Archives
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Windows XP SP2 delayed till September ?
According to German Site Heisse, Richard Kaplan (Marketing manager of Microsoft) told at a Winxp sp2 session that SP2 could be expected in September. Internal documentation talks about q3 2004.
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Graphics Server .NET 2.0 Beta
Get your free beta version today.
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99 Bottles of Beer
That's really not what you think, apost on the joy of drinking :-)
This is really cool, one program in 621 languages and variations ! -
The role of the Software Architect
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TechEd: Hands On Lab Manuals
Thanks to Barry Gervin for this list of pdf's for each topic from TechEd.
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Generics In-Depth
Not sure it's new, but I recommend this article by J. Ambrose Little on generics.
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Seven tricks that Web users don't know
I fully share Carolyn Synder thoughts in this article. A lot of users don't have all the knowledge developers can have and usability should improve (don't worry I am part of this crowd :-))
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Datetime format and Sql
Last week, I posted something about Datetime format and SQL, something to help SQL understand any international date format.
Well Jerry Pisk is right, his method is shorter. Use Mydate.ToString("yyyyMMdd"). Short and efficient.
Now just a note to Jerry: no need to use a bossy tone to explain something ! We all learn every day :-) -
The gentle sounds of a dying drive
Hitachi has put on a page the noises you can hear from a crashing hard drive.
Very stressful and some are not recommended as ringtones :-) -
The "native" .NET language?
Paul Vick reply to the question “isn't C# the language that's most 'native' to the .NET environment?”
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Microsoft Indexing Service and search servers
Two weeks ago, I posted something about the book below (don't search for it, it's not released)
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Pool application in IIS 6
I have difficulties to tweak the pool application in IIS 6. I try to improve the performances of my different websites.
Most of the time, when I get a lot of requests, the worker process stall with a CPU use of 98%.
So I was quite confident that setting a pool with a CPU monitoring could sove the problem.
Nope, it's worst becuase if I activate this feature, I end up with a lot of Service Unavailable from IIS.
By the way, does somebody knows how to create a custom error page for this kind of behavior ? It's not managed by IIS as a typical 500 server error, so I am not sure how to handle this. -
DB Designer: design your Database
Thanks to Stefano Demiliani for this info on DBDesigner, a free tool to help designing a database.
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New wave of blog spam :-((
Another new wave of blog spam has just started Be aware
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Game Framework for the .NET Compact Framework
Reusable framework for creating games using the .NET Compact Framework
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Tip on Datetime and SQL
A lot of non-US developers have troubles with date andling and SQL Server.
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Hosting a Windows Control in a Web Form
I am still thinking about a useful application for this, but maybe in an Intranet for some specific controls.
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Pocket PC Can we have this ?
Like many people I know, I love my PocketPC, but a big annoyance is the battery.
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Windows 98 on Pocket PC
Absolutely useless, but this folk did a great job by getting Windows 98 on a Pocket PC.
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Highlighting in forms
Nice Javascript and CSS highlighting effect applied on textbox.
I have to try that :-) -
VS 2005 last preview - Download problems
I try to download the latest technology preview but no success. From 2 machines and the same issue, a message saying that "An internal error occur -cannot open the file on the server".
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CSS2 Intellisense for Visual Studio .Net
Thanks Scott for the link !
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Disability Rights Commision report on web accessibility
The official report published by the Disability Rights Commission following their investigation into web accessibility has been published here.
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Memory
I believe we are going to see a lot of those nice small games since developers start to migrate from VB6 to VB.Net.
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Mouseover on a Datagrid
Nice trick by Albert Pascual. A new Datagrid control inheriting from the standard one with a Javascript code to highlight a row in a grid on mouse over event.
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Visual Studio 2005 Team System
Good news in the FAQ, you can read this:
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New Visual Studio 2005 community preview
Great news, surely the same than the TechEd one.
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dScribe - some news
In case some people wonder what's happen with dScribe, be sure I didn't abandoned the project,on the contrary !
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Sony Vaio U the way to go for Tablet PC ?
A lot of discussion around about the future of Tablet PC. Does Microsoft lost the plot with this new operating system ?
Is the Tablet PC an expensive new gizmo for some rich people ?
I don't know all the answers but I believe Sony got some. Have a look at the new Sony Vaio U, full PC running Windows XP without compromise, touch screen and a weight of 550 grams ! -
West Wind articles
By the way I invite everybody to have a look at the impressive series of articles published by Rick Strahl.
A lot of things to learn ! -
Creating a generic Message Display Page for ASP.Net
Excellent article by Rick Strahl. It's always a good idea to have a constant way of showng error messages on a website.
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PlayerPal
Use PlayerPal to remote control Windows Media Player 9 audio from any web browser on your home network or the Internet. You can keep all your music on a central PC and play it from anywhere!
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Yukon Beta 2 is coming soon
Well if I believe Kamal Hathi and I have no reasons why not.
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Home Style+ for Office 2003
I discovered this cool post by Jian Shuo Wang about Home Style+ to create a cartoon picture from a photograph.
