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

Kevin Dente's PuppiesAndIceCreamBlog

# I bookmark del giorno #45@ Thursday, July 13, 2006 12:54 PM

Lorenzo Barbieri @ UGIblogs!

# Interesting Finds: July 13, 2006@ Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:44 PM

Jason Haley

# 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

# CEO@ Friday, September 01, 2006 11:49 PM

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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

# re: Visual SourceSafe - recursive handling bug from command line@ Monday, September 04, 2006 10:56 PM

Why are you still using SourceSafe?

Mark

# re: Patching Atlas bugs@ Tuesday, September 05, 2006 4:40 AM

EEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

(Nice though)

But still ... EEEEWWWWWWWWWW

Plip

# re: Patching Atlas bugs@ Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:15 AM

Is it guaranteed that it will work on all machines? I believe that the web resource URLs are machine specific.

Rama Krishna

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, September 05, 2006 10:19 PM

Just discovered a real bug with NETGEAR MA111 USB wireless adapter. It quit working about a month ago. It would connect but I could not get an IP address. Quite by accident, I turned on the 'Use Windows to configure my wireless network setting' even though NETGEAR said to turn it off. Much to my surprise, I connected to the internet!!! However when I reboot, I am told by NETGEAR that I need to turn it off. If I don't, no internet connection. I turn it off, wireless adapter connects but no IP address. Turn the 'Use Windows...' back on and get connected. Has anyone hear of this? Is there a fix?

Joan

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Saturday, September 09, 2006 10:18 AM

Stumped here: the wireless indicator light on the front display (WGR614 v7) continually blinks (steady) yet there is NO mention of this condition ANYWHERE in the manual. My laptop picks up a strong signal and recognizes the name of the router but will not connect.

Anyone else have this problem? And, more importantly, any solutions? Thanks much!

Carson

# re: CruiseControl, MSBuild, and Unit Tests@ Friday, September 15, 2006 7:28 AM

Kevin,

this looks useful but I'm new to msbuild and wonder how you define your item group that the output task updates, and how is ExitCodes.Identity defined?

I'd appreciate some more info if you can.

John Bell

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, September 19, 2006 10:02 PM

why is my opening page with the usernames for various people gone when the netgear wireless adapter is connected? How do i keep the usernames on the opening page?

Thanks,

Nancy

nancy

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:13 PM

Hey thanks. I'll check this out.

Interesting to note - I just started having this problem slightly after install ie7 rc1.

Fuzel

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:42 PM

Please help! Does anyone know how to disable the program Mrv.GINA.dll on the installed netgear wireless router? My welcome screen is all messed up, the usernames are gone.

Thanks.

nancy

# re: SourceSafe 2005 - Getting back the old-style dialogs@ Friday, September 22, 2006 2:24 PM

Yay, this helps with a problem I have that the working folder for a particular subdirectory keeps getting set to the wrong version of the project. I can re-override it, but that involves navigating through the whole tree again. This at least resets it to the default, avoiding the navigation.

Now I'll see if I can figure out how it's getting set in the first place.

Dave

Dave Agans

# re: Tab control with no visible tabs@ Tuesday, September 26, 2006 9:43 AM

uh... and tabcontrol1.visible = false was too hard to implement?

bob

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Monday, October 02, 2006 5:48 AM

This one was a hard one to find, but thank you a LOT! I have been having this behaviour for years, but I grew accustomed to it... But for the last weeks this behaviour has been growing more hectic, and this morning I just had enough of it. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you (and I mean it - these were not copy&pasted :P ).

Best regards.

Paulo Tavares

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, October 05, 2006 2:32 AM

I am having the same problem as nancy . . . the usernames are gone and I get the message that I have to uninstall Mrv.GINA.dll which looks like it has a bezillion things in it. What exactly do I do to get my usernames welcome screen back or is there no way to use it and the netgear too?

Thanks,

deena

Deena

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Wednesday, October 11, 2006 7:10 AM

Wow. You guys get all excited about OSX don't you? if you don't like it just don't use it. I'm getting a Macbook but I also have a PC so won't be putting Windows on it. If others choose to then so what? Just use your Right mouse button and then choose "Back".

Your mum.

# re: Microsoft Atlas - should I be worried?@ Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:28 PM

We are hoping to have a major release next week with a lot of major updates and bug fixes(lots of good things coming).

The team has been pretty heads-down working on it the last few months. It is almost there...

Scott

P.S. All features from the past CTP will be in the drop next week. Some will be in the "core" supported 1.0 files, while some will be in the add-on on top which we aren't marking as supported just yet. But they will all work together.

ScottGu

# re: Microsoft Atlas - should I be worried?@ Friday, October 13, 2006 12:28 AM

Hi Kevin,

Can you send me email with details of the bug? I can then follow up with the team.

Thanks,

Scott

ScottGu

# re: Microsoft Atlas - should I be worried?@ Friday, October 13, 2006 12:58 AM

Wow, that's some quick feedback. Props to Scott, though, would anyone expect any less from him? ;)

Chris Hammond

# re: Sometimes, Apple gets it exactly right@ Friday, October 13, 2006 2:03 AM

If MS did that, they'd get sued by Motorola, get criticized by every blogger, get 1000 articles on Digg about how they're crushing the "little guy", and get slapped with penalties by every country in Europe.

It's amazing what a company can get away with when they have no market share.

foobar

# re: Microsoft Atlas - should I be worried?@ Friday, October 13, 2006 2:11 AM

I don't think I've ever oserved someone more "on top of their game" than Scott. Truly one of a kind.

Sam

# re: Microsoft Atlas - should I be worried?@ Friday, October 13, 2006 3:13 AM

Yeah, I did begin to think that there was very little news about Atlas recently and your post is a good shout I have to say.

I have been looking at Atlas and think it looks really good although we wont be using at work much until the release at the end of the year.

If only everyone was on the ball as much as Scott.

Gregor Suttie

# re: Sometimes, Apple gets it exactly right@ Friday, October 13, 2006 7:10 AM

Hardly /no/ market share, but we won't rise to that troll ;-) Seriously though, Apple /does/ take a lot of criticism for bundling stuff and making it harder for 3rd party developers. I think though that this is choice they've had to make, and the out-of-the-box experience on Mac OS X is all the better for it. They've done the same in some places at the pro end too; developing Final Cut Pro in response to Adobe's hot/cold approach to Premiere on Mac (now iced), buying Shake, building Aperture as a sort-of competitor to some of Photoshop's tools. They take a lot of flak for this too, so it's not as one-sided as you might think.

Robert Sharl

# re: Sometimes, Apple gets it exactly right@ Friday, October 13, 2006 11:22 AM

"They've done the same in some places at the pro end too; developing Final Cut Pro in response to Adobe's hot/cold approach to Premiere on Mac (now iced), buying Shake, building Aperture as a sort-of competitor to some of Photoshop's tools"

Adobe annoys me-- look at how long they are taking with an Intel OS X version of Photoshop. If Apple can more swiftly code BETTER apps, more power to them. I am not a pro-- but I will say I love iMovie. Preview blows Acrobat away for what it does (Acrobat has some additional features, admittedly-- FOR NOW). Garageband and iDVD are pretty slick. I hate iPhoto, though.

Tom Barta

# re: Sometimes, Apple gets it exactly right@ Friday, October 13, 2006 11:23 AM

Is Apple ever going to get sued by Europe (TM) over their so called anti-competitive actions?

foobar

# re: Sometimes, Apple gets it exactly right@ Friday, October 13, 2006 11:52 AM

That's where Apple really shines IMO. Hardware integration. My wife, against my advice, tried to import some DV movies from our camcorder using our HP instead of my iBook. It took her two days, and ignoring various warnings about drivers that "were not verified by Microsoft" before she could do it. It was faster for me to import the video using iMovie and export it over to the HP. I wonder every time I try installing a new piece of hardware under Windows, "How do non-tech people deal with this terminology and process". With hardware, it either works with OSX or it doesn't. I literally just plugged in my camcorder into the firewire port of my iBook and pressed "import" in iMovie. None of this nebulous middle ground where it might work if you download the correct driver but it could cause your computer to blue screen. I now plan my hardware purchases around my iBook. Makes life a lot simpler IMO.

Scott

# re: Sometimes, Apple gets it exactly right@ Friday, October 13, 2006 12:18 PM

"Is Apple ever going to get sued by Europe (TM) over their so called anti-competitive actions?"

They already have. France didn't like the iTunes DRM system. I think they kissed and made up, though.

Tom Barta

# re: Microsoft Atlas - should I be worried?@ Friday, October 13, 2006 12:55 PM

I have to agree with your concerns. As someone who works daily with the Atlas framework and knows EVERYTHING there is to know about, i'm extremely uncomfterable with the notion that i'll miss 6 monthes worth of CTP that goes straight to RTM. It took me a long time to understand Atlas the way I do now, and shipping a product like Atlas with half a year of non community previewed code is just asking for trouble.

Justin-Josef Angel [MVP]

# re: Sometimes, Apple gets it exactly right@ Friday, October 13, 2006 12:57 PM

What "anticompetitive actions" are you talking about, foobar?

As for the Aperture as Photoshop tools competitor, let's just point out that Aperture is an image management tool and not a pixel manipulation tool like Photoshop. If you were referring to Adobe's Lightbox, let's point out that Aperture came first, and Lightbox was developed by Macromedia, not Adobe. Macromedia was purchased by Adobe.

KenC

# re: Sometimes, Apple gets it exactly right@ Friday, October 13, 2006 2:18 PM

Well at least Apple is not stupid enough to 'integrate' their main browser into the OS... and a very buggy one at that. Everything that Apple 'bundles' is optional. iPhoto is better now, I mostly like it. Apple makes QuickTime for both Microsoft Windows and its own systems... the same can not be said for Windows Media Player 10.

drx1

# re: Sometimes, Apple gets it exactly right@ Friday, October 13, 2006 2:23 PM

"Lightbox was developed by Macromedia, not Adobe."

Wha?

It's called Lightroom, and it's the brainchild of veteran Photoshop engineer Mark Hamburg. Photoshop is not a Macromedia product.

http://photoshopnews.com/2006/01/09/the-shadowlandlightroom-development-story/

dp

# re: Sometimes, Apple gets it exactly right@ Friday, October 13, 2006 2:26 PM

The MS OS is built for corporate networks so you don't get a lot of extras where Ms cannot sell more servers while Apple is built for consumers - why are there ZERO viruses, malware or trojans on the Mac - because Apple knows thart consumers care about that issue. MS is like a company that makes seats for a car. Since 99% buyers don't buy directly from them, so you count very little as a customer - whatever happens after it leaves the factory - take it up with someone else.

jbelkin

# re: Sometimes, Apple gets it exactly right@ Friday, October 13, 2006 3:51 PM

I sure wish this had turned into a discussion on how to sync your mobile phone contacts with Windows.

Also, I'm surprised that nobody has pointed out that MS probably doesn't feel they have a vested interest in syncing non-Windows Mobile smartphones with Windows. :(

Paul, a .NET developer

TheSak

# re: Sometimes, Apple gets it exactly right@ Friday, October 13, 2006 5:03 PM

>why are there ZERO viruses, malware or

>trojans on the Mac

Sorry, I don't buy that. This is where Apple's marketshare does play a role. Once it's a big enough target, the virus writers will start in. It's not like Apple isn't releasing lots of security fixes.

Kevin Dente

# re: Sometimes, Apple gets it exactly right@ Friday, October 13, 2006 7:57 PM

"Once it's a big enough target, the virus writers will start in."

Which doesn't negate the fact that you are safer running OS X than you are running Windows right now. It'd be the same if you were running Linux or an old version of BeOS or Windows 3.1. ;)

I personally believe that the amount of damage that could be done by a virus/worm to an OS X/BSD based system is much smaller than can be done to a curent Windows system. My gut feeling is that Longhorn closes that gap by QUITE a bit.

Scott

# re: First thoughts on MSAjax (Atlas) Beta 1@ Friday, October 20, 2006 3:24 PM

Hi,

I think I won't be too disappointed even if value-add never becomes core. I mean, I really like the idea of the ms ajax team supporting and improving the core (for example working on compatibility layers); and cool features like drag'n'drop, animations etc. being part of a project like the Ajax Control Toolkit, that is open to contributions from the community. Just my two cents :)

Garbin

# re: First thoughts on MSAjax (Atlas) Beta 1@ Friday, October 20, 2006 3:39 PM

I agree with Garbin.. Just because they're not in the core doesn't mean those cool features don't exist any more. They're available to use and they work great. It's just a matter of which features MS will support...

Alex Dresko

# re: First thoughts on MSAjax (Atlas) Beta 1@ Friday, October 20, 2006 3:40 PM

That is the reason why I still belive that libraries like Ajax.NET (AjaxPro) or Jayrock are more interesting for web developers.

Marc

# re: First thoughts on MSAjax (Atlas) Beta 1@ Friday, October 20, 2006 3:59 PM

I don't knnow about you guys, but I'd rather get it in phases than wait until orcas.

Lynn

# re: First thoughts on MSAjax (Atlas) Beta 1@ Friday, October 20, 2006 5:20 PM

Kevin:

The value-add will be 100% go-Live forever. We plan to ship all the client-side code (the Microsoft AJAX Library pieces) under a derivative of the Microsoft Permissive License a very unrestrictive shared source license that let's you change, customize, package, redistribute, commercialize, etc (basically anything) our client side code.

I think all the flexibility you need will be there -- the only key difference is that the core will have product support through our PSS channels, and value-add + toolkit is community supported (which is the standard for *all* existing ajax technology out there by any vendor both commercial and open source today).

We are also actively investigating releasing the source code to the 'core' server side pieces under a reference license to help ISV's and developers leverage and customize the code at higher levels.

Hope this brings some clarity and eases concerns. If you want more info, ping me directly at bgold@microsoft.com

-Brian

Brian Goldfarb

# re: MS Ajax beta 1 goodies@ Friday, October 20, 2006 9:03 PM

hahaha, I complained when I found out that .EnablePartRendered defaulted to true. I would prefer false. :-)

Wallym

# re: String concatenation - + vs StringBuilder@ Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:51 PM

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# re: Can someone explain why this VB.NET code fails to compile?@ Friday, October 27, 2006 10:41 AM

If Macs are so great why are you futzing around in a .net site?

PC Coder

# re: Absolute positioning in VS2005 HTML designer@ Wednesday, November 08, 2006 12:13 PM

I tried it with a user controls with still unable to position exactly where I wanted. Is there an alternative way?

Thanks

Steve

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:54 PM

I've been running Vista on my MacBook Since beta two. I have 2 gigs of ram in it and it runs like a dream. Vista needs a least one gig :-). All the drivers are there except the trackpad. Now when that does happen, the machine will work as follows: tap with one finger on the trackpad: left click, tap with two fingers: right click. Problem solved :-). Until then the work around is a program called AutoHotkey. It allows you to map the enter key on the keyboard above the trackpad to right click. I'm now running RTM Vista and everything is still working great. The MacBook Vista machine is awesome!

mzeb

# Reflector及相关插件@ Thursday, November 09, 2006 9:11 PM

以前用Reflector，一次只能查看类的一个成员，感觉很不爽。今天搜索了一下发现几个好的插件，特别是Reflector.FileDisassembler，可以直接把一个.dll反编译并输出到一个路径，如图：其下载地址：http://www.denisbauer.com/NETTools/FileDisassembler.aspx另外贴几个Reflector其他插件：...

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# 5 Tips for Getting Starting with MSBuild for CruiseControl@ Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:07 AM

I've been digging into MSBuild and its integration with CruiseControl.NET over the past week and have...

Patrick Altman

# re: Can't load addin@ Wednesday, November 15, 2006 2:47 PM

I can't get this addin to load - using v0.6 together with reflector v4.2.48.0. All I get is an error in Reflector that the addin failed to load (no explanation why...)

Other Reflector addins load fine.

Ivan

# re: Running Assembly Reflector Add-in@ Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:53 PM

Ivan,

You need to upgrade to the latest version of the add-in. See:

http://weblogs.asp.net/kdente/articles/438539.aspx

Kevin Dente

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# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Monday, November 20, 2006 11:50 AM

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# re: Red vs Blue@ Tuesday, December 05, 2006 2:00 PM

Why dont they have all the old episodes?

Christopher

# re: SourceSafe 2005 - Getting back the old-style dialogs@ Tuesday, December 05, 2006 6:13 PM

Oh, that's great! Thanks a lot, I was very upset not being able to clear the working folder of a child project. I just want to leave it to inherit the parent's.

Radu Crisan

# re: MSBuild Team releases AssemblyInfoTask@ Tuesday, December 05, 2006 8:34 PM

Hi, i got problem with changing assemblyinfo by using AssemblyInfoTask and MSBuild.

Would you please give me a sample for AssemblyInfoTask and MSbuild?

Thanks

( itsnvthoai@yahoo.co.uk)

Thoai

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, December 05, 2006 9:01 PM

I have a wgr614v7 and am having the problem of the internet connection dropping out for no reason at all. I can get it to reconnect straight away and its fine for maybe up to an hour if I am lucky (usually about 15mins), then it drops the internet again. I am not even using the wireless, only 2 of the wired ports. One for my desktop pc and the other for my xbox360, the problem is the same for both. I have installed the latest firmware, played round with the mtu settings etc. and nothing seems to stop it. I think the mtu setting has effected it though. I set it to 1400 and although somethings became slow and I couldn't connect to some online games, it didn't disconnect as often. I am hating netgear and am considering replacing it with maybe a more expensive d-link router.

Andrew

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Friday, December 15, 2006 3:06 AM

I think it just might be a driver issue as I've been connecting via Remote Desktop and XP since the RTM was release on MSDN. What I have noticed, though, is that if I do remote in, when I come in the next morning, my LCD screen shows the login screen...no screen-saver. So, aside from slowly burning out my 4-year old LCD screen, not a problem :)

John Walker

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Friday, December 15, 2006 6:07 PM

If it is a driver issue then the original Microsoft drivers (installed by default) for Nvidia card are broken too. This problem does not happen always; it seems to be more frequent after I started using new Terminal client with 32bit color depth and wide screen (1680 pixels, local LCD has only 1280). Sometimes I can see random windows. Their partial images are placed at the top right corner of the screen but they still respond to the mouse at their correct position. Some windows (including display preferences control panel) are not visible at all (they are blank or the whole screen is blank). Even session control screen (shown after pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del) has redraw problems (although the buttons images are correctly repainted when the mouse is moved over them). The hibernation does not fix the problem so it does not seem to be a hardware issue.

Artur Zgodziński

# re: Can someone explain why this VB.NET code fails to compile?@ Saturday, December 16, 2006 1:01 AM

I have the same problm

Faisal

# re: Vista Update - No UAC for you, one year!@ Saturday, December 16, 2006 8:13 PM

I'm with you. UAC seems to be brokenon Vista Upgrades. Applications either won't run or hang, presumably waiting for UAC permission.

Jon Galloway

# re: Vista Update - No UAC for you, one year!@ Sunday, December 17, 2006 2:19 AM

Vista is nothing but a Unix wannabe and it don't get it right. Just revert like everyone else will.!

PS. I'm a Microsoft guy at heart.

Chris Martin

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Firefox 2.0 CPU Utilization@ Sunday, December 17, 2006 4:34 AM

Don't see this particular problem here on my Vista setup, although I did notice that FireFox in its default installation configuration is REALLY, REALLY slow on Vista and sucking CPU heavily while navigating.

This does get a lot better by opening up some of the Http pipeline optimizations in the configuration to open up more ports simultaneously - now it FF runs well...

Last link I used for basic settings comes from here:

http://blog.invisible.ch/2004/02/11/optimizing-firefox/

Rick Strahl

# re: Vista Update - No UAC for you, one year!@ Monday, December 18, 2006 9:12 AM

Not having any problems with Vista and UAC. All my code is working fine, able to debug, multithreaded apps are fine, socket servers working perfectly. A programs seem to forget some settings - seems to be related to registry write permissions or something...

Karl

# re: Vista Update - No UAC for you, one year!@ Wednesday, December 27, 2006 5:32 AM

An interesting thing I have just noticed after several hours of banging my head on the wall with the VS 2005 debugger is this:

VS2005 runs debugging apps in Vshost as always..Well the vshost runs wiith admin priv. Therefore, when you try to drag and drop from explorer to the app under the debugger, UAC silently prevents the drag and drop. You see, explorer is running with low priv...my app with high (cuz of VSHOST)..Therefore, this is a bad privledge escalation, and thus it must be prevented.

