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30. maj 2006 14:04

Red-Gate's SqlPrompt utility

Red-Gate's SqlPrompt is an utility that makes you wonder how could you live without it. It is basically an application that runs in the background and adds "intellisense" support for Sql Server. In brief: (after 2 mins of testing) it adds "intellisense"
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30. maj 2006 10:53

Debugging White Screen of Darn

I just run across this valuable article . It talks about how to debug Windows Forms Designer errors you get on the screen when something goes wrong and I am pretty sure you get them here and there. So, if the error message that appears on the screen is
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27. maj 2006 11:18

Slides of my recent presentations on NTKonferenca 2006

I've just uploaded slides from my presentations on NTKonferenca 2006 . Find them here . Sorry for the delay.
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27. maj 2006 10:37

XPCollection peculiarity

These days I’ve came across this situation – related to Developer Express ' XPO: XPCollection<Customer> coll = new XPCollection<Customer> (session, false); // false means LoadingEnabled = false; coll.Criteria = new BinaryOperator(“SomeColumn”,
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26. maj 2006 9:55

Dejan comments on NTk 2006

Dejan has an interesting commentary on this year's NT konferenca . I have to say that I agree with him - he is getting old. Just kidding. I agree with his assertions. The conference was really well organized. I haven't had a single problem related to
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26. maj 2006 9:14

What thread does BackgroundWorker use/create

During my presentation on BackgroundWorker I got a smart and obvious question: What kind of thread does BackgroundWorker create or use. I saw this coming it is just I haven't had time to check it out before the presentation. This was first thing I did
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20. maj 2006 12:07

OziExplorer's map file converter

If you are using either GPSDash or GPSTuner image GPS navigation software you'll notice that their map database isn't nearly as huge as OziExplorer's. That's why I've created a free utility that converts OziExplorer's map file to other formats. Note:
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19. maj 2006 14:44

Speaking engagments at MS' NT Konferenca 2006 in Portorož

For the third consecutive year I'll be speaking at Microsoft NT konferenca 2006 in Portorož. I'll speak about Windows Presentation Foundation and DataBinding ( tuesday at noon) and DLinq ( thursday at 13:00) plus a small but useful presentation for my
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13. maj 2006 22:21

Managed Debugging Assistants in VS2005

Did you ever write a code like this: public void SomeMethod() { StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter("c:\\temp\\tubo.txt"); writer.Write(1); } Of course not. It should look like public void SomeMethod() { using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter("c:\\temp\\tubo.txt"))
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13. maj 2006 12:06

Meet IQueryable<T>

One of the biggest Linq improvements from the last CTP is IQueryable<T> which allows polymorphic and dynamic queries. Matt explains it well in this post .
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13. maj 2006 9:35

Once upon the time

Once upon the time I was using Delphi 5. It was before .net beta 1 come out of course. Anyway, I was often visiting Borland's newsgroups at that time and I have to say that this blog post doesn't surprise me at all. At that time newsgroups were like the
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11. maj 2006 13:26

Linq May 2006 CTP is out

Finally next Linq CTP is available. As usual it can be downloaded from Linq Home Page (here is Soma's blog post on the topic and Dinesh 'mr. DLinq' Kulkarni's post ). I can say that DLinq has improved a lot - added many awaited features: table inheritance
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10. maj 2006 15:51

Logitech headset problems, again

It all started with broken ear ring. Now, I've got another problem, probably a deadly one. Battery won't recharge anymore. It is charging, charging, charging and then it works for a minute or two. I guess it is time for reclamation.
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3. maj 2006 22:29

Good diagnostics tool

For some time speakers on my HP nx7010 don't produce any output at all for unknown reason. So I decided to try HP diagnostics tool accessible from Help and Support item in Start menu. After some initialization I run Audio hardware diagnostics that looked
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3. maj 2006 16:13

Consolas font available for download

If you are tired or not of Courier New font within Visual Studio you should check out Consolas font. Initially it was a part of Vista and not redistributable. Fortunatelly Microsoft has decided to make it downloadable from its website: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=22e69ae4-7e40-4807-8a86-b3d36fab68d3&DisplayLang=en
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2. maj 2006 20:24

Finalbuilder4 action for VssConnect

I've added to Final Builder 4 action for VssConnect (a good wrapper for Visual Source Safe that allows working on internet) to public downloads. It contains only Label action for now and has some unfinished features (see file description) but it should
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