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Strangely, only a day after Mitch wrote a recent entry about Media Center [ I've just become a Media Centre junkie ], I've got something to say roughly on the same topic. I've been running a "Media Center" for 3 or 4 months now. I say "Media Center" rather
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In ASP.net server controls you can specify page addresses using the tilde ( ~ ) character to specify a path from the root of the current web application. Imagine you have a site mounted on your local machine under a virtual directory called ' foo '. To
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I wanted to do a little change to some code I'd written for CS yesterday. For both the Gaptcha control and my in-line file uploader I'm uploading a file and saving somewhere within the current user's blog. I've been constructing the save locations (and
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Note to self: When you get sick of seeing your error list after a build showing squillions of warnings about 'missing XML comment for publicly visible missing on type...' set 'Suppress Specific Warnings' to these codes : 1591,1592,1573,1571,1570,1572.
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This is quite neat. When the non-RTM builds of IE7 were floating around, you had the opportunity to write your own search providers for your website (or other sites) if you couldn't find one already. I went through the effort of writing one (ok, so it
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Update: The source is now live ! I mentioned yesterday how I'm not especially great at ASP.net . Well the update I did last night to Gaptcha proved it :) I added the 'Get more pictures' link to the Gaptcha control, but it only worked if you
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When I wrote the code for my Gaptcha control , I made one pretty silly mistake. I was developing against a SQL2005 database, but CrankyGoblin itself uses SQL2000. So when I had a SQL statement like this: select top @someParam col1, col2 from someTable
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I needed this a while ago, and again today. It's time to blog it so I've got somewhere to look it up from :) If you ever need to get rows returned from SQL Server in a random order, something like this works a treat: SELECT * FROM Northwind..Orders ORDER
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Remember to look into Winqual sometime. If it's usable for .net apps, then everyone should use it. Thanks for the tip, Daniel .
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Douglas Stockwell posed an interesting problem the other day . He wanted to know if there was a way to make a piece of code work without falling down to reflection. Personally, I can't see any way to do it without reflection, so I thought I'd post my
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I decided to write myself a 'Blog This' extension for Live Writer for Internet Explorer. Why? I hear you asking - that functionality is already around, right? Yup - it is. It comes out of the box with the Windows Live Toolbar. And there is no way in hell
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As I alluded to in my last post , I'm building a new computer this week. The bits did indeed arrive (yesterday) and I've used up quite a lot of my spare time putting it together and installing it. First, here's the hardware that I put together:
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I really like the new CommandLink control that exists in Vista. Actually, it's not a new control - it's just a new style on the button control, but it still looks damn nice. The app we're currently writing at work is being written with with a series of
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For the last couple of weeks I've been playing with WCF, Windows Workflow, and other stuff while putting together a new app that we need. It's been a steep learning curve - trying to keep things familiar (as in, the other guys on the team will still be
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Yes, I know this is more than 6 months old now, but lately I've been doing a lot of reinstalling and setting up of new logins on other people's computers - and so I have to google search again and again to find the damn download and install instructions.
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