WOW...I could have got to sleep much earlier tonight, but I am stubborn.

I finally figured it out when I ran my app without the debugger, it worked just fine.....HMM..my app is running with lowest privledge possible by default when its not in VSHOST.

DAMN...That sucks..

Frank Busalacchi Jr

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Wednesday, December 27, 2006 7:50 PM

hmm

the register key isnt at windows server 2003

how i fix there?

biggie

# re: String concatenation - + vs StringBuilder@ Sunday, December 31, 2006 6:42 PM

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# re: Choosing project code names@ Monday, January 08, 2007 2:54 PM

Can I be part of the Hooters release?

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# re: How NOT to sell software - JetBrains web site problems@ Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:20 PM

Man do I ever agree with you on this. I was just dealing with another company for a third party component that wants to install a registration module that phones home when it starts. So you have to run some sort of activator and then click a button every time you load a form with this control on it. The whole thing runs through e-sellRate which is absoltue crap. To top it off it wouldn't even work on Vista.

These paranoid companies apparently don't realize that you don't get very many chances with customers. For me - if I see something like this I immediately throw out the software.

As a vendor myself I realize that there are people who'll want to rip you off, but there are easier ways to 'encourage' people to pay for the software they use than these intrusive mechanisms.

Rick Strahl

# re: How NOT to sell software - JetBrains web site problems@ Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:39 PM

I've been going through something similar with Nero (Ahead Software) lately as well, and now they want me to call their so-called 800 number...at $1.99/minute.

Freaks, all of 'em.

X.Static

# re: How NOT to sell software - JetBrains web site problems@ Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:18 PM

amen.

My attention span is so short, if I have to wait for an eval key longer than 10 minutes, I forget about the software.

Unless its highly recommended... and I really want it. But then I'd probably just buy it, right?

Eric Newton

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Cropper Goes to the Crapper@ Friday, January 12, 2007 12:13 AM

Have you tried "snip" within Vista? I haven't used Cropper before, but Snip has done everything I need so far in Vista.

Chris Hammond

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Cropper Goes to the Crapper@ Friday, January 12, 2007 1:08 AM

I never understood the point of screen capture utilities. What's wrong with the Print Screen key (or Alt+PrnScrn for just the top-level window)?

I'll usually paste the result straight into Paint.NET for further editing.

Dean Harding

# re: How NOT to sell software - JetBrains web site problems@ Friday, January 12, 2007 2:30 AM

JetBrains' products are crap. I was attracted to the features in Resharper, but the add-in has completely hosed my VSNET installation several times in the past couple years (different machines, different vsnet versions, different resharper version). I've learned my lesson and will stay away from their products.

Gene

# re: How NOT to sell software - JetBrains web site problems@ Friday, January 12, 2007 7:04 AM

I can't say nothing bad about JetBrain's. I've bought Resharper2 3 days before the personal licence action has started. After a short e-mail to JetBrains asking for 'money-back' I've got almost immediatly positive answer.

I've had also some technical question's to Resharper and got answer latest within 3 days.

fruz

# re: How NOT to sell software - JetBrains web site problems@ Friday, January 12, 2007 7:56 AM

No astroturfing here, but I've been a Resharper user for a long time now (back to 1.0) and I have only good things to say about JetBrains. My licence bought back in 2004 was automatically upgraded for every subsequent version (up to 2.5), and I've always received timely answers from JetBrains (once I reported a bug and got an answer from a developer three hours later).

I can understand your frustration, but I don't think this is representative of JetBrain's practices.

And as of the quality of their products, nothing matches Resharper or dotTrace, even though Resharper's been a bit sluggish with VS2005 (but it got much better with 2.5)

Yann Schwartz

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Cropper Goes to the Crapper@ Friday, January 12, 2007 9:21 AM

I fail to see how a 3rd party app for windows xp screenshotting not working in a new OS with a new graphic system is the new OS's fault.

This seems like the equivalent of me complaining that my commodore 64 mule software doesn't run natively in vista.

Eric Wise

# re: How NOT to sell software - JetBrains web site problems@ Friday, January 12, 2007 9:32 AM

Kevin!

We are really sorry for your negative experience with our website.

If you will find a second to drop us an email to sales(at)jetbrains.com we would be happy to provide you with free license for ReSharper 2.0

Best regards

Alex Tkachman

COO

JetBrains

Alex Tkachman

# re: How NOT to sell software - JetBrains web site problems@ Friday, January 12, 2007 10:56 AM

I had the same problem and it turned out it was caused by some firewall rules that did not allow emails from the ip range that they used.

It was coming from outside the US and so all traffic was blocked. Once I contacted their US sales department I got what I needed.

I had problems with ReSharper hosing everything in the past but they finally got it right with the 2.5 release. It was painfull using it until the 2.5 product update due to how much it slowed everything down and crashed VS2005.

Now everything is working very well.

Jay

# re: How NOT to sell software - JetBrains web site problems@ Friday, January 12, 2007 2:21 PM

>I had the same problem and it turned out it was

>caused by some firewall rules that did not allow

>emails from the ip range that they used.

This is unfortunately typical - we're in far off country called "Canada" - and sometimes our customers get pissed because we apparently havent 'replied' but unfortunately it's their firewall. Same with license keys, apparently these are also spam to some filters. Thats why a public forum is always a good idea.

Jim

# re: How TO Sell Software - JetBrains responds@ Friday, January 12, 2007 3:38 PM

equally, time bomb products lose business when the customer installs a product but then don't get around to using it in the time period and when they eventually get around to actually making a buying decision finds it doesnt work anymore

Daren

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Cropper Goes to the Crapper@ Friday, January 12, 2007 4:08 PM

1) The fault is in the wording of your title "Vista issue of the day", the casual reader would assume that you are having an issue stemming from vista, which as I pointed out this really is not.

2) Vista was designed for reasonable compatibility. Compatibility is and always will be broken where the creator deems necessary (look at the antivirus/kernel problem vendors are having) Has there ever been an upgrade to a windows operating system that had 100% compatibility?

Eric Wise

# re: How TO Sell Software - JetBrains responds@ Saturday, January 13, 2007 2:38 AM

The guys behind ReSharper are also the greatest! They have also several very active newsgroups for support. I have been using ReSharper for about 1.5 years and I can guarantee you that you will love it!

Gabriel Lozano-Moran

# re: How NOT to sell software - JetBrains web site problems@ Sunday, January 14, 2007 12:57 AM

Kevin, Take them up on the offer! I have been using ReSharper the last few months, and the features are awesome.. it will save you many hours of refactoring and make for easier FxCop inspections.. plus the unit test runner is pretty cool. The newest features I like in the new release are null reference checks and parameter documentation checks, and the CTRL+G hotkey which can help you jump around quite a bit more (bases, derived, usages, etc.. ) VERY worth the wait. Although, they should change this. I have the same problem with Parasoft's .TEST.. I requested a key and talked to a rep twice and still have yet to receive it to try out!!!

Eric Golpe

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Cropper Goes to the Crapper@ Sunday, January 14, 2007 3:49 PM

Until Cropper is fixed, you could try Gadwin PrintScreen:

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Gadwin_PrintScreen/1024878597/1

n4cer

# re: Tab control with no visible tabs@ Tuesday, January 16, 2007 7:08 AM

thanks man, that working! this is a really good way to avoid switch between two panel in the same range.

Steven

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Saturday, January 27, 2007 1:15 PM

Place two fingers on the trackpad and click the button below it. That is right click.

DR

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Saturday, January 27, 2007 11:04 PM

I had similar problems with connectivity and changing the user welcome screen. I upgraded from MR814 to WGR614v6 and added two pci wireless cards in remote pc's. I was able to connect via ethernet, but had many problems with the wireless cards. Tried my work laptop, and could not connect. Tried everything, including security changes, reinstalling cards, etc. Finally, I went back to the MR814 and connected right away. I do not know the answer to resolve the issue. As for the welcome screen changes, Netgear decided to overwrite the MrvGINA.dll file, which is corrupt. Just perform a Google search for MrvGINA.dll, and you will find a small *.exe file that checks and overwrites the file. After that, the welcom screen will appear normal.

Van

# re: Things They Didn't Fix in Whidbey - Fonts in Windows Forms@ Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:00 AM

Thanks Kevin Dente. You rock.

And yes, some of us care about details like this. It's a shame Microsoft doesn't seem to.

Jeff Atwood

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Cropper Goes to the Crapper@ Wednesday, January 31, 2007 8:15 AM

Lets say nobody is perfect in this world so dont get upset

Rais

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:51 PM

I sure hope this has been fixed in Vista. Funny how Windows will report plenty of memory available yet everything comes crashing down. I have been searching for "Windows out of resources" etc but never found that answer that way. I had previously tried turning down all of my settings (skins, animations etc), increase ram etc. Visual Studio with a very large project is what continually caused this heartache for me.

BobF

# re: Absolute positioning in VS2005 HTML designer@ Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:27 PM

Very helpful! thanks for posting this.

Rick

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Thursday, February 08, 2007 5:06 PM

been having this issue for years with win2kpro and now winXP pro. hopefully this will fix it, going to reboot now, thanks! spoke to people on IRC in #windowsXP and was told i was hitting GDI limit which cannot be raised.

Simon

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Wednesday, February 14, 2007 2:24 AM

Yes!!!! Some more info, It worked!

http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=238&pgno=0

Jason

# re: Is the design-time experience for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit all wrong?@ Wednesday, February 14, 2007 6:12 AM

Good point, why configure 2 places to do one thing

Vikram

# re: Is the design-time experience for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit all wrong?@ Wednesday, February 14, 2007 6:34 AM

Presisely, this whole thing sucks.

Rajiv Das

# re: Is the design-time experience for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit all wrong?@ Wednesday, February 14, 2007 11:03 AM

er I think it's a little bit harsh to say the whole thing sucks.

Having created my own AJAX Extender using the vs template I'm more than happy with it, it provides a very convenient way to add "packaged" javascript functionality to my page

MrTea

# re: Is the design-time experience for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit all wrong?@ Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:21 PM

This article makes some good points. I have found the behavior of some of controls in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit a bit inconsistent.

Darrell

# re: Is the design-time experience for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit all wrong?@ Friday, February 16, 2007 7:36 AM

It's not just the experience that is undesirable.

The controls specify what libraries and resources they use by having attributes on their classes.

This means for example if you are using the Calendar control without animation and with your own CSS then tough - the threading library and provided CSS is still going to be sent along with the page.

As for the calendar control - if you want to use more than one on a page then you have to add multiple copies of the control to the page and bloat up the HTML despite the fact that only one is ever shown at the same time and so a single one could be re-used.

A real-case page we had here was 141KB of requests including the base AJAX library. Throw two Calendar controls on the page and the request is now 262KB.

[)amien

Damien Guard

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Tuesday, February 20, 2007 6:25 AM

No it isn't. Didn't work for me.

And secondly, when all the games that I play work on OSX then I'll use it all the time. Until then, it's Windows for me.

Dang

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Friday, February 23, 2007 7:42 PM

I'm having problmes too! it wont let me choose how to logg off or one. i want the other welcome screen! HELP

Mae

# re: Windows XP flakiness - your fix@ Saturday, February 24, 2007 1:38 AM

I can get to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Session Manager\\SubSystems

what value do I enter for 8MB? just 8000?

thanks,

Sean

# re: Beware the Outlook Vista Sidebar Gadgets@ Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:36 AM

> Am I the only one who thinks Outlook using 2600 handles at startup

> (and >3200 after running for a while) seems a little excessive?

That does seem excessive! My outlook (2003 running on Windows XP) is using 1,500 handles after running for a while. Even that seems like a lot, though. The only other process on my system that uses > 1,000 is one of the svchost.exe processes (but its hosting 21 services, so I guess its not so bad).

Dean Harding

# re: Beware the Outlook Vista Sidebar Gadgets@ Thursday, March 15, 2007 5:14 AM

Outlook has always been a pig when it comes to Windows resources, but it does a lot with those resources too. It's a tradeoff.

Joe Chung

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Thursday, March 15, 2007 5:19 AM

I don't understand why you would like to use OS that is crippled by default in performance as a hostmachine.

Just use Windows 2003 or Linux Ubuntu as a host environment. Your host OS will be less resource hungry so your guest OS's can claim more memory, etc.

UAC is only there to be logged in as administrator all the time. Just disable UAC and login as a low-priviledge user.

Ramon Smits

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Thursday, March 15, 2007 6:17 AM

You can't be without a reliable virtualization product, but you never gave it a thought and replaced the OS it is running on? EMC never hid the fact that VM5 isn't supported on Vista.

Try VM6, even if it is a beta. Performance is good, interoperability of VMWare tools is not a problem and the cost well..

Upgrading to Vista isn't free either.

Mark

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:24 AM

Use the beta of VM6. I've run it on Vista for a couple months now and have been very happy with it.

Dan

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Thursday, March 15, 2007 2:15 PM

"I just can't be without a reliable virtualization product until then."

Virtual PC 2007 is free.

Scott

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Thursday, March 15, 2007 2:35 PM

>EMC never hid the fact that VM5 isn't

>supported on Vista.

I upgraded to Vista before VMWare 6 was announced. Who knew there wouldn't be a 5.5.4?

That's the price of being on the bleeding edge, I guess. But hey, we need to test and develop on Vista too.

Kevin Dente

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Thursday, March 15, 2007 8:19 PM

"VMWare betas contain instrumentation that slow down their performance."

You can work around this, try searching. Essentially it involves backing up the bin-debug dir, copying the "bin" to "bin-debug" and you're pretty much there.

"That's the price of being on the bleeding edge, I guess. But hey, we need to test and develop on Vista too."

That's the situation you have VMWare for in the first place isn't it? Vista works much better inside VMWare than VMWare in Vista.

Finally, I have to say there's so much that just isn't there yet when it comes to vista, I think holding VMWare accountable on this is unreasonable. But I guess it's a half empty/half full thing...

Tomas

# re: Beware the Outlook Vista Sidebar Gadgets@ Friday, March 16, 2007 8:49 PM

SWEET! I've been experiencing the same problem lately with weird painting effects on the screen! No more Outlook gadget for me! THANKS!

Alex Dresko

# re: Beware the Outlook Vista Sidebar Gadgets@ Saturday, March 17, 2007 2:21 AM

Nice...same deal here. Gadget disabled for now!

John Walker

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Sunday, March 18, 2007 10:33 AM

I am a huge fan of VMware, and I am also dependent on it for my daily work as I do all my software development within virtual machines. I upgraded to Vista in December, and things have worked fine for me. I always run VMware as Administrator, and I am not running the beta because of tools compatibility. Occasionally (perhaps once or twice per week), I get a weird disk error, which I click "ok" to, and that's it. Otherwise, it has worked perfectly for me. (I haven't seen the resource sucking issue you described, but perhaps I just haven't been observant.) It has been stable enough for me.

Avonelle Lovhaug

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Monday, March 19, 2007 11:15 PM

Vista as a host will fully support VMWare server with Nat based guests even when the host is on wireless. Give it a couple months then convert them to bridged connections once VMWare makes an update.

Michael Langford

# re: Move to weblogs.asp.net@ Tuesday, March 20, 2007 3:51 AM

I have a problem in your design. I use Firefox in Ubuntu.

dokka

# re: Sharepoint 2007 + Firefox = No rich editing@ Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:15 PM

stop crying!

just install the IE Tab extension for Firefox and open your sharepoint site in a tab using IE rendering. you can have your rich-text editor that way.

randy

# re: Renaming the blog - finally@ Sunday, March 25, 2007 6:34 PM

Those of us who eat ice cream with our puppies are deeply depressed....

JohnB

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:20 AM

If you can send me mail about this issue, I can put you in touch with someone who can help figure out what is going wrong.

Thanks,

Scott

ScottGu

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Wednesday, March 28, 2007 5:29 AM

Had you tried install in compatibility mode?

For do that:

1- Do right-click in the setup.exe.

2- Go to Properties.

3- Do click in the second tab (I think that it's "Security" but I'm not sure.

4- Now you enable the Compatibily mode and select "Windows XP Service Pack 2".

I'd intalled Visual Studio without compatibility mode enabled and I hadn't any problem.

Best regards.

Please send me a mail with the result: eugenio.estrada@vbprincipiantes.com

Eugenio Estrada Csaky

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Wednesday, March 28, 2007 9:49 AM

I just read Vista SP1 is out and it specifically addresses Visual Studio issues. I haven't tried it myself. My Vista machine arrives today. Good luck and let me know if it works.

Steve

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Wednesday, March 28, 2007 7:11 PM

What version of Vista are you running? I just tried installing VSTD on Vista Enterprise x64 and the product installation did not prompt for pre-requisites.

ValtchoV

Valtcho

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Thursday, March 29, 2007 10:36 AM

Thanks for such a remedy!

I'd note that in Windows Server 2003 R2 (x64 SP2) the yyyy value is about 20000 by default

Mark

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Thursday, March 29, 2007 1:00 PM

Kevin, I just talked to a colleague on the VS setup team. VS2005 will not install if the compat mode is turned on. So could you go to the proprties section of setup.exe (as described above) and make sure that compat mode is turned off. The reason for this is that compat mode shims the APIs for OS detection but does not fake the registry keys that VS setup uses to detect the presence of SP2, hence setup thinks that it's running on XP but without sp2.

So can you try this and let me know how it goes?

ValtchoV

# re: Free and easy way to resize an NTFS partition@ Monday, April 02, 2007 4:12 PM

I tried this method and it works great. I got a new computer from dell for a really good deal (practically a steal) but it came with vista and yet no cd. I still need vista (to play bf 2142 and the like) but i wanted linux for everything else. This worked great. Thanx man!

ShAdEd_PaSt

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Friday, April 06, 2007 10:52 AM

I work with a gent who's notebook died and got a NEW Sony as a replacement -- not of his choosing. The NEW Sony is Vista ONLY and they have no drivers or support for anything non-Vista (he's gone that route with Sony support).

I imagine that there are plenty of folks in this position where they don't have much choice of the host but they need to run some apps that WONT run in Vista and are trying to use virtualization as a work-around.

Of course, that's just my opinion; I could be wrong.

Joe Chapman

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Sunday, April 08, 2007 4:56 AM

i am unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on my laptop(LENOVO 3000N Series). I have XP service pack 2.my system meets all the hardware requirements.

Please help me.

kumara

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Monday, April 09, 2007 9:40 AM

To right click on a macbook all you have to do is hold down ctrl while you click.

nobody

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Friday, April 13, 2007 5:43 AM

This might help:

http://www.geekswithblogs.net/lorint/archive/2005/11/30/61699.aspx

Tester

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Friday, April 13, 2007 6:24 AM

And also

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1419155&SiteID=1

Tester

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Sunday, April 22, 2007 12:11 PM

I would say that I am surprised at the comment about the Vmware being Lame; the fact of the matter is that I am glad that there are people posting here stating the fact that you should be using an OS that does not require so many resources on the back end so that you get the performance out of the VMware product. Now I know why the IT field is so low on the pole, maybe more people should get their Master and PHD's before the talk about IT.

Travis

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Sunday, April 22, 2007 4:27 PM

I am running vm workstation 5.5.0 build 18463

on a vista ultimate host. I have no audio because vista apparently won't "share". Eveything else seems fine. I created the "xpclient" from a physical machine using vmware converter and then copied the folder to the vista machine and "opened it" in work station 5.5.0 installed in vista. I have had no other issues yet but have had it up only a couple of days and haven't tried everything possible. I also have a windows 2000 client and windows 98 client they also appear fine.

fred

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Sunday, April 22, 2007 5:10 PM

thanks! I guess most of these leaks are coming from internet explorer. I'm a hardcore web reader. I once counted how many pages I usually have open in opera at once, and there were more than 150 pages :). (opera keeps pages open even after poweroff so they accumulate).

So i keep three different opera browsers to have one clear. But even that is not enough so when no opera is clear i run internet explorer, and then after some browsing everything halts(with 30+ pages). though this time my pages in ie are lost :(

exe

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Monday, April 23, 2007 7:05 PM

AWESOME THANKS, I've been looking for this fix for years! ever since windows98 and windows 2000 and windows xp!

