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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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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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Geoff ApplebyI thought I'd go through an example of how to get user based settings from My.Settings displayed nicely in the propertygrid - and by nicely I mean with all the bells and whistles :) Sorry C# guys, I'm dealing with the My namespace from VB. To be fair though. My.Settings is only a small part of it. To do this, I'm going to need to pull together a few different things that I've blogged about before.
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Yesterday morning a new post appeared on the JobsBlog at Microsoft. In it, a challenge was offered to people who think they are master coders (or should that read 'hax0r coderz'?). So of course, being the geek that I am, I was very tempted to try the
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Geoff ApplebyI've seen a lot of people of people commenting about how buggy SmartNavigation is and why you don't want to use it, and I'm not disagreeing with any of them - I've never used the feature myself, but if they say so, then I believe them. However, if using View Source comes up different, what you're seeing is an IE behaviour, and has nothing to do with SmartNavigation screwing things up.
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This made me laugh, so I had to share. I was reading an article on how TypeDescriptors work (I'm pretty sure I know I a lot about them, but I wanted to compare what someone else with what I'd worked out for myself) when it referred me to the remarks section
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Well, it's over a week late, but I really wanted to blog a couple of things about the VS&SQL launch that happened in Canberra last week. I've already blogged the Launch Party that was on the night before, but this time I'm talking about the real launch
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One of the services that my team had to write here at work included the necessity to be able to send an email with an attachment. While clunky in .net 1.1, it was doable. But when we noticed that to send an attachment you could only specify a file location
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So, as we all know, VS2005 shipped less than 24 hours ago. I've queued all the bits (VS, SQL, VSTO, Visio...) for download before I left for work this morning, knowing that I'd be able to play tonight. I did well. I only called my wife once through the
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I've been meaning to blog this for the longest time, and I've finally remembered since it took me so long to find the URL again. Have you ever needed to work out what package contains what dll that you've referenced, so that when you redistribute your
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For all my geekiness, there's some things I know very little about. I know, I know, it's a bi tof a surprise, but it's true. Really. Domain name registering. I really have very little idea about them. I know how DNS works, and stuff like that, but actually
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About 10 minutes ago I just finished reading a new post on the IE Blog . They describe the way in which the BASE tag has been incorrectly implemented in IE for the last few versions, and that in IE7 it's finally going to be done the right way - only allowed
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Over the last few days I've groaned sympathetically with Frank as he's described his failing hard drive woes. But I should have known. It almost happened to me. *sigh* As I said a couple of days ago, I got me a new hard drive with oodles of space . It's
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A week or two ago I wrote a little rant about how we're having trouble finding a suitable contractor to do some work for us. During the rant, I mentioned one of the questions I asked to get a feel for how much knowledge the interviewees had. What's the
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