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Enabling Anonymous File Sharing with Vista

On my home network, I have a media file server running Vista 64-bit that serves out music and movies. Since…

17 years ago

Vista 64-bit and SoundBlaster X-Fi Crackling/Popping

Against popular wisdom, I decided to upgrade my bedroom home theater PC to Vista 64-bit a couple days ago (just…

17 years ago

Web Scraping, HTML/XML Parsing, and Firebug’s Copy XPath Feature

If you do any web scraping (also known as web data mining, extracting, harvesting), you are probably familiar with the…

18 years ago

Finds of the Week – May 31, 2008

Programming Borland Turbo Pascal was my favorite language in my early days of hobby programming. I feel a little sad…

18 years ago

Installing Windows Vista without CD/DVD Drive

Just in case anyone else needs to do this out there... I recently got myself a nice ThinkPad X60 Tablet…

18 years ago

Finds of the Week – March 2, 2008

Programming Very good tips to gain a better understanding of your Project Managers: 10 things Project Managers wish Developers understood.…

18 years ago

Put GetOrdinal Method to Good Use

How often do you see DataReader code that looks like this? using (IDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()) { while (dr.Read()) {…

18 years ago

How to Open Containing Explorer Folder in Visual Studio

I think this is useful and not well known enough to warrant its own blog post. Did you know that…

18 years ago

Finds of the Week – January 6, 2008

It's 2008. Happy New Year! Tips and Tricks I can't believe I didn't know about this Visual Studio command before:…

18 years ago

Type Ahead in Microsoft Outlook

Did you know Microsoft Outlook has supported type-ahead since Outlook 2003? I didn't. I upgrade my home PC to Outlook…

18 years ago