August 2006 - Posts

Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:28 AM

Smart, meet beautiful

"Smart, meet beautiful" - this is the message you're greeted with towards the end of Microsoft Vista Pre-RC1 installation. And yes, Vista continues to look better with each new build [but I'm hardly getting any smarter...]. The latest
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Friday, August 25, 2006 2:29 AM

Windows Forms controls - controlling the z-order

Talking to other developers and hanging around newsgroups and forums I noticed quite a few people have problems arranging controls on a windows form in design time. A typical problem is the overlapping of docked controls. For example, put a Panel and
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006 12:23 AM

Accessing (more) old posts with WLW

I thought about moving some of my posts from my old blog to this one - Windows Live Writer doesn't really have an option to copy posts between blogs (yet?), but since it supports the Blogger API, it's easy to access and open those old posts nobody
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006 7:58 AM

Better late then never...

... for my Windows Live Writer post... I just love this tool! A bunch of helpful add-ins are already popping up ( here , here , here ), and if you want to make your own - here's how . Also, I'm writing this on Vista July CTP, which also is a major
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Friday, August 11, 2006 1:11 AM

Community Server 2.1 Released!

Download the latest version from the official site . Right on time - for a long an rainy weekend... Some features that I was eagerly waiting for: Better SPAM protection, Tags, Content Mirroring and Medium Trust. Also, a new WLM build [8.0.0812.00] is
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:52 AM

Windows Live QnA

Microsoft recently launched a new Live service called Windows Live QnA (Beta), where you can ask all kinds of questions, answer the questions to which you think you know the answer, and also vote for the best answer, given by others. So if you have a
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Monday, August 07, 2006 11:15 AM

Rome, revisited

This year , the occasion was Madonna 's concert, yesterday, 6.8.2006, Olympic Stadium, Rome, Italy, which concluded this summer's concert season . Not just a concert, but a two hour mega-show, with Madonna performing her latest, as well as classic hits,
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006 1:21 PM

Summer concert season continues...

... with the second in a row - Robbie Williams , 22.7.2006, Milano, Italy. I'll remember this one by the incredible heat (40°C) and the wild crowd. Exciting performance, opening with the Close Encounters theme, lasted for almost two hours, including the
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