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30. januar 2007 14:30

An easier way to populate XtraLayoutControl

Developer Express has a nice UI layout control XtraLayoutControl that helps both designer and runtime user to design WinForms UI with ease. One can even save and load layouts (again, both at design and runtime). This way end-user can customize the layout
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29. januar 2007 8:57

Using not supported USB (2.0) devices on Vista

In the last post I spitted over HP for not supplying Vista drivers for one of their scanners I own. I won't repeat my disappointment again, rather I'll supply a solution. No, it is not buying a newer scanner from HP. It is far easier - use VMWare Workstation
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27. januar 2007 20:57

The arrogance of HP

In one of the latest posts I ranted about missing Vista drivers for some hardware I own. Among them is a HP DeskJet 3970 scanner. The topic of the post was "hey, why are those drivers late". But I certainly didn't anticipate the HP official statement.
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25. januar 2007 11:07

Software protection collateral damage

While I don't support piracy in any way, I am against aggressive software protection, too. Let's take for example Windows XP. On one hand it takes days if not hours for pirates to crack the protection while on the other hand the built in protection might
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24. januar 2007 15:00

Assembly Binding Log Viewer fixed window size

If you are somewhat serious about .net development you certainly know Assembly Binding Log Viewer utility (aka Fuslogvw.exe), do you? If you don't, you should - it lists all assembly bindings (both successfull and failed ones, depending on settings).
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23. januar 2007 9:46

Visual Studio 2005 "kindly" starts an asp.net development server per project

I have a solution containing both WinForms and asp.net projects. There is nothing wrong with this. However, when I set a configuration that runs only a single WinForms project where all of the asp.net projects aren't even marked for build and start debugging
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18. januar 2007 10:44

Select Case ambiguity in VB.Net

Consider this piece of code: Dim a As Integer = 0 Select Case a Case 0 Console.WriteLine( " a " ) Case 0 Console.WriteLine( " b " ) End Select Console.ReadLine() As a C# developer I was pretty sure that this code will never get compiled.
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16. januar 2007 14:44

CodeRush's amazing References window

There is another compelling feature brought to us by CodeRush 2.1.x version: References window combined with ultra fast "Find All References" feature. Find All References* is a faster version than VS2005' feature with same name (note that CodeRush supports
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15. januar 2007 10:46

Vista drivers and big companies

I have been running Vista x86 for a while now (since it went RTM). The only problem I am facing is the lack of drivers for certain hardware. Here is the list of devices that won't work or their software won't work for me under Vista x86 HP Scanjet scanner
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13. januar 2007 13:56

Finally an improved debugger's Step Into feature

Finally we got an improved VS' Step Into feature. But what is wrong with actual one? Let's see an example: public static void Main() { SomeMethod(SomeField, GetSomeValue()); } private void SomeMethod( bool flag, int value) { ... } private bool SomeField
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13. januar 2007 10:17

Fiber optics battle has (finally) begun

In the last week two major ISPs in Slovenia asked for permission to lay down fiber optics cables in Nova Gorica, my town - they have to get majority in every building (if they don't get enough permissions then building won't be connected). Which means
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3. januar 2007 11:31

Postsharp

I was looking for aspect oriented programming (AOP) tools I found an interesting source forge project today: Postsharp . It lets you inject code into an assembly after compilation or at runtime and it is very extensible. Perfect for injecting things like
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