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*sigh* Like many other developers, I eagerly visited the MSDN subscriptions site yesterday to download my copy of Visual Studio 2008. The fact that I can get it this early as an MSDN subscriber is just awesome. However, Microsoft don't seem to want me to have it. Why do I think this? Because they make...
In .NET 3.0 we have a newfangled class known as ValidationResult . It's returned from a ValidationRule's Validate method and has a boolean property representing whether the validation succeeded, as well as a string property for the error message if it failed. In my current project, however, a simple...
Update! I think WLM had tied itself in a knot. I ended up finding a 1.7GB file called Mail.MSMessageStore on my C drive, which I renamed (and also renamed its backup). Re-ran WLM and let it reconstruct the file, and now that file is only 10MB and the memory-usage problem has gone away (although wlmail...
I'm writing this post from version 12.0.1366.1026 of Windows Live Writer - updated as part of Windows Live Wave 2 of the Windows Live suite of applications, which was released overnight. That includes a new version of Live Messenger, Live Mail, Live Photo Gallery etc. Also released this week was the...
Paul has just made an insightful post about the history and future of visual form designers with a Windows Presentation Foundation focus. I love his concept of a designer that focuses on styles and resources, and gives you a faux-3D "model" of your form rather than trying to accurately render it. That...
Sorry for the cryptic post title, but this one is handy if you're using Storyboards in WPF to animate properties. I have an image that I'm scaling and rotating when the mouse pointer's moved over it. It looks great - the image kind of zooms in as you hover over it. The rotation goes from 5 degrees to...
I think the staff here at work (myself included) have been the victims of a mall-hallucination recently, around the "meeting request" feature in Outlook 2007. In Exchange 2007 (and presumably in previous versions) you can set up your meeting rooms as a special kind of Room user in the address list. Then...
Since I'm too slack to actually sign up for a Twitter account, here are a bunch of disconnected one-liners, Twitter-style! Superman Returns on HD DVD: Fantastic. Transformers and 2001: A Space Odyssey should arrive this week. Pan's Labyrinth released on Boxing Day. The fact that you need SharePoint installed...
Owing to the fact that I've received about 200 spam email messages from my "Contact Me" form here on Mabsterama over the past weekend, I've had to disable that feature. For those who legitimately want to contact me (and I have had a few legitimate correspondences via that feature) please use my direct...
The "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation-marks ! It really annoys me when businesses use quotation-marks on their signs as a way of stressing certain words. The worst case is when they wrap the word "free" in 'em. "Free"? Really? Is it free or not? Morons. Found via Coding Horror's Twitter ....