project" that can contain unit tests for classes, as well as UI tests for web-pages (it also includes a built-in UI test recorder for ASP.NET). The nice thing about both of these is that when run, they run in the context of a web-server -- so you'll get more accurate results than running in a separate command-line environment.

Note that if you use the "Publish WebSite" option you can also pre-compile the site into assemblies underneath the \bin directory. This would allow you to still use a NUnit test runner to execute them as well. With Beta1 the assembly names underneath \bin are not consistent -- which makes this hard. But with Beta2 the names are consistent and so you will be able to use this approach.

Hope this helps,

Scott

scottgu

# re: Visual Studio 2005, Web Sites, and Test-Driven Development@ Friday, March 11, 2005 1:09 AM

Scott,
Thanks for the info. So does that mean VSTS test projects can test classes defined in a web project? It knows how to find the compiled assembly for the site?

Ah, if only the base Visual Studio platform had included unit testing, life would be so fine. :)

Is there any way to get the IDE to automate the publish whenever you build? If not, I'm not sure if I can use that technique.

Kevin Dente

# re: Things They Didn't Fix in Whidbey - Fonts in Windows Forms@ Monday, March 14, 2005 2:42 AM

maybe they'll correct it in the final version?

Eric

# Things They Didn't Fix in Whidbey - Fonts in Windows Forms@ Monday, March 14, 2005 3:09 AM

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# re: Things They Didn't Fix in Whidbey - Fonts in Windows Forms@ Monday, March 14, 2005 5:07 AM

Thanks for mentioning this. I researched the exact same topic a while ago, with the exact same results, but had forgotten all (well, most) about it. Now you've reminded me, I'll have another look at the issue.

Oliver

Oliver Sturm

# re: Things They Didn't Fix in Whidbey - Fonts in Windows Forms@ Monday, March 14, 2005 10:43 AM

A similar problem of hardcoded default font exists with Compact Framework apps:
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx?feedbackid=6d7560bd-b21a-4e5d-b39e-4ea5bd68af42

Daniel Moth

# re: Things They Didn't Fix in Whidbey - Fonts in Windows Forms@ Monday, March 14, 2005 10:51 AM

I'd imagine the biger issue would be a shitty rendering quality of the GDI+. The kerning on fonts gets all messed up and jumping from place to place even when using system fonts. But that's GDI+ issue.

Alex

# re: Things They Didn't Fix in Whidbey - Fonts in Windows Forms@ Monday, March 14, 2005 1:00 PM

Eric,
The bug report that I linked to indicates that MS is not planning on fixing this for Whidbey final release.

Kevin Dente

# re: Getting disenchanted with Whidbey master pages@ Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:08 PM

The design view is pretty useless anyway...it always screws up your html formatting and is therefore best avoided.

Has the reformatting bug been fixed in Whidbey?

ozczecho

# re: Getting disenchanted with Whidbey master pages@ Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:16 PM

Yes, the designer reformatting problems have been fixed in Whidbey.

Kevin Dente

# re: Getting disenchanted with Whidbey master pages@ Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:27 PM

The content placeholders will fill up the container they are placed within. So if you drop them on a vanilla page they will fill up the entire region. But if you drop them within a table cell with a fixed width, or if you prefer CSS a layer, then you can constrain the size in the desinger to be exactly what you want. I have seen some pages that have 50+ content placeholders on them open up within the designer.

Hope this helps,

Scott

P.S. Nested master pages not being in the designer does indeed suck, but was a limitation we had to-do to get everything else done. We will be enabling this in the next version. Note that intellisense for nested master pages in source mode is fully supported.

scottgu

# re: Getting disenchanted with Whidbey master pages@ Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:16 AM

Solution seems simple: get out of design view :)

I dunno, but I've always preferred looking at lines of code/markup than looking at property panes/windows. For that reason, BizTalk annoys the hell out of me. It's a nice concept, but hard to really understand what the hell is going, especially if you're looking at someone else's orchastration.

Myself? I only use the design view to auto-populate the object declarations in the code and of course I always hit Ctrl+S in my source a few times for a good measure before I switch to design view as the design view is sure to scramble my pristine markup. Other than that, I'd say the design view is pretty useless.

Charles Chen

# re: Getting disenchanted with Whidbey master pages@ Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:47 AM

Design view won't change your markup anymore.

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT)

# re: Getting disenchanted with Whidbey master pages@ Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:50 AM

Yeah, I don't see design view as helpful anyway. Maybe for RAD, but I don't think any designer will every be able to have fine-grained control that you can do with the markup directly.

Jeffrey Palermo

# re: Issues with new MSDN blogs UI@ Tuesday, April 05, 2005 7:07 AM

THanks for the feedback, we're still working on improving the usability/UI (we know it's not perfect).