Hamish

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:51 PM

Interesting...i just went thru many headaches with vmware and gave up on them.

You should try VirtualBox at www.virtualbox.org

It runs faster than vmware and is opensource, aka Free!

iQueue

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Friday, May 04, 2007 7:41 AM

Almost die if no have this solution to solve.

Great,Thank you.

Thank

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Friday, May 11, 2007 3:43 PM

I am running VMWare Server 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 on a Vista Host. The only issue I have noticed is it locks my machine for 3-5min... then everything is normal and fine. I am a SQL DBA/Developer and I run Vista Guests, Linux Guests, Windows 2003 Server Guests and have no issues past the initial first VM guest I boot. I too wish VMWare fully supported Vista as a host, but if the only issue is it locks the machine for 3-5 min... go get a cup of coffee and when you come back you'll be good to go all day long!

Brian

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Tuesday, May 15, 2007 9:50 AM

I am running VMServer 1.0.3 on a Vista host and I am glad to hear that it's not just me experiencing this problem. However, when starting a server it doesn't lock my machine for 3 to 5 minutes, but more like 10 to 15!!!

I have the CPU/RAM Vista gadget running and when I start a virtualized server the RAM shoots up to 100% (so that's 3 GB RAM). It's pretty annoying and I'm really not sure what is going on during the 10-15 minute pause, because only when it is over does the server start to boot. I turned off the folder indexing option on the virtual server folder, but it didn't help...

Lee Francis Wilhelmsen

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Wednesday, May 16, 2007 5:43 PM

BIG thanks 4 that solution!

Amazing how this problem has survived through all these years!

costas

# re: The case of the missing Business Intelligence Studio@ Monday, May 28, 2007 4:03 PM

All good, but there is no Tools folder in the SQL server setup location?

JJ

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Wednesday, May 30, 2007 8:36 PM

I am using a Netgear wgr614 v2 router. It keeps dropping connection on my HP media center sp2 Laptop, but works beautifully with my mac. If the connection is dropped on the pc, the router wont work until I unplug it to restart. i have tried everything, no firewall, upgrading firmware, it sucks, please help

David

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:23 PM

I bought a Netgear DG834G DSL wireless router and I am trying to setup it for two days! I cannot ping it and so the setup file on the CD stacks to the point where it looks for the router. But, when I reset the router and ping it right after this, it responds, few seconds later it is gone again. The IP address of the laptop is 192.168.0.2 and I am wondering how it has been assigned although the router is unreachable. I connect the router to the laptop through a LAN cable.

What can I do? Could that be a HW problem? Or a windows problem?

Please, help!!!

Dimitra V

# re: SourceSafe 2005 - Getting back the old-style dialogs@ Thursday, May 31, 2007 4:46 PM

Cool!!!

and more..

if you want to set default working folder for all users, just add to srcsafe.ini following:

[$/MyProject]

Dir = C:\MyProjectFolder

Radyk H.

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, June 03, 2007 8:16 AM

I have problem with my netgear router.the wireless indicator light is not coming on and I cannot via the ethernet port either. trying to reset to defalt factory setting is also futile.

Cardin K.

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, June 03, 2007 8:56 PM

I had problems with a LinkSys router whenever I had two wireless PCs going at the same time. They appeared to interfere with each other. I figured it was a router problem. So I bought a new Netgear router. I have exactly the same problem. If only one PC is turned on, everything is fine. If two are turned on, there are problems. Anyone have a clue on this?

Dave P

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Wednesday, June 06, 2007 2:24 AM

I had these connection problems for a long time, w/ Netgear WGR614v2;

The way I fixed it was just only turnning off the WEP and use MAC filtering in the router only.

Everything is fine now.

W

w

# re: Avoiding the dreaded "unable to download folder (null)" error with Outlook 2003/IMAP@ Wednesday, June 06, 2007 2:08 PM

Yep, same issue here too, also hard-wired, and Outlook is driving me crazy with this error. Regular IMAP, no Exchange, happens intermittently. Anybody comes up with a solution, please share!

Tim

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, June 10, 2007 12:12 AM

I have the wgr614 v6 and i have to also pull the power cord out and let it reset itself to get and internet connection. the wireless side of it always has a connection. Am trying to figure out how to fix it as it lasts about 15mins then i have to pull plug and start over

Brad

# Hacking a 100% zoom feature onto NoSquint with KeyConfig@ Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:54 PM

I recently blogged about the NoSquint Firefox extension, for remembering per-site text zoom levels. I

Kevin Dente's Blog

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Monday, June 11, 2007 2:22 AM

Netgear wireless router works fine on one laptop, several sites blocked on another (such as google).

Any suggestions?

Megan

# re: Lookout download on Microsoft.com@ Monday, June 11, 2007 12:16 PM

All the links now go to Microsoft desktop search which in my opinion isn't nearly as easy to use or effective as Lookout. I see your comment were from 2004. It was available until 2007 but since Outlook 2007 incorporates Lookout it seems Microsoft have withdrawn it for Outlook 2003.

Nev

# re: Beware the Outlook Vista Sidebar Gadgets@ Monday, June 11, 2007 9:16 PM

Finally! I've been having this problem for months!! Vista really needed 6 months more baking time, didn't it?!

Ian Morley

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:33 AM

I play a game called Toontown. Some of you might play it too. But I am having a problem. After a couple of mins playing, I lose connection to the servers but my connection is excelent. Any of you have an ide about what is happening? I have a NETGEAR Rangemax (TM) Wireless router.

Nobody you know

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Wednesday, June 13, 2007 11:00 PM

It's a bit sample .Now, i know how to install VS on Vista Home. One thing , you don't need to select "compatibility mode - Run as XP services Park2" .You only change owner for setup.exe file and have to login with administrators or menber of group "Administrator" role .One thing more , remember that "run this program as Administrators" . Good luck !!!

thanhquan@dirox.net

quantuweb

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Thursday, June 14, 2007 12:17 AM

I am having the exact same problem described by Kevin. This is happening on two identical Lenovo machines with ATI video cards running Vista Business Edition. This blog posting is the only reference I have been able to find with the matching problem. Has anyone found a solution/fix/workaround?

Richie Tenhet

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Friday, June 15, 2007 9:43 AM

I have a strange problem with my Netgear DG834. I lost my broadband connection recently, and when I accessed the router through my web browser, the username box contained an old Hotmail address! I couldn't delete it or over-write it, and ended up having to re-boot the computer.

Anybody got any ideas how an email address got int othe username box, and how to get rid of it?

Nick O'B

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, June 17, 2007 10:53 AM

a pile of w*** ! I own a psp...and i cant get on online games :(

Jackoo

# re: Absolute positioning in VS2005 HTML designer@ Tuesday, June 19, 2007 6:41 AM

I cold not able to get scroll bar on the side of the web designer form in asp.net.could u help me.please?

sunil

# re: Avoiding the dreaded "unable to download folder (null)" error with Outlook 2003/IMAP@ Wednesday, June 20, 2007 4:27 PM

I am having same error. This doesn't happen with Thunderbird. I get it because I am trying to share one IMAP folder on the server between 3 Outlook 2003 clients. Apparently it's just Outlook 2003's problem and other clients work fine. See this link:www.lvllord.de

Have not tried it. Not working yet. I'll keep you posted.

www.gemtech.info

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# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Tuesday, June 26, 2007 8:45 AM

Hello,

I'am trying to install Visual studio 2005 on Vista but iam getting error massege. iam sending the information which was there in log file please help me

[06/26/07,18:07:36] Microsoft Document Explorer 2005: [2] Error code -2147023829 for this component means "The process terminated unexpectedly.

"

[06/26/07,18:07:36] Microsoft Document Explorer 2005: [2] Component Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 returned an unexpected value.

[06/26/07,18:07:36] Microsoft Document Explorer 2005: [2] Return from system messaging: The process terminated unexpectedly.

[06/26/07,18:07:39] setup.exe: [2] ISetupComponent::Pre/Post/Install() failed in ISetupManager::InstallManagerHelper() with HRESULT -2147023293.

[06/26/07,18:07:39] setup.exe: [2] Component error string not specified in ISetupManager::AddToActionResultCollection()

[06/26/07,18:07:56] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 is not installed.

[06/26/07,18:07:56] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers - ENU was not attempted to be installed.

[06/26/07,18:07:56] VS70pgui: [2] Unknown component status for.NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP3

[06/26/07,18:07:56] VS70pgui: [2] Unknown component status for.NET Compact Framework 2.0

[06/26/07,18:07:56] VS70pgui: [2] Unknown component status forMicrosoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Runtime

[06/26/07,18:07:57] VS70pgui: [2] Unknown component status forMicrosoft Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable Package

[06/26/07,18:07:57] VS70pgui: [2] Unknown component status forSQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition

[06/26/07,18:07:57] VS70pgui: [2] Unknown component status forMicrosoft Device Emulator version 1.0

[06/26/07,18:07:57] VS70pgui: [2] Unknown component status forMicrosoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition x86

vicky

# re: Sharepoint 2007 + Firefox = No rich editing@ Tuesday, June 26, 2007 2:17 PM

@Alan Slater

How is that going to work on a Mac? You idiot.

blakdeth

# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Friday, June 29, 2007 8:29 PM

That happens because you're altering the DOM in a non-standard (albeit cross-browser) way. In fact, its not part of ANY DOM standard. As there is no public specification for this property, implementations differ widely. For example, when text is entered into a text input, IE will change the value attribute of the input's innerHTML property but Gecko browsers do not.

Here's more info, with alternatives: slayeroffice.com/.../innerHTML_alternatives

Use the DOM methods, and you shouldn't run into problems like this.

Will Green

# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:11 PM

@kevindente

All I'm saying is that because its is not a standard, don't be surprised when it behaves differently (much as XmlHttpRequest behaves differently) on different platforms.

It just so happens that there IS a standard alternative to innerHTML, whose behavior is predictable.

Will Green

# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:35 PM

Funny how I had that exact problem the same day you blogged about it :-)

forums.asp.net/.../1781043.aspx

Thanks.

Peter

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, July 01, 2007 9:43 PM

For the people who cannot get the usernames back at the login screen. I uninstalled the software that came with the router, reinstalled the drivers using the appropriate drivers for OS and use windows to view my wireless connections. Hope this helps!

Ollie

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Monday, July 02, 2007 11:36 AM

I have exactly the same issue as Dimitra V with a DG834N. The wired connection to the router is lost after a few seconds. It must have existed for the built in DHCP server to give my PC the IP it has and I can ping it for a few seconds but then the connection fails. Sometimes it will remain connected after powering the router off and on but on the next PC reboot it loses connection. I use all sorts of Netgear kit at work and have never had a bad experience until this.

Richard

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, July 03, 2007 4:09 AM

It's working! I eventually discovered that it worked every time with wireless disabled, so I figured it must be something in one of the wireless settings. I've changed the channel from Auto to 2 and that seems to work. Though I've also moved the router location and set RIP to Both (it was set to None even though the default was supposed to be Both). The only other thing was that I realised I had a download taking place as soon as an internet connection was available. Hope this info helps someone.

Richard

# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Tuesday, July 03, 2007 7:03 AM

FYI: I get your RSS feed in gmail and the link was a bit odd today - I ended up on an weblogs.asp.net login page. Logging in to view a blog kinda defeats the purpose...

JohnB

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, July 05, 2007 1:34 AM

Okay I have the netgear router WGR614v6 version. I dont know what is going on. My brother installed it for me at first and he isnt here now to fix anything.

My problem is that the wireless icon on the router is not blinking where it should be. The computer in my room connected by wireless is turned on however, there is no connection. (A very small number of packets sent and 0 packets received) and the speed is like 6mbps when it use to be 32 or something. What do I do? (sorry for sounding like such a noobie...i really have no idea)

Kay

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, July 05, 2007 8:29 PM

I am having an issue with my wireless router. It was working fine for the first couple months, then one day I turn on my computer and it keeps saying "Authenticating" under status, and it has wiped my ISP address to "0.0.0.0". I've tried everything to fix it. Anyone have any advice??

Luke

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Friday, July 06, 2007 2:08 PM

I had this problem too.

Brad

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Friday, July 06, 2007 2:56 PM

Thanks very much!

It really solved my problem.

Ali

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, July 08, 2007 7:07 PM

My WGR614v6 was wonderful for 2 months with my Dell laptop running Vista Home Premium. Then I went away for a week (laptop turned off), and when I returned, the router kept dropping my Internet connection. The 'check' light would come on, and it would scan all the router ports, dropping my connection(s) [wireless or wired] in the process. I have tried everything, on my own and with NetGear support, and am now in the RMA return process. I know this was not the result of an evil MS download in my absence, since the laptop was turned off. But my modem and router were both turned on, and I wonder if either my ISP or NetGear might have pushed an 'upgrade' that is causing this. I have no problems connecting directly to the modem. Any thoughts? When the connection drops, I am often able to reconnect via the Windows utility, but only briefly. Sometimes when I do a complete modem-router-laptop reset I can keep the connection for several hours, but it will bomb out at the most inconvenient times, like when transmitting payment info on a secure web site. I tried turning off SPI, as was recommended on another forum, but this did not help, and I will not turn off WEP or WPA (was using the latter just fine; one of NetGear's recommendations was to use WEP because it's more reliable, but I think that's BS, frankly).

I really loved this router, and am frustrated!

Jill

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Monday, July 09, 2007 1:41 AM

My WGR614v6 is not beimg picked up by my laptop. My laptop is finding other networks but not mine.

Chris

# re: Avoiding the dreaded "unable to download folder (null)" error with Outlook 2003/IMAP@ Wednesday, July 11, 2007 5:28 PM

I am having the same exact problem. I am hard wired via ethernet LAN to the router so there is no loss of connection from that perspective. This only happens with outlook and vista as I have an XP machine with identical connections and outlook configuration that works perfectly. At times, the vista machine seems to work which leads me to the ISP but then both machines are on the same ISP connection?? I have tried the "detect and repair" as well as turning off the fax add-in option but thus far nothing has cured the problem.

Hope someone comes up with the solution.....thanks.

j e paul

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, July 12, 2007 1:20 PM

How about this! My problems seem to have all been caused by a DigiSender! My wireless router worked faultlessly at work but taking it home I had all sorts of strange issues that made no sense. I have a wireless mouse and keyboard, wireless xbox 360, cordless phone and a digisender to send Sky upstairs! I figured it must be interference, so started turning off my other wireless kit. When I turned off the Digisender the router worked fine. Turn it on and it failed again. I changed the channel on the digisender from 1 to 4 and everything is OK now!

Richard

# re: Absolute positioning in VS2005 HTML designer@ Monday, July 16, 2007 2:21 PM

ha ha ha i can move freely now thank u very much

rahul reddy

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:05 AM

The router just does not connect to windows vista basic. I have other laptops which are running win xp and they connect just fine however, this notebok on vista just cannot connect. I have uploaded firmware to ver 1.09 with no help.

any suggestions?

sanjeev

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Wednesday, July 18, 2007 5:21 AM

When i run visual studio 2005 on window vista ultimate it will run but when start it show me that The IDE is not compatible but when i press run it will work good any ideas

Mohamed

# re: Free and easy way to resize an NTFS partition@ Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:37 PM

It just worked like a champ. Not a hitch. Thanks!

Kevin K

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Friday, July 20, 2007 5:55 AM

HELP-I just bought a DG834N and the set up procedure went well with all the appropriate lights on BUT I then go to the next stage and get a message that says the router cannot be detectyed(I am using the LAN connection).I just cannot get it to connect to the internet and cannot access the routers web page to check the settings.The Lan icon in the tray shows the message@trying to authenticate and when I ping the router it shows the ISP address 0.0.0.0

I have tried all the suggestions in the troubleshooting section NADA and Netgear have not yet come up with a response. Can anyone help please?

Taffy

# re: HttpHandlers in ASP.NET@ Friday, July 20, 2007 8:03 AM

Hello Kevin

I'm trying my hands on a project that requires me to use 'ashx' files. However, I've not a hint of what needs to be done for that. I got a bit of hint on what you and Erik were talking about but didn't get much of it. I would appreciate if you could take me through each and every step, like how should we start? what kind of project that needs to be taken into consideration while working on ASHX files? what configuration should be done in order to achieve error free deployment of the web-application? What steps need to be taken for deploying an application using ASHX files.

-Aditya

Aditya

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Friday, July 20, 2007 9:42 AM

I am so happy! First aggravation-free workday in weeks! Thank you so much.

Simon Hewitt

# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Friday, July 20, 2007 8:35 PM

In your above example, I can't help but think you should have used a span tag instead of a div tag all along and the problem would have never occurred.

If the result was always going to be blank, what is the point in even having a html tag to write a result to? Why not just forget the whole writing a result?

Choose the tag best fit for the job, or in this case, why bother with a tag if the result set isn't going to return anything?

cpradio

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# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Saturday, July 21, 2007 11:04 PM

I still stand by my statement to choose the correct tag for the job. As if you wanted it inline to begin with, it should have always been a span tag, not a div.

However, if you wanted it to be a block content, then dom elements would have been best, ie: using the createTextNode on your div instead of the innerHTML and you wouldn't have had any problems (as stated before).

When did the developer lose the responsibility for knowing which HTML tag best represents what they are trying to achieve? Some days I feel Visual Studio does nothing but make more of a mess online, much like FrontPage did. If you do not understand the HTML markup first, how can you responsibly build a site using it?

Just my two cents, we developers need to stop being lazy and get back to the HTML roots we were once required to have. Just because the technology continues to increase and make knowledge of HTML less and less, doesn't give us the right to complain when browser function improperly because we used the wrong tag, or because we didn't understand the DOM specification for what we choose to use.

cpradio

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Monday, July 23, 2007 2:00 AM

all port led is ON, power led is blinking please help me .

sajeev

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Monday, July 23, 2007 2:05 AM

All port led is ON.Power led is blinking. internet is not working. what is the problum? please help me

sajeev

# re: The case of the missing Business Intelligence Studio@ Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:04 AM

Great tip. Thanks for not forcing me to wade through MSDN library for this obscure quirk.

B

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# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:25 AM

waiting for the next release of Visual Studio, with vista compatibility...

marcel

# re: Tab control with no visible tabs@ Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:54 AM

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for.

Sergey

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Friday, July 27, 2007 8:59 AM

Thanks^1000. you helped me alot :X

koorosh khazaei

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Saturday, July 28, 2007 10:41 AM

Mine worked fine for 7 months. I can connect to the divice, but the divice can't connect to the internet. Ports dont work. My internet connection is fine.

Thanks

Jose

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, July 29, 2007 11:29 AM

I have the same problems as megan

please help

Cameron

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Tuesday, July 31, 2007 1:33 PM

Thanks SO much for posting this. I've been frustrated by this problem with Photoshop and other programs open at the same time for years.

Craig P.

# re: Sharepoint 2007 + Firefox = No rich editing@ Wednesday, August 01, 2007 6:52 AM

i hate windows, say how it works in linux??? please

hamid

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:54 AM

Same problem but I noticed the host AV (avast) was wrapping the axle (1gb+ read io). Added a directory exclusion for my Virtual Machine vmx files. Seems to resolve this startup delay.

Walt

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Thursday, August 02, 2007 11:08 AM

As others have said, THANK YOU ** 2!

This has plagued me for years and I just now tried again to find a solution and finally stumbled across this blog entry. A real lifesaver.

Terry

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Thursday, August 02, 2007 11:30 AM

Here is a URL for Microsoft explanation of the 3 numbers comprising the SharedSection field of the aforementioned Subsystems registry value:

support.microsoft.com/.../184802

Do not go overboard when changing the values or other weird things may start happening on your system.

Terry

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Thursday, August 02, 2007 11:41 AM

In Windows XP and higher, the memory limit for the pool from which the desktop heap is drawn is no longer hardcoded at 48MB. It is now set by a registry value. Google "SessionViewSize".

References:

www-1.ibm.com/.../docview.wss

blogs.msdn.com/.../desktop-heap-part-2.aspx

blogs.msdn.com/.../desktop-heap-overview.aspx

Terry

# re: ViewState / IStateManager@ Friday, August 03, 2007 5:56 PM

I agree with you on Control not implementing IStateManager. It doesn't really need to and IStateManager is there to give other objects the same familiar pattern that's integrated into the Control class. But it would have been nice if Microsoft would have maintained consistency and given the Control class the same state management methods through the same interface they preach that you use on your objects. It annoys me too.

