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  • VB Snippet Editor

    Friday, April 29, 2005
    Woohoo...neat! http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/2005/tools/snippeteditor/
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  • Random "Punch Myself" Moment

    Tuesday, April 26, 2005
    I'm currently working on an application to schedule audits for the automotive industry.  Basically, I feel like I'm recreating Outlook's re-occurring appointments dialog, but on steroids.  Anyway, there is a schedule command line application that gets run every hour.  Every hour it checks every company's time zone to see if it's after midnight and then basically take all schedule patterns and create schedule instances for today from that.  For some strange reason we've been getting duplicates of each instance from today and in the past.  I looked at the code for the scheduled application and everything looks fine.  I run
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  • Get IP Address of Router?!?! (and List Network Interfaces)

    Tuesday, April 26, 2005
    Ok, so I've been rummaging through System.Net in Beta 2 and I'm impressed.  There's just a ton of new stuff that is rockin'!  However, what I'm really looking for is a way to figure out how to tell if my machine's IP address is a real internet address (if that's not possible, that's ok), but more importantly what my router's ip address is.  Does anyone know a way to accomplish this?  Sorry this is just a question entry, no real info!  :(  Er...wait, I've got one.  Want to list out all the network adapters on your machine and different bits
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  • Windows Quick Tip

    Monday, April 25, 2005
    In light of seeing Paul Wilson's tip about hitting Ctrl+C on any object in SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager (which I already knew), I thought of another one of those "seems obvious now, but didn't used to be for me" tips.  Until a year ago, I didn't know this one existed, so don't feel bad if you didn't know it. Ever have a dialog come up on your screen or someone else's that you which you could e-mail to yourself or someone else?  Have you ever hit Alt+PrintScreen and pasted it into Word or something as an image and sent
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  • Your Linguistic Profile

    Monday, April 25, 2005
    I'm sorry for the OT post here, but this is just too good to pass up.  I saw it over on Paul Wilson's Blog.  I was born, raised and am still currently living in Indiana.  Interesting that I have a slight hint of Dixie!  :P  Really though, I guess it's good that I'm 75% general.  It shows that our little school of less than 1,000 kids still taught us a thing'er two!  Weehaw!!! Your Linguistic Profile: 75% General American English 10% Midwestern 10% Upper Midwestern 5% Dixie 0% Yankee What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
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  • Quick ASP.NET Tip

    Monday, April 25, 2005
    We've all got time for a quickie, right?  Well here you go.  Everyone and their mom (or not) may already do this already, but... Whenever I have some text to display on a page and the text is dynamic, my first thought is to just dump it out: <b>Name:</b> <asp:literal id="litName" runat="server"></asp:literal> Back in your code, you then say: litName.Text = User.FirstName & " " & User.LastName or something like that.  Typically though, I actually do it like this: <asp:literal id="litName" runat="server"><b>Name:</b> {0} {1}</asp:literal> Then the code of the page is like this: litName.Text = String.Format(litName.Text, User.FirstName, User.LastName) Main reason I
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  • MSN Messenger 7.0

    Monday, April 25, 2005
    So since I have nothing new to talk about since everything at work is the same old boring stuff and I can't talk about my secret side projects yet and I've been too busy with wedding stuff to really play a lot with Beta 2, I thought I'd point out/discuss a couple neat features about MSN Messenger 7.0 that came out a couple weeks ago. First off, the new description box under your name is fantastic.  Before this version, people would change their names to express themselves in whatever way they felt like at the moment.  This was totally great because you got to
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  • Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005

    Thursday, April 21, 2005
    This is a really great refactoring tool that has now been released for free and will RTM when Visual Studio 2005 RTM's.  This is great and welcomed news since it was announced a while back that VB 2005 wouldn't have native refactoring in it.  The product looks great and again, it's free so have at it!  :) http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/2005/tools/refactor/
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  • WindowsForms 2.0 Settings

    Wednesday, April 20, 2005
    Ok, I just had to share, because this is just too cool (sorry if you've already read about this).  Open up a new WindowsForms application (in VB, although I'm sure this works in C# too, just without the My stuff).  I'm using Beta 2 for this, but I believe it was in Beta 1 as well.  Go into the new Project Properties window and click on the Settings tab.  Add a new setting called "Name" of type String to the scope of User.  Now, open up Form1 and add a TextBox to it.  Select it and go to its properties
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  • SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services New Web Site Deployment

    Tuesday, April 19, 2005
    Ok, before I say anything I just want to say that SQL Server Reporting Services is one of the coolest and crappiest things ever!  :P  It is a really neat product and tons easier than Crystal Reports, but man oh man is it hard to setup.  Here's a great little article on how to set Reporting Services on a new Web Site other than Default Web Site, which is what all the examples I could find show.  The short version of the article is that to make Reporting Services work on a new web site in IIS, you have to
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