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Outlook messages open up in MS Word
Here’s what happens – you open outlook to compose a new message (or reply to an existing one). Instead of Outlook as your editor, MS Word takes over at this…
Facebook– Essential Missing Functionality
For the world’s leading social networking site, these missing features are inexcusable: Unable to edit status updates (there's a trick that can be used on updates containing images - but…
iTunes 11–Missing sidebar and File menu
Not sure why these are hidden by default on the Windows version of iTunes. To recover the File menu bar –> CTRL B To recover the sidebar –> CTRL S…
C#, .NET Exception Handling Best Practices
The Problem Statement You have just started working on an existing codebase – an n-Tier project - and noticed that the Exception Handling framework wasn’t as well defined as you…
Automatically Expand Windows Explorer Navigation Pane (left pane)
Of the many things I miss in the Classic Windows View – the Windows Explorer navigation is one of them. In Windows 7, the navigation pane (the leftmost pane), does…
A flexible service oriented architecture that handles multiple platforms (multiple devices, multiple databases…)
The Problem Statement Imagine that you have just built a sophisticated application to work against a SQL Server database. You followed a best-practices approach and separated out your presentation, business…
New interfaces for implementing Publish-Subscribe in .NET
You know you are a techie at heart if you find yourself getting excited at the introduction of a couple of new interfaces. .NET introduces IObservable (Publisher) and IObserver (Subscriber).…
ODBC 32 bit drivers on Windows 7
When I opened the ODBC control panel (on Windows 7) and started enumerating the built-in database drivers, I got a bit of a shock. Not only were the Microsoft Access…
Generating Random Numbers C#
When tasked with generating Random numbers, some folks use a static method such as that shown below: Code Snippet static Random rn = new Random(); static int ReturnNextRandom(int maxIndex) {…
VS Compilation Error -The item was specified more than once in the resources parameter
The Issue : Visual Studio throws the following compile time error on a project that includes UI controls (either WinForms or controls). The item was specified more than once…