December 2006 - Posts

Thursday, December 28, 2006 3:02 AM

Windows Live Writer Plugin: Messenger Quote

You like to chat with your friends through Windows Live Messenger ? Want to share your stories with the rest of the world? :) Yes, I thought you'd say no... But in case you do want to share and you're using Windows Live Writer to write your blog posts,
Posted by Andrej Tozon | 7 Comments
Friday, December 22, 2006 2:05 PM

With another year coming to an end...

... I wish you all a Merry Christmas and all the best in 2007! Happy holidays, everyone!
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006 3:51 AM

Adventures in Calculus, pt. 2: A Letter to Santa

In previous adventure , we built a simple calculator with some help of DataTables and data binding. Today, with holidays right behind the corner, we'll write a letter to Santa, using the same tools. DataTable's expressions can include other columns' values
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Friday, December 15, 2006 5:45 AM

VS2005 SP1 - uninstalling the Beta

If you're going to install Visual Studio 2005 SP1 on a machine, running the Beta version of the same service pack (VS2005 SP1 Beta), you'll have to uninstall that first, otherwise this nasty message will prevent you from installing the release
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Friday, December 15, 2006 2:58 AM

VS2005 SP1 is ready

Yes, it's finally out. Visit the official SP1 web page and download your updates. If you're working on Windows Vista, there's another update in the making - "Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista" - it's currently still
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Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:52 AM

Slovenia has Euro in Windows Vista already

Haven't noticed this until today, but it seems like the default currency for Slovenia has been set to Euro in Windows Vista RTM. Now, we're about to change our Slovenian Tolar (SIT) to Euro in about two weeks (1.1.2007) and we're still using Tolars at
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Sunday, December 10, 2006 2:41 PM

OpenSearch Vista Sidebar Gadget

My first Windows Sidebar Gadget started as a tool to support searching through Anthology ICE . About a month later, this tool developed into a general OpenSearch gadget, capable of querying any search engine that supports OpenSearch specification. So,
Posted by Andrej Tozon | 3 Comments
Friday, December 08, 2006 5:57 AM

Adventures in Calculus, pt. 1

Evaluating simple mathematical expressions in .NET may not appear as an easy task. I mean, how would you code something like Eval("1+1")? While there are more complex solutions to such problem, like using JScript's Eval.JScriptEvaluate(),
Posted by Andrej Tozon | 2 Comments
Wednesday, December 06, 2006 9:40 AM

Search this blog

In one of my previous posts I wrote about OpenSearch and adding OpenSearch providers to your browser's Search toolbar. If you're using Community Server for your blog/forums engine, you can easily enable your visitors to take advantage of such
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