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We were trying to upgrade an Wod 2003 template (dot) to 2007 template (dotm). This template has a custom toolbar and the toolbar still seemd to work in Word 2007. Problem was, the key tips ware all messed up like my buttons are being assigned key tips I didn't assign and there just doesn't seem...
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This thing is still such a pain in the %#2. Or maybe I just don't have enough UI designing experience. I had to make the UI flexible enough to fit on different screen resolutions , different font sizes and flexible enough even on form resize . I can't describe how I did it exactly but the major...
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Ok, some of you might find it bad that I'm triyng to relate Eclipse with Visual Studio too much, feature to feature. But I can't help it, having used Eclipse for the past 3 years. So I was trying to find a functionality like " Open Resource " (CTRL + SHIFT + R) in Eclipse. I've...
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Here's an interesting exercise for the day. In Visual Studio 2005/2008, 1. Create a new Console Application. 2. Put in the following code in Main: double x = 5.15; double y = x / 100; Console.WriteLine("y = " + y); 3. Put a breakpoint at the Console.Writeline(..). 4. Press F5 to debug the...
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I've stumbled upon a free .Net obfuscator --Eazfuscator.NET. So far, it works well for my purposes. Most obfuscators are costly--ranging from $200 to $2000! But this one is freeware and it works better than the free one bundled with Visual Studio 2005. It is free and easy to use!
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Okay, after almost a year and an offshore assignment, I finally had a chance to update this blog. I was developing a .Net 2.0 C# windows application wherein I basically have to print PDF files from a Windows application. I tried to use the Adobe Acrobat Reader ActiveX object embedded in my form to preview...
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I've just finished downloading Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 bits last night and I think I'm about ready to install it on my VPC (yup, I don't want to install it yet on my real machine.). I'm really excited about this new release since it looks really really promising. I've seen blogs...
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My current task in our project is majorly in MSSQL. I wanted to debug a chain of stored procedures and I have just found out that MS has removed debugging tools out of SQL Server 2005 client tools and relied more on visual studio's. I have experienced debugging both from SQL Server 2005 Query Analyzer...
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I find it hard when the currently active code sheet or item is not highlighted in solution explorer and there were times when i couldn't easily see where the option is so this is for my future reference. VS 2003: Tools->Options->Environment->Projects and Solution VS 2005: Tools->Options...
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So for those of you aching to try the new partial methods feature this is your chance. You can access it here . Scott Guthrie has a post about the features and an installation note to prevent your older asp.net ajax applications from having a dependency on the asp.net ajax binaries that come with beta...
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I recently wrote a short article as an overview to why regular expressions should be in every developer's toolbox. I actually left the real discussion of regex to other experts so I used a lot of link-love. [:-)] Seeing that Mike Malone posted an advanced regex article, I decided to put up that short...
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Jetbrains has just released their beta version of Resharper 3.0, download it here . Again, VB.NET guys out there, you should try Resharper since it now supports your language. Resharper 3.0 will now come into three versions (C#, VB and Full edition). I will be upgrading my copy to just the C# version...
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if you're a keyboard junkie, you might have mistaken to close that Visual Studio Tool Window (resharper's find usage is a prime candidate) with an Alt+F4 keystroke and when you don't have any changes to save, your slow VS which took you almost a minute to load is now closed. Next time, just...
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i'm sure you have experienced debugging an ICollection type and couldn't see the values included in the said collection, recursively expanding nodes in your QuickWatch just like this: i just found this forum post about it here using visualizers, and it's good that some of the classes in the...
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I was stumped by what seemed like a very simple problem that I was beginning to lose some self-esteem :-( I was sure it was a simple problem but for the life of me, I couldn't make it work. So what was it? I was trying to publish the .NET implementation of the Petshop 4.0 application to my local IIS...