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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Inspired by the 30 Days with Ubuntu article on [H]Consumer (I had been considering trying it out for some time), I went over to the download page on Ubuntu.com, and downloaded a torrent for Ubuntu 6.1 for i386 desktop. Went to sleep. By the time I woke up this morning ...
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Friday, March 2nd, 2007
In my current project, I would like to log all Windows Forms errors, including those that are not caught explicitly. Lacking a built-in method (like Application_Error in the Global.asax file of an ASP.net application), I needed another way to easily catch all errors. After a bit of searching, I ...
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007
In a Windows Forms application that I am working on, I had the following scenario: while the main form (Main.cs) is loading, I prompt the user to prove their credentials. If they are unable to do so, the form is closed (using this.close) and application execution is halted.
The problem is, ...
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Thursday, January 18th, 2007
SQL Server Compact Edition is advertised as a small embedded database that can easily be included with a Windows Forms application during deployment. According to some of the informal documentation online, one of the ways in which this is suppossed to be possible is to include the SQLce DLLs in ...
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Their quarters are a study in white-collar pedestrian. The most striking thing is how ordinary they look. Other than the occasional bit of memorabilia, you could be in the offices of any small company or government agency. Everyone has his or her own small office, and the offices have desks, ...
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Thursday, September 28th, 2006
I just read a post from Karl Seguin on CodeBetter (quoting Frans, who quoted Soma) that Visual Studio 2002 and 2003 will not run on Windows Vista. Or to quote Soma directly:
However, we will not support Visual Studio .NET 2002 or Visual Studio .NET 2003 as development environments on Windows ...
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