<RANT> Every now and then I want to search for a phrase (or a word) that includes special characters. Nothing fancy, maybe not more than a . (dot) in the “wrong” place. ”.NET” comes to mind, or recently, ”.Text”. The exact phrase search facilities of the various search engines come to mind quickly… but they don’t work. Why is it that Google as well as MSN Search (and probably others) seem to be unwilling to implement a proper exact phrase search that really searches for the phrase entered? …
I just came across a fantastic gimmick that I need to get: the USB vacuum cleaner! I found it for sale at getDigital.de, so that’s where the product link goes: getDigital.de - USB Vacuum Cleaner
In a recent MSDN TV interview, Mike Clark talked about (and demonstrated) the capabilities of the technology in the System.Transactions namespace, coming in .NET Framework 2.0. In other blog postings, such as in Angel Saenz-Badillos’ posting Whidbey ADO.NET System.Transactions Distributed Transactions and in Florin Lazar’s posting Transactions made easy: System.Transactions I found additional information on the topic. But all those publications have one thing in common: they look at the technol …
There’s a new independent (and inofficial, AFAIK) web site at www.skypetips.com which lists news, a FAQ, ratings on addon hard- and software for Skype and many other things. Looks to me like they might be sponsored by somebody, but then it’s the only site I know of which offers this combination of information relating to Skype. Check it out!
UPDATE: Right after writing this, I found another site that accumulates information on news about Skype: http://skypecentral.jyve.com/. It seems to em …
I just stumbled upon a very useful free tool that I didn’t know yet: Wink. Their own description from the website says:
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots of your software, use images that you already have, type-in explanations for each step, create a navigation sequence complete with buttons, delays, titles etc and create a highly effe …
Connectotel has introduced a service (currently in beta test) where mobile phones can be used to send messages to Skype users. If you use Skype and you want to be able to receive messages sent to you by SMS, all you have to do is add a pseudo user to your contact list. In short, this is what you do:
skype johndoe This is a message to johndoe
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In newsgroup post in the Developer Express support newsgroup for their XPO product, I was recently asked if it was possible to show information that’s really stored in a one-to-many relationship as additional columns on the main object. Actually, .NET makes this possible using an implementation of the ITypedList interface together with a custom property descriptor — in this way, arbitrary additional properties on an object can be “simulated”, regardless of the real source of the data. First, …
While I was trying what the best way would be to include C# code in my blog, I found that WordPress has problems with <pre> tags: it inserts <br> and <p> tags all over the place, trying to preserve XHTML validity. While I do like the validity idea, I don’t like the fact that it becomes more or less impossible to use the <pre> tag to publish code.
Looking around, I found the two modules that I need to get back proper <pre> functionality and a little nice highlighting for C#: the Synta… …