Visual Studio Swapping buttons on the Toolbar

Sara published a Did you know that i have been looking for for ever how do I customize those toolbars with the functions I deem worthy.

Did you know... you can switch and swap buttons on the toolbars while the Tools - Customize dialog is showing - #139

Thanks for a great tip!

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Time Server Irony

It would appear one must have the correct time in order to get the time from time.windows.com.

  Funny I thought i was syncing because I don't have the same time.

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Wireless Router says "No broad band for you"!

Last night My Linksys WRT54GS had the strangest issue.  All of the wireless systems were getting my full broad band connection speed how ever any of the wired connections were only pulling 1.5-3mb.

I updated my firmware from 1.50.5 to 1.52.2 every thing works fine now.  However I attribute this to the router rebooting itself rather then any thing firmware related.  With a little luck this issue won't come back on the new firmware.

It had to be a strange bug since before the reboot I was speed testing at 1.9mbs and after I received 19mbs. Kind of looks like if forgot to carry a 10 some where.

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Its Time For My Fourth nVidia GeForce 7600GS Replacement

In June of 2006 I purchased a new HP media center pc( it arrived in August), every thing was great until November when the Video card fan started making loud sounds at start up and an odd raspy sound after that(sounds like the fan's bearings on the video cards are bad).  I guess the 7600 would rather be a race car or airplane.  I had the card replaced ( Horrible customer service from HP first tier of support ). 13 months later December of 2007 the new video card decided it was a race car as well and exhibited all the same symptoms(HP support lost a life long customer after this tech support phone call).  An now when I turned on the pc this card new for only 3 weeks decides it wants to be a race car. I really don't want to call HP and spend another 4 days on a support call.

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VS 2008 Sp1

Microsoft's new agile pace is just killing me.  I'm glad that sp1 will be out some time in the foreseeable future but.  I don't want thing about upgrading to vs 10 in another 18 months. 

C# Debugging Improvements for VS 2008 SP1- Part 1

 

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How's That Compression Going With Ajax?

When we first started using Ajax we noticed some difficulty getting the resources  to work with our HTTP compression filter.  Now I have a better understanding of what issues are luring thanks to Carloc Ajax resource intermittently not accessible (http compression)

This means that Ajax does support compression for Internet Explorer 7 but it does not support compression for Internet Explorer 6. Why?

Well, the fact is that IE6 has some serious troubles with compressed content, and those issues have been resolved in IE7:

Another release containing several fixes is in the latest Windows Script 5.7 which contains updates for jscript parser:

 

I never realized IE6 had so many compression issues.

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Calyx Pont SDK/API

Looks like some documentation has been published for the elusive Point SDK.

http://Dev.CalyxSoftware.com

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WSE Time Tolerance in seconds a programmatic approach.

For some reason Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to only let us control the time tolerance in WSE 2.0 and 3.0 via the app.config file. ie

<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="microsoft.web.services2" type="Microsoft.Web.Services2.Configuration.WebServicesConfiguration, Microsoft.Web.Services2, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
  </configSections>
  <microsoft.web.services2>
    <security>  
      <timeToleranceInSeconds>86400</timeToleranceInSeconds>  
    </security>    
   <diagnostics/>
   </microsoft.web.services2>
</configuration>
 
This isn't always a practical option.  In this case I have a DLL that needs to make a WSE web service call.  Its not realistic for all my clients to add this information to their app.config files.  And I am far to lazy to document it.
So enter reflection, We need to add a few lines of code to our  WSE web service inherited classes constructor.
public class MyWebServicWse : Microsoft.Web.Services2.WebServicesClientProtocol
{
    public  MyWebServicWse()
    {
        Type.GetType( "Microsoft.Web.Services2.Security.Configuration.SecurityConfiguration, Microsoft.Web.Services2, Version=2.0.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35", true, true )
        .GetField( "_timeToleranceInSeconds", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Static | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic )
        .SetValue( null, TimeSpan.FromSeconds((double) 86400) ); //86400 == a 24 hour time span.
    }
}
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Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft Video

If you haven't seen it istartedsomethign posted Bill's Video from CES 2008.  Its hilarious.

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Olympics via Silverlight

Somasegar Mentions that Microsoft will be providing a Silverlight viewer for NBC's coverage of the 2008 Olympics, but I don't really care about the technology.  What I find more impressive is the new coverage options we will see for this years Olympics.

As a part of this, we will provide users with exclusive access to over 3000 hours of live and on-demand video content via Silverlight streaming.  This means that viewers can access every minute of every event.  Additionally, the amount of meta-data attached to each of the streams will be extensive and include links to player bios, medal counts, shortcuts to particular events (i.e. athlete x’s third long-jump attempt), maps of the Olympic facilities, pop-up overlays with real-time event alerts, headlines, video search capabilities, etc. 

I look forward to coverage I can choose rather than NBC's homologous Male/Female coverage.  Its going to rock just watching the events I care about.

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Stay away from Sears "My SHC Community"

It seems that when joining sear's SHC community you are installing a proxy server for ie that redirects all your Internet traffic through Sears servers.  What a brilliant Idea that was.  read more At Spyware sucks and Schneier on Security

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Refractor! and CodeRush Upgrades

Always upgrade Refactor! first followed by CodeRush, so that CodeRushes install does not uninstall Refactor! and you have to reenter the serial number.

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WPF books

I finished reading Windows® Presentation Foundation Unleashed over Christmas and I must say this has turned out the be the best book compared to

Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft® Windows® Presentation Foundation, Programming WPF, 2nd Edition, and Essential Windows Presentation Foundation.  It wasn't because the book had color (I read it on Safari Books online which under Firefox doesn't display color( in html mode) ), The layout and flow was just the best.  Kind of  a hit the ground running format.  Thanks Adam for a great book.

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