In Chris Pratley’s article The best ways to show OneNote to others, I found the idea of storing blog articles in OneNote. Somehow that never occurred to me :-) So I thought I’d employ the IE2OneNote power toy to copy all my current articles to OneNote to start with. Several problems with this: first, the format of a web page is completely lost when doing that. The power toy simply dumps the textual context of a page, plus the images, into a OneNote page sequentially. Sometimes, I do use tables …
Chris Sano has made a fix for his ColorPicker.NET available, a tool I wrote about earlier. This update fixes the problems related to multi-monitor setups, where the mouse pointer wouldn’t want to leave the primary screen after dragging the mouse in the color area. His announcement of the fix is here.
The current version of Developer Express XPO has a Session object that handles one connection to the database together with an object cache for that session. Technically, the Session is a pivotal point in the XPO architecture, all object handling requests go through a Session object. Recently it came to my attention that some people regard it as a great problem that the Session object is tightly bound to a database connection. By default, this is a direct association: you can create more than o …
I just read these really interesting articles on Ole Eichhorn’s blog: The Tyranny of Email and the followup, Tyranny revisited. They aren’t new, but they are good and I hadn’t seen them before, so I thought I should pass this on. These articles are really about efficiency working with modern means of communications and I couldn’t agree more with most of what is said.
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I have received several e-mails asking me about the real use of Generics. Why I like them so much and what makes them such an interesting feature in .NET 2.0. Programmers who use one of many other languages may not have had contact with anything similar to Generics, so I guess that’s quite a legitimate question. Generics are one of the features of the next version of the CLR (Common language runtime), as delivered by Microsoft with .NET 2.0. They can currently be used in the beta and CTP releas… …
In a comment about my post Simulating object properties with ITypedList and custom PropertyDescriptors, John Eyles mentioned the fact that the TypeDescriptor.GetProperties method doesn’t return the type’s properties in any fixed order. Therefore, when my own ITypedList implementation takes at least parts of its properties from a standard set that was fetched via the TypeDescriptor, additional steps have to be taken if the properties are supposed to appear in a particular order, like in a …
I’ve been using Copernic Desktop Search for several months now and I think it’s really a great program, especially as it is free. I’ve recently tried X1, to see if I’m missing anything, but I decided that for the steep price there’s not enough X1 can offer me. This is even more true for the new (beta) version 1.5 of CDS, where a lot of features have been added. Although things have been extended a lot, there are still a lot of features that are restricted for no apparent reason. Here’s my list …