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I've done a bit of researching, as I am consolidating a number of projects into a flat solution for check in to a new TFS repository, and the predicament of how to structure shared assemblies across all projects inside the solution has come up.

I really wish that a solution had a physical folder concept, but since it doesn't I have essentially two choices as I understand it. I can create an empty project within the solution and place the assemblies into that project, that would preserve reference paths when the entire solution is grabbed from TFS. In this case, all projects reference a single set of assemblies. Alternatively I can simply modify each project to contain a copy of the assemblies, this allows any variations between the projects/referenced assemblies, but I am not certain whether that will be adventageous as opposed to detrimental.

Has anyone handled this same scenario? What lessons learned? Would you do it differently, and how did you ultimately address the problem?

I don't predict that we will do much if any branching/merging with TFS if that is a major consideration, but would be interested in thoughts on it nonetheless.

A buddy of mine is having a problem during windows isntallation, in this case Vista. I was wondering if there is any way to switch the installation to a verbose mode? For instance, the way you can switch from the standard graphical startup screen to the verbose screen that shows kernel level messages. It is hanging at the same place, and it would be nice to have some indicator as to why.

The other option, which I have explored yet since I'll have to burn a startup CD, is the INSTALL.LOG which should hopefully be present. Is this the only manner to get that information?

Bass said:

figuerres said:

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Maybe you can rasterize the font or something. Maybe? Maybe?

Strangely enough in immersing myself in some of the upcoming .NET 4 technologies I found myself coming back to channel 9 a lot, as it is a very good community that I shouldn't neglect as much as I do. So .. the original poster in this case saw the 2 year old thread! =)

I never did find an answer as to why the embedded true type font didn't work correctly (it did on some systems, didn't on others, and I never found the discrepency)  Instead I switched to a built-in barcode rendering capability of PDFSharp which doesn't even rely on a font.

Take care.

stevo_ said:

JParrish said:

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No, it won't work in ie6 and you'll need to fix ie6 then by using javascript to capture mouse events on the elements. I was simply pointing out that doing this with