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Windows Live Writer BlogThis macro for Outlook 2007
If you use Windows Live Writer as your blogging tool and Outlook 2007 as your RSS aggregator then you maybe interested in this VBA macro. It will pull the necessary information from the currently selected RSS Item in Outlook and call the Windows Live Writer BlogThis API to create a new post.
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CodeHTMLer plugin for Windows Live Writer
I've started using Windows Live Writer as my primary blogging tool. So far I like it. However, it was missing an easy way to insert highlighted code into posts. I know there are a few other plugins that can insert highlighted code, but since I'm the author of a syntax highlighting tool named CodeHTMLer I figured I needed to write my own plugin.
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Ways to shutdown/restart your computer via Remote Desktop.
I don't how many times I've needed to reboot a machine while accessing it over Remote Desktop. I usually just open a command prompt and type shutdown -t 0 -r to reboot. However, Raymond provides four ways to do this.
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nContract - Quick Start Guide
The purpose of this quick start guide is to step through a simple but complete example of how to create a third party component with configurable run-time checks of a contract specification using nContract. To fully follow along with this example you will need to download nContract QuickStart.
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String Streams in .Net
I while ago (almost 2 years) I posted a way to create a string stream in .Net. There has been a number of new comments added to that post recently so I figured I needed to update that example. Most API's that look for a Stream will also allow either a TextReader or TextWriter depending on the context. Therefore, in those cases when you have a string using StringReader or StringWriter is probably better then creating a MemoryStream like in my old example because you don't have to deal with the encoding.
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Nicely hidden IE 7 Tab Setting...
If you are like me then you do a ton of web searches everyday. I usually middle click a link from the results of a web search and take a look at that page then close that tab. Which is where my frustration comes in. By default when you close a tab in IE 7 the tab that gains focus is the tab with the same index of the tab you just closed (unless of course it was the right most tab then it just focuses on the right most tab). However, this is not what I want to happen. I would prefer that the tab focus go back to the page that got me to the page I just closed, in this case the search results.
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Run++
I've finally got around to publishing a new release of Run++. There are a number of changes since the last time. The biggest items being:
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Open external links in new tab for IE 7 beta
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Using WMI to monitor process creation, deletion and modification in .NET
WMI is a powerful tool and I have just recently discovered some of its power. Previously I though the only way to detect process creation was by creating a windows hook but now I know it is fairly simple to due with .NET using the Windows.Management namespace. Below is simple ProcessWatcher class that has events that are triggered when a process is created, deleted or modified. Enjoy!
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Pedometer suggestions
As part of my attempt to get in better shape I've decided to purchase a pedometer. I'm a numbers kind of guy and if I see the numbers every day then I'm hoping it will help motivate me to get the suggested 10,000 steps a day. The only problem is I'm trying to decide which pedometer is best suited for my needs.