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Any Mozilla/FireFox CSS gurus out there? Can someone explain how I'm s'posed to make my lists (in the sidebar) look decent? Here's my current style: div.sidebox-content ul { margin: 0 0 0 16px; list-style-type: square; list-style-image: url("../images/graystar.gif"); } div.sidebox-content li { font-size...
Have you ever wanted to place a small image to the left of a label in Windows Forms? Attaching an image to a label is really easy - the Label control has an Image property. It also has an ImageAlign property, which you can set to MiddleLeft to move the image to the left of the control. The problem, however...
The other day Andrew Stopford blogged about InfoCard , asking what happens if your PC is stolen. Does the thief get access to your "cards", and therefore any web site that you use them to log into? I'm about 20 minutes into this video on Channel9 , which explains the architecture of InfoCard, and in...
Oh, man. That was close. This morning I finally got around to updating my Logitech Harmony 880 remote so that it knew about the Xbox 360. The standard activity settings - switch the TV to the right channel, turn on the receiver and switch it to the right input, and turn on the 360. While testing it,...
Wow. Just got home from a night out for tea with the folks. Albury has a lot of great restaurants, particularly given that it's only a town of about 45,000 people, but by far our favourite place to dine is Scape. It's a relatively new place, and features some really interesting dishes. For example...
Here's a screenshot of a form from one of the projects I'm working on right now. I'm posting this to give people an idea of what's possible if you use the CellPainting event in the DataGridView control to override how your grid is painted. What I'm doing here is displaying the contents...
This new skin (which I have dubbed "mabster360") has opened up a whole world of possibilities. At the risk of too much " blog flair ", I'm adding a whole bunch of new sidebar boxes with content specific to me. For example, you've probably already noticed my Xbox Live Gamercard...
Just installed beta 1 of Windows Media Player 11 here at home. Wow! Pretty slick. Visually it's an improvement over the already-quite-nice WMP 10, especially with the new ways to look at playlists. Here's a screenshot courtesy of microsoft.com: The "album stacks" aren't faked -...
Thanks to a great tutorial on Community Server skinning by Stuart Celarier, I can now create my own skins for this blog!!! So welcome to the new-look Mabsterama. It's going to change over time as I get more comfortable with what's possible, and if something looks out of place please let me know...
Tonight was the first meeting of what will probably be known as the Albury/Wodonga .NET User Group (awdnug?). We had seven people attend, which was great for a first meeting. Anthony (who organized the whole thing with a call-to-arms at Code Camp Oz) had plotted out a loose agenda for the night - the...