December 2005 - Posts

Thursday, December 22, 2005 5:53 PM

Closing the year

Signing off for a week or so. Happy holidays, everyone!
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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 8:39 AM

Note to myself, #1 - IIS

Next time, when IIS resists starting the Web site because of the everything but informational "Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740", don't try to reinstall it. Just close down Skype or some other program, which might already be listening on port 80. [ http://support.microsoft.com/?id=816944
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Sunday, December 18, 2005 2:59 AM

Silk Icons

This overly cool set of icons has just made it into my VS2005ImageLibrary folder. There are many icons in the set I've been searching for quite some time to include them in my application toolbars. I made several toolbar icons myself, but they are, well,
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Saturday, December 17, 2005 4:52 PM

ANT

Here's a small detail of Maison Carree , a Roman temple in Nimes, France . The letters are embedded into one of the stairs, leading to the temple entrance. The photo was taken with Canon EOS 300D and Sigma 28-300 lense on my recent trip through Provence
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Thursday, December 15, 2005 12:43 AM

Infragistics NetAdvantage for VS2005

Infragistics has just released the final version of their Windows/Web controls suite - NetAdvantage 2005 vol. 3 for Visual Studio 2005. After downloading and installing it, I fired up VS2005 and: Upgraded some of my projects... went smoothly. Checked
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 5:59 PM

Windows Live Messenger starts kicking

Windows Live Messenger Beta has just been released to the closed Beta testers group. Quick-reading the partial feature list , among several, mostly cosmetic changes, one thing cought my eye - Sharing Folders. Being a fan of both MSN Messenger and FolderShare
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Saturday, December 10, 2005 4:35 AM

Some SQL2005 thoughts...

Working with the SQL Server 2005 in a past few months, I learned to like many of its new features and improvements, and some of them I'm posting here: 1. SQL2005 noise control - SQL Server 2000 and its implementation of Full Text Searching have been giving
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Friday, December 02, 2005 12:41 AM

VS2005 Code Snippets

The basic idea behind Visual Studio 2005 Code snippets is to help developers write more code by actually typing less, while inserting templated code chunks or patterns, which we repeatedly use in our day-to-day coding. Code snippets are easily accessible
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