Rob Howard

# re: Development, Virtual Machines, and Winamp@ Wednesday, April 06, 2005 5:16 AM

Good find! I was just thinking about rolling my own solution for this very thing recently...spend most of my time on my laptop, but the workstation has the powerhouse soundcard/speakers. Works like a champ, nice to be able to remotely control winamp from my lappie.

jayson knight

# re: NTeam Press@ Sunday, April 10, 2005 2:50 AM

I think its impressive that eWeek came across the story. At least they're paying attention to the blogosphere. But then again I guess a tech journalist could generate a lot of stories by just reading weblogs.asp.net and Slashdot and filling in the blanks.

Maybe the eWeek coverage was premature. But the project is *really* serious and there are a lot of very committed people working on it. There is no code yet but there are discussions in the forums on the workspace which indicate that a lot of the people on the team have some brilliant and concrete ideas.

eWeek is hardly "major press coverage" as in CNN or MSNBC but I guess in the tech industry it's pretty significant. Although I think its probably more relevant to MBA types who like to know lots of acronyms and buzzwords to harrass their technical staff with (real developers read Slashdot!)

Alex Campbell

# re: NTeam Press@ Sunday, April 10, 2005 5:59 AM

I'd assumed the publicity put out by NTeam was an attempt to put pressure on Microsoft to reconsider the MSDN pricing issue, at least with regard to smaller development shops and consultants who just can't afford to suddenly double their subscription rates just to learn about the bit of Visual Team System the don't get in their 'free' upgrade.

Ian Smith

# re: NTeam Press@ Sunday, April 10, 2005 7:43 AM

Also given that NTeam is built on existing successful projects like NAnt and NUnit it hopefully has a bit of a head-start compared to your average defunct sourceforge project. I guess time will tell.

JosephCooney

# re: Beware the perils of the VS2005 Development Web Server@ Friday, April 29, 2005 2:36 AM

Kevin,

I've had a similar experience when enabling forms authentication on a web application. Turns out ASP.NET Development Server handles pages differently than IIS (a little) and will not render CSS or images during debug/non-debug viewing through VS.NET on pages that are not under forms authentication. Makes it so that you really don't get WYSIWYG during development.

Developing the same app under IIS works perfectly. For now, I plan on continuing development against IIS. I love the ASP.NET Development Server (Cassini), but for now I am seeing some differences.

JW

John Walker

# re: Beware the perils of the VS2005 Development Web Server@ Friday, April 29, 2005 8:57 AM

It's funny how every year or so I see people discovering things that I learned a long time ago. Specifically, I learned this lesson the hard way with PWS. I don't even remember which OS it was from anymore.
Since then, unless I am doing very plain and simple code/html, I dev off a true IIS box. The job I'm at now has me working off of xp pro, and I'm just waiting for that production Gotcha! to come bite me again on some goofy little item....

Dev against your true target whenever you can...

Bob

# re: VS2005 Code Snippets for NUnit@ Friday, May 06, 2005 11:07 AM

Can you mention how to install those snippets? for not initiated among us :)

Alex

# Reflector Plugins(zt)@ Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:58 AM

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# re: Problems with Mac OS X Tiger Upgrade@ Friday, May 13, 2005 4:53 AM

Any router that reboots itself because of a packet on a network is surely the problem?

Damien Guard

# re: Problems with Mac OS X Tiger Upgrade@ Friday, May 13, 2005 2:00 PM

Hard to argue that the router shouldn't be rebooting itself. But it does work fine with a myriad of Windows PCs as well as older Mac OSs. Hard to know where the problem is, but it's quite possible that Tiger is generating a malformed (or atypically formed) DHCP request that the router is particularly sensitive to. Other mfgs routers are having similar problems, so it's not just a quirk in mine, and Apple is releasing an update for it, which supports the claim that there is an OS issue. Either which way, not a seamless upgrade experience.

Kevin Dente

# re: Choosing project code names@ Monday, May 16, 2005 4:45 PM

Does make you wonder what they were thinking with the Visual Web Developer 2005 codename...Venus...

Scott Galoway

# re: Choosing project code names@ Monday, May 16, 2005 9:53 PM

better yet, code name them places you have to go if you miss the shipdate, i.e.

- Tulsa
- Kansas City
- Sacremento
- Charlotte (my hometown)

That would *definitely* help out w/ slipping ship dates IMO :-).

jayson knight

# re: Choosing project code names@ Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:18 PM

Kevin:
I have come to the conclusion that odd project names are the best (I am mostly thinking open source projects here). If you are using the open source software, you will spend much of your life searching on Google, so you don't want to get lots of excess/unrelated info. So, the more obscure, the better :).
Enjoy,
RB

Richard Berger

# re: Choosing project code names@ Friday, May 20, 2005 10:15 PM

Our project can't afford trips for releases so we're naming the releases after restaraunts we can go for the celebration. Of course if we miss the ship dates we can do the same thing except the names will be The Wendy's Release or Jack in the Box Release.

