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March 2007 - Posts

Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:04 AM

Risky hebrew word...

Today I went to the grocery shop with my son Daniel (20 month old). On the register Daniel was not thrilled about his treat being taken away. Here is the dialog: Daniel: Die Die Die Die...(continues) Registerer (stricken with panic) : Why does he want
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Friday, March 09, 2007 11:05 PM

"Orcas" new features

NET Framework 3.5 New Features Faster .NET Framework execution Base Class Library – New Class Additions Language Integrated Query (LINQ) 1. Faster garbage collection 2. Smarter, faster NGen requiring smaller working set RAM 3. 64 bit client improvements
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Friday, March 09, 2007 8:58 PM

"Orcas" Control+Tab

What a GREAT feature!!! Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelson
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Friday, March 09, 2007 8:27 PM

Automatic properties in Visual Studio "Orcas"

While working on "Orcas" and checking the new DWM API in Windows Vista I found out that you can write something like this: public class Sample {     public string Guid     {         get;    
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Friday, March 09, 2007 3:45 AM

Pandoras box

If you are familier with Pandora, you will LOVE this very cool application: Pandoras Box is a wrapper for Pandora running in the task tray   DOWNLOAD Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelson
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:06 PM

Five things you didn't know about me

WOW! I am behind schecule...Ohad Israeli tagged me almost two month ago.  HOWEVER, I have a very good reason for not joining this blog-tag game. In January my family and I came to the US. We are currently visiting my family in Reston,
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 8:01 PM

Windows Vista UAC - quiet mode

If you are tired of the Message box asking you to allow Admin privileges, there is a small registery tweak to skip this Message Box without disable UAC (User Access Control). [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]"ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin"=dword:00000000
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 7:37 PM

SideShow devices

If you are planning to upgrade to Windows Vista or allready using it. You have probably found this in your Control Panel:   "SideShowDevices.com is a site dedicated to Microsoft Vista Sideshow Hardware Gadgets news, such as Vista SideShow auxiliary
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 6:43 PM

Missile Launchers

InventGeek has published two cool guides to build your own “Missile” launcher. Cost around 70$ http://inventgeek.com/Projects/usbairsoftturret/overview.aspx   Cost around 200$ http://inventgeek.com/Projects/Airsoft_Turret_v2/Overview.aspx
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 6:15 PM

Extensibility

Over 2 years ago when I got intreduced to C# 2.0 and generics I wrote an Extensibility Application Block. The simple usage looks like this: IExtensibleHost host = new SingleAppDomainHost(); IExtensibleTypeLoader loader = new AssemblyTypeLoader(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly());
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