Archives / 2004 / July

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  • Windows Server 2003 Workstation

    Friday, July 23, 2004
    I realize I'm waaaay behind the crowd on this one, but I just moved to a different machine here at work and I setup Win2K3 as my development machine and so far I really like it.  I've got it so it looks and works just like XP, except now I have IIS 6.0 (that and it's more secure of course  ;)). I already knew most of the stuff to change to get it more like a workstation, but this one helped me get everything. Only thing I've found that doesn't work is my mp3 player (Archos Jukebox Recorder 20) doesn't
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  • Photopeer

    Thursday, July 22, 2004
    Photopeer is a cool new product that is free and helps you share your photos easily.  Currently, there is just a Mac version, but very soon there will be a Windows version as well. One reason I wanted to point it out is that I helped with the site.  I did all the easy stuff though (the ASP.NET and SQL Server work, nothing fancy).  ;)  Just kind of neat to see something I worked on up!
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  • Using a Setup Project on a Machine Without .NET Installed

    Wednesday, July 21, 2004
    <rant> Today, I setup a VPC instance of XP w/ SP1a (and nothing else) to test an extension of our product that is a Smart Client application.  The setup realizes that .NET is not installed and asks if the user would like to install it now.  Neat.  I clicked yes, only to be taken to this page.  I'm sorry Microsoft, but WHAT THE HELL is that? That is totally lame that it takes you to a page that says it's been moved. These are end users clicking these links.  It could be anybody!  Why would they want to go to the
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  • What's New in .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005

    Wednesday, July 21, 2004
    I will be giving the presentation at our next User Group meeting.  All you NUFW'ayens out there (or anybody going to be in the area) interested in the next version of the Microsoft .NET development platform, come check it out.  I plan on covering the following topics: Base Class Library Visual Basic C# ADO.NET ASP.NET WindowsForms Visual Studio There are too many cool, new, exciting features to talk about in one meeting, so each subject will be short, sweet and to the point with some demos and time at the end for discussions on topics most important to you.  Come on down,
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  • Renaming the Project Assembly in ASP.NET 1.x

    Tuesday, July 20, 2004
    This is really a newbie tip, but I find that it's still not instinctive with me when I run into a weird problem and it should be. Typically, we name the assembly for the project and the default Namespace the same thing in our ASP.NET projects (and class libraries) as I'd imagine most people do.  If you rename the assembly for your ASP.NET project today in VS.NET, it will leave behind the old assembly, in addition to adding the new one when you recompile.  Some really weird stuff can happen then if you have things like importing a namespace in
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  • I, Robot...I, Like

    Monday, July 19, 2004
    I went and saw I, Robot this weekend.  Great flick!  Granted, I haven't read the book, so they might've totally trashed it from the book, but I wouldn't know, so from my oblivious perspective, it was really good! Even though this post has nothing to do with .NET, I really think all tech geeks should see it.  It has some neat ideas for what the future might be like in 31 years.  That and the special effects were great, as well as some great camera shots.  Pretty much everything about it was great, including some funny stuff.  There were a
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  • Switch From VB to C#? Ha!

    Monday, July 12, 2004
    Sorry if whoever's doing this reads my blog, but personally I think a lot of the stuff on your list is really silly. C-Sharpener For VB - Why Switch? There will be no comments accepted on this post.  No language wars.  Just read and reflect!  ;)
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  • Wording...Find vs. Search

    Monday, July 12, 2004
    Before Windows 2000 and Windows XP, looking for things on your hard drive was called “Find”.  The shortcut for it was Windows + “F”.  In 2000 and XP it was changed to Search.  The shortcut was never changed though, oddly enough.  Now that MSN has introduced their new search, the marketing campaign looks like this... “Don't just search. Find.” I like that.  But seems backwards from the previous change in 2000 and XP from “Find” to “Search”. Is this a pattern to expect through Microsoft?  Does this mean LongHorn might be back to “Find”?
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  • Media Center Extender for XBox

    Sunday, July 11, 2004
    Ok, this is one of the coolest, smartest things I've seen in a while...especially since I have a Media Center machine and an XBox.
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  • WindowsForms 2005 Beta 1 ToolBox Problem

    Thursday, July 08, 2004
    Just wanted to let you know that if you can't seem to drag any WindowsForms Controls from the ToolBox onto a Form you're not the only one.  I've been having this problem on a couple installs of VS 2005 Beta 1. Erick Ellis from Microsoft helped us out in the newsgroups and gave this suggestion. try deleting toolbox.tbd from %userprofile%\local settings\application data\microsoft\visualstudio\8.0\ This fixed it, btw...
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