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Friday, November 09, 2007 1:27 AM

Getting around Jet Engine not installed error on 64 bit Vista

There is a problem with 64 bit Vista and that is the Jet Engine, used by ADO.NETs OleDb Data Provider, is not supported. It's also no longer supported by Microsoft so a 64 bit version is not planned. If you develop with OleDb on 64 bit Vista you get...
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Friday, October 12, 2007 4:22 PM

Custom Error Provider (with Error count)

The Error Provider Component used on Windows Forms is a very useful way of displaying the errors on the form, however its missing one small piece of information; the number of errors that are currently on the form. This custom error provider fixes that...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 3:04 PM

XmlResolver doesn't authenticate with Proxy server

Just had a problem in resolving a DTD, stored at a remote URI, while loading an XML file into a XmlDocument. Usually a XmlUrlResolver is used to resolve remote XSD or DTD defined in an XML document, however the XmlUrlResolver doesn't perform Proxy...
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Saturday, July 21, 2007 6:33 AM

Open Packaging Convention (OPC)

Was reading MSDN Magazine through the week and there is an article in it on OPC. In short OPC is a new standard for saving complex data, perhaps stored in multiple files, to a single file (a package) using a combination of two standard technologies zip...
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Saturday, July 14, 2007 2:56 PM

Embedding images into Mp3's

I'm a huge fan of electronic music and being the type of frood who knows where his towel is at I've got rather a nice selection of Mp3s and a lovely IRiver H340 to play them on. The H340 comes with it own built in firmware which although it's...
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Friday, July 13, 2007 11:02 AM

The ListView and its ListViewGroups.

The ListView control is maybe the most commonly used control used by Windows. The reason being its used by the file explorer to let you view your files in a variety of ways, you can view directories as icons, you can view thumbnails, or you can view all...
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Saturday, July 07, 2007 10:05 AM

Changing the display name and sorting properties of the Property Grid

This post assumes a bit of background knowledge on how to use and control the property grid when displaying the properties of an object. The property grid is a great control, I like it a lot, but it does have some problems. One of these is the use of...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007 3:49 PM

Free Book on .NET to COM Interop

A while ago I posted a walkthrough on how to call .NET code from VBA. This code was hacked up a long time ago using VS2003 at a time when I maybe didn't have the required knowledge to adequately demonstrate the process. I have disabled this post as...
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Monday, May 21, 2007 5:08 PM

Benchmarking Regular Expressions

I've been helping out quite a bit on MSDN Forums over the last month in preperation for the approaching MCAD -> MCPD Windows exam. There is only so much book reading you can do and the good thing about forums are they are a great study tool. Tonight...
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Monday, March 05, 2007 3:00 PM

Compressed Binary Serialization of DataSets

Where to begin... at the moment I am unbelieveably busy. To cut a long story short some promises very have been made by some managerial types at the top of the ladder than has meant us developer grunts at the bottom of said ladder have to deliver by the...
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Saturday, February 17, 2007 2:24 PM

HTML Report Generation by making an application a Web Server.

This post may turn into article once I've got more time so this may just cover the concept rather that giving technical details and code samples. In my last post Printing shortcut in .NET v2.0 (windows apps) I wrote about how you can use HTML and...
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007 4:06 PM

Printing shortcut in .NET v2.0 (windows apps)

.NET v1.1 was not very developer friendly when it came to printing data from a Windows application. I'd like to think this has improved a bit with .NET v2.0 and recently I almost had an oppertunity to delve in and see for myself if anything had improved...
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 3:05 PM

The StopWatch class

Today I came across a new class in the .NET v2.0 that I've never seen documented before; the System.Diagnostics.StopWatch class. No introduction necessary. A Stopwatch instance can measure elapsed time for one interval, or the total of elapsed time...
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Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:26 PM

Generic Collection Library

At last I have something worth blogging. I'm currently studying for the MCPD upgrade exams and word on the street is generics will be a large part of the first exam. Just so happens I've got a nice little book on the subject that's just the...
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Thursday, December 07, 2006 2:08 PM

ClickOnce Patterns and Practices / WCF Coding Standards

Whitepaper Download Written by smart client guru Brian Noyes, the ClickOnce Community Resource Kit contains over 70 pages of guidance and How-To topics that will lead you through common scenarios, as well as sample code and utilities. WCF Standard Download...
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