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Did you know... You can insert a code snippet via its shortcut keyword - #105

Sara Ford's Weblog — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:19:40 GMT

Update: thanks to Bill for catching that VB doesn’t show snippet shortcuts in the statement completion

re: Apple and Neil Armstrong

bill — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:12:06 GMT

Innovate means to make changes in something already existing/established.

Invention means to make something new, something that wouldn't be thought of as obvious.

To claim an innovation as an invention is the backward step

re: Apple and Neil Armstrong

Sandy — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:05:57 GMT

No matter how you try to dress it up, plagiarism is not innovation

Windows 8 Rough Fix

Trixinet — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:49:40 GMT

Simple fix for the management:

1. Attach a microsoft-account to your non-hotmail account if you have not already done so.

2. Logon to hotmail.com with the new account.

3. Enable POP3 or IMAP downloading/synching from within hotmail.

4. Apply rules and create folders in the hotmail interface (even through it is not a hotmail account)

5. Mail app should sync.

Been noticing this since 2008 that you can logon any mail account to a hotmail, since i have a gmail with a live id attached.

Greets, Trixinet

re: Rotate your Calculator on Windows Phone

bill — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 23:12:09 GMT

Sadly I don't think you can. There's a couple of good free scientific calculators in the apps marketplace you can use instead.

re: Rotate your Calculator on Windows Phone

Thomas O — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 14:18:05 GMT

And how do you calculate the inverse? I can only see the non inversed.

re: Windows Phone Mango and multiple google calendars

AZ Hiker — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:29:10 GMT

I spoke too soon. I had to wait overnight for the calendars to propogate, but now I see all my google calnedars! I can then de-select the ones I do not want to see in my Mango phone!

When I make a change in google it may take about 30 minutes before it shows up in my phone, but still, it is a great thing to finally have my google calendar!!!

re: Windows Phone Mango and multiple google calendars

AZ Hiker — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:56:56 GMT

I added the string, found the device in good sync but it still says I can only choose 1 calendar for it AND does not allow me to unselect my personal (primary) calendar. Thus the only calendar that syncs is my primary.

re: VB Quark #0 : lambda expressions and statements

Torsten Tiedt — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:08:31 GMT

Hi Bill,

thanks four your post. In fact, another blog:

blogs.lessthandot.com/.../vb-net-addhandler-and-lambdas

treats the same problem, but your's is clearer. In fact, they needed some replies to get to your point ;)

And by the way: thanks for your snippetmanager. I use it a lot!

Keep care,

Torsten

re: Windows Phone Mango and multiple google calendars

Aaron — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:26:12 GMT

Thanks so much for this tip, I was feeling very frustated because I loved everything about my new phone except I couldn't see my calendar that my work sets appointments for me on. What is up with Google not making this work on Windows Phones ... lame!

Thanks again, I really appeciate it!

re: Windows Phone Mango and multiple google calendars

Freddy_ace — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 03:53:59 GMT

Awesome! I just got a WP7.5 phone and I was researching how to set this up. So easy for the iPhone. Shame Google.

Thanks to you I'm all set.

re: Windows Phone Mango and multiple google calendars

Michael — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:04:06 GMT

Thanks for this hint! Works!

re: Windows Phone Mango and multiple google calendars

Compton — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:47:31 GMT

Thanks Bill!

What is the mysterious ThreadSafeObjectProvider

What is the mysterious ThreadSafeObjectProvider — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:18:39 GMT

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re: VB Quark #3: operator differences in VB/C#

Zloth — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:01:54 GMT

Well, actually & and + are both string concatenation in VB. + will only work between two strings/chars while the & can handle numbers.

VB Quark #5: C is for Char

@ Head — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:50:22 GMT

Can you pick the problem with this code ? : Dim currentChar As

re: Windows Phone Mango and multiple google calendars

In House — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:57:58 GMT

How abstruse! Multiple calendars have become a must-have phone feature for me of late. Can't wait for this to roll down to my Focus.

Thanks for the tip though!

VB Quark #3

@ Head — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:20:38 GMT

Can you spot the problem with this code: <Extension()> Public Function ToColor(argb As UInteger

VB Quark #2

@ Head — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:31:13 GMT

Building upon VB Quark #1 , did you know you can use compiler directives alongside expressions in constants

re: Dell XPS 17 (L702x) review

Stephen Taylor — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:33:28 GMT

Thanks for the review. I'm looking at the same machine and trying to decide. Going to be a desktop replacement half the time, but still need some portability. I develop databases so having some screen space is important. Most places I go to I can hook in another screen or two. The more I can see the faster I can develop.

I'll more than likely just select the 750Gb drive and slide in a 120Gb SSD (or similar size) I'll get the SSD from elsewhere, dell seem to be quite pricey on their SSD's (and low on info and options)

Was hoping to get a bit more RAM than 8Gb, as I tend to sometimes have to run VM's to emulate servers so I can do testing, but at the end of the day I reckon 8GB will do