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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 wasn't that hard :) and also making it autodetectable for visitors to cranky goblin. But ...

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. So now I'm blogging it, so that now I only have to search my blog (with my handy IE7 ...

People who read my blog know that I'm happiest coding in the back end, or in places where things like reflection take the front seat. I 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 ...

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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 challenge just for the fun of it. Go and read the post that describes the challenge. Having read ...

Peter van Ooijen did a post recently on how SmartNavigation screws with using View Source (or Save As) in IE. Now, Pete's a nice guy, and I mean no offense to him whatsoever, but I couldn't help but respond - In this aspect, SmartNavigation is not to blame here :) I've seen a lot of people of people commenting about how buggy SmartNavigation is ...

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 of the doco for the TypeDescriptor.GetProperties() method. I was interested enough to ...

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 - the one that included a free lunch :) Other people have already blogged about the day (as ...

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 for it, we started looking elsewhere. There's numerous components out there, but it all ...

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 day to see how the downloads were going :) So I got home and burnt VS and SQL off to DVDs ...