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things & stuff » Blog Archive » Make MSDN Load Faster — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:23:40 GMT

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re: Culture Clash

Paul Bhorjee — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:29:18 GMT

Here's a comment about Thomas that I think even Thomas could perhaps understand given cultural differences and his grasp of the English vernacular. Thomas is a ***. He likes thinking of himself as superior and he trolls groups and posts just to show off his technical acumen but also, in turn, shows off his technical frailties, of which there are many (as there are in all of us, please). How dare he put down good ideas that don't jive with his own as ignorant. That just speaks volumes about his own insecurities. I can just imagine him on the playground as some skinny little boy who's too smart for everybody else and never gets any play, so he lashes out.

PS - I've never interacted with him, and I never plan to. Microsoft should revoke his MVP status for his lack of international decorum.

re: Making iTunes Work with MSN Messenger's "Now Playing" Feature

Teumes — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:36:53 GMT

ah telemez THANKS:D

i tried everything from the top of this page downwards,

but almost the last solves my problem :P

re: C# Type Conversion Operators Considered Harmful

craig-andera — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:01:19 GMT

I believe most of the controls offer properties that let you bind the display string to one of the properties of the object, while you bind the value to a different one. So that's mostly been thought of for the visual stuff.

In many other contexts, when someone wants to display an object, they look first for an implementation of IFormattable::Format, and then for an implementation of ToString. I'm not sure how you'd ever pull this off "without adding extra classes or methods" - there's no useful universal algorithm for displaying an object.

re: Making iTunes Work with MSN Messenger's "Now Playing" Feature

megs — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:18:05 GMT

if it doesnt work for the first time (like what happened to me)

u can just sign out and tick or untick a few boxes before you click sign in, i.e., "remember me"

then it should work

re: C# Type Conversion Operators Considered Harmful

ecards — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:27:57 GMT

Guess I'm a little late to this thread - but how would you solve this without a conversion operator:

Some of the controls that come with the framework like ComboBox take only an "object" type, yet usually developers want to store an object and a string to be displayed in the combobox.

If you add a string conversion operator to your class you can just add them to the combobox and you are done.

The item text is automatically displayed correctly, and the object is retrievable at at any time during a selection event of via enumeration.

Is there another way to do this without adding extra classes or methods?

Regards -

Link Listing - August 20, 2008

Christopher Steen — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:37:13 GMT

Link Listing - August 20, 2008

Christopher Steen — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:36:14 GMT

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re: Generating WSDL Without ASP.NET

Jonathan Dickinson — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:26:09 GMT

Great stuff! Really helped me with my new project (SOAP over XMPP). XMPP is a XML-based IM protocol (the same Google Talk uses), so this really helps with getting the chore of generating WSDL out of the way. Now I just need to figure out how to wrangle .Net into generating and consuming SOAP requests :).

re: Build Lights

oil paintings — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:52:27 GMT

What a unique and colorful way to handle the progress of projects. I can’t wait for the source code.

re: HoboCopy Fix: Side-By-Side Configuration Incorrect

jmi — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:41:36 GMT

Thanks! Solved the problem for me trying to run the 64-bit version on Windows 2008 Server. Had to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x64) to make it work.

re: Announcing HoboCopy 1.0.0.0

Peter Palotas — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:26:30 GMT

Just wanted to mention my attempt at a .NET interface to the VSS SDK, using managed C++ to expose the full VSS API. Still in early alpha, but early tests seem promising. It is freely available at http://www.alphaleonis.com/

I hope this will help finally solve these problems we all seem to be having with accessing VSS from .NET.

AlphaVSS - Bringing Windows Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to .NET | Alpha Leonis

AlphaVSS - Bringing Windows Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to .NET | Alpha Leonis — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:40:44 GMT

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Creating Snapshot Style Incremental Rotating Backups in Windows | Alpha Leonis

Creating Snapshot Style Incremental Rotating Backups in Windows | Alpha Leonis — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:32:38 GMT

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re: Announcing HoboCopy

craig-andera — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:11:19 GMT

Huh - I can totally repro that. I'll take a look. Probably I'm not handling long pathnames correctly somehow.

Workaround: create a link to that directory with linkd and back that up.

linkd C:\temp\hobocopy-test "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\"

hobocopy /full /skipdenied /y /r C:\temp\hobocopy-test C:\Temp\testbak2\