Bill Gates wants to annoy the whole world with Windows
Yes, it’s true. Bill Gates wants to annoy the whole world with Windows.
Yes, it’s true. Bill Gates wants to annoy the whole world with Windows.
Yes, it’s time for another Microsoft rant. If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you’ll know that these rants are usually quite justified (unlike some others I’ve read). How long should it take to create an e-mail template? Go ahead, take a guess. Five minutes? Ten minutes? Twenty? Try … Continue reading
I’m still using Windows 2000 on my desktop system at home (yeah, call me a dinosaur, I don’t care). One thing I’ve found annoying when switching between my desktop and my laptop that runs Windows XP is auto-completion of paths and filenames on the command line. In short, Win2K just … Continue reading
It’s not my intention to bash Microsoft with this post, but what I just experienced is so ridiculous I have to blog about it. I recently downloaded Microsoft’s free version of Visual C# 2005 and a few days later, began being harassed by a tiny balloon which would pop up … Continue reading
For months, I’ve been annoyed by that little dog, Rover, that appears when performing a file search in Windows XP. He’s slow, he’s cute, and I just want him to go away. Fortunately, I found out how to send him packing back to the doghouse today. Click on “Change Preferences” … Continue reading
dnrTV’s March 9th episode featured Venkat Subramaniam giving an interactive demonstration of .NET Generics. The entire video tutorial is about an hour long. I thought it was quite useful. It’s fantastic being able to watch an expert in this area as he writes code and explains what he’s doing while … Continue reading
It’s dead simple to restart a Windows service in C#. I’m a little shocked at how easy it is actually, given some of the other things I’ve found to be so ugly about the language. public void RestartService(string name) { ServiceController service = new ServiceController(name); service.Stop(); Thread.Sleep(2500); service.Start(); Thread.Sleep(2500); } … Continue reading
If you’re like me, you’ve run into situation after situation in which you’d like to convert a Word document to a PDF. While Googling for a tool to do this, though, I inevitably end up drowning in page after page of supposedly “free” converters which cost $30+ to unlock. Come … Continue reading
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m currently slogging through the melancholic mire of testing .NET/C# code. In the process, I’ve been receiving exceptions which give an HRESULT code in hex (i.e. 8×80020005) and not much else. That got me to wondering what these HRESULTs are and how to … Continue reading
As Rich Main blogged in mid-October, Ward Cunningham recently left Microsoft for a job at the Eclipse Foundation. I found this especially fascinating considering that, after over 4 years of developing with Java, a job change recently required me to begin using C# for automated testing. The pain of doing … Continue reading