Miguel Castro

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Sunday, August 05, 2007 11:00 AM

I have Vista business and run VM Server 103, i have the same problem, only NAT works, Bridged not. So i can almost do nothing. I hope VMware updates this sooooon.

Patrick

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Monday, August 06, 2007 4:13 AM

I have a netgear DG834G v3 and cannot connect to the internet. I am a not a technical person! the lights are all green, and the information is being recieved but not sent. I can pick up next doors internet so it is not a problem with my computer? Any suggestions? Thanks

Laughingmarmot

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:23 PM

I had this same problem, and finally figured out what was happening. I have a video card with dual-monitor output. However, I'm only using one of the outputs. Turns out my monitor is on output 2. Normally, this is fine (output 1 and output 2 are the same). However, after a remote desktop session, output 2 stops working. Switching the connection to output 1 took care of the problem.

Russell Davis

# home security camera@ Wednesday, August 08, 2007 2:20 AM

Once you thoroughly get this, you'll be able to research more surely.

home security camera

# re: SourceSafe 2005 - Getting back the old-style dialogs@ Thursday, August 09, 2007 3:11 PM

Thanks! I was wondering why when trying to add new files that I was seeing files that were already in the project. Now if I could just make the Shift be the default!

Jeff C.

# Visual Studio install asking for XP SP2 on Vista - the solution@ Friday, August 10, 2007 1:21 AM

A while back I blogged about a problem I had installing Visual Studio 2005 on a fresh Vista install

Kevin Dente's Blog

# re: Visual Studio install asking for XP SP2 on Vista - the solution@ Friday, August 10, 2007 4:11 AM

Can't you use the /NO_BSLN_CHECK command line parameter with setup.exe to do this?

Mike G

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Saturday, August 11, 2007 7:03 AM

You just not run the setup program in compatible mode when you select the property of the program.

I have met the same problem, but i solve it.

Maybe it's also ok for you.

huxin

# re: Beware the Outlook Vista Sidebar Gadgets@ Saturday, August 11, 2007 3:11 PM

Handles are more related to Outlook 2007 itself. I'm using it on Windows XP... My Outlook is left on for days and after that it can have a bit more than 10 000 handles...

Yes you've read correctly...not 1000, but 10 000.

This is crazy, since having such a number of handles, I will (~only) be able to open about 30 Internet Explorer Windows before blocking the whole system.

Eric

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, August 14, 2007 7:39 AM

I hooked up an MR814v3 that my son got from his grandmother. It connects to the internet but causes it to be slow. Have disabled the wireless part and have the 2 computers wired but no different. Have also got the updated firmeware for it. Dont know if my DSL modem needs to be updated its about 5 years old. Without router connection is fine.

Jeff

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:35 AM

I have the same problems on Vista Business. No bridged networking which I can live without but locking my machine for 5 minutes after a reboot of the host is very annoying. Surely this can be fixed as a patch to VMWare server 1.0.3.

Mick

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, August 14, 2007 1:33 PM

I moved and transferred my comcast cable service to another home. They gave me a new comcast cable modem. (it is smaller) Now I cannot access the internet with my laptop (wireless) anymore. I also cannot find the netgear router CD (lost in the move).

Eric

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Tuesday, August 14, 2007 4:10 PM

As for the bridged network, go to your VMware folder and start VMnetCfg.exe with admin privileges. Then configure the right adapter and voila, bridged networking works like a charm.

Got the same problem with the slooooow start though. Seems like VMware (or Vista?) reads the entire virtual disk file when starting. So the bigger the disk, the slower the start. Hope they fix this soon.

Gabri

# re: The case of the missing Business Intelligence Studio@ Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:18 PM

I ran this twice and it still didn't show up (Team Edition VS 2005, Dev edition SQL 2005). Very frustrating...

W

# re: Absolute positioning in VS2005 HTML designer@ Thursday, August 16, 2007 2:06 PM

An excellent post! This was very helpful. I really liked the grid layout in VS2003 - it made mock ups very simple. Thanks a lot for posting this!!

~MrGTI

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, August 16, 2007 2:59 PM

Wireless drop out issue has been bugging me for a while and I'm on the verge of switching to WPA-PSK as this solution has appeared in a few blogs and threads.

In the meantime I have just gone through the setup of my Dell vs my Acer and found QoS disabled on my Dell. I've just disabled QoS on my Acer and for the first time in a while is appears to be working ok.

I've got a Netgear WGR614v6, an Acer laptop and a Dell laptop both with Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG chipsets.

I've followed the advice on the Netgear website about wireless power being set to maximum (actually got it at around 60%) and having IEEE 802.1x authentication switched off.

I guess this advice may only work for my set up but you never know.

Good luck,

Phil

Phil D

# re: The case of the missing Business Intelligence Studio@ Friday, August 17, 2007 12:55 AM

Worked for me. Thanks very much.

Sam

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, August 19, 2007 12:50 PM

I am having almost EXACTLY the same problem as Jill (Sunday, July 08, 2007 7:07 PM ). My WGR614v5 was perfect with my Dell laptop running XP Pro until this past week (8/13/07). It drops my wireless signal constantly, all other computers wired are fine. I dont thnink its the router, as others are fine and I have upgraded everything fully (firmware, laptop wireless software and drivers) to try and repair. Nothing has worked, also tried every channel combo and virtually all settings I can possibly think of to resolve and nothing has worked. I suspect maybe a recent hotfix somewhere? Several other places on the internet have reported recent problems just as Jill and I in the recent month. Also frustrated...

Dawson

# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Monday, August 20, 2007 9:37 PM

Kevin - do you have a solution that doesn't involve setting the rendermode to inline? We have block content inside the panel and making the panel a span will cause issues with XHTML (unable to put block elements in inline ones).

Basically what we have is:

UpdatePanel1 with a div that contains a label and radio list with 2 options

UpdatePanel2 with a placeholder that contains a div and a dropdownlist

UpdatePanel2 has UpdateMode set to Conditional and a TriggerElement pointing to the UP1 radio list. The options in the list show/hide the second panel. We're using the Control-Toolkit Animations to fade the div in the second panel in so it's more noticable.

Sean Curtis

# re: Can we stop with the "Change my homepage" crap please?@ Tuesday, August 21, 2007 6:13 PM

Now image you're a user which usually clicks Next, Next, Yes, Ok, Install, etc.. without reading anything.

Must be one hell of an experience to randomly have your start page changed once every so often due to programs wanting to reset it :)

Battle for visitors to get advertising profits I guess, I've come to develop an automatic reflection to uncheck most things I encounter without thinking ;)

CumpsD

# re: Can we stop with the "Change my homepage" crap please?@ Tuesday, August 21, 2007 6:20 PM

I agree. I'm completely over the fight for my homepage. Who actually thinks that a user would want to change their homepage because an installer suggests it. Ok, so maybe the option is trying to be nice or helpful, but checked by default is rude.

Rory Primrose

# re: Can we stop with the "Change my homepage" crap please?@ Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:21 AM

really very very rude. I unchecked it when I installed the Live writer, But 3 of my friends did not and hence had there home page changed. Not so nice user Experience I should Say. Also the fact that it installs the Live tool bar by default. I am totally against it

Vikram

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Wednesday, August 22, 2007 6:04 AM

I have a new Netgear wireless router which is connected to my PC via a Belkin Wireless adapter.

Now the two can communicate to each other but I cannot connect to the internet. Is there any additional configuration that is needed on the router in order to gain access to the internet..?

i_richard

# re: Avoiding the dreaded "unable to download folder (null)" error with Outlook 2003/IMAP@ Wednesday, August 22, 2007 11:41 AM

running vista, outlook 2007, am hard wired nOT USING WIRELESS, and problem is there.. very irritating... just switched back back from Mac to Vista for work... I hate myself for it.

HD

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# re: Visual Studio install asking for XP SP2 on Vista - the solution@ Friday, August 24, 2007 12:20 AM

wow this worked for me also thanks a ton i spent like 3 days messing with this for hours each night.

I went to ....

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers.

there was a file that said something about XpSP2 or something i deleted it and now its installing =)

Higginsrandalr@sau.edu

# re: Tab control with no visible tabs@ Saturday, August 25, 2007 9:28 AM

Many thanks

francois

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:14 PM

If you guy's would actually try and do a search or use the help menu and explore, you can set the pad up so that in mac os or windows right click is simply done by hitting the pad with two fingers (two finger tap) instead of one!

Martin

LOL

# re: Can we stop with the "Change my homepage" crap please?@ Wednesday, August 29, 2007 3:44 PM

Personally, I hate that just as much as the d*mn toolbars that seem to be included in almost any install these days.

Gabri

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Thursday, August 30, 2007 5:08 AM

@Walt:

Good call on the AV software causing slow VM startup in VMWare on Vista. I had the same problem with my own AV software, added a folder exclusion and VMWare now loads VMs quickly.

Nick

# re: Avoiding the dreaded "unable to download folder (null)" error with Outlook 2003/IMAP@ Thursday, August 30, 2007 3:03 PM

Hi all,

I run Vista in a LAN behind a router.

Outlook 2003 and IMAP at STRATO via DSL works fine. BUT!! In the same network I've a XP machine, again Outlook 2003 and this ugly problem. Sometimes another message tries to say me "no network" which cannot be proved, because ping to the imap and smtp server works. Strange thing. No solution until now.

turnaway1

# re: Tab control with no visible tabs@ Sunday, September 02, 2007 1:48 AM

You are so smart! thanks

Fred

# re: Sharepoint 2007 + Firefox = No rich editing@ Monday, September 03, 2007 7:57 PM

just a bunch of haters from linux / mac. look for solution instead talk about your religion.

bsd

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# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Wednesday, September 05, 2007 8:08 AM

Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista

komathi

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Wednesday, September 05, 2007 10:04 AM

Thank you so much !!! Since 6 month I deal with this problem

Sly Cote

# re: Absolute positioning in VS2005 HTML designer@ Thursday, September 06, 2007 3:35 PM

This was really useful. Thanks for posting this.

Chitra

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Saturday, September 08, 2007 6:57 PM

This has really helped out with visual studio development. It would be nearly impossible to work with the vast amounts of ram machines have now without this fix.

Bob

# re: Avoiding the dreaded "unable to download folder (null)" error with Outlook 2003/IMAP@ Monday, September 10, 2007 4:34 PM

I had the same problem in our offices.

For the Server Port Numbers, in the Outgoing (SMTP) section the old webmaster at my work used 5151, but everyone from time to time had the cannot connect the mail.*****.com server. I believe that was the wrong outgoing port number so I just put the defaults back and I don't have any errors. I was wondering if this kind of error would occur when the port numbers are incorrect?

tolga

# re: Sharepoint 2007 + Firefox = No rich editing@ Tuesday, September 11, 2007 5:11 AM

all solutions are about firefox in windows, i said it because anyone tried to solve this problem in windows.

btw i wont talk about my religion

hamid

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:43 PM

This has been bugging me for years. The biggest problem I had was trying to figure how to google the problem! But finally, a search took me to a page that linked here.

I would experience this error whenever I had Photoshop, Flash and Dreamweaver open at the same time, often causing an outright crash, or I'd constantly hear the 'error-chord' until I closed a window.

The instructions have solved everything. I currently have 62 IE7 windows open, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Premiere, After Effects, Eclipse, InDesign, Outlook, 4 word documents, 4 PDFs... and no crashes!

Thank you!

Craig Mason

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:50 AM

I have a Netgear WGR614v4 and had a similar problem of connection drops and required refreshes to load pages. A simple factory reset solved all my problems... for now.

Wren

# re: Absolute positioning in VS2005 HTML designer@ Sunday, September 16, 2007 2:41 AM

Thanks Kev,

very helpful. saved me lots of time

BigChris

# re: String concatenation - + vs StringBuilder@ Sunday, September 16, 2007 2:15 PM

Some more data to extract conclusions out: blog.cumps.be/string-concatenation-vs-memory-allocation

The memory usage for various concatenation methods.

CumpsD

# re: How NOT to sell software - JetBrains web site problems@ Monday, September 17, 2007 6:10 PM

Resharper is a virus that intrusively integrates itself with and hoses your applications. Slows down my machine's performance and crashes like there's no tomorrow.

dan

# re: Absolute positioning in VS2005 HTML designer@ Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:23 PM

Wow, amazing. It took me a day to find this.

Tan

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Wednesday, September 26, 2007 6:08 AM

Don't install from the Autorun.

Browse the DVD and don't run Setup in the Root folder.

Open the Setup Folder.

Right click on the setup.exe in this folder and choose run as administrator.

This worked for me on Vista Business.

Andreas Georgsson

# re: Sharepoint 2007 + Firefox = No rich editing@ Wednesday, September 26, 2007 5:21 PM

The bottom line is Sharepoint is supposed to be a portal server. It should not matter what folks want to use in order to access the portal. Cross browser support is present in most professional web apps. It's a sure bet Microsoft went out of their way to make sure Sharepoint did not work with Sharepoint. Just another example of the whole behavior that got them sued by the government. Too bad the government didn't do anything to them. Wimps!

Derek

# re: Beware the Outlook Vista Sidebar Gadgets@ Thursday, September 27, 2007 3:54 AM

One more info about the freezing Outlook 2007.

In my previous comment I mentionned that I was using Windows XP. I've upgraded to Vista in the mean time. Outlook is still using a lot of handles. I think it is related to the Windows Desktop Search feature. My Outlook is sometimes frozen in the morning... After WDS as indexed it at night while the computer was idle. When I check the handles, I see it has then reached about 28000 handles. I know that the limit in Windows XP is 25000 per process...

Outlook will run fine as long as it has not reached such a high level of handles.

Eric

# re: Visual Studio install asking for XP SP2 on Vista - the solution@ Friday, September 28, 2007 8:05 AM

Same problem... and resolved with your help.

Thanks a lot.

Placko

# re: Tab control with no visible tabs@ Friday, September 28, 2007 8:30 AM

it doesn't work! (border is still visible)

a63kc8

# re: Things They Didn't Fix in Whidbey - Fonts in Windows Forms@ Saturday, September 29, 2007 11:42 PM

Still not fixed in Beta 2 of VS 2008. Pathetic.

James

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Saturday, October 06, 2007 7:19 AM

Hi i have a NETGEAR MBPS WIRELESS ROUTER FIREWALL MR814V2 and configured it to work .the 2 laptops and the desktop work perfectly but the another one DEll e1505 cann't connect if it is another laptop connects immedatly.i brought another dell e1505 and the same problem cann't connect.i tried everything no effect please give suggestions..

vladimir

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Monday, October 08, 2007 11:13 PM

out netgear wireless router isn't working all of a sudden. all the lights light up except for the wireless light. power is working and it receives the signal from modem. What can we do? Internet works directly from modem to computer.

Kurt

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Saturday, October 13, 2007 7:35 AM

We are trying to set wireless on our vaio pcg-v505ap computer using netgear on windows xp. it works fine while plug with yellow cable but on wirelss seems to be so slow that it won't connec to web pages. we have been told that our speed 11 mbps is too slow and we should look into making it faster.we have also being told it might be that windows xp is blocking it and we should speak with vaio. please, help! thanks

marta

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, October 14, 2007 12:00 AM

My netgear wireless router isn't working after 6 months. All the lights light up except for the wireless light. Power is working and it receives the signal from modem. I have triead all fixs? Internet works directly from modem to computer. I am bringing this thing back.

Tony T

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Sunday, October 14, 2007 5:38 PM

HOLY ****

i've been tearing my hair out on this one

thankyou SOOO much i've always had to restart my computer to fix the problem and it would just become a huge nuissance

Rohit

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Thursday, October 18, 2007 4:24 AM

Wow I am amazed that this problem has such a simple solution. I was just about to convert to Firefox!! And it's interesting to note that the problem has actually gotten WORSE over the years, looking at comments, because people's machines have grown more powerful, and their demands for opening windows has grown too, yet XP was stuck at the 3MB limit throughout. Thanks a lot!

Jahanzeb

# re: The case of the missing Business Intelligence Studio@ Monday, October 22, 2007 11:06 AM

I've had a little different issue. BI Studio components were OK with a user account, but not with another one.

I just manually ran vs_setup.msi on the installation DVD and everything went OK.

Olivier H

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Monday, October 22, 2007 9:51 PM

Isn't it secured if you hide the SSDI and enable MAC filtering? From what I gather this as effective as WEP security and will allow the Belkin cards to communicate with the netgear routers

Swartz

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Wednesday, October 24, 2007 2:19 AM

Add host.TSC.noForceSync = TRUE to C: \ProgramData\VMware Workstation\config.ini.

Lockup problem on starting first vm will be solved. Tested on VMware server 1.0.4

Theo Fokkema

# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:00 PM

Indeed the inline rendermode fix the problem but now I have a new problem: the document doesn't validate against XHTML validation cause the inline mode change the update panel div render for a span label, inside my update panel I have some divs, and a div inside a span result in a error validation. Any idea? thanks in advance.

Jero

# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Monday, October 29, 2007 5:25 AM

Hi kevindente,

I tried but the line-height set to 0 break the the tableless design I have into the update panel, I use several divs and it seems that solution malform the visual view, anyway I'll try again, thx for response.

Jero

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:48 AM

i am facing a problem when playing Gunbound with my friend who is using the same wireless access as mine via Netgear wireless router. What seem to be the problem is that what ever I type , the same words will appear at my friend's car... can anyone help me pls

Jacko

# re: Trick for command-line junkies@ Friday, November 02, 2007 9:37 AM

I use doskey macros to cd to places I frequently use. Amazing how much DOS stuff is still useful.

skst

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:08 PM

LOL WOW THATS SO CLEAVER OF APPLE "Place two fingers on the trackpad and click the button below it. That is right click." THANKS ALOT IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS ANSWER

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# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Saturday, November 10, 2007 6:50 PM

I found this article. which suggests the host.TSC.noForceSync = TRUE as well.

communities.vmware.com/.../759624

chingon

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Sunday, November 11, 2007 8:09 AM

Holy cow...Vista has given me such grief that it's not funny anymore. I've spent no less than 30 hours with this visual studio nonsense that it's not funny anymore...ok it was never funny to begin with.

Package load failures and "101 ways to fix your VS 2005 install and to make your dog not look gay" and still no joy. Thanks Microsoft...thanks for NOTHING!

You can take vista and shove it

Ron Weasley

# re: Visual Studio install asking for XP SP2 on Vista - the solution@ Monday, November 12, 2007 12:53 AM

Microsoft did a horrible job testing this beta release. It's more like alpha.

Andrew

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:49 AM

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# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Firefox 2.0 CPU Utilization@ Sunday, November 18, 2007 2:00 PM

> I did notice that FireFox...

> is REALLY, REALLY slow on Vista

But what's cause and what's effect? :-D

walker

# re: How NOT to sell software - JetBrains web site problems@ Tuesday, November 20, 2007 6:04 PM

JetBrains ReSHarper tool rules. That's it. Can't live without it now.

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# re: Visual Studio install asking for XP SP2 on Vista - the solution@ Wednesday, November 21, 2007 10:19 AM

How do you go to HKey_local_yabbadie ya?

MMc

# re: Visual Studio install asking for XP SP2 on Vista - the solution@ Wednesday, November 21, 2007 5:12 PM

oh run and regedit.

MMc

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, November 25, 2007 9:56 AM

well last month i bought one netgear WGR614 router but same i had problem that my wireless drop connection while working. even i was showing exilent connactivity of wireless with my laptop. even i called to my regional NETGEAR customer care and that lady she assist me on phone. i change route's settings and even i update Firmware. but nothing workout. then they replaced that router. but there were same problem. then i try to update my ADSL DM111 Modem. i update its firmware and then i fixed that problem. but i realy hard to fix this. i think you must try to update you MODEM. coz your router keep connecting with your leptop but your modem drop internet connection to router. you must try this and put 1490 MTU size in your Wireless Router. i hope it would work.

samar

# Windows XP SP2 Needed on Vista? :: Tip o' The Day@ Sunday, November 25, 2007 3:29 PM

I found the solution Kevin Dente's blog. Hat tip! If you run into the problem, the solution...

