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30. november 2006 23:59

Nice looking WinForms controls from telerik

telerik (excellent asp.net controls ) entered WinForms controls market a bit late, but with an interesting innovation: their r.a.d. controls for WinForms are highly skineable (or themeable if you wish) and animatable in a WPFish way. Not that surprisingly
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27. november 2006 22:07

How much time and manpower did Microsoft take to implement the Off menu?

You will never guess, don't even try it. Here is the article that made Frans Bauma sad . Very very educational, highly recommended read (assuming that it is correctly written). But what's even funnier is that none of those Sleep/Hibernate/Hybrid Sleep
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23. november 2006 14:06

Please, don't abuse try/catch

You should have heard from experienced developers that you shouldn't abuse try/catch to handle a situation that is predictable and easily handled with an if statement. Even guys at Microsoft preach this approach. Take a look at this piece of code: string
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22. november 2006 23:18

When Murphy kicks in on presentation

I had my worst presentation so far today. While Matjaž delivered his usual good talk I created a mess but it wasn't my fault. At least not a huge part of it. The plan was to show how a get-process cmdlet is quickly and easily built with Visual Studio
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22. november 2006 8:57

You have to license Ribbon UI on your applications

This one might come as a surprise to developers: If you use Microsoft like Ribbon UI (Word 2007, Excel 2007) in your application you have to get a license from Microsoft in order to legally use it. And it doesn't matter if you buy a ribbon component
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21. november 2006 23:24

I'll be co-presenting Windows Power Shell at SLOWUG

Tomorrow (Wednesday) I'll be co-presenting Windows Power Shell with Matjaž Ladava (MS dude) at Slovene Windows Users Group ( SLOWUG ). It will be quite a challenge talking about cmdlet development to a group of admins. I don't plan die-hard lessons, just
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20. november 2006 10:02

VMWare Workstation 5.5.3 for ("experimental support") Vista

Just after few days after Vista went RTM, VMWare released a minor update to its Workstation 5.5 product. For me, the most important feature is (experimental) Vista support - both host and guest. How can one live without VMWare Workstation? So, another
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12. november 2006 23:25

Office 2007 is available for download on MSDN

Office Professional 2007 and other Office 2007 programs are available for download on MSDN. Happy downloading.
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12. november 2006 15:09

Red-gate's SQL Compare

Recently I was facing this problem: I am developing an asp.net 2.0/remoting/winforms application which stores data in Sql Server 2005. From time to time I publish my application and its database to the public for testing purposes. The project is under
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7. november 2006 23:47

About Visual Studio 2003 on Vista

A while ago Somasegar's blog post about MS not supporting Visual Studio 2003 on Windows Vista caused quite a stir in community. A lot of people were very concerned about this issue. A note at this point: .net 1.1 and newer will be fully supported.
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4. november 2006 14:23

(Managed) DirectX versions confusion

(Managed) DirectX 9.0x is the perfect example on how not to handle version numbering. First, there is a "global" version problem which Jeff Atwood describes here . They are all 9.0c! Only the release date changes. So, you have plenty of 9.0c versions
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2. november 2006 16:40

Have you ever seen MSB3113 and MSB3114 errors?

Have you ever seen MSB3113 and MSB3114 errors? No? Me neither until I started using VSTS Tests capability. I created a simple test that targeted an exe assembly and when I was building this test project I started getting plenty of errors like this: C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Common.targets(1202,9):
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