Bil Simser

# re: String concat..... The endless story@ Tuesday, May 24, 2005 7:45 AM

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# re: Web Projects in VS2005@ Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:21 AM

I think having class libraries is a good thing, anything that seperates logic from presentation is good. I think the new model is a good idea, and does a better job of representing what a web site really is. Sure you could exclude files, but when you went to deploy you had to copy the entire folder so that file went along anyway.

I admit I was hesitant at first as well, but you gotta give new things a shot. After working with the model a little bit I much prefer it to the old way of doing things.

James Avery

# re: Web Projects in VS2005@ Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:57 AM

James,

Among other things, the PreCompiledWeb option takes care of excluded and unneccessary files in a web project. You precompile it, then copy from the PreCompiledWeb folder instead of the source folder.

Also, while it's true that web projects are different from other types of project (different options, different startup info, etc...) there should still be a commonality among how the projects are handled. And that means some kind of configuration/project file, I would think. But that's just me.

Chris Szurgot

# re: Web Projects in VS2005@ Thursday, May 26, 2005 1:09 PM

James,
I didn't mean to imply that class libraries are bad (although not required to separate presentation from business logic) - only that forcing the developer to use two different models is a bad thing.

Excluding files probably wasn't the best example. My main point is that a consistent developer experience is a good thing. References work differently, project properties work differently, etc.

Kevin Dente

# re: Web Projects in VS2005@ Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:10 PM

I believe that any DataLayer must be a simple code block, that they allow operations against DB.

That code block would not have to know on the Business Entities. Single to specialize it is to execute the operations (Store Procedures and SQL Sentences) against the engine DB (SQL, Oracle, DB2, etc.), with which this setting.

Finally, I invite to you to download the DataLayer.Primitives Public Version.

This is very cool Data Layer :)

DataLayer.Primitives - Readme!
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1389

Cheers,

Javier Luna
http://guydotnetxmlwebservices.blogspot.com/

Javier Luna

# re: Web Projects in VS2005@ Friday, May 27, 2005 12:51 AM

I very much agree. The change doesn't really seem to solve any problems, at least any that I've encountered over the years. Sure it's nice to be able to open a project directly from the IIS directly, but that was never really a problem, was it.

I also, totally agree, that the difference in the project model being SO different from a Winforms or other project type is problematic. Especially regarding references and the cool gee-wiz project properties window found in other project types. Why?

John Walker

# re: Problems with Mac OS X Tiger Upgrade@ Saturday, May 28, 2005 4:48 AM

My home network has worked well for 5 years until I went to replace my old PM 7300 with an eMac installed with OSX Tiger. It refuses to recognise the ethernet, tells me it's not connected and won't configure or connect to the internet. Put the plug back into the 7300 and it works ok

T Drew

# re: Firefox's dirty little secret@ Saturday, May 28, 2005 1:50 PM

1) did you try to see if an extension actually leaks memory?
2) did you file this as a bug in bugzilla?

Frans Bouma

# re: Firefox's dirty little secret@ Saturday, May 28, 2005 2:40 PM

1) I tested in safe mode, with all extensions disabled.

2) Follow the link in the post and you'll see that numerous people have already reported it. For examples, see bugs #249469 and #268138.

Kevin Dente

# re: Firefox's dirty little secret@ Saturday, May 28, 2005 4:11 PM

I also experience the ever increasing memory usage.

I've found an extension called "sessionsaver" invaluable. It does exactly what it says on the tin - you can exit Firefox, and when you restart it, all the browser windows and tabs are restored. It also restores the previous page history for each tab.

It also restores pages if Firefox or Windows crashes.

Steve

# re: Firefox's dirty little secret@ Sunday, May 29, 2005 11:23 AM

Steve,
I've played around with SessionSaver. It's close to what I'd like, but changes a few Firefox behaviors in ways that I didn't like (for example, disabling the "warn on close with multiple open tabs" feature), so I uninstalled it. Perhaps it's time to take another look at it.

Kevin Dente

# re: Episode III@ Sunday, May 29, 2005 1:56 PM

"Why did Padme have to turn from a scrappy fighter in Episode II to a weepy nothing in Episode III? "

Obviously you've never had a pregnant wife. ;)

Scott

# re: Episode III@ Sunday, May 29, 2005 3:05 PM

Oh, I'm not even going to touch that. ;)

Kevin Dente

# re: Episode III@ Monday, May 30, 2005 1:18 AM

1. Because any fighting is bad... He walks with a cane because any use of the force for selfish reasons would take him to the dark side, thus he must only use it for defence.
2. Yes, they're more advanced than we are, if you fall off a ledge, its your own damn fault.
4. The droids were obviously altered after they were given to Capt. Antillies. 3PO's memory was wiped and R2 was working on rebel ships for the entire time luke was growing up on Tattoine. The rebellion isn't exactly rich so they prolly couldn't afford to fix everything that broke on R2. Who knows how many times he's build completely rebuilt.