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# re: The case of the missing Business Intelligence Studio@ Sunday, November 25, 2007 7:07 PM

Another MS "feature" ;-)

Steve

# Renaming the blog - finally@ Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:19 PM

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# Can we stop with the "Change my homepage" crap please?@ Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:54 AM

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# re: Is the Visual Studio 2008 Javascript debugger crippled?@ Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:45 AM

Hi, why not just use a dummy placeholder call in the first line? Something like "var dummy=0;" and your gone? It does not seems to be very smart but hey, your problem should be fixed, or not? Or are there any other limitations we have to consider first?

Matthias Denkmaier

# re: Running Assembly Reflector Add-in Updated for Reflector 5.0@ Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:39 AM

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# re: Is the Visual Studio 2008 Javascript debugger crippled?@ Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:50 AM

Have you directly reported this in Microsofts Bugtracker?

Steve

# re: Is the Visual Studio 2008 Javascript debugger crippled?@ Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:12 AM

A huge limitation would be something more along the lines of "I can't set any breakpoints in anonymous functions." There are plenty of workarounds to achieve what you're looking for. It's nothing more than a minor annoyance actually.

jayson knight

# re: Is the Visual Studio 2008 Javascript debugger crippled?@ Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:32 PM

Can't you just insert the "debugger" keyword where you want to break? That adds a line, doesn't it?

Jeff Atwood

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:35 PM

i have a DG834G wireless netgear router. the internet on my computer that it is fixed to works, however it fails to work elsewhere, on both other PCs and my Ps3, it all fails to work.

help plz

jake

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:51 PM

Thank F*&^ it is not just me. I have lost so many hours with Vista that I seriously wish I was back on XP. I thought with DELL and pre-loaded Vista that I could install my visual studio and be back developing and trying to meet my deadline.

How naff are the developwers of visual studio and vista? Did no one try to install it at all before they sold it?

Anyway, I will try some of the methods suggested here and hopefully by 2009 Microsoft will have all the drivers I need (I had to buy a new printer!) and the bugs fixed, just in time for new windows.

Just wanted to rant, thanks.

Andy A

# re: Renaming the blog - finally@ Wednesday, November 28, 2007 6:22 PM

You drowned the puppies, didn't you. DIDN'T YOU.

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# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:26 PM

I have a DG834G v2 aol approved router i have lost all wireless connections with this no signal or nothing i have a laptop ,computer & PS3 which all previously worked wireless but the only way i now can connect now is thru the ethernet cable. Any help please

Rick

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:38 AM

i have my laptop with clean installation of vista home basic,& trying to install visual studio 2005 it gets successfully but while creating new project it gives error of log file plz anyone can help me?

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# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Friday, November 30, 2007 2:29 PM

Sh... i have same problem , my laptop just lost the signal and i need to connect again ;/ whats goin on? HEEEEEEELP!!

Mateusz

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Sunday, December 02, 2007 4:04 PM

Ok, I'm an environmental consultant. NOT an "environmentalist". I run my own consulting company and have been using PC platform computers exclusively for years. I'm interested in, and checked out a Macbook recently because I'm upgrading the equipment to PC XP systems in my small home office NOW, so that I don't get painted into the VISTA corner.

So, I'm intrigued by the fact that I can run XP on a Mac. I have NO experience with Mac but welcome the chance to learn and try something new, to test drive it to see if I can free myself to some extent from Bill Gates' periodic mandatory upgrades. From what I've heard, VISTA SUCKS.

So, I am doing the homework and I come to this site to see a bunch of you i-heads squabbling like a bunch of schoolchildren over Mac v. PC. It's like Harley v. Rice Burners, Sail v. Power boats. What the FUCK is wrong with people that everything's gotta be a contest??

After reading the alleged "input" from this site, I'm not sure that I want to have the apparently necessary and requesite lobotomy performed in order to qualify me to both use a Mac, AND to drive a mini-van.

So, all you i-heads, particularly to the asshole who said to install Windows on a Mac you have to be a moron, I think YOU need to be re-lobotomozed to hopefully re-stimulate your few brain cells. Oh, and while you're on your way to get that done, stop somewhere and suck shit through a straw. Asshole.

Any questions?

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# re: SourceSafe 2005 - Getting back the old-style dialogs@ Tuesday, December 04, 2007 4:51 PM

To permanently switch to old style Add dialogs, add this row to srcsafe.ini:

Classic_Dialogs=yes

Dan

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Wednesday, December 05, 2007 5:16 PM

I started having this problem a couple of months ago, ever since I got in to the habbit of leaving my PC running each night instead of usually shutting it down. It would get worse each day, letting me have progressively fewer applications open at once over time. After a reboot all was well again for a while. I noticed that Process Explorer showed no programs were using up an extraordinary amount of memory, or had a particularly large number of GDI objects, or handles. There was always loads of memory free. I have 2GB total anyway.

Recently I found other people that were experiencing the same symptoms. I'm going to try increasing the number mentioned here and see if my theory about something leaking in the desktop heap is correct.

iMalc

# re: Visual Studio install asking for XP SP2 on Vista - the solution@ Wednesday, December 05, 2007 9:05 PM

I have been having this problem for several days. The registry location above did not contain a compatibility entry for SETUP.EXE. Tonight, it dawned on me that this key might also exist in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive. Sure enough, there was an entry for SETUP.EXE in HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers.

I deleted it and tried the install again and now it works.

mpc

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Thursday, December 06, 2007 2:23 PM

I just bought a Toshiba Laptop PC with Visa Preinstalled. When I installed Visual Studio 2005, I got exactly the same problem as Kevin described in the very beginning in this page,

"The installer always displays the following dialog, complaining that I don't have XP SP 2 installed: ..."

What is the best solution to this problem?

Mike Yanfeng

# re: The case of the missing Business Intelligence Studio@ Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:43 PM

It worked like a charm for the people who were not able to get it to work follow these steps.

First go to DISK 2(Tools cd) then go to \Tools\Setup\vs_setup.exe once installed now

Go to \Tools\Setup\SqlRun_Tools.msi and select BI studio and select option to install on local drive

once installation is complete u should see BI studio good luck and thanks again for a great TIP

Vj

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, December 09, 2007 11:53 PM

Hi, everybody!

Want to share my experience, maybe it helps someone :) I have a D-Link wireless router with 4 wired ports. I've been experiencing internet connection drops now and then. I have 4 computers connected to it: 3 are wireless and the 4th is wired. When the internet connection was dropping all the computers would lose connectivity for several seconds and then it would go back to normal. However if you were in a middle of an ip-call the call would end and you'd have to dial again...

Anyway seems like the problem was caused by fluctuations in the power line. I guess the apartment where I use the router does not have a normal power source. So i plugged the router in an extension cord that has a built in stabilizer (you know these extension cords with 5-6 outlets and some of them have stabilizers)

Now everything works just fine!!!

Me

# re: HttpHandlers in ASP.NET@ Monday, December 10, 2007 9:54 PM

For those encountering errors (eg. "Could not create type...") when trying to use the codebehind attribute, try putting your code-behind code inside the App_Code folder. Worked for me.

Tato Salgado

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Thursday, December 13, 2007 8:24 PM

I got this problem after upgrading to Vista sp1 release candidate. 64 bit , dualmonitor. ATI graphics card(Upgraded tot latest driver incase driver issue but didn't work).

Havent found anything on why this happens.

Remedy for know without reboot is to press sleep button on keyboard and wake computer the screen will work again.

Hamper

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Friday, December 14, 2007 10:26 AM

I have a wgr614v6. I get 6mbs down with just the modem plugged into my computer but only 3mbps through the router. Whats causing this and how do i fix it?

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# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:16 AM

Hello, was wondering if anyone actually found a solution for this... I tried adding that line into my config file but it had no effect whatsoever. Also the suggestions to set antivirus to ignore or to disable it altogether also do not help :(

I'm using VMware 5.5.4 on Vista host.

Markyboy

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2:19 PM

I have a sky netgear router that doesn't provide my home with the wireless range i need so i bought another netgear product that is suppose to be better. problem is sky says I can't use any other router. i've tried connecting the new router but it won't work so I was hoping someone knows a way around this???

raff

# re: Running Assembly Reflector Add-in FAQ@ Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:39 AM

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# re: Visual SourceSafe - recursive handling bug from command line@ Friday, December 21, 2007 4:27 PM

If by coincidence or design you have an AssemblyInfo.cs in the directory you're running SourceSafe from, the default behavior is to try to recurse down *from AssemblyInfo.cs*, not the curdir. Which fails, because unless you work REALLY REALLY HARD a file is not a directory. Adding a wildcard causes it to start from the curdir.

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# re: Can we stop with the "Change my homepage" crap please?@ Friday, December 21, 2007 11:48 PM

Would you like to change your default browser too?

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# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Saturday, December 22, 2007 5:00 AM

Same issue here. Have been testing with several version of the nvidia forceware-drivers and mixing with the powersave options both in bios and in Windows Vista..

But still sometimes after using RDP to the machine the screen never comes back to life.

Currently using Vista with Sp1 RC.

Regards, Magnus Finbom

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# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, December 27, 2007 3:11 PM

i have a netgear router but for somereason i have no security in the the thing.. i know it was set up origionally with it but for somereason its gone. tried putting in the codes on the card but the lettersweonttype into the boxes,, only some of them...help

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# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Friday, December 28, 2007 11:59 AM

I am getting the compatibility issues, and when I try to install sp1 for Vista, it comes back with a "Screw you buddy, VS is not in the proper place, so I can´t install your sp1...." and I haven´t changed any presets.

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# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Wednesday, January 02, 2008 9:49 AM

Lets face it Vista is deffinitly not a good option i mean it alone takes up 1gb of RAM!! not even Leopard that looks a lot better than Vista i might add takes that much (512mb) i dont think Vista is the way to go if u wanna work on VM's

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# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Thursday, January 03, 2008 5:40 AM

Unfortunately for some people that isn't an option.

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# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Friday, January 04, 2008 4:28 PM

I am having the same problem. One thing I have noticed is that if you log off through the remote(instead of just closing the connection) this problem goes away. Still very annoying...

Terry

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, January 06, 2008 8:30 AM

Check with your ISP to make sure you're using the right connection (PPPoA or PPPoE). Makes a big difference. I've had both a WGR614 and now a DG8834G. Can't fault either beast. But I made sure I had all the right settings and updated firmware from the get-go. Don't know if it helps, but for wireless I'm also using a Netgear USB wireless key, but have used a Gigabyte generic in the past and works fine then too.

As far as security goes, it's in Wireless Settings, you choose your own passkey.

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# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:52 PM

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# Registry setting keeps Windows from wigging out when you open lots of IE7 tabs@ Tuesday, January 15, 2008 2:49 AM

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# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Wednesday, January 16, 2008 1:58 PM

Same problem here.

When returning to office both monitors have black screen with only the cursor moving.

Have dual screen setup on Vista Business sp1.

Anybody???

Peter

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:48 PM

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# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:29 AM

When i treied to install visual studion 2005 for xp sp2 i got error of missing .msm files on DVD.

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# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:24 AM

Same problem here dual monitors.. Can't connect to local desktop after a remote desktop session. has someone bugged this with microsoft?

puppy

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:29 PM

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# re: .NET Framework 1.2?@ Monday, February 04, 2008 12:55 AM

THere is nothing like version 1.2

Version 1.1 was shipped with visual studio 2003

and with visual studio 2005 framework 2.0 is shipped

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# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Tuesday, February 05, 2008 1:31 AM

Don't know if this is a valid bug with MS and most may know this but if you get this screen, press CTRL+L to lock your computer and then type in your password to unlock again and that seems to make the screens work.

(Obviously I suffer from this too)

Romey

# re: Can we stop with the "Change my homepage" crap please?@ Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:31 AM

That's not the worst of it. Why does Windows Live Messenger come bundled with toolbars and Rhapsody of all things? Microsoft is supposed to be the one against the clutter of the desktop that comes bundled with all these installers. Why are they doing the same thing?

Andre de Cavaignac

# re: Is the design-time experience for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit all wrong?@ Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:55 PM

I find the benefit of using the controls outweighed by the whole messy process of installing, loading, and configuring the controls; not to mention how it affects the performance of a webform in general.

Steve

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Tuesday, February 05, 2008 4:03 PM

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# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Saturday, February 09, 2008 3:30 PM

I too have been thus far unable to install Visual Studio 2005. Brand-new HP Pavillion notebook. I run setup.exe as Administrator, I'm not using compatibility mode, and in my case the installer gets hung installing the components. Yes, I'm sure it's hung - I gave it 8 hours.

When I click Cancel, it says it will finish installing the component and then cancel. Which would be fine if it wasn't HUNG UP installing the component in the first place!! (What the heck good is "Cancel" if it won't cancel what it's doing??)

As an added bonus if I try to Cancel or close the installer, my system now will NOT Shutdown, Restart, or Log Off and I am even blocked from opening Task Manager unless it's already open. Ctrl-Alt-Del is even unresponsive. I've tried stopping all Services possible and killing all programs running in the background, but the only option at that point is to power off the system.

Woo! Vista is great!

Greg

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Wednesday, February 13, 2008 5:56 PM

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If you are ever in Chicago look me up.

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# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:47 PM

Over four days now I've been struggling to set up a new Netgear WGT624 v4 router.

After failure in following the set up procedure described in the supplied CD, I contacted the ISP (AOL)and the ISP carrier (Virgin Media) for info. on any known problems, and am now in an ongoing dialogue with Netgear Support. This hasn't got me far.

I'm non-techie, and reading the accounts of the experiences in setting up and running a router of the many correspondents on this blog leaves me less than hopeful that I will ever succeed.

Is the struggle worth it?

Arthur

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Thursday, February 14, 2008 3:55 AM

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# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Saturday, February 16, 2008 12:22 AM

Started seeing the same issue after installing Vista SP1 RC. I uninstalled the SP1 RC, and the problem went away.

Mike

# re: The case of the missing Business Intelligence Studio@ Saturday, February 16, 2008 1:24 AM

I had this problem too, and the most recent comment in this blog did it for me. A small difference - I did not have the two .exe files mentioned, rather I had vs_setup.msi and SqlRun_Tools.msi files. I double - clicked vs_setup and it eventually complted with a success panel - no feedback when it launched or was running, though. Then I double clicked SqlRun_Tools and saw the familiar GUI for workstation components install. BSIS icon was already set as if it was installed, but when I clicked 'Next' it installed the program.

Chris

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Saturday, February 16, 2008 11:11 AM

Try this:

First, download the free Autoruns program, which is made by Sysinternals (a Microsoft-owned company). Thanks to Scott Dunn, whose article "Fast Windows Fixes" in the latest issue of PC World recommended this program.

Once you've downloaded and installed the program, right click on it and run it as an administrator.

Next, once the program is running, you will see a list of all the start-up functions in the registry and elsewhere. You will probably want to look for places where it says a file that the registry is supposed to load is not found, and either uncheck that entry or change the location to the one where the file is, if it still exists on your computer.

Jeroen74

# re: Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?@ Tuesday, February 19, 2008 3:03 AM

ctrl+click is not working on my macbook

varun

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, February 19, 2008 5:51 AM

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Joseph

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# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:54 PM

Happens to me too...

I have Vista Business 64 bit at office

nVidia FX3500/4000

Dual Displays (1600x1200 each)

I go home and use a laptop with 1920x1200

to rdesktop to my work system.

It authenticates, but just gives me a black screen and a mouse.

I come back to the office the next day and all I have is a mouse, nothing else.

Have to reboot the system.

BenRussoUSA

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Sunday, February 24, 2008 9:34 AM

Same problem here. I remote into my Vista Ultimate box, single screen, and after I disconnect, I get the black screen after authenticating, either through RDP or locally, I get the black screen with mouse only.

David

# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:09 AM

Just put an empty comment in the div and IE will not dive it any default dimensions.

div.appendChild(document.createComment("IE BUG FIX"));

Matt

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:56 PM

I upgraded my OS from Vista basic to Vista Business edition. I am not able to Install VS 2005. I tried running the setup in administrator mode and thats also of not much help.The error is during the installation of Microsoft Document Explorer 2005.

Anupama Biswas

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, February 26, 2008 3:33 PM

Have had a Netgear since June '07 and have the same problems with the wireless signal. Tried all the solutions mentioned, but am down to unplugging it, waiting a minute, then plugging it back in. Works for a week or if lucky, 10 days, then I have to do it again. I'm resolved to having to do this until I get off my butt and buy another brand. I have a relative who's a real "techie" - he sez these things are only good for about 6 months, which is about when I started losing wireless connection with it.

Teresa

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:39 AM

I do have the same problem, Vista Business Edition, SP1 RC.

Juan Blanco

# re: Add Reference dialog in Visual Studio 2005@ Friday, February 29, 2008 4:54 AM

I want to know how to add references in the add reference dilog box?...i m trying to make connectivity of .NET with oracle.but its give error "system.data.oracleClient require version oracle client s/w version 8.1.7 or greater".......plz give me reply ASAP who know solution......

thanks

kruti

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Sunday, March 02, 2008 3:33 AM

Hey,

I'm suffering from a similar problem too on two separate computers, both with ATI Radeon cards and Vista Ultimate (no SP1).

After RDC - sometimes but not always - the secondary display becomes black, with only the cursor showing (the primary display is typically unaffected).

FYI - there *IS* a workaround that prevents you from having to reboot your system - go to the Device Manager, go to the ATI driver, disable it, wait until it's disabled, and re-enable. It takes about 20-30 seconds, significantly shorter and less painful than a reboot.

The caveat - you might have to re-enable it blindly, since once disabled, you don't have a video driver... (you can use the keyboard to re-enable it, using the button that opens a context menu). YMMV - I'm actually getting basic video after disabling the ATI card since upgrading to Catalyst 8.2.

The fact this problem can be solved by disabling and re-enabling the ATI driver makes me pretty confident this is a bug in Catalyst. Theoretically it might be a bug in the Vista video driver system but I think it's less likely. The description of the problem with the Nvidia card in this thread sounds like a separate corruption bug to me...

I've opened a trouble ticket with ATI about this a few days ago and I'm hopeful they'll be able to figure it out.

Zeev

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# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Monday, March 03, 2008 5:16 PM

I'm using UpdatePanels and the comment insertion didn't work for me... I tried putting it in there manually and using javascript but no luck...

Here's what did work for me - I created a control and derived from UpdatePanel. I overrode RenderChildren and before the call to base.RenderChildren(writer) I put the following code:

==========================================

string isEmpty = "true";

for (int i=0; i<this.ContentTemplateContainer.Controls.Count; i++)

{

if (this.ContentTemplateContainer.Controls[i] != null && !(this.ContentTemplateContainer.Controls[i] is LiteralControl) && this.ContentTemplateContainer.Controls[i].Visible == true)

{

isEmpty = "false";

break;

}

ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(Page, typeof(Page), this.ClientID + "_display", "$get('" + this.ClientID + "').style.display = " + isEmpty + " ? 'none' : 'block';", true);

==========================================

Now whenever I have an empty UpdatePanel it automatically gets hidden. It's kinda ghetto but I haven't found another way to handle it yet. Thoughts?

-chad

chad morgan

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Wednesday, March 05, 2008 7:02 AM

Happening to me too. Using an Ati card and Vista x64 w/ SP1. I'm not sure if the primary display is affected, because that is a projector that is not on all the time. My short term fix may be to use a different remote desktop program given this is most likely a bug in ATI's driver.

Zeev: Let us know what ATI says!

Will

# re: SourceSafe 2005 - Getting back the old-style dialogs@ Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:34 AM

Excellent - that Add New Files filter thingy dissapearance was really beginning to bug the bejaysus out of me (only just switched from VSS 6 because I rather liked it!). Classic dialogs about to be switched permanently...

Steve P

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Thursday, March 06, 2008 12:29 PM

Out of curiosity - for those of you that are experiencing this problem - what kind of resolution(s) are you using?

Zeev

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:55 PM

Having the same issue

Vista x64 SP1 (RTM)

dual monitors 1680x1050 and 1280x1024

nvidia geforce 8600gt

Jon W

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Friday, March 07, 2008 7:03 PM

so what i gather from this is that noone was ever able to find out how to properly install any copy of VS on vista from any manufactor? cause thats great i have deadlines to meet and one computer to run it on.

