July 2006 - Posts

New appartment in Amsterdam

My current appartment in Zeist is quite discernible in Google Earth and Google Maps.

Google also has excellent satellite imagery and aerial photography of Amsterdam. This is the Google Earth placemark for the appartment building where I will move to. Below you can see a screenshot.

You can also view this location in "Het Oostelijk Havengebied" in Google Maps.


Posted Wed, Jul 26 2006 11:44 PM by Erwyn van der Meer | 6 comment(s)
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My favorite Outlook 2007 feature

I haven't had much time for blogging lately. The reason being that I have just bought an appartement in Amsterdam and I am selling my current appartment in Zeist. I will exchange a beautiful view over the woods from the 9th floor for a magnificent view over Amsterdam from the 15th floor.

But I had to blog that I just discovered my favorite feature in Outlook 2007.

Just as I was typing an e-mail message I hit a key combination that was formerly unknown to me. With previous Outlook versions it has happened to me several times that I sent unfinished e-mails while not being aware what I did wrong. Now I know.

Today I hit something on the keyboard and a dialog popped up that said something like:
You pressed CTRL + ENTER. Would you like to use this key combination in the future to send e-mail?
Of course, I answered: NO!

If you find want to prevent Ctrl + Enter from sending e-mail in older Outlook versions (2000, 2002/XP, 2003), check out this tip on adding a registry entry to prevent accidental sending.
Posted Wed, Jul 26 2006 11:03 PM by Erwyn van der Meer | 1 comment(s)

MSDN Wiki: My First Submission

Yesterday I submitted my first entry to MSDN Wiki. MSDN Wiki is a web site from Microsoft that allows the community to submit corrections, additions, samples etc. to the online MSDN documentation. If you don't know what a wiki is, check out the wiki entry on wiki on Wikipedia ;)

MSDN Wiki is currently in beta. The content is a duplicate of a part of the MSDN Library site. Currently it only contains the Visual Studio and the .NET Framework SDK branches.

My entry was a correction to the documentation of the System.Web.UI.Html32TextWriter.ShouldPerformDivTableSubstitution property.

Since Microsoft reserves the right to remove content at any time and content can be removed by others as well (that's the nature of wiki), here is a copy of my text:

The MSDN documentation states: "Gets or sets a Boolean value indicating whether to replace a Table element with a Div element to reduce the time that it takes to render a block of HTML."
The substitution actually works the other way around: If this property is set to true and if the browser supports tables, the Html32TextWriter will replace Div elements with Table elements. The idea is that older user agents that support HTML 3.2 (and not HTML 4.0) do not support Div elements.
This can be seen by checking the implementations of the Html32TextWriter.GetTagName method and the System.Web.UI.Page.InitializeWriter method using Reflector.
Posted Wed, Jul 5 2006 6:59 PM by Erwyn van der Meer | with no comments
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