I think everyone is familiar with those short urls which are being passed around in applications like Twitter. It’s pretty neat that there are dozens of services willing to shorten urls for us, but what about lengthening them? That’s where longurlplease.com comes in. As they say, they promote safer and productive browsing by lengthening short [...]
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As you may have gathered from my last post, I’ve been playing around with ClickOnce a bit lately. The latest head-scratcher is how to get a ClickOnce deployed application to run at startup. It should be a no-brainer (just copy a shortcut in the startup folder, right?) but when you add Vista to the mix [...]
ClickOnce is pretty simple to get going once you know where to click (no pun intended.) Here’s a down and dirty, quick start guide on how to implement ClickOnce in your application: First, create a sample application in Visual Studio. The attached sample is a WPF application using VS 2008. ClickOnce configuration is managed through [...]
Though the ability to debug Javascript in Visual Studio is great, perhaps you’ve noticed this feature can grind your development/debugging to a near halt. Well, here’s what you need to do if you wish to be productive again. Enable the following IE setting and you too can save yourself hours of debugging time: IE > [...]
I’ve decided to publish professional retrospectives at the end of each month. Each retrospective will provide a summary of what I’ve been up to over the past 30-or-so days along with my plans for the up-coming month. Initially, there will be no rules in place and these posts should be considered experimental at best. Read [...]
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