Stephen

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Sunday, March 09, 2008 11:25 AM

I'm also a big fan of VMWare (ESX, Server and Workstation). I find MS Virtual PC less than adequate.

I'm running VMWare Server 1.0.4 at home. I also experience the 2 to 3 minute locking of Vista when I start my first VM. What's happening is all system RAM on host is being grabbed by VMWare Server... this makes the host "lock up". I agree this is awfully weird behavior, and hope they resolve it in the VMWare Server 2.0 (whenever that ships, I don't know).

Dataland

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Thursday, March 13, 2008 7:40 AM

Folks, see Russell Davis's reply. You need to hook your display to the other display port.

Miko

Miko Nahum

# re: The case of the missing Business Intelligence Studio@ Friday, March 14, 2008 11:30 AM

I have seen a similiar problem except with SQL Server Management Studio. Even though SQL Server installer said that it was installed it was not. To resolve this I went to Disk2\Setup and double clicked on SqlRun_Tools.msi. The GUI for Change or Remove Instance comes up and you then select Change Installed Components. Finally select Client Components and install

This has happened to me a couple of times and I notice that in my case it always occurs when I decide not to install all of the components.

Usmar

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Saturday, March 15, 2008 7:45 AM

Miko,

It's great except it doesn't really solve the problem at all, if you have two displays and you want both to work as they should.

UPDATE: I got a response from ATI. They say that they now believe this is an Operating System issue and therefore I should talk with Microsoft instead. The fact that there are a couple of Nvidia owners here that complain about the same problem may mean they're right (in fact I pointed them to this blog - so that may have been what made them decide that).

Still - I'm not sure at all that this is really an OS problem. To the Nvidia users among you - can you elaborate on exactly what you're experiencing? The first Nvidia user describes what appears to be quite a different problem - a redraw of specific parts of the screen. I'm experiencing a completely black screen, cursor only.

NVIDIA USERS: please send me any additional information you can. I really want to figure out whether this is an OS problem or an ATI driver problem. You can email me directly at zeev-ati@zend.com

Zeev

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Sunday, March 16, 2008 8:19 AM

I used to have the same problem as kevin, but now i solved it. I don't know if these steps r necessary but i'll tell u all the steps i made.

I)From setup.exe (right click->prperties->compatibility mode-> Run as admin)

II)Then in Control Panel-> Programs & Features->( on the right of the screen)Turn Windows Features on or off-> IIS and .Net Framework

III) Actually i don't really know if the above steps r necessary, but this is the most important one.

Click on a Folder in the cd called Setup, in it there is a logo of vs.net and is called setup. Click on it and the setup will start without asking you in the middle to update SP2.

Good luck, hope it works with u.

monamino

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:08 PM

fuck you bill gate

i hate vista

i can't do anything with vs2005 on vista

phuc

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Friday, March 21, 2008 5:12 PM

Completely black screen, have to kill explorer then restart for it to work again. Id say it works around 2 times before it will fail and force a restart.

Jon W

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# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:10 PM

please help...im having trouble connecting my NETGEAR DG834G v4 to my ps3, it works n all and ive typed the encryption key in properly but all it says is check ur security settings for the wireless connection, so id reeli appreciate some help.

niyaz

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Friday, March 28, 2008 8:05 PM

oh yh, i almost frgot my security is wpa-psk

niyaz

# re: Media Player 9 shuffling@ Friday, March 28, 2008 11:00 PM

Man, you guys half to stop living in the PAST. Windows Media Player 11 and its shuffle algorithm are the BOMB.

Jakers Cakers

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Saturday, March 29, 2008 2:14 PM

To Niyaz,

have you been into your routers setup page via your browser on the pc, check the back of the router itself for the address to type into the browser, if you've never been into it before the default login is Admin and password for the password (you should change the password).

Go to the wireless section and make sure wireless is enabled firstly and make sure the "mode" is set to g & b, then try another channel too, make sure you click apply at the bottom of any page you make changes on.

then use the logout on the left hand side.

Best channels are 1, 6 and 11 as these don't really have any "lap overs" from other channels.

If you still can't connect I recommend switching to using Mac Filtering only, use the "access only" option under wireless settings in router. You get your mac address in PS3 under system info. Add it manually and do same for any laptops or other pc's that connect wirelessly.

Wep etc is you disable for mac filtering.Nobody will ever get on your connection with mac filtering set ;)

Liverbird

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:14 PM

to liverbird

thanx 4 the advice m8..... but still i can't

find access only under wireless settings.

ive got netgear dg834g v4 if that helps

niyaz

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, April 01, 2008 10:51 AM

Hi Niyaz (female here :p )

when your looking for the "set up access list", it isn't in the column on the left, it is in one of the main windows whilst your in the wireless section.

When you go into the set up access list you'll need to check the box that says to "enable access only" or enable access list, words to that effect.

I actually have that same model router only mine is older, version 2, and there are differences now in version 4 so I am not certain of exactly where the option will be.

I know it does support mac filtering for sure, so keep looking ;)

Don't forget, encryption of data set to "disabled", your no longer accessing with a wep key!, then go set up the access list.

Only data is not encrypted, so if your worried, do any online purchasing whilst connected with a ethernet cable.

Mac filtering is very secure way for keeping others off your network.

Liverbird

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:11 AM

*I should also tell you now too that once this part is done in the router, when using the PS3 to scan for your network and connect, you will need to choose, security type "none", as obviously your not using wep or other encryption.

Don't change any values in the PS3 where you see all of the data when its tested the connection, use the save to save this connection.

Liverbird

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:00 PM

to liverbird (male here :p)

thank you very much for your help,

now i can enjoy online gaming peacefully

and now i don't have to worry about security

niyaz (a.k.a: king nizy)

niyaz

# re: Avoiding the dreaded "unable to download folder (null)" error with Outlook 2003/IMAP@ Wednesday, April 02, 2008 2:28 PM

I am running a PC with XP using Office SP3 and a wireless card.

Was getting this error for weeks! (but never restarted comp or outlook).

Simply rebooted and restarted Outlook and problem solved... 100 messages came crashing in!

Thx

Trev

Trevor

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:20 PM

I'm using the latest VMware Server 1.0.5 on Vista SP1, and the problem persists. My lockup duration is slightly lower than reported by other people—about two minutes—but nonetheless embarassing. The memory usage raises up to the 2 GB maximum, after heavy swapping it drops to moderate 600 MB, and the guest OS launches as usual.

I gave the VMware Server 2.0 Beta 2 a shot, but decided to drop this bloated goat immediately. The web based console is a no-go in my opinion, since it's deadly slow in any aspect. The adventurous user can dig and find the VMware Infrastructure client program inside the installation, but it's also way slower than the 1.0.x console, which was just perfectly matching my purposes.

Not sure if the 2.x server suffers the same first-startup issue. If it does, the behaviour is perfectly hidden behind the sluggish overall performance... underwhelming IMHO.

Willy Dee

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:39 PM

Your welcome, glad to have helped......nothing worse than having such an expensive peice of equipment only to find you can't get the full value from it!

Happy gaming ... :D

Liverbird AKA Anne r

Liverbird

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# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Saturday, April 05, 2008 11:46 AM

Hi my netgear problems were all solved by turning off the UPnP. Hope that helps.

Ray

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, April 06, 2008 2:11 PM

my brother has had a WGR614V7 it connect fine wired to the interent and to a cable modem however, to use it wireless it is fine without security but when security is turned on it will not allow his ps3 to connect but if you take security off it connects fine

Jon

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, April 06, 2008 6:40 PM

When the PS3 can connect fine without security it is likely that the key or password you are entering is not being entered completely correct.

Remember, the key digits are case sensitive, you must enter capitals where capitals are used etc.

You could try a different encryption type, try alternative to wep.

If you still cannot do this then try setting up mac filtering as I have outlined above.

This is safer and best not to leave router set up with no security at all, somebody will get on to your connection like that ;)

Liverbird

# re: Avoiding the dreaded "unable to download folder (null)" error with Outlook 2003/IMAP@ Monday, April 07, 2008 9:30 AM

We've had the same problem. Outlook 2003 running on Vista, we removed Exchange Extensions and iTunes AddIn which appear to have cured the problem for us.

Outlook2003/Tools/Options/Other/AdvancedOptions/Add-In Manager/Untick Exchange Extensions property.

Also,

Outlook2003/Tools/Options/Other/AdvancedOptions/COM Add-Ins/ remove anything that isnt essential, (we removed everything)

Hope that helps.

Shahid Hafiz

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Monday, April 07, 2008 6:24 PM

that's the same problem i had but the only solution to it is to turn off all security and set-up mac filtering ::)

niyaz

# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:52 PM

The tip about sharedsection is most important and should always be done first. If there are still problems you should look to increase HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\GDIProcessHandleQuota to 16384 and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\USERProcessHandleQuota to 18000

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# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Tuesday, April 15, 2008 7:42 PM

Come down Phuc. You are not impolite. You are smart person but your mouth look like toilet.

If you don't like Vista buy window XP replace with your Vista. Hell phuc.

Tigerlong

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, April 17, 2008 2:14 PM

I have the same problem with a netgear DGB111G however its the Internet connection that is failed.

....

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, April 17, 2008 6:42 PM

"I have the same problem with a netgear DGB111G however its the Internet connection that is failed."

To the person who posted this, give plenty of details and I may be able to help.

What are you trying to connect -- a pc or PS3

What type of connection do you have? Phone line type or cable?

Some basic checks for those who have intermittent / loss of internet:

First always try powering down the router,--- basically turn off pc, turn off router at the wall, wait 30 seconds or so, turn router back on, wait for lights to stabilise, then turn pc back on.

(If your connection uses a modem as well as router, turn that off too, but when powering them back up do modem first, wait about 30 seconds, then power on the router, again wait for lights, then power up the pc.)

Check filters if using phone line type broadband.

If your using double adapters try without - they cause terrible problems for internet.

If you have several phones, try connecting at the master socket with one filter into which one phone, and the router, removing possible causes of other phones or wiring being at fault.

*If the routers lights look right but you appear to have no internet connection always check your pc's connection is not being blocked by a firewall or other security type program, and that your pc is not set to "work offline."

Liverbird (Anne R)

Liverbird

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# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Sunday, April 20, 2008 9:53 PM

Ive magically stopped having this issue, anyone else?

Jon W

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:25 PM

I'm still getting it, have been since I installed Vista Ultimate at RTM. Ati card, dual-monitor setup. I get black screens, no mouse cursors, not even a signal to monitors (power buttons on dell monitors go to orange). The only key that does anything is the ESC and it just makes my machine beep. I do have microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse, but had this problem before when I had a wired keyboard and mouse. I haven't installed vista SP1, hoped a fix would come with it but sounds like it's not there yet.

John S

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Thursday, April 24, 2008 4:29 PM

I changed the power management settings in my BIOS for the wake on lan and remote wake on lan to allow each...

seems to have done the trick, I'll keep tunneling in to make sure.

John S

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Friday, April 25, 2008 6:45 AM

I just ran into the same problem trying to install Visual Studio on my Vista laptop. I followed the instructions above for setting the compatability mode. What I found is that I had to click the button on the compatability properties page "Show setting for all users" which also had the compatability set to run in Windows XP Service pack 2.... I unchecked this, and now the program is installing with no problems.... I hope this helps someone....

Fatman

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Friday, April 25, 2008 6:34 PM

Doh, happened again. I did find that when I get to the computer at home (blank screens) I can hit CTRL-ALT-Delete (as if the monitors were on), hit enter (as if I were selecting the current user logged in, and type my password followed by enter. Magically the screens come back to life then. Makes me think that the computer is not actually in sleep mode, it's just that the video card thinks it's in some power saver mode or something and shuts 'em off.

I'm done trying to figure this out more, this workaround is good enough for me. hope it helps at least one person out there.

John S

# re: Tab control with no visible tabs@ Saturday, April 26, 2008 9:50 PM

Thanks for the hint. It's work perfectly!

oorduz

# Heino R. Pull’s Personal Blog » Blog Archive » 4 Gig, Windows XP and Too Many Windows@ Sunday, April 27, 2008 2:16 PM

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# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:29 AM

Fatman,

Thanks for your help.

I had the same problem.

It was solved by your post ...

So thanks

Pierre (France)

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:21 AM

I am using a laptop, Netgear, all of a sudden I am unable to get a connection. It is sending "Packets" but it is not receiving "Packets" it will receive 60 then stops.

Any suggestions?

DeDe

# re: Locating the active item in Solution Explorer@ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 6:25 PM

There appears to be an error in your blog. I see what seems to be a "new update", so I suspect that spambots have somehow infiltrated the system.

Jeff Atwood

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:27 AM

I'm having problems with my Netgear wgr614v6, I just can't get into it via net browser. It asks for my username and password, which is default admin and the password is password, it always asks my again and again and again and I can't get in ? What can I do ? Reset the device ?

Einar

# re: Locating the active item in Solution Explorer@ Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:13 PM

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Send me a tweet at JohnB

JohnB

# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:36 PM

just use style.display = "none"

Don Bradken

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:53 PM

Ok well Ive read all of the responces I am a bit overwealmed and Im not quite sure if this was covered but I run the install and It seems to start correctly I put in my product key and the bottom progress bar fills up with the Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 step .. the 1st one .... it dosent freeze infact it appears to be running its more like the lights are home and no one is home the side pictures continue to scroll thru the 3 vb propaganda pictures they have can someone help me please

Wes

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Saturday, May 03, 2008 1:45 AM

Has anyone ever fully resolved this lockup problem for VMWare Server 1.05? I have a new Vista Ultimate system, no AV, tried the config.ini and I still hit the problem.

Thanks much!

RB

PS - Hey Kevin :)

Richard Berger

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, May 04, 2008 6:05 AM

Does anyone know how to disable the program Mrv.GINA.dll on the installed netgear wireless router? My welcome screen is all messed up, the usernames are gone.

Thanks.

conal tipping

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Sunday, May 04, 2008 5:48 PM

Nvidia user 8800gtx vista ultimate 64bit sp2... frantically looking for solution. None of the above seems to work for me, will come back if I find solution.

Tim

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Sunday, May 04, 2008 6:49 PM

Did a series of attempts with no luck... reformat is my only option... I can now see my wonderful screens again.

what a pain, been running vista for less than a month, I bought it over a year ago but feared installing it... strange huh?

Tim

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Sunday, May 04, 2008 7:17 PM

my bad... vista sp1

Tim

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:36 AM

on one system, with Host of WinXP and Guest of Ubuntu, I am able to see thumb drives on both systems when one of them is disabled.

but on my notebook with Host of Vista Home Premium and Guest of Ubuntu, I can only see thumb drives on my Vista system. even when disable on that Vista system, I cannot see thumb drives on Ubuntu at all.

any expert advice to help me?

even I copy the Ubuntu.vmx file from the working system, to my notebook, it does not help at all.

or does version VMWare 2.0 beta will help?

tan thiamhuat

# re: Avoiding the dreaded "unable to download folder (null)" error with Outlook 2003/IMAP@ Friday, May 09, 2008 9:49 PM

Thank God for a helpful post! I've been frustrated by that for so long (and disgusted that Microsoft is ignorant enough not to have fixed it yet, even in 2007). So far this is the only suggestion I've seen that actually worked. I simply unchecked the box for Exchange Extensions and restarted Outlook, and voila! No more errors. If you're getting the same errors (which you probably are if you're reading this), try this.

Once again, thanks for the helpful tip!

-Sean

(And props to Kevin Dente for having a blog that you don't have to become a member of to leave posts!)

Sean

# sell my house fast@ Sunday, May 11, 2008 4:55 PM

Reddit is pretty Obama- and Paul-biased

sell my house fast

# re: SourceSafe 2005 - Getting back the old-style dialogs@ Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12:38 PM

Thanks a lot for this tip. I have been in a lot of pain for not being able to unset/clear the working folder.

Parag S.

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:14 PM

Thank you FATMAN!. I just went through and unchecked every executable in the root folder and the setup folder of the compatibility mode setting for XP Service Pack and the 2005 compiler finally installed. I have to use VS2005 for our Framework compatibility with other developers. OK, on to the next problem.

Iris

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# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:09 PM

Hello, Can anyone please help, I have an acer laptop and a dell desktop and I have a wireless connection. when I am talking on windows messenger, it will only let me recieve a couple of lines and then nothing, even if I still have a good connection, could it be the netgear thats causing it and what should I do. Thanks in advance. Bluebell

Bluebell

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Friday, May 16, 2008 4:40 AM

To Dede,

Sounds like the wireless connection is not very strong and could be being dropped out,I would try a different channel, change this from within your routers setup page.

Make sure any software firewall is not the cause, some anti virus packages have built in firewall rules (norton), maybe temporarily disable the program and check how connection is then.

To Einar,

Are you sure caps lock is not set on your keyboard? Are you sure somebody hasn't changed the details already? Are you sure you are typing in the correct address in the address bar of browser, they do vary slightly on some models. Check the base of the router for the address. If you bought this from new was it sealed?

If you still cannot load access then start over, there should be a small pin hole sized button on back of router somewhere, push gently with a hairclip or something and hold for about 30 seconds, resets to factory settings.

To Conal Tipping,

you should be able to uninstall any software that came with your router (any cd disc that came with it) as you do not need to use it.

Connect the router etc as normal and then access the routers set up page via the browser, all details will be on the base of the device. When you access the setup page it might even have a "wizard" on the left hand side that you can use if you have to start over.

Some network adapters install these GINA.dll files so are you sure it is not a new adapter also made by netgear ??

To Bluebell,

It could be the MSN servers playing up, it could also be the version of messenger you currently have.

Unfortunately there appear to be a lot of "problems" with the latest Windows Live Messenger and if the person you are talking with does not have the same version.

Make sure yours is the latest, check for updates.

In the netgear router make sure UPnP is enabled too. AND, importantly ... click to "APPLY" any changes made in the router.

Liverbird

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# re: Sharepoint 2007 + Firefox = No rich editing@ Monday, May 19, 2008 8:37 PM

Well, here's the thing: if Microsoft were to extend full support to browsers other than IE, or were to make IE available on other platforms with full support, then OS X et. al. would be much more attractive business platforms. Then again, maybe it's simpler than that--isn't it the lack of ActiveX support that limits what a browser can do with SharePoint?

Maybe I'm just missing something...

Mark

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:59 PM

Hi all, i am also having major issues with my Netgear WGR614v7. Im using an ibm thinkpad t41 which used to work fine (all though at times would lose wifi / internet signals and require router reset). i also have 2 ethernet cable wired connections which work ok, and one asus eee with linux connecting fine. tried EVERYTHING I can think of with my ibm, including booting from linux with which wifi worked fine. Is it a software issue with my thinkpad? if so, it's unsolvable. when turning off security, wifi works fine. im considering dumping the netgear and getting a new one finally! plz advise if u have any ideas... thanks!!!

Krewly

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Thursday, May 22, 2008 8:47 AM

Well I've got a way around this.

Using my VMware workstation to create the image and then using VMware player (the latest version - it's free) to run it.

I'm not sure about whether or not you can have these two programs installed concurrently but having a pre-made image that I use and only very very rarely have to modify means that VMware player is the perfect option.

Suddenly my computer is WAY more responsive while its running in the background too...

MArkyboy

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, May 22, 2008 1:31 PM

You say you have tried everything ........ wireless worked fine when security was disabled??

Have you therefore tried switching to "Mac filtering" as oppose to wep or other encryption?

Mac Filtering does not encrypt your data however it is the most secure way of keeping anybody from connecting to your network.

You will find the Mac Filtering in your routers setup page, you'll need to locate "Access Only" and enter all mac addresses of all pc's or other devices which are to be allowed to connect to the router wirelessly.

Click on "Apply" to make these settings stick, log out of routers setup.

Mac addresses of laptops are usually on the bottom of the case, or you can get any pc's mac address by going to start/run,type in the box ipconfig /all (note the space after ipconfig).

Liverbird

Liverbird (AKA Anne r)

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, May 22, 2008 1:35 PM

Also to Krewly:

have you tried changing the channel from within the routers setup?

This should alwyas be your first port of call for wireless connection issues.

Channels 2, 6 or 12 are supposed to have no "overlaps", however, if lots of people in your area all had routers set to the same channel you could possibly give one another problems, knocking out each others wireless connection.

