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New security model with Silverlight?
I just finished reading this post from the BCLTeam blog on the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha release that was announced at MIX07. It sounds like there is a new security model that is being introduced with Silverlight as a replacement for CAS (Code Access Security). I haven’t done any research yet, but it looks like we’ll be able to just decorate methods with attributes like Transparent or SafeCritical.
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Nice Ctrl+Tab extension for Firefox
I just wanted to share a Firefox extension I found recently. Stack Style Tabs basically treats the Ctrl+Tab shortcut in Firefox like Alt+Tab in Windows or like Ctrl+Tab in Visual Studio. I use Visual Studio all day long and I really like the ability to SEE all of the open files when I hit Alt+Tab instead of just cycling through them. It has frustrated me for a while that Firefox didn’t provide this capability as well, but with this new extension, I’m set!
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Shell extension to rebuild solutions quickly
Ever want to build Visual Studio solutions quickly, but without having to open Visual Studio or pulling up a command prompt and typing msbuild on the solution? You know, like right-clicking and choosing a build option?
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DDE isn't really dead
Scott Hanselman recently posted about a bug that can occur when using Firefox as your default browser. The root problem deals with Outlook trying to start up Firefox using DDE instead of just a simple command line argument. At work, we ran into a very similar situation, because we were wanting to open up URLs in the default browser from our application. Normally, this would be easy because all you would have to do is Process.Start the URL without providing an application and ShellExecute would handle the rest for you. Needless to say, this wasn’t going to work for us because we had overridden the default open action for URL shortcuts with our own action (it’s a long story that I won’t go into in this post).
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Duh of the Day - Turn off IE's "Show friendly HTTP error messages"
I’m sure you’ve seen this page before:
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Looks like I'll get to try out Microsoft Expression after all...
Read it here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/04/03/expression-added-to-msdn.aspx
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Mistakes are training expenses
If you’re not already subscribed to Jeremy Miller’s blog, do so now. I’ll wait for you to come back.
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XmlSerializer and "why is my application kicking off the C# compiler?"
Lately, I’ve been working on performance enhancements to one of the projects at work. Our users had all mentioned that the application’s startup time was pretty slow and wanted to know if we could do anything to speed it up. Of course, when all of your users have been using green screen applications, even native C applications will likely seem slow to them… but anyway. We started digging in and found a few places where we could optimize our code but our form still took a while to load.
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Would you like to accept this call?
This is completely off-topic, but I thought it was pretty funny.
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How to get better at what you're doing
So, want to improve at what you’re doing?
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