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Web-Based SQL Server Enterprise Manager
An alternative to Microsft Web SQL admin:
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Stop fooling the community
OK after reading Roy's post, it's my time now :-)
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The Rubik's robot is Irish :-)
Remember few days ago about this bloke who create a robot equipped with a camera to solve the Rubik's cube.
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Using MapQuest Maps in your ASP.NET Application
Eric Neff posted about the way to link MapQuest and .Net
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Metatags dictionary
Keep this page in your favorites if you want to know everything about Metatags !
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Add a File Repository to .Text 0.95
Miguel Jimenez has written a nice add-in for .Text 0.95 to upload files and attach thme to a post.
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Real World Microsoft Indexing Service and Search Servers
The title of this post is indeed the title of a book I realy want to have.
I was checking Apress about a possible relese date, and I found a link to the book website. -
Survey Says Firms Choose .NET Over J2EE
Good news !
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Programming The Tablet PC—Get Up To Speed Quickly
Nice article by Larry O'Brien to setup Visual Studio for programming with Tablet PC.
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Lorem ipsum for web designers
http://www.lorem-ipsum.info/generator2
delivers randomly generated filler text for typographers and web designers in various languages and charsets (Chinese, Greek, Hindi, Cyrillic, L33tspeak, Esperanto etc.) besides the traditional Lorem Ipsum dummy copy. -
my first .Text blog opened
I just installed for a small project a multiple blogs engine based on .Text.
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Smart Device Framework v1.1 Released
Windows Mobile Team writes "OpenNETCF.org has just released version 1.1 of their Smart Device Framework which is a free and open source collection of a ton of useful things that didn't make it into the .NET Compact Framework. My favorite addition to this release is their SmartList control which lets you give your app the same filtering capabilities as Smartphone's built-in contact list." -
Web Camera wrapper
If you are interested, Ido Samuelson has released a WebCamera class written in C#.
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MSDN Magazine 2003 Cd-Rom
All the content of MSDN Magazine 2003 for free (exclude postage *)
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CubeSolver
This is really the definitive gadget. Lego Mindstorms robot that solves the Rubik's cube :-)
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Tablet PC, a flop ?
Robert Scoble comment about an article by Mary Jo Foley, Trouble in Tablet Land.
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VB Team Blog :-)
Great news guys, welcome !
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Code Library for .Net and MySQL
The CodeLib 7.7 is an application that helps you to easily find and use the code snippets. As a result, you can build a programs faster. Support Code Snippet, File, Note, Web, Picture save. 5 in 1 Utility. Req. MySQL & ODBC Driver
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Reflector update
New version 4.0.2.0
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Multiple blogs with .Text
Finally my issue with the setup of .Text in a multiple blog configuration has been solved :-)
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My new phone like .Net
I just adore my new Sony Ericsson P900. It's a great phone, not cheap but so much in a small box.
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General Network Error: Update
Well the title of this post should be really No Update ! Indeed I received a huge list of replies and comments about this 'random' error.
<rant>The conclusion at this time is that almost everybody can face at least one time th error, but nobody is able to provide a solution</rant> -
.Text multiblog installation problems
I am looking for some help in the installation of a multiblog using .Text 0.95.
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Notepad2 in Context menu
Following some advice by Roy Osherove I installed Notepad2.
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Wifi radar for Pocket PC
Cool free application to scan Wifi hotspots around your Pocket PC.
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The Naked Chef blog
I am not sure that in US people know him but here in UK - Ireland, he's really a famous TV chef.
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Job in Germany
I received this job request in my mailbox this morning, so maybe this can have some interest for some reader:
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Gmail review
If you want to know more about the new Google email service, read this review by ExtremeTech.
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Page 23
Douglas from StopDesign posted an interesting and fun idea:
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Thinktecture is online
Finally Ingo Rammer's, Christian Weyer's, Christian Nagel's and Ralf Westphal's opened the curtain on Thinktecture.
The site is nice, but it's a bit early to see what they want to achieve. It's looking like a mix up of commercial venture with some community blogging.
Not sure if this is right, but I am interested to see how they are going to sell their services and in the same time give the material their clients paid for ?
Well, anyway good luck guys. -
Blogjet new version
Blogjet the excellent blogging tool is coming back as a new version, followed by a new site.
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Viewstate decoder
Stefano Demiliani and Sebastian Weber posted about 2 tools to decode the Viewstate generated in ASP.Net.
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Videos blogs
I really like all the frenzyness introduced by Channel 9 about videoblogging. I am just not sure I have the time to see all of them.
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Free XDN membership for .NET Bloggers
Looks like a cool offer...:-)
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XHTML template
Shawn Morton seems to know well XHTML. He proved it on the different projects he achieved successfully.
Anyway, back to the subject, Shawn created a Dreamweaver template (surely not a problem to adapt for Visual Studio) to help apprehending all basic aspects of XHTML. -
FileUploadProgressBar in ASP.NET
Excellent how-to-do article to show hot to build a progress bar for .Net web page using threading in C#.
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#develop Beta 1
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Clutter ?
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New screensaver :-)
Well at least you need an USB port for this aquarium :-)
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Reflector 4 now support Whidbey
Great job from Lutz Roeder. Reflector 4.0 include some good stuff and I would like to mention two good news: