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Windows 7 – Homegroup

May 06, 2009
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How many times have we had to solve the shared printer scenario at home, or simple file sharing within a home network ...

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Power Outlet at the Airport

April 28, 2009
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After arriving at Las Vegas airport I remember being really impressed by the ample places I could charge my laptop and ...

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Live Mesh for Mobile Update

April 28, 2009
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Live Mesh is now in general availability for the Windows Mobile devices. I am really glad about this, I had blogged ...

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WPF Word Wrap-Text Wrap

April 27, 2009
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I spent an eternity trying to figure out how to wrap text using WPF … here is the code snippet for future reference': ...

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Zune HD Rumors

April 16, 2009
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I have been on the Zune band wagon from the beginning, and for a while there I regretted it, now that you can purchase ...

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WPF - ListBox

March 27, 2009
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I have just completed 10 day attack on Windows Presentation Foundation and after repeated false starts I have concluded ...

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IE8 Crashing Tabs

March 21, 2009
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I was doing some research on design patterns for delegates verses interfaces and one page tab in particular caused an ...

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IE8 drops

March 19, 2009
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I just realized that IE8 has been released. If like me you were put off by some of the earlier betas you can put your ...

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DateTime.ToString() - Input string was not in a correct format

March 12, 2009
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I was investigating and en error recently with DateTime.ToString() that gave produced the following call stack: ...

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