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Sync your Screen Saver pictures with Live Mesh
18 July 08 01:37 AM | Laurent Duveau
[Post directly inspired by Brad Abrams ] Did you know that you can use Live Mesh to share and sync your Screen Saver pictures on every desktop/laptop in the house ? Here is the tutorial with Vista and Live Mesh client installed: First start by choosing...
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Sync your favorites with Live Mesh
12 July 08 01:45 AM | Laurent Duveau
Did you know that you can share and sync your favorites between computers with Live Mesh ? Yes, like I did with Visual Studio settings . I already sync my favorites with Windows Live Toolbar and the Windows Live Favorites button, but I am not fond of...
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Sync your Visual Studio settings with Live Mesh!
29 June 08 10:29 PM | Laurent Duveau
Did you know that you can use Live Mesh to share and sync your Visual Studio settings between computers ? Here is how to do this in Vista (with Live Mesh client installed): Go to your VS2008 folder (usually C:\Users\ YourUserName \Documents\Visual Studio...
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Permission problem while trying to move/delete/rename folder in Vista ?
24 June 08 07:09 PM | Laurent Duveau
I get this issue everyday in Vista: I try to move/delete/rename folders and get a “you need permission to perform this action” error. Note these are not system folders, just some personal folders, and this is not related to UAC or drive hardware. I have...
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Pimp my IDE talk at EnergizeIT
25 May 08 12:09 PM | Laurent Duveau
Here is a link to download the content I used for my quick talk at EnergizeIT Toronto ("Pimp my IDE" aka customize Visual Studio 2008): The blog post I showed: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioProgrammerThemesGallery.aspx You can also...
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Testing web apps on IE6, IE7 and IE8
03 April 08 05:47 PM | Laurent Duveau
As web developers we have to test our websites on IE6, then IE7, and now IE8. You can find tips and tricks to install several versions of IE on the same machine, but it may be easier and cleaner to use VPC instead. Microsoft provides a link to download...
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Silverlight 2: migrating from alpha to beta 1
19 March 08 11:24 PM | Laurent Duveau
Today I had to migrate a Silverlight Alpha 1.1 project to Silverlight 2 beta 1 for a client. As we had to expect there are a lot of changes ! First thing to notice: after installing Silverlight 2 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 you won't be able to open...
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Blend 2.5 march preview: Where is the Silverlight DataGrid ??
13 March 08 05:52 PM | Laurent Duveau
[Post written as of Silverlight 2 beta 1 and Expression Blend 2.5 march preview] Strange that the DataGrid is not in Expression Blend 2.5 march preview toolbox, but only in VS2008 !? If you add a DataGrid in VS2008 and then switch to Blend that will break...
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[Cool Tool] Search Engine helpful searches
29 February 08 09:27 PM | Laurent Duveau
Did you know that Google provides answers to special searches ? I have just discovered this one: Time: But you also have: Calculator:   Currency conversion:   Units conversion:   Weather: You can find the whole list here . Note: Some of...
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Silverlight Tools for VS2008 installation issue
13 January 08 10:50 PM | Laurent Duveau
Problem after installing Silverlight 1.1 Tools for VS2008 ? "The project type is not supported by this installation." Try this on VS command prompt: devenv /resetskippkgs
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How to set ASP.NET controls adapter by code ?
11 December 07 01:05 AM | Laurent Duveau
In a recently job I wanted to package as much as possible common items of the web layer (WebControls, BasePage, HttpHandlers, Js, Css, etc...) in a class library project, so I can share the dll across several ASP.NET apps. As I use the CSS Friendly Control...
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Learning ASP.NET (links to resources)
29 November 07 07:40 PM | Laurent Duveau
People often ask me where to find resources to learn ASP.NET I must say that I learnt almost EVERYTHING from the QuickStart Tutorials : http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/aspnet/Default.aspx These tutorials are very good and shows every features...
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Expression Web and Custom Controls
18 November 07 12:41 PM | Laurent Duveau
In case you wonder how Expression Web deals with custom ASP.NET controls, there are 2 things to notice : Having the control assembly into the \bin directory will not give you any design time rendering in Expression Web. Expression Web do not support custom...
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JavaScript onLoad event clashing
16 November 07 07:04 PM | Laurent Duveau
This week I had to debug some asp.net pages that has a weird behavior. They work well but each time a Js alert() raise, the hover menu are no more available (it is a classic asp:menu with dynamic hover for sub-menu). The problem was simple: the current...
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Get System.Drawing.Color from RGB HTML color
31 October 07 04:40 PM | Laurent Duveau
Back to some real content here! Maybe you already know about this, but as I still often see static method like GetColorFromHTML() in companies static class, it could be a good reminder. The idea is when you want to set a color in code, like GridView1...
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