Ran into this annoying bugger of a problem with Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7 where every time I saved a file (any file, no matter how large or small it was) the GUI started reacting extremely slow on me. Menu’s didn’t react, keystrokes didn’t appear, scrolling didn’t work. It acted like a whole bunch [...]
I installed my PC initially with a separate C drive dedicated for Windows and system specific files. Unfortunately it turned out that I picked that drive too small as I didn’t foresee that there is plenty of software out there that simply won’t allow you to install to a different location than C:\Program Files. To [...]
A few weeks ago I was in the lion’s den at Schiphol watching a presentation of the new to come Microsoft Windows Phone 7. It was supposed to be Windows Phone development thing, but it turned out to be more of a marketing rant than a geeky app development preview. Bummer. But hey, since we [...]
LINQ to SQL is a pretty cool way to work with data from a relational database when you’re programming with .NET. One of the big advantages of LINQ is that it makes writing SQL statements a thing of the past. So you don’t have to remember which SQL statement does or doesn’t work on what [...]
Did you see the puke commercial Microsoft has running to promote IE8? They pulled it already on their own site but it’s on Youtube now so it’s gonna stay out there for now. But the thing is that they are throwing some big bucks at it to promote their latest IE release which bring us [...]
December 30, 2008 – 16:03
Hotmail sucks doesn’t it. It’s slow, only works properly in Internet Explorer (and what geek still want to use that), and it’s just plain uncool. Problem is, since Microsoft likes to throw everything from hotmail, Windows live to MSN instant messenger accounts together I always thought you needed a hotmail account to use anything related [...]
February 25, 2008 – 20:44
Did you ever run into that weird issue on a Windows XP machine where an application starts up and nests itself somewhere on the screen where you can’t reach it? Either because it was once started when using an extended desktop and the window was located on the second (now dead) screen? Or by some [...]
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