In Windows 7 or above you can access a utility called ?Record Steps to Reproduce a Problem?. Just type this into your start menu. When it?s open it looks like this. You may be prompted to run it as an administrator. Do do this click the little drop down arrow by the question mark. You can ...
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Recently I was faced with a rather frustrating issue with a system we purchased for Master Data Management. It utilizes SQL Server running on physical hardware (not virtual) on Windows Server 2008 R2. A web service was having intermittent issues connecting to SQL Server while processing ...
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So my friend Marco pointed out something funny in the Google Suggestions when he typed ?Why do me..? as in ?Why do men enjoy sports?? for example. His results were funny, but I mistyped it,.. ?Why do mi? and this is what happened.
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I recently started thinking about writing a tool to dynamically generate documentation from WSDL files. I?ve learned over the years to Google/Bing these things before sitting down to write a bunch of code. Upon doing so, I discovered a tool called TechWriter for Web Services 2007 from Ad...
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I am learning Mandarin (Chinese) and I must say it is a very enjoyable hobby for me. I will link to the tools that I am using below. The most recent one that I have found is a very nice translation feature in Internet Explorer 8. This is only one of the new features of IE 8 that I ...
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Recently I spent some time working on an integration between Microsoft Team Foundation Server and SharePoint 2007 (MOSS). When it came time to query SharePoint via the List web service I found that the example for CAML on MSDN were not exhaustive. So I did some Google-ing and found an ex...
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Recently I was working on a Silverlight application and I found that the plugin was having trouble adapting to vertical resize actions. At first it was very confusing because the plugin would adjust with the browser when resized diagonally or horizontally. What was even more troubling ...
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This is one thought provoking video. (Did You Know...? 3.0)
So what do YOU take from it? One thing that strikes me is that I'm humbled by the fact that I have always taken for granted that the U.S. would always be the best in every way. As long ...
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Learn to point Google Maps and Street view at a particular latitude, longitude, pitch, yaw, and zoom!
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Tonight I decided to accept my invitation to the SSDS beta and start monkeying around with it. All I had to do was click the link in my invitation email and I was automatically logged in to the MS Connect web site. I had only been into this site once before when I ended my participation in the...
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