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Multiple Monitors and Productivity - It's true
Paul Laudeman talk about productivity increas with multiple monitors with some screenshots.
I am the same, I can't work now without at least two screens.
Paul suggest more, 3 screens !!
Well I am going to receive soon a brand new 20" flat screen, so I imagine I can make a good combination with my current 20" screen ... and my laptop screen !
My dream will be to have one huge half circular screen, running from the left of my desk to the right. And maybe a full circle could be fun too if only I can have a 360 degrees revolving chair.
And maybe I would have to call a mad surgeon to implement in my head few new pairs of eyes ;-) -
Building a Custom Web Form Wizard in Visual Studio .NET
Excellent article on MSDN.
Just a detail: why it's coming dated as October 21 on MSDN homepage and the article itself dated from May 2003 ;-)) -
Web Deployment, question for the future
Because it's PDC time, I like to ask some questions about the future.
Guys, in Whidbey can we expect a better Web deployment system ?
I would like for example to be able to upload to my server a set of files, without deploying all my site.
Actually I can use right click on the files I don't want to deploy and ask Exclude from the project, but this create some issues.
I would like to have a FTP kind of features embedded in Visual Studio. I am sure it's not big deal to do so ;-) -
Request renewal...
It's about time to renew a request I posted few months ago.
You never know, maybe with more and more .Net developers, somebody has the solution to this !
Just for reminder, I am trying to develop a 'little' paint application with .Net and GDI+.
Unfortunatly in a web application, it seems that System.Drawing is somehow limited.
I can't figure out how to fill an irregular region. Briefly, I want to go further than the simple Draw-Me-A-Box example that you can see everywhere.
Maybe with .Net 2.0 I can expect some new marvellous features in GDI+ -
Full Text search behavior
Well not really .Net related but I discovered a strange behavior with SQL Full Text Search.
It's the first time I index a table for Full Text search on a laptop.
I spent few hours trying to populate a catalog.
No hope until I plugged my laptop to the main, and it worked perfectly well !
It seems like the SQL developers are trying to save our laptop batteries ;-) -
Whidbey week...
... on ASPToday next week.
Hope they will publish some deep articles and not just marketing stuff ! -
139 applications for Tablet PC
A list of software for Tablet PC has been published by Tablet PC Buzz.
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500 free chapters grouped in one page !
Thanks to Srinivasa Sivakumar for this great initiative.
Now you can have access to more than 500 free sample chapters from one single webpage ;-) -
Some fun with Word
Not even Bill Gates can explain this one!!!!!!
Try this
Open a blank word document and type (or copy it):
= rand (200,99)
Press enter
Wait 3 seconds...
Look like an easter egg for me ;-)) -
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