Ogre

# re: Episode III@ Wednesday, June 01, 2005 4:19 AM

@Orgre
4. -> Who knows how many times he's build completely rebuilt.
George Lucas?

Bob

# re: My first GreaseMonkey script - MSDN Product Feedback@ Wednesday, June 01, 2005 5:53 PM

Nice improvement. Did you post it to the Greasemonkey wiki?

You might be interested in a couple scripts I wrote:

Resize the textareas on any site, using keyboard shortcuts: http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000246.html

MSDN language filter: http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000240.html

Cheers,
Julien

Julien Couvreur

# re: Problems with Mac OS X Tiger Upgrade@ Thursday, June 02, 2005 8:10 PM

my powerbook g4 cant go on the actual internet wirelessly, but can go on any instant messeging or downloading software... i tried evrtything to fix it...have no clue, started yesterday, but have had tiger for weeks.

Jissan Huq

# re: IE6 Tabs with MSN Toolbar - Nice idea, flawed implementation@ Monday, June 13, 2005 11:46 PM

I have to agree to that. Flickering is very annoying.

Nat

# re: IE6 Tabs with MSN Toolbar - Nice idea, flawed implementation@ Saturday, June 18, 2005 8:35 PM

why people like firefox with the reason of tab??? opera did it long time ago. And if u still like IE, u should use IE based browsers like Greenbrowser. Greenbrowser is awsome with tabbed browsing n many more features.

If u like FF, u should like it with other reasons.

Myo

# re: IE6 Tabs with MSN Toolbar - Nice idea, flawed implementation@ Monday, June 20, 2005 12:49 PM

I think the fact that Opera is not free has something to do with it. As for Firefox, I certainly have other reasons to use it, such as security, popup-block (yes I know IE has that now), and standards compliance. It's also fast, not bloated, not tied to the OS. I don't know whether IE7 will make me change back. After all, IE4 made me switch from Netscape.

Boris

# re: Top 10 signs you're addicted to VMWare@ Wednesday, July 27, 2005 9:03 PM

Lol ... great list! I agree with number 1 <grin>

Jason Row

# re: CruiseControl, MSBuild, and Unit Tests@ Tuesday, August 16, 2005 5:30 PM

Try putting The "Error" task outside (after) of the "Exec" task.

Girish Mahapatra

# re: CruiseControl, MSBuild, and Unit Tests@ Tuesday, August 16, 2005 5:33 PM

Oops, typo. Thanks, I'll correct it.

Kevin Dente

# re: PDC software - back to CTP hell@ Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:52 PM

This is driving me nuts too. But it's okay, the release is not that far away.

Vurg

# re: PDC software - back to CTP hell@ Thursday, September 15, 2005 8:56 AM

LINQ stuff that I played around with ran fine on VS 2005 Beta 2 - Quote from the LINQ Readme:

"The prototype C# compiler and the samples below require one of the following:
Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2
Visual C# 2005 Express Beta 2"

JosephCooney

# re: PDC software - back to CTP hell@ Sunday, October 09, 2005 5:14 PM

The LINQ main page was incorrect. The preview works against beta 2. There will be an update to the preview that works against RTM.

Matt Warren

# re: Holy smokes, it finally happened - VS2005 on MSDN Subscriber Downloads@ Thursday, October 27, 2005 4:08 PM

Glad to know I'm not the only one.

Chris Slatt

# re: Holy smokes, it finally happened - VS2005 on MSDN Subscriber Downloads@ Thursday, October 27, 2005 4:17 PM

Not the only one, it's happening to me also and it makes me sad!

Justin

# re: Holy smokes, it finally happened - VS2005 on MSDN Subscriber Downloads@ Thursday, October 27, 2005 4:28 PM

I'm downloading the DVD images not for both SQL 2005 Developer and VS Professional at 450KB/sec each.

Police

# re: Holy smokes, it finally happened - VS2005 on MSDN Subscriber Downloads@ Thursday, October 27, 2005 4:41 PM

I was seeing the CD images with IE, but I couldn't download them, so I tried logging in with Firefox, and firefox saw the DVD images, and they are downloading now. Must have something to do with which server you connect to.

Chris Szurgot

# re: Holy smokes, it finally happened - VS2005 on MSDN Subscriber Downloads@ Thursday, October 27, 2005 6:12 PM

I'm pretty sure on this, but don't quote me exactly - I think the team suite is an additional purchase and doesn't get included in the subscriber downloads, even if you're universal.

Matt Hawley

# re: Riffing on Scoble - Live.com launching without Firefox support@ Sunday, November 13, 2005 2:57 PM

+1. There's just no excuse. The browsers have never been closer in terms of writing a single code base in terms of XHTML, CSS and JavaScript. Of course there are still inconsistencies, but any web developer worth their paycheck should know the workarounds by now.

Anyone developing a public facing site should be developing for the standards from the get go and be testing every bit of UI in as many of the major browsers as they can (multiple versions too) throughout the lifetime of the project.

Drew Marsh

# re: Riffing on Scoble - Live.com launching without Firefox support@ Sunday, November 13, 2005 5:45 PM

Maybe Robert himself hacked a bit of the Javascript on Live.com together. ;)

Wim Hollebrandse

# re: Riffing on Scoble - Live.com launching without Firefox support@ Monday, November 14, 2005 12:17 AM

I agree that all of the new browser apps/services should support Firefox. In terms of live.com, i definitely was dissapointed that it didn't from day one, but they said it was coming soon, and sure enough they followed through. I'll give them a pass on this since it clearly was and still is a beta.

John Walker

# re: Riffing on Scoble - Live.com launching without Firefox support@ Monday, November 14, 2005 12:08 PM

Glad you posted this, Kevin. Agreed. Just another lame, embarrassing presentation for our side.

Dave Burke

# re: Riffing on Scoble - Live.com launching without Firefox support@ Monday, November 14, 2005 2:16 PM

You bohemians and your crazy alternative browsers!

Jeff Atwood

# re: Riffing on Scoble - Live.com launching without Firefox support@ Monday, November 14, 2005 2:43 PM

Peace, love, and Firefox, man. :P

Kevin Dente

# re: Tab control with no visible tabs@ Tuesday, November 15, 2005 12:53 PM

Why did he want to use the TabControl instead of Panels or ...? Was it Tai?

jason

# re: Tab control with no visible tabs@ Tuesday, November 15, 2005 5:11 PM

Because stacking Panel controls on top of each other makes for an ugly design-time experience (and yes, it was Tai).

Kevin Dente

# re: Tab control with no visible tabs@ Thursday, November 17, 2005 1:15 AM

Ah. I can appreciate that.

jason

# re: Tab control with no visible tabs@ Friday, November 18, 2005 10:32 AM

What fun - playing "guess the developer who asked the question". Kevin - can you provide more example questions? Then we can try to guess who asked it :) :).

RB

# re: Tab control with no visible tabs@ Tuesday, November 22, 2005 3:32 PM

Now if only we could have the Wizard 97 option. Why was that never implemented in .NET even though it's in the Win32 API?

Borid Zakharin

# re: MSBuild Team releases AssemblyInfoTask@ Tuesday, December 06, 2005 4:02 PM

Hey Kevin,

I'm working on the same "issue". Could you give a few about what you did to get the AssemblyInfoTask working in a multi-project situation.

Thanks.

______________________________
- David Lanouette
- DLanouette _at_ Computer.org

David Lanouette

# re: Sometimes I really hate Quicken@ Tuesday, January 03, 2006 12:31 PM

Dude, I know what you mean! I encountered a couple of paid items just disappear after I accepted them in the transaction list. They vanished from my registry. I figured I wouldn't worry about it though. The payees got the money, my bank said they were paid, all was well. So what it my quicken registry isn't exactly correct? Life's too short.

What really ruins my day though is if Quicken tells me there's a problem sending off a payment. Fortunately that's happened only once in the many years I've been using Quicken, but we all carry our scars.

Have a deluxe Quicken 2006!

Dave Burke

# re: Free and easy way to resize an NTFS partition@ Sunday, January 08, 2006 2:02 AM

Once linux tools work bugfree they are a great addition. Knoppix in particular allowed me to rescue my system when my harddisc was dying.

I can wholeheartedly recommend ntfsclone aswell (http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/man/ntfsclone.html). Its a great thing to see your complete partition being cloned to an ext2 partition (as a file) on an external usb hd drive. Then, after hd upgrade I cloned it back to a new disc and used ntfsresize.

Amanjit Gill

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:10 PM

..."it has two 480-Mbps USB 2.0 ports..."
rings a bell?

Srdjan

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:22 PM

What, you mean plug in a mouse? Ever try using a mouse sitting in coach on an airplane? Sorry, not a good enough solution for me.

Kevin Dente

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:23 PM

And the fact that that it's firmware isn't BIOS compatible...

Chris Martin

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:23 PM

what do you mean plugin? Never heard of wireless?

Srdjan

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:29 PM

Chris - the BIOS issue supposedly isn't a problem for Vista (although it is for XP).

Srdjan - Wired or wireless is irrelevant. You're still talking about using a mouse. No thanks.

Kevin Dente

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:56 PM

Apple is using EFI (http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/) instead of BIOS in the new Macs, XP-32bits doesn't support it, but XP-64bits and Vista do.

Rolando

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:10 PM

Using OS X with only a one-button mousepad isn't a problem for me. The OS UI is designed well enough that I rarely need to access a context menu. For those times when I do, I just hold the ctrl key and click the mouse button. I'm sure a similar shortcut key could be set up under Vista.

Actually, the two button mousepad on my Dell laptop annoys me. The two buttons are so close together that I'm always hitting the right one when I mean to hit the left one.

A bigger problem for me in either case is that the damn mouse pad is below the keyboard. I'm 6'4", when I'm in an airplane seat I don't have a lot of room to go moving my arms around to hit mousepads. So I end up bending my wrist at weird angles to move the mouse. Hurts like hell after a while.

Scott

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:11 PM

Macbook is still a 32-bit processor so you can't run the XP64 bits on it. EFI has a BIOS emulation mode, but Apple isn't using it on their laptops.

Scott

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:58 PM

why would you pay for a mac and then put windows on it?

ILL SULLY THIS DELIGHTFUL HARDWARE WITH AN INFERIOR OPERATING SYS*OH SHIT I LOADED A PICTURE NOW IM VIRUSED*

nick martini

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:59 PM

Yeah, what you're actually forgetting is the fact that anyone who buys a Mac to install Windows on it is a moron.

h. r. puffnstuff

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:47 PM

Would love to use a Mac and OSX but I need to use Windows (yes, I really do) The only way I can move to Apple is if I can use Windows on the same machine for some of the time. The only way Windows users can migrate is Apples that support both OS (and I can't wait)

corminodad

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Saturday, January 21, 2006 11:25 AM

you're all iMorons. windows is the choice of use for the rest of the world. of course people want to use windows for the long run while having a pretty desktop/laptop. if they can boot in osx as well, all the better, to get them started with using the os. also, you iMorons are just eating crow because for years you've all been saying "oh the g4 is good, and the g5 is better, than intel's crappy cpus on microsoft's crappy os", now look at you all, just a bunch of lemmings. yes, macs are prettier. faster? no, that's always been established as hype. easier to use? yes, if your intelligence is equivalent to forrest gump. better? when you're carrying around steve jobs' distortion field. you believe whatever jobs says. admit it and just say sorry for being so stupid.

georgebush

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Saturday, January 21, 2006 11:29 AM

and one more thing: you're all still idiots. give up the one-mouse button excuse. everybody, and i mean everybody, even little children, use two mouse buttons. everybody. why? because not everybody wants or has a cute little mac driver to pretend to the touchpad that it has two mouse buttons. not everybody has two arms so they can use the stupid ctrl or clover (and wtf is that called anyway?) button for the right-click. and not everybod wants to carry around a freaking mouse (wireless or wired, you idiots) to use a right mouse button. ergo, you're all still lemmings and idiots to believe in steve jobs saying you don't need two mouse buttons. hey i think he once said that the g5 is the world's fastest cpu. and you believed him, you losers.
I'm George Bush, and I rule the world.

georgebush

# re: Satellite assemblies and strong names@ Saturday, March 18, 2006 4:34 AM

> I haven't yet figured out if there's a way around this.
Take a look at SatelliteContractVersionAttribute

Joe

# Re: Simple but handy VS2005 macro for C# code navigation@ Friday, March 24, 2006 6:57 PM

F12 does this with the default settings. with the VB settings I think it's SHift-F7..
You can go to tools-options-keyboard and look up that command. you'll see what shorctu it has set to it, and you can of course change it.

Roy Osherove

# re: Simple but handy VS2005 macro for C# code navigation@ Friday, March 24, 2006 7:05 PM

Roy,
F12 goes to the declaration of a variable, not to the definition of that variable's type.

Kevin Dente

# re: Simple but handy VS2005 macro for C# code navigation@ Sunday, March 26, 2006 8:09 PM

Kevin, ah, I get it. One more F12 then.. right?

Roy Osherove

# re: Altiris SVS - a new kind of virtualization@ Tuesday, March 28, 2006 5:02 PM

Kevin, thanks for the comments. Glad you're finding SVS useful! We kinda figured you would. ;) Make sure to check out the resources at the Juice Web community site (URL above).

Scott Jones

# re: Simple but handy VS2005 macro for C# code navigation@ Friday, March 31, 2006 4:40 PM

Hey, I'm new to to this macro in VS2005 stuff. how do i add it to my IDE? (better yet if you have a link that could explain it)

Justin

# re: Satellite assemblies and strong names@ Monday, April 03, 2006 8:10 AM

That is OK to have SatelliteContractVersionAttribute attribute, But how about Versioning the satellite assembly, could you please explain me, What is the way around.

Narendra Tiwari

# re: Uh-oh - TestDriven.NET goes commercial@ Monday, July 10, 2006 7:01 PM

Hi Kevin,

If you read the personal licence agreement you'll find it's very liberal. There aren't any restrictions on how you use it. If you want to be a trial user forever then that's your prerogative. ;)

I know that in a lot of organisations ordering (non-Microsoft?) software can be very painful. That is why you won't find any clauses in the personal licence that make using it on commercial projects a grey area.

I just hope that a few people are inclined to purchase some software that hopefully makes them more productive. At the end of the day developers aren't cheap and productivity is important.

Thanks, Jamie.

Jamie Cansdale

# Running Assembly Reflector Add-in Release History@ Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:33 PM

Having problems? Check the FAQ.Version 1.0 - download hereCompatible with Reflector 4.2Changed keyboard

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# re: MSDE not supported on Vista? Yikes!@ Friday, July 14, 2006 3:46 AM

'supported' as in: you won't get help, or it won't run? Because I really doubt they messed up MSDE so much that it won't run on vista.

FransBouma

# re: MSDE not supported on Vista? Yikes!@ Saturday, July 15, 2006 9:04 AM

You would be surprised just how easily SQL Express can be swapped for MSDE.

The only real difference is that SQL Express is a thousand times easier to install and manage.

MarcLaFleur

# re: MSDE not supported on Vista? Yikes!@ Monday, July 17, 2006 11:00 AM

That would be really bad news if it didn't work, because there are a whole lot of apps out there that secretly use MSDE.

Jeff

# re: Sharepoint 2007 + Firefox = No rich editing@ Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:00 AM

I continue to be mystified by Microsoft's apparent insistence that other browsers (non-IE) either don't exist, or just don't count.

Just look at ClickOnce - all that hype and then it doesn't work seamlessly except with Internet Explorer. Are they rushing to fix that?

Alex Hoffman

# No excuse for treating Firefox as second class in Sharepoint 2007@ Thursday, July 20, 2006 10:09 AM

I noticed today that Sharepoint 2007 will treat Firefox as a down-level browser. That means no spiffy

Jeff's Junk

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Friday, July 28, 2006 11:15 AM

You do rule george. Mac OS is an over polished hyped up linux. The reason you can't get viruses on mac's is because they don't do anything, or allow you to do anything serious when it comes to the basic platform. This is why no one develops softare for mac's really. And the only software developed from mac's usualy started off on linux. Like all of the web browsers. Don't get me wrong, I'm not to fond of linux either. But after you spend the 5 hours it takes to get everything working propper and mounting your old NTFS file system it's not to bad asside from the opensource 3d rendering software. Mac's are for people who were to dumb to not get spyware while using windows. Or for people who just want a 'cute little computer' to accessorize with their volkswagen. The operating system is still weak when compaired to windows and hte work windows has done in the development community.

wow

# re: Avoiding the dreaded "unable to download folder (null)" error with Outlook 2003/IMAP@ Wednesday, August 02, 2006 5:02 PM

Same issue here and we are hard-wired. This is an Outlook issue as none of the alternative mail clients have this issue. Once again Microsoft wins the encrypted ambiguous error message award! BTW, the microsoft knowledgebase does feature this error message though the only "cause" is Exchange caching?

Uh... I am using IMAP.... not Exchange. ;-) thanks for the write-up...

James

# re: Sharepoint 2007 + Firefox = No rich editing@ Thursday, August 03, 2006 6:03 PM

The interesting thing is that when I got x-browser editing working in Perspective the real painful bit is getting HTML edited in one browser to be editable in others as they all use different means of expressing the same formatting and will only edit what they produce.

WYSIWYG editing components such as FCKEditor, while really cool don't seem to help with this!

Alan Slater

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 12:53 AM

Did you also notice that "Class" is listed twice?

Steve Kaschimer

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 12:58 AM

So's HTML Page.

Brendan G

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:27 AM

First time I notice that :-) I guess that is how easily it slipped through, it is our mind playing tricks with us. Our brain makes us read the beginning and end letters so our brain tells us that it says "definition".

Gabriel Lozano-Morán

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 2:39 AM

So strange, i don't have this on my VS.

I have "An empty class declaration".

Fatoux Nicolas

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 3:55 AM

have also "declaration" and not definition

preishuber

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 9:21 AM

"An empty class declaration" is the other class in the list.

I have both the 2 classes, the definiton and the declaration.

I think that in this case, our brains go further that than just "fixing" the words. The text that appears there add nothing significant in the ones I looked at, so we don't even see it at all. ;)

AndrewSeven

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 9:24 AM

I use this everyday and i have never noticed it. I am not sure i have ever even read that before.

Ben

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:24 AM

That's odd. In my VS2005 it's actually spelled correctly!

(version 8.0.50727.42)

Boris Yeltsin

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, August 10, 2006 2:13 PM

I have 2 issued with Netgear latest products Wxx8xx series routers. I bought several of the routers and tested it. It appeared all of them have the same issues. The problems were scheduling and number of block sites (current patch fixed it). I email them the print screens of the error messages. For the scheduling, I tried enter start blocking time 18:00 hours to 09:00 hours or 23:00 to 01:00 hours. It gave me an error message said "Invalid time input." I know some people don't use this feature but I need it to prevent some computers use the internet at the middle of the night or day. This features is very useful for parent to stop kids go to the internet. Netgear 2nd level never reply. They sell a product that never fully test it.

Michael

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, August 10, 2006 2:23 PM

My sister had the Netgear wgr614 router. One day

Michael

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Friday, August 11, 2006 11:37 AM

Kevin, I believe you need to upgrade or stop playing with the registry ;-)

Albert Pascual

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Saturday, August 12, 2006 1:07 AM

finally decided to secure my wlan yesterday, enabled 802.1x authentication, day later (today), run into this problem. thank goodness for google and this page! taking following measures:

- upgrading to latest firmware (netgear)

- upgrading service packs (MS) on wireless comps.

will let you know how this goes after i've done this.

H/W:

Netgear WGR614v5

- WPAPSK, MAC Filtering

Sony VAIO

- BG2200 Wlan Chipset

- SP1 (soon to be SP2)

P2-300 (yup, still klunks away)

- Netgear MA111 USB

Confirmation that it is a problem with MS and not with the netgear router b/c I loaded live linux cd (knoppix) on my Vaio and worked beautifully.

Ian P

# re: MSDE not supported on Vista? Yikes!@ Monday, August 14, 2006 12:11 PM

One of the other dilemmas is the fact that some vendors who use MSDE are a little hesitant about upgrading the instances they use in the future to SQL 2005 Express. It seems as though we (rhetorically speaking) are being painted into a corner...one that will certainly delay Vista migration for a number of companies.

Tim Cullen

# re: Avoiding the dreaded "unable to download folder (null)" error with Outlook 2003/IMAP@ Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:46 AM

Hi,

Thanks for the post, it helped me.

I had the same problem, and confirm that it is probably a lost (even temporary) of the connexion. I have a WiFi connexion, some time lost for an hibernate for example.

Jean-Marc

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# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, August 31, 2006 8:14 AM

Have Netgear router MR 814-2v. Two desktops one at 50 feet, other at 15 ft. Both have external antennae. Both have great results. Have HP laptop at 50 feet, tried 2 Linksys adptrs. No connection. Tried a Belkin adptr. Nothing. Moved computer to 3 feet from router. Nada. Conneted by wire. Fine.Took it to Circuit City. They got results with the Belkin(wireless). Received a new Dell laptop a few days ago. It recognized the router signal but said it couldn't connect!!! Works wired.

At a loss. Have tried well over 20 times with each and with help. If I get a new router, will I be able to get our computers working again. I'm not really knowlegable.

Bill

# re: SourceSafe 2005 - Getting back the old-style dialogs@ Friday, September 01, 2006 3:15 PM

Thanks for the tip!! The old working folder dialogue in particular is one that I need.

I also miss the Ctrl+O checkout hotkey.

invid

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Bob Johnson

# re: Digging in to Atlas@ Monday, September 04, 2006 1:39 AM

Yes. Atlas has some good and bad points but one of the very good point is that learning atlas is not that difficult as it sits on the top of asp.net and give u a lot of control and extender that can do very difficult work so easily.

Thanks

Vikram

vikram

# re: First look at Visual Studio Orcas available for download@ Monday, September 04, 2006 1:40 AM

Can u also post the link to the download

Thanks

vikram

# re: Digging in to Atlas@ Monday, September 04, 2006 4:18 AM

The other interesting point is that most people will never use anything beyond the update panel, so won't need to know anything about atlas beyond slapping a scriptmanager onto page and wrapping their controls in update panels.

Plip

# re: Digging in to Atlas@ Monday, September 04, 2006 1:50 PM

It is a cool technology.

What I think it will be more popular if they can add more browser compatibility layers for other popular browsers which currently not supported by atlas i.e. opera e.t.c.

Kamran Shahid

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