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This is pretty sweet, you can have the Zune player in your taskbar. On previous version of Windows, I had my media player up there. But now the Zune player has this ability in Windows 7 as well. If you have the Zune 4.0 software installed you can right-click the Windows 7 taskbar, select toolbars...
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I’ve tried a lot of tools and addons to use syntax highlighting on my weblog and BloggingAbout.NET in general. I’ve fallen in love with two of them. CopySourceAsHtml by Colin Coller SyntaxHighlighter by Alex Gorbatchev The first I use to use for my weblog. But this causes a lot of markup within the code...
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I’ve owned a Windows Mobile for some time, currently the HTC Tytn which sure is up for replacement. But I’m really waiting for the HTC Touch Pro 2 or the HTC Hero or something. With internet on it, it’s great to have the ability to check your email, search the internet when you’re waiting or be able...
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As Dennis Doomen , I was quite happy with how the session went. Some stuff went by pretty fast, mainly because I did not want to present how the tools I used work, but did want to show the audience how I did it and what the tools are capable of. Here’s the presentation if you’d like to review it and...
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Today, Keith Dahlby and Wictor Wilén released v2.0 of the sharepoint extensions library, which contains some really helpful functions for sharepoint development. Please take a look at http://solutionizing.net/2009/06/01/spexlib-release-these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-things/ for a post with some...
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Because of the nature of my work, coaching people on-site and training people in classes, I talk to a lot of developers and managers about the way people work. Unfortunately a lot of companies still don’t unit test their software and don’t setup an automated build. At times that’s specifically what we...
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Update : The application was renamed to blu . The previous name was much cooler, but they probably have their reasons! :-) Find it here . Although Twitter hasn’t taken any forms of hysteria yet in The Netherlands, more and more people start using it. I started learning its advantages during MIX’07...
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I'm doing a SharePoint training right now and am using a computer for slides and stuff which is not my own. So a few of the first things you do is download Reflector and SysInternals ZoomIt . To my joy I saw that ZoomIt 3.0 was released and that it adds LiveZoom. Too bad the computer hasn't got...
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Remark : If you’re not using FinalBuilder but plain MSBuild, you can most likely benefit from the tutorial below as well. In this tutorial I’ll try to explain what I’ve done to automate the build for a ClickOnce application. I’m using FinalBuilder because this is the best tool I know to automate your...
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So Foxit Reader is a replacement for Acrobat Reader, it’s light, can be stand alone, and has a super fast launching time and FREE. since i tried Foxit Reader i had no single Acrobat Reader installation. Today i discovered a neat feature, if you closed Foxit Reader while you viewing PDF document, when...
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Mark Miller from DevExpress just announced CodeRush Xpress for C# developers, for free!!! In a partnership with Microsoft, DevExpress is making this tool available for Visual Studio. It’s a selection of CodeRush and Refactor! Pro features. Refactor! Pro is one of my favorite tools available for Visual...
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As I’ve said before, years ago on some project I first got the opportunity to work with FinalBuilder. After years of silence I picked it up again at version 5 and recently switched to the latest version 6. Have you ever had the feeling that some developer around you suffered from the NIH syndrome ? Like...
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For a customer I’m looking for a PDF library to create thousands of PDF document. I’ve tried two open source libraries, but didn’t quite like them. I’m not sure if it’s me, the library or just PDF because they didn’t feel right. So I tried two commercial libraries. One just didn’t allow me to do what...
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Two tools I absolutely love! Windows Live Writer A new version was just released, June 2nd. Download it here . Sysinternals ZoomIt Version 2.0 was released on May 28. I just downloaded that version myself and it has some nice features. However, I did not know about all 1.x existing features myself. I...
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I'm using FinalBuilder to build and deploy websites on our test server. FinalBuilder is a great product, but our client is using Windows Server 2008 and FinalBuilder does not have actions for IIS7. I might add the actions to my weblog, but here's some code to create a new IIS7 website using C#...