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Here's a revised version of my " data bars in a DataGridView " code. This one introduces a small margin, and reworks the gradient fill slightly. It also makes the maximum value in the column represent 100% of the width of the data bar, so it's more like Excel 12's version. First, the code ...
A lot of people out there will by now have seen the screenshots of Excel 12 (now Excel 2007) and its excellent "data bars". For those that haven't, click here to read about them. Now, we're working on a little application here that has a form where the user will need to enter a series of 30 percentage...
*sigh* Just spent the better part of the afternoon setting up a new EPG for Windows Media Center. Here in Australia we don't get an official, Microsoft-supplied EPG. Instead we have to use a series of third-party utilities that scrape web sites for TV guides, then reformat them into an XML format...
Oh my god! Check out the eleven page preview of Moon Knight #1 on Newsarama! The first episode of a new ongoing series! This is going to kick six kinds of ass! Can't wait!!! Do you get the impression that I'm a big MK fan?...
After much trial and error, a user on the microsoft.public.windowsupdate newsgroup (Bob Anderson) has posted a fix for those of us suffering the "Windows hangs when I try to access Microsoft Update" problem. Turns out that there is some incompatibility between the nVidia IDE driver (not really...
Recently memnotk (sorry mate, I don't know your real name!) wrote a definition of RSS on his blog. He incorrectly referred to the term as an acronym, and I politely corrected him. Now, memnotk is not a native English speaker, so he can easily be forgiven for getting something wrong that many native English...
Edit: Ken has pointed out that WGA doesn't get installed automatically - I must have installed it by visiting Microsoft Update. Still doesn't change the problem, though. The other day I was playing around on my PC and noticed that it was downloading an update. When it had finished, I checked...
A little update on what I've been playing with in the .NET world recently. Back in Delphi 3 (released around 1997 if memory serves), Borland introduced a great little component called TActionList. This component revolutionized the way we designed our applications, because it centralized all the UI logic...
Jensen Harris has released a bunch of screenshots of the official UI for Office 2007 . I think the final look of the ribbon is really slick. Love the use of colour, and the idea of being able to apply different "skins" to the UI will be welcome to those in different lighting conditions where...
Oh my god! Just got home and was leafing through the junk mail ... Check out Target's latest catalogue ! It's grammatically correct! I gave it a quick once over and couldn't find a single error! They use apostrophes correctly in words like kids' , boys' , girls' , women's and men's ! So just to show...