Lately I bought [MS] LifeCam VX-6000 web cam for my computer running Vista Ultimate x86. First problem I’ve faced was that I had to wait for [MS] to release its […]
.net
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A syntax feature in enum I didn’t know
Consider this enum declaration. enum Gender { Female, Male, Alien, } Do you think it compiles? Note that there is a comma after the last element. I would […]
Hardware / Windows
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The remorse of HP
A week or so ago I fumed over HP’s attitude of forcing me into buying new scanner and ditching perfectly working old one just to get new drivers. […]
.net / DevExpress
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An easier way to populate XtraLayoutControl
[DevEx] has a nice UI layout control XtraLayoutControl that helps both designer and runtime user to design WinForms UI with ease. One can even save and load layouts […]
Hardware / Windows
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Using not supported USB (2.0) devices on Vista
In the last post I spitted over HP for not supplying Vista drivers for one of their scanners I own. I won’t repeat my disappointment again, rather I’ll supply a […]
Hardware / Windows
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The arrogance of HP
In one of the latest posts I ranted about missing Vista drivers for some hardware I own. Among them is a HP DeskJet 3970 scanner. The topic of […]
Windows
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Software protection collateral damage
While I don’t support piracy in any way, I am against aggressive software protection, too. Let’s take for example Windows XP. On one hand it takes days if […]
.net
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Assembly Binding Log Viewer fixed window size
If you are somewhat serious about .net development you certainly know Assembly Binding Log Viewer utility (aka Fuslogvw.exe), do you? If you don’t, you should – it lists […]
.net / ASP.Net
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Visual Studio 2005 "kindly" starts an asp.net development server per project
I have a solution containing both WinForms and asp.net projects. There is nothing wrong with this. However, when I set a configuration that runs only a single WinForms project […]
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Select Case ambiguity in VB.Net
Consider this piece of code: Dim a As Integer = 0 Select Case a Case 0 Console.WriteLine("a") Case 0 Console.WriteLine("b") End Select Console.ReadLine() As a C# developer I […]