To cut a long story short, even though I've used .NET since the first beta (in 1999), I never got around to using Winforms - no, really! I have developed winforms apps in VB6 and swing apps in Java,...
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Also from the land of UserAgents, just discovered this, shows a map of the world with constantly updating blog entries...quite mesmeric actually!
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I download lots of ISOs from MSDN and others for evaluating software, developing etc...To be frank, burning all these to CD is a pain. I have recently stumbled upon a great tool called Undisker -...
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Just noticed on Scott W's site, hidden in one of the comments is a link to a project called Syndicache, this is a stunningly interesting idea. What this seems to provide is a method of using NNTP as a...
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More for an academic exercise on the workings of .TEXT than anything else, this site now has a search function (really very simple to implement - please contact me if you want the source...). Anyway,...
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How do you enable caching for the RSS control? Well, in the RssDisplay.ascx, add the following line after the <%@ Page%>declaration:
<%@ OutputCache Duration="1200" VaryByParam="none"%>
This will...
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I have downloaded and installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a Windows-client for my blog tool (as well as some for other tools).
Actually, it was not me who wrote this text: when I...
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One thing that really puzzles me in the ASP.NET forums (apart from having to be moderated...which is a whole other story) is that practically everyone seems hell-bent on using the DataGrid. Why? What...
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Sorry, ADSL is playing up again, please keep trying if you're having problems...
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Pretty amazing track from Rory Blyth - man I wish had musical talent of any kind; well, I sing but a monkey can sing...not very well, and it obviously appeals most to other monkies...but well, you get...
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Rory Blyth- you are my one true god - for this post alone (and having the funniest Techie blog on the planet):
Went to the blogger BOF tonight, and all I can say is that I'd like to flush this whole...
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To cut a long story very short, I've always had a problem in accessing Windows Update from behind my Linksys BEFVP41 VPN router (which otherwise is excellent); well, I had to reinstall my main PC over...
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I've been a fan ofASPToday for a while, but some very odd things are going on there at the moment...first is the sporadic downtime the site is having, then there's the distinct paucity of articles...
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Just discovered this after reareading one of my old posts ... which is in itself a reporting of Scott Hanselamn's Power tools list, a fantastic, very varied list of .NET tools and samples from those...
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One of my colleagues, Jonny Anderson pointed out these really useful web service tools on GotDotNet, the Web Service Studio Tool is just remarkably useful for debugging and otherwise playing around...
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It is so annoying - no decent legal music download service exists for the UK..iTunes is now available for Windows...but not for the UK, how dumb is that!
According to this story, this should be...
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A whole heap of useful bits here.
The Netping utility solves a problem I've had for a while - tying up IP addresses with machines...very handy! Oh, Jeff Key also makes the excellent Snippet...
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If you have a lot of ASP code which currently runs on a Windows 2000 server, you probably use CDONTS to send your mail...Now, if you want to migrate to Windows 2003 (or Windows XP for local dev)...
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Found this on Ashutosh Nilkanth'sblog (good name!), basically allows you to run pretty much any CLR code using a Sql Server extended stored procedure - not nearly as good as Yukon, but if you need to...
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This is an odd little tip...not sure where I found this out, but I use it a fair bit...if you have an image which you're not sure will be available, add this to the img tag:...
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