Hope some of this helps ;)

Liverbird

Liverbird (AKA Anne r)

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:46 PM

I bought NetGear Wireless Router WGR614V7 and i have a problem i can't see my picture in my Friendster... some one help me!!! plz

rick

# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:13 PM

Don Bradken thanks, it worked perfectly :)

Alex

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:22 PM

Rick,

what browser are you using?

To rule out the problem being caused by your new router you should always try an alternative; ie; try Firefox, or Internet Explorer.

Always search around other forums to see if other users are having the same issues, it could actually be a problem with Friendster so hang on in there before messing about with router settings.

Check firewall and other types of security applications too for settings that can disable images.

Hope something here helps,

Liverbird

Liverbird (AKA Anne r)

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:12 AM

hi having problems connecting my netgear super wireless modem router everything seems right but wont let me connect to the internet what am i doing wrong,my laptop also connects to the wireless network that has a full signal but still no internet...please help

john

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:58 AM

John, what type of connection do you have?

Is your setup the type where you still need to use your cable modem, and instead of the modem going into your pc, it goes instead into the router, then the router into the pc ?(use ethernet cable not usb).

If so try this;

turn everything off, turn power to modem on only (keep the router plug out for now), let all the lights become stable on the modem, then plug the power in for the router, let lights become stable and then power on your pc .....you should get internet connection ok if all is set up correctly.

If your connection is only needing the router, (no modem), then again power off the router, wait 20 to 30 seconds and power it back on .... this reboots the router and should let it re-synch your connection.

If none of this helps you will need to give me much more information for me to be able to help further.

** Do try disabling firewall/security type programs in case these are the cause.

Liverbird

Liverbird (AKA Anne r)

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# re: Media Player 9 shuffling@ Sunday, June 01, 2008 1:33 AM

I agree with Jakers Cakers. I actually googled up "windows media player shuffle algorithm" because i've been wondering for the last few days how the hell media player 11 randomly plays good music. all of my music is good though, but this sounds almost harmonically mixed at times. its very good, and besides floola, i don't use any other player.

saki

# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Tuesday, June 03, 2008 6:33 AM

I found IE still rendered things incorrectly if the UpdatePanel contained elements that rendered but had no visual presence on the page (hidden input controls, empty divs, empty spans, elements with style="display:none", etc.)

I like Chad's approach of creating our own inherited version of UpdatePanel and overriding RenderChildren.

In my version, I just ensured that the <div> it generated had style="display:inline", so that it behaved like a <span> but didn't break XHTML validation rules.

This seems to fix the IE bug in all situations, and I believe it always generates valid XHTML.

Here's my code, on which I'd appreciate any comments:

========================

public class UpdatePanel : System.Web.UI.UpdatePanel

{

protected override void RenderChildren(HtmlTextWriter writer)

{

if (!this.Page.IsPostBack && this.RenderMode == UpdatePanelRenderMode.Block)

{

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

base.RenderChildren(new HtmlTextWriter(new StringWriter(sb)));

string renderedHtml = sb.ToString();

if (!renderedHtml.StartsWith("<div "))

throw new Exception("An UpdatePanel with a RenderMode of Block isn't rendering as a <div>");

writer.Write("<div style=\"display:inline\"");

writer.Write(renderedHtml.Substring(4));

}

else

base.RenderChildren(writer);

}

========================

I don't believe that Exception would ever get thrown, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

I suppose you could argue that if the RenderMode is Block we should leave it alone, but if RenderMode is Inline we should replace the <span> with a <div style="display:inline">...

teedyay

# The New Hotness: Checking Out the November CTP@ Thursday, June 05, 2008 3:00 AM

In the last week I've come across a few links talking about the November(yes, I know, it was released in December.)

The Coffeehouse

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, June 08, 2008 10:20 AM

Installed Netgear router WGR614 - got internet great but can't get Limewire or any download programmes to open. Can anyone help without being too technical?

Ricosmum

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, June 08, 2008 2:55 PM

When you say these programs "won't open", what do you mean exactly?

A downloaded program is installed, then you would use its' icon to open or launch the program.

If they do not "open" and start up, this is nothing to do with the router.

If they do "start" but cannot connect to the internet then a firewall is likely blocking access.

If you are running Vista, sometimes UAC can stop programs from launching (UAC = user account control, which can be temporarily disabled in control panel/user accounts).

You can also try right clicking on the icon to the programs and selecting "Run as Administrator" and then see do the programs open correctly.

For Limewire sometimes you need to open Ports from within the routers setup page, accessed via your browser, scroll this page up and you'll find I have posted steps to do this for other users)

The ports for Limewire are: 6346 - 6347

For further help you will need to give more specific information.

Liverbird (AKA Anne r)

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Sunday, June 08, 2008 8:10 PM

Only solution I have so far is to set machine to sleep when I hit the power button, takes about 20 seconds. Then power up from sleep takes about 10 seconds. After that, screen is active.

Glen Lalonde

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:02 AM

Pretty much the same issue here. But when I go from remote to local, the system tells me that it's busy disconnecting a remote session. The only thing I can do is hard reset the machine. Happens everytime. Sucks.

Nik

# PC Security@ Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:00 PM

If your looking for even more information on PC security then I would head over here as they have plenty of stuff on identity theft, antivirus software etc.

PC Security

# re: Absolute positioning in VS2005 HTML designer@ Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:08 AM

Really nice post...i waster a day finding that option..

but now can move freely.. :) :)

Moni

# re: SourceSafe 2005 - Getting back the old-style dialogs@ Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:43 AM

I don't have the Clear working folder button... When I hold shift, I get the old-style dialog but there's no option to clear the working folder. Any ideas?

tom

# re: SourceSafe 2005 - Getting back the old-style dialogs@ Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:16 PM

Tom,

Just remove the text from the edit box and hit "OK"

Kevin Dente

# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:52 PM

I lost all my hair working on the same problem!

thanks Don, style.display = "none"

worked like a champ!!!

Craig

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:35 PM

Similar problem here. I can connect and it works great. As soon as I disconnect I can't reconnect (Says its busy processing a connect, disconnect...) and the only way to fix it is to hard boot the computer.

S. Gordon

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# re: Can someone explain why this VB.NET code fails to compile?@ Monday, June 30, 2008 1:41 AM

Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

If Len(Page.Request.QueryString("ID")) <> 0 Then

Label5.Text = Page.Request.QueryString("ID")

End If

If Session("Login") Is Nothing Then Server.Transfer("../SessionExpired.aspx")

lblMessage.Text = ""

Call ValidationScript()

If Not IsPostBack Then

cboG1.Enabled = False

lblUserName.Text = Session("OperatorName")

Me.cmdDelete.Attributes.Add("onclick", _

"return confirm('Are you sure you want to delete?');")

If Len(Page.Request.QueryString("ID")) <> 0 Then

cmdSave.Text = "Save Changes"

cmdDelete.Visible = True

Call OperatorLoginValidation()

Call RetrieveOperator(Page.Request.QueryString("ID"))

End If

Call LoadMaster()

End If

End Sub

swetha

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Monday, June 30, 2008 9:28 AM

Just trying VMWare Server 6.0 on Vista. So far it isn't fun. VMWare Server seems very half baked compared to virtual PC. I is clearly a resource hog compare to the light weight VPC product. So far I'm not impressed.

Wayne

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Monday, June 30, 2008 7:14 PM

Ditto. Changed motherboard (had one handy), reinstalled Vista. Goes to sleep, wakes up black screen. I think its related to the fact that the monitor is off. Somehow the video card thinks the monitor is unplugged so never powers back on. If the PC goes to sleep when the monitor is on, it will wake back up as expected.

Kurt

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Cropper Goes to the Crapper@ Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:16 PM

""Have you tried "snip" within Vista? I haven't used Cropper before, but Snip has done everything I need so far in Vista.""

Oh my God, If you were here I would have huged you and taken you to a dinner! I love you. My Prn Sc button has stoped working (and im trying to figure out why) for about a month now...and it was getting on my nerves when I had to post a tutorial with screen shots. and I neve knew SNIP was a vista tool INCLUDED! Seriously, thank you soo much! Long live Chris and long live Internet :)

Varun

# re: Is the Visual Studio 2008 Javascript debugger crippled?@ Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:32 PM

Just ran into this -

To the people minimizing it you are obviously not seriously into javascript.

The language is not a first class citizen with this limitation.

VS 2008 should be able to match Firebug!

ecards

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Wednesday, July 02, 2008 11:43 AM

hi, i dont necesairly have a problem with my netgear comcast router, but i just bought a second laptop and the paper i had my netkey written down on ha accidently been thrown away, would anyone be able to help me to somehow reset my netgear net key or something like that ?? thank you

pat

# re: Sharepoint 2007 + Firefox = No rich editing@ Wednesday, July 02, 2008 7:37 PM

Depends on your perspective, Mark. Is it FF's lack of proprietary ActiveX that is causing the problem, or is it MS's refusal to code a web portal to web standards that's causing the problem?

Cam

# re: Free and easy way to resize an NTFS partition@ Monday, July 07, 2008 11:30 PM

I google partition manager find some freeware bellow:

paragon www.partition-manager.com

I have not used,no comment!

easeus partition manager

I download from brother soft

www.brothersoft.com/easeus-partition-manager-51814.html

It worked OK, but failed when i tried to merge partition. so i have to allocated the free space to another partition. Partition magic may merge two partitions which will cost you $69.95

cute partition manager

www.giveawayoftheday.com/.../partition_download.shtml

meachel

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Lexapro. Lexapro and side effects. Lexapro weight loss. Lexapro and drinking.

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# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, July 08, 2008 9:03 AM

Pat, you can access your routers setup page via your browser on your current pc and reset the key to a new one (do this while connected with a cable to the router,)

The details to type in and login are normally on the bottom of the router itself or in the manual.

Usually something along the lines of 192.168.0.1

user name is admin

password is password (unless of course these have been changed, you should change your password though! )

Once logged in locate the "wireless" section, netgear normally have instructions in a column to the right of each section to guide you through.

Apply/save any changes made and Log out.

Alternatively, your router will likely have a factory restore /reset button, it is the size of a pin hole and using a hairclip or paperclip press and hold in for several seconds will restore the router back to when you first go it ...... so any settings made will be lost and you'll be back to the default login details too remember ;)

Liverbird

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:29 PM

I have just spent the last 5 days trying to get a VMWare solution for my Dell XPS 1330 laptop.

This laptop is Vista only which is a HUGE problem.

First attempt was to try and get Windows Server 2003 installed and I did, by cobbling together drivers from various places (Drunk Santa helped a lot), and at first that seemed OK. but degradations began occuring such as network drops, or memory card drops, etc.

So I decided to just get my VM working on another box and get the laptop restored to Vista Business clean.

So far everything is working, and I do not experience the startup lag mentioned above using VMWare Workstation 6.0, but I have horrible mouse response and odd temporary "invisible barriers" to mouse motion.

FYI I had tried using VMWare Server 1.0.6, and had OK results, except for it being a remote transport console and graphics performance was too low for my needs.

Right now I need a fix for the perceived mouse movement issue (which is likely more than just mouse, more like CPU performance spikes related to hard disk demand, or something else).

Joe Stanton

# re: SourceSafe 2005 - Getting back the old-style dialogs@ Thursday, July 10, 2008 2:23 AM

I am having a project inwhich 10 sub-projects have working folder set. I am looking for an option from which i dont need to go to each sub project working folder dialog and the working folder got reset.

Rahul

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Saturday, July 12, 2008 3:40 AM

I have seen the vmware mouse barrier problem solved by installing vmtools.

steven

# re: The case of the missing Business Intelligence Studio@ Monday, July 14, 2008 1:31 AM

hi ive installed Visual Studio via \Tools\Setup\vs_setup.exe

when i went to install the Business Intelliegence Feature. I recieved this message:

A Component that you have specified in the ADD_LOCAL property is already installed. To Upgrade the existing component, refer to the template.iniand set UPGRADE property to the name of the component.

any ideas what this is about???

Max M

# re: Sharepoint 2007 + Firefox = No rich editing@ Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:48 AM

IE extension tab is not supported for Mac..

Microsoft is bunch of assholes

Kan

# re: IE6 Tabs with MSN Toolbar - Nice idea, flawed implementation@ Sunday, July 20, 2008 10:12 PM

also, there's a lot of plugins that for firefox that is very useful. There's also feature that you can add extensions/plugins like firebug that lets you debug/step-into javascript code in the running web application. You can see the code of the html control by just mouse-over on it which is very useful for the web developers. also, i found a very slick plugin which is mouse gesture which lets you do back/forward into the page without clicking the back/forward buttons just by using mouse.

jenue

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Monday, July 21, 2008 2:39 PM

Try unplugging your keyboard / mouse and then plugging them back in - for some reason my Vista x64 disables them after remote desktop.

Rabbit80

# re: Sharepoint 2007 + Firefox = No rich editing@ Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:08 AM

I really hate the abuse of dominant position of Microsoft, and its quick releasing products engulfing computer resources and crashing frequently (see Vista).

I found stupid and incoherent to release a system such as MS sharepoint, which could benefit of web 2.0 experiences, and let such applications be browser dependent!

Thanks again to Firefox community, solving quickly every needs expressed by the community and forces users.

To use MS sharepoint even in FF:

ttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

Please have a look at this worthy open source competitor of MS sharepoint. Free download and use up to 10 users.

http://o3spaces.org/

Luigi Assom

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Wednesday, July 23, 2008 6:30 PM

I use a wn311 Netgear PCI card it's a range max. My Netgear router is at my daughters house some 155 feet away from my computer, so I placed the router in her attic securely and hooked it up. Then I installed the pci card in my computer and configured both. It worked great for a while then my neighbor got a different system and the two were confliting each other so I uninstalled my pci card and software then I reinstalled the pci card and the software so that I could reconfigure it. I set mine up password protected which added security to my network and now unless you know my password you can not get online using my signal this simple strategy also knocked off my neighbor and allowed him to use his own network instead of mine. It was simple to do, anyone with half a brain could do it, just follow the on screen directions to set it up. Even at 155 feet I have a strong signal and I am receiving about 270mbps. How's that for a Rangemax? Try setting the thing up for password protection making it for single use and you'll be surprised at the results!

I do have one other problem however, my audio suffers from the distance because the audio is the only thing affected by the constant search of the antenna that comes with the pci card. Late at night I place my cell phone next to it and get better audio but it still skips or drags the audio really bad in spots even when I play MP3 files offline. When I am online the audio is much better but still skips sometimes. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

JR

# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Friday, July 25, 2008 12:44 PM

The "line-height: 0;" method did the trick for my application. Thanks, Kevin

Darren

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Saturday, July 26, 2008 4:13 AM

I HAVE A WIRELESS ROUTER FITTED IN MY HOME.I HAVE 3 LAPTOPS.THE INTERNET BROWSING IS AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS WIRELESS ROUTER IN 2 OF THE LAP TOPS.

IN MY 3RD LAPTOP, IT GETS CONNECTED TO THE ROUTER BUT WHILE OPENING INTERNET EXPLORER OR MOZILLA OR OPERA IT DOES NOT OPEN ANY BROWING PAGES...NOT EVEN GOOGLE OR YAHOO.

WHILE THE BROAD BAND CONNECTION WIRE IS CONNECTED DIRECTLY TO THE LAPTOP..EVERYTHING WORKS FINE AND I AM ABLE TO GET INTO THE NET AND BROWSE.

I WONDER WHY, EVEN AFTER ESTABLISHING CONNECTION WHILE IN WIRELESS ROUTER ,IT DOES NOT GET INTO THE NET..

CAN YOU GIVE ME SOME SUGGESTIONS PLEASE.

Abhimanyu

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Saturday, July 26, 2008 4:15 AM

I HAVE A WIRELESS ROUTER FITTED IN MY HOME.I HAVE 3 LAPTOPS.THE INTERNET BROWSING IS AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS WIRELESS ROUTER IN 2 OF THE LAP TOPS.

IN MY 3RD LAPTOP, IT GETS CONNECTED TO THE ROUTER BUT WHILE OPENING INTERNET EXPLORER OR MOZILLA OR OPERA IT DOES NOT OPEN ANY BROWING PAGES...NOT EVEN GOOGLE OR YAHOO.

WHILE THE BROAD BAND CONNECTION WIRE IS CONNECTED DIRECTLY TO THE LAPTOP..EVERYTHING WORKS FINE AND I AM ABLE TO GET INTO THE NET AND BROWSE.

I WONDER WHY, EVEN AFTER ESTABLISHING CONNECTION WHILE IN WIRELESS ROUTER ,IT DOES NOT GET INTO THE NET..

CAN YOU GIVE ME SOME SUGGESTIONS PLEASE.

Abhimanyu

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Monday, July 28, 2008 10:31 AM

Hey guys. I was suffering on the same anoying bug. I am not sure how to fix it but i've found a solution to avoid its occurrence.

www.somelifeblog.com/.../fixed-remote-desktop-vista-xp-freeze.html

describes how to disable additional sharing ressources.

Having no problem since i've disabled the smartcard and printersharing.

Hope that helps someone else out there :-)

Sascha Debie

# re: Can we stop with the "Change my homepage" crap please?@ Monday, July 28, 2008 10:41 AM

Agree

Stop the maddness

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:18 PM

Abhimanyu

First try turning off wep encryption (or what ever secuirty is setup) and just try if the internet works then.

Then if it works reset it and carefully enter the key again, remember case sensitive!

See how you go.

Liverbird

# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Friday, August 01, 2008 5:30 PM

Thanks for the "render: inline" tip. That fixed it for me.

Andy McKenna

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, August 03, 2008 2:16 AM

Hello, I just got the comcast router, I am using dsl service in costa rica. I could not set up the router. I seems to be blocked. I am not sure whether this works only in USA, or not. I already tried to reset the router, but no change. Any Idea.

chris

# re: VMWare on Vista Lameness@ Tuesday, August 05, 2008 7:42 PM

I have only one problem running VMware Workstation 6.0.4 with a Vista Home Premium host (and no I didn't have any choice in the host OS), I can't use my optical drive in the Windows 2003 guest session. It only very reluctantly will show me the contents of the CD, and will never run the contents.

Any ideas (other than to switch OSes)? When I only need a single CD, mapping the ISO works fine, but when I have a multi disc install this isn't an option.

Many thanks for any help!

Mark Foshee

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, August 17, 2008 4:13 PM

Hi Chris ...... sorry for late reply only I don't come to this site all the time.

How are you connected to this router?

Use an ethernet cable and try to login into its setup page via your browser, the details should be on the base of the router or in its manual

*(if you scroll up the page a bit you'll see steps I have given others on going into a routers setup page)

Are you sure your internet has actually been activated?

Check for a small pin sized hole in which you can insert a clip, press and hold to reset the router.

Are the lights lit on the router to show an internet connection?

You do know you cannot connect wirelessly to it until it has been set up connected by ethernet cable first.?

Are you doing everything in the correct order to setup the router, follow any instructions to the letter.

Liverbird

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, August 17, 2008 7:00 PM

I installed a Netgear wireless-N adapter on my daughter's PC. Had initial set-up problems that I eventually solved, such as the computer refusing to start up past the 'Compac' logo. To solve that, I uninstalled and reinstalled and it seemed to work fine for a couple of hours; pretty fast internet speed. However, when my daughter plays her favorite downloaded multiplayer game, it will play fine for an hour or so then freeze and upon restart refuse again to get past the Compac logo again! I have uninstalled and reinstalled 3 times so far on this! Works fine after I go through the whole process but what a pain. HELP!

one other pc and 2 laptops are all working great. They all use other adapters than netgear adapters though.

Verizon high spped modem

Netgear N-Router RangeMax

problem computer (Compac Presario) in room next to router

Windows XP

Jill

# re: Sharepoint 2007 + Firefox = No rich editing@ Friday, August 22, 2008 4:20 AM

I found a great tool you can download and install that gives you WYSIWYG controls with rich text edit boxes in firefox (and probably other browsers). It is called RadEditor, the light version is free and can be found at: www.telerik.com/.../radeditor.aspx.

You need to install the solution on the server, enable the feature on the site and maybe do a iisreset. Its all documented in the download.

Filip Lindboe

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Friday, August 22, 2008 2:55 PM

Never again will I buy anything that smells, sounds, vaguely resembles Netgear. My WGR614 and the adapter I just bought set me back over 3 days just to get them to recognize each other. And to do that, I had to go into layers of buttons, specifically the firewall exceptions to allow Netgear's program in. Why do I have to do that? It should have been done automatically. What if someone doesn't know what the firewall exceptions are or where they are located? And finally when the two talked to each other, they screwed up other configurations on the operating system that required shutting off and on several times. Then it wouldn't allow me to get rid of it by its own uninstallation process or the XP's, latching on to dear life.

There's no reason we should have to go through all of this: the ad on their box badly misreprents what it actually involves.

Michael AT

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Friday, August 22, 2008 3:01 PM

Never again will I buy anything that smells, sounds, vaguely resembles Netgear. My WGR614 and the adapter I just bought set me back over 3 days just to get them to recognize each other. And to do that, I had to go into layers of buttons, specifically the firewall exceptions to allow Netgear's program in. Why do I have to do that? It should have been done automatically. What if someone doesn't know what the firewall exceptions are or where they are located? And finally when the two talked to each other, they screwed up other configurations on the operating system that required shutting off and on several times. Then it wouldn't allow me to get rid of it by its own uninstallation process or the XP's, latching on to dear life.

There's no reason we should have to go through all of this: the ad on their box badly misreprents what it actually involves.

Michael AT

# re: Red vs Blue - it's official@ Sunday, August 24, 2008 9:36 PM

i... i don't understand... why are there so many letters? i can't read them? my friends call em caboos eand i have no idea, also i can't reread tjhis so it betet rbe rihght i can't understand? are you cold? you should get a blanky! and drink milk! lots of milk!

virescon

# re: Come hear me blather on the Herding Code podcast@ Tuesday, August 26, 2008 1:19 AM

huh. I'll try most anything once.

BTW: when are you going to do one on Ruby? I'll wait...

1.second.exponential_back_off_to(1.year) do |wait|

puts "Waiting #{wait} seconds..."

end

JohnB

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:21 AM

Hi I also had same problem. By turning off the compatibility option for windows service pack2 , it works.

thank you for suggestion.

Mike

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I can't do this!!!

Rachael

# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Sunday, August 31, 2008 1:33 PM

I found your solution after I typed "html div leave one blank line" in google. Thanks.

Italo

# re: Avoiding the dreaded "unable to download folder (null)" error with Outlook 2003/IMAP@ Tuesday, September 02, 2008 6:05 AM

We have just installed a new system online, and setup the IMAP folder so we can drop and drag emails, etc into this folder, but I still constantly get the error: the connection to the server is unavailable, but my internet is on!!! No one at this stage wants to help with a solution, so any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks

Lisa

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Wednesday, September 03, 2008 6:19 PM

Jill your problem sounds as though it is with the computer not the netgear adapter.

Freezing and then problems booting up "past the compac logo" could be a driver or other hardware issue.

Freezing in game play could point to graphics driver needing an update but could be a number of things.

Boot into safe mode with networking and let your daughter play the game for a while (if possible) .... see if the same happens.

Liverbird

# re: The case of the missing Business Intelligence Studio@ Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:54 AM

where i got the file vs_setup.msi for visual studio 2008

thx

vs_setup.msi

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, September 09, 2008 4:10 PM

MY router keeps giving me a bogus IP....I have other pc on my network but for some reason..I keep getting a 168.200 address...any thoughts??

J

Jeorme

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, September 09, 2008 10:43 PM

I HAVE SAME ISSUE AS CARSON'S COMMENT ON 9/9/2006...

WIFI LIGHT CONTINUALLY BLINKS SLOW ALL THE TIME...

EVEN WITH GOOD WIRELESS CONNECTION...

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Saturday, September 09, 2006 10:18 AM

Stumped here: the wireless indicator light on the front display (WGR614 v7) continually blinks (steady) yet there is NO mention of this condition ANYWHERE in the manual. My laptop picks up a strong signal and recognizes the name of the router but will not connect.

Anyone else have this problem? And, more importantly, any solutions? Thanks much!

Carson

brian

# re: Bug (?) in AxImp in .NET Framework 1.1 SP1@ Wednesday, September 10, 2008 2:08 PM

Does making this change would break the binary compatibility?

Morphus

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Monday, September 15, 2008 11:03 AM

My girlfriends apartment just got set up with RCN cable internet, they have a Netgear wireless router. Her roommates pc works fine with it, however she cannot maintain a steady wireless connection. It says 'good connection' but it always loses the signal then after a couple minutes finds it again. They have a password protected wireless network and she uses her laptops (Toshiba w/ winXP) built in wireless card. Im about ready to use 30 ft of network cable just to hardwire her in... any sugestions??

Justin

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Friday, September 19, 2008 6:01 PM

Hello I have a Belkin Router and I am trying to hook my Xbox360 up to it. I got my IP adress and my DNS code typed in but my MTU keeps failing . It says that Xbox live requires 1364 gHz or whatever. Please help me.

Kobra

# re: Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista@ Sunday, September 21, 2008 5:03 AM

is Vista the fture????

Britsh cat

# re: Visual Studio install asking for XP SP2 on Vista - the solution@ Monday, September 22, 2008 9:58 PM

Outstanding. Thanks for this information, worked like a charm.

Ben James

# re: Tab control with no visible tabs@ Wednesday, September 24, 2008 6:33 AM

Great, thank you very much, made my life much easier!! :)

foamliu

# re: SourceSafe 2005 - Getting back the old-style dialogs@ Friday, September 26, 2008 5:22 AM

Thank you so much for this tip. "To get at them, simply hold down the shift key while selecting the corresponding menu item."

I wasted so much time trying to figure this out.

It seems so simple :)

Prashanth

# re: SourceSafe 2005 - Getting back the old-style dialogs@ Friday, October 03, 2008 3:31 AM

Thank you for this excellent hint.

Sigi Huber

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Friday, October 03, 2008 8:03 AM

Hi, although Im not using netgear I did have similar problems with my encore router which is cheaper by the way, it drops out of connection every few minutes and reconfig doesnt really help. I've tried looking for solutions on the net but what I noticed was that this is a common problem regardless of the router brand you're using. But I did read something in one of the sites I visited that routers have a tendency to fail when it is unable to accomodate packets on the network. So i tried reducing the LAN adapter speed to 10 full duplex on all the pc's connected to the router (default is usually 100fullduplex). Am still observing if this fixes the problem but so far my connections are stable. Maybe you guys should try this and see if it helps.

Kit

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Saturday, October 04, 2008 10:53 AM

I have a Netgear WGR614v7. Like most on this post, the router worked fine for about 7 months. Recently we started having problems with all three wireless computers in the house, Dell laptop, HP laptop & a MAC (wired PC works fine). I ran Netstumbler on my work laptop to check out the strength of the wireless signal and the continuity. In the first ten minutes of monitoring the signal dropped twice for about 2-3 seconds and came right back up. But the computers are taking several minutes to re-connect automatically. Moved the laptop I was scanning with to another room and did not get any drops in the next twenty minutes. But my family has complained of the signal dropping in the second room I was in also. I checked online and there isn't a firmware upgrade available. After reading through the posts here it looks like the only option is to return it and get a replacement. Hopefully that will last for another 6-7 months and then I can buy another brand of router. Any opinions on routers from experience? I've had Linksys before with no problems with DSL (but they were only 802.11b and, from experience installing Linksys routers on cable ISP networks they do not work well) and Belkin (will never buy one again!). How about D-Link or Buffalo?

techpro

# re: Is the Visual Studio 2008 Javascript debugger crippled?@ Sunday, October 05, 2008 10:49 PM

MS has never seemed to embrace JS as a real language. Hell, noone seems to. Why do we have all these extraneous HTML editors and WYSIWYG designers, but no real choices for JavaScript...

I only wish Aptana was more performant. Last time I tried it (about a year ago) I had to wait minutes for it to start. That's just not acceptable. In addition it was incredibly slow to do text editing in...

I guess that's the bane of Java on Windows...

Lucas Goodwin

# re: Absolute positioning in VS2005 HTML designer@ Sunday, October 12, 2008 7:24 AM

Thanks a lot. This was very helpful

Manu

# re: Avoiding the dreaded "unable to download folder (null)" error with Outlook 2003/IMAP@ Monday, October 13, 2008 7:05 PM

Same problem here. We just switched from POP3 to IMAP on Outlook 2007.

C'mon, Microsoft, get with it.

Mr. X

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:16 PM

I have a netgear router which I brought yesterday. it droped from a small height, now the wireless icon doesn't flash does this mean its broken or can it be a technical problem?

Manj

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:21 PM

**I have a netgear router which I brought yesterday. it droped from a small height, now the wireless icon doesn't flash does this mean its broken or can it be a technical problem?

Manj

# re: Sharepoint 2007 + Firefox = No rich editing@ Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:23 AM

The RadEditor is the ideal solution for this problem, thnx (btw works in safari, ff, and chrome)

Rick

# re: SourceSafe 2005 - Getting back the old-style dialogs@ Monday, October 20, 2008 11:40 PM

Not quite a life saver but a frustration saver. Add files is a killer

Brian

# re: The case of the missing Business Intelligence Studio@ Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:40 AM

Perfect. To the point and exactly what I needed and it works. Can't ask for more.

Cheers :)

SokSa Icy

# re: The case of the missing Business Intelligence Studio@ Wednesday, October 22, 2008 5:20 AM

you guys are awesome. I thought I was going nuts when the Installer kept saying BI was already installed.

mike

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:19 PM

I had this problem as well. I ended up disabling all the powersaving stuff I could find in both Vista (Business SP1 x64) and the BIOS (Asus P5E WS Pro mobo). Now, I have the problem with coming to the office in the morning and seeing that my screensaver is not doing its job. So, now I need to remember to turn off the monitor. I'm using a NVIDIA 290 NVS dual monitor card with both monitor on DVI.

Ugh. I waited all this time so that most of this crap would be sorted out before I switched to Vista. I guess things won't be right until SP2.

Mark

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Monday, October 27, 2008 4:38 PM

John S' workaround above of CTRL+ALT+DEL > Enter > then password seems to do the trick. I have disabled the additional resources and that did not do it for me.

Farhan Ahmad

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:25 AM

I have the same issue myself. It's soooo frustrating. It appeared after running SP1.

I contacted MS and they said it was my video driver. Every couple of months I run Windows Update and notice there's a new video driver, which I always upgrade to. I've also tried downloading the latest drivers from nVidia. Nothing helps.

It fails about once a week, I use RDP daily. After it fails I end up shutting down with the pwr button. I can't make the black screen go away.

I've even stopped displaying the desktop on both monitors, thinking that would help. Nope.

It's got to be an OS bug.

I will probably try the CTRL-ALT-DEL > Enter > Password trick and see if it works.

-Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

-Vista Ultimate

-nVidia GeForce 8600

-2 monitors

Barry

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:13 PM

I had decided to post today (see above) because I had just gotten the RDP black screen. I've gotten this many times in the past and was never able to get it to work again locally or remotely, until I powered down the host computer.

Today, for kicks, I figured I'd try the suggestion listed above:

www.somelifeblog.com/.../fixed-remote-desktop-vista-xp-freeze.html

After disabling support for SmartCards in the RDP Client I was able to RDP into my Vista host. No black screen!! It was displaying an error that said something like "Transitions Accessible Technologies between desktops has stopped working, do you want to close this program?" I chose to close it.

The black screen went away and RDP is working again. I didn't even have to power down the host computer.

Maybe disabling SmartCard access is the ticket??? I certainly hope so!!

Barry

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:14 AM

Hi there, I have a Dell laptop and a netgear wireless router. I also have an IBM desktop, however, I can't seem to sign in to windows live messenger from my laptop. It gives me the error code 80048820, though it works perfectly on the pc. Any ideas?? I tried every possible solution with no results whatsoever.. PLZ HELPPPPPPP!!

Nouran

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:05 PM

I have a WGR614. We experience frequent (sometimes daily) failures in the wireless router that require a power cycle to fix. My son figured out how to reproduce the problem on demand by using our desktop pc and browsing to an art web site with a page containing numerous images. To isolate problem further I determined that my laptop can access the same site with out incident (when placed at same physical location as PC or anywhere else in house). Laptop never fails. PC fails every time. By "PC fails" I mean that it does something to provoke the netgear router into failing. Next I replaced the PC wireless card with a wireless USB - exact same bad results. Suggestions on where to look next? Do I need a new router? I also want to try removing my internet protection software (BSAFE) which is only running on the PC, to see if that matters. Appreciate any input. Thanks.

Greg O

# re: Come hear me blather on the Herding Code podcast@ Wednesday, November 05, 2008 11:08 AM

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# re: Windows XP flakiness - solved@ Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:07 AM

Great, thanks very much indeed :)

S

# Compare oxycontin to oxycodone.@ Friday, November 07, 2008 11:00 PM

Compare oxycontin to oxycodone. Oxycontin vs. oxycodone. Oxycodone oxycontin. Is oxycodone and oxycontin the same.

Compare oxycontin to oxycodone.

# re: Netgear wireless router problems and solution@ Sunday, November 09, 2008 8:54 AM

Maybe someone knows how to do this - I have four computers connected to by Netgear. One desktop is hard wired two desktops are wireless, and one laptop which is wireless. I have used the Netgear login to restrict certain sites which were being visited and it works wonderfully on all computers except the laptop.

One the laptop, AOL is used to surf the web, and blocking that is not an option, as it blocks ALL AOL activity... is there a way to keep the AOL browser from certain sites? I could go on the laptop and block sites using Internet Options, but would rather find a way to do it from routerlogin.net - and I don't want to block ALL adult sites - there are jew a few which were way beyond healthy curiosity :-)

Tidz

# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Monday, November 10, 2008 7:11 PM

I'm having a problem similar to the original post, but I'm not using Ajax. I have a series of divs set up so that if i click on a header, then the material under it disappears. It's generated content using coldfusion and mysql, so I'll have maybe 3 headers, with any number of subheaders, and any number of "rows" (just block divs with width:100%) under each. if all the subheaders are closed you just have rows of headers, then you can hide all the subheaders by clicking on the main header.

It works great in firefox, opera, and google chrome. however, in IE its very sporadic. i'm only having problems with the subheaders. sometimes the subheaders will behave like the other browsers and stack on top of each other, other times it will leave blank spaces where the rows would normally be. Sometimes it'll duplicate the subheaders when they're "closed", other times they overlap. I've played around with a slew of different ways to do it, all of which seem to work in every browser except IE...

About the code below: ".half" is in the css twice because i'm using two css files (i'm just showing a snippet) and the second is meant to overwrite the other one. The html code here is contained within a #content div.

Any help would be very much appreciated, thanks. Here's some of the code having issues:

coldfusion/html

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

select * from masterlist

where dept not in (#listsort(valuelist(users.dept_manage),'numeric')#)

and id not in (#listsort(valuelist(wagento.wo),'numeric')#)

</cfquery>

<a href='##' onclick="toggleElement('ignored'); return false;"><h2>Ignored work orders</h2></a>

<div>Author</div>

<div class='half'>Subject</div>

</div>

<div>

</div>

<div class='gallon prespace clickable'><h3>( #deptNum# ) #deptName#</h3></div>

</div>

</cfif>

<div>#dateformat(created, 'mmmm d, yyyy')#</div>

<div>#initiatorName#</div>

<div class='half'>#subject#</div>

</div>

</cfloop>

</div>

</div>

</cfif>

css

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

body {margin: 0; padding: 0; background: #2D3C63; text-align: center; font: 62.5% 'Trebuchet MS', Geneva, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; color: #000;}

body, div, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, table, td, th, p, ol, ul, dl, li, dt, dd, form {margin: 0; padding: 0;}

#content {width: 740px; padding: 15px; margin: 0 auto 20px; position: relative; background: white; text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em; font-size: 1.2em;}

body.withleftnav #content {width: 557px; padding: 15px 15px 15px 198px; background: white url(../images/bg_content_sidebars.gif) repeat-y top left;}

a:link, a:visited {color: #0075BA;}

a:hover, a:active {color: red; text-decoration: none;}

.box {padding: 8px; margin: 0 0 1em; border: 1px solid #BBB; position: relative;}

.box h2 {font-size: 1.2em; padding-bottom: .4em; margin: 0; border-bottom: 2px solid #2F3E65;}

.half {width: 49%;}

.full {clear: both;}

.clickable:hover {cursor:pointer;}

.row, .hedge {width: 100%; border: 1px solid black; float:left; clear:both;}

.row div, .hedge div{float:left; width:24.99%}

.row:nth-child(2n){background-color: #f1f1f1;}

.row:hover{background-color: #cdf;}

.half{width: 50% !important;}

.gallon{width: 99% !important;}

.red {margin-bottom: 10px; border: 1px solid #CE0017; color: #971109; text-decoration: none;}

.red h2 {color: #971109;}

.red .row:nth-child(2n){background: #F4C7D2; color: #000000;}

.red .clickable:hover {background: #CE0017; color: white; font-variant: small-caps;}

Braden

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:03 PM

This issue is definitely an operating system issue. I'm a system admin for a large user base with different hardware through out the site. HP and Dells mostly; but with both ATI and Nvidia installed. This issue has started happening more frequently with no resolution from Microsoft...yet. I have a case open and it being worked on.

RDP client connection info:

The black screen is actually the Secure Desktop (the same screen that is shown when CTRL+ALT+DEL is pressed or UAC asked for permission) and this happens due to a timing issue with winlogon and atbroker.exe. Every so often the RDP session will give an error about an application failing to initialize. The work around, regardless whether the error message appears or not, is to CTRL+ALT+END and choose either Log Off or Task Manager.

RDP host info:

Black screen is still the Secure Desktop with winlogon running but is not rendered which is why CTRL-ALT-DEL > Enter > Password works.

Microsoft has acknowledge the atbroker.exe issue but only during log off, see KB940542 for details. I'm trying to get MS to admit it is a bug so they don't charge me for the fix whenever that happens.

Mike R

# re: The case of the missing Business Intelligence Studio@ Tuesday, November 11, 2008 9:19 PM

Ooh, hope this works for me. Just uninstalled the whole thing to try a reinstall...zzz.

What a stupid bug.

Simon

# re: Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)@ Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:38 AM

Thanks very much,

I've spent a good while trying to solve the issue till I saw ur blog!!

Txomin

# Buspar.@ Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:15 PM

Buspar side effects.

Buspar overdose.

# re: Media Player 9 shuffling@ Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:37 AM

ok, windows media player 11 may be playing mostly good music, but when you have past 2000 good songs, you dont want to be listening to only 200 good songs.. gets repetitive! I think it still has the bugs of windows mediaplayer 9!

Samsamthebassman

# re: MSBuild with Solutions@ Friday, November 14, 2008 6:38 AM

<a href= SADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD >DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD</a>, %-DDD,

Lsmwutxc

# re: Visual Studio install asking for XP SP2 on Vista - the solution@ Monday, November 17, 2008 10:12 AM

This tip just saved my life, and the remainder of my hair as I was pulling it out trying to figure out why VS2008 cared whether or not I had XP SP2 on my Vista machine.

Bishop

# re: Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop@ Monday, November 17, 2008 11:11 PM

Same here, when I log onto my computer. A message saying "transitions accessible technologies between desktops has stopped working!"

But Before all this started to happen. I had like 5 Trojan viruses. I removed the With Cox Security Suit from McAfee. The files that where infected I deleted. That's the only thing I could have done. Another prob I have is I cant log off to switch users. It just freezs. I Believe the two are related.

Any who my system is a DELL Dimension C521 With Windows Vista.

Here is the information it gives me...

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: BEX

Application Name: atbroker.exe

Application Version: 6.0.6001.18000

Application Timestamp: 47918c9b

Fault Module Name: StackHash_e51a

Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0

Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000

Exception Offset: 77599491

Exception Code: c0000005

Exception Data: 00000008

OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3

Locale ID: 1033

Additional Information 1: e51a

Additional Information 2: 4c0d4d78887f76d971d5d00f1f20a433

Additional Information 3: e51a

Additional Information 4: 4c0d4d78887f76d971d5d00f1f20a433

If anyone can help me please E-mail me cl.oud0@yahoo.com I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks, Dude Man

Dude Man

# re: Tab control with no visible tabs@ Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:15 PM

thanks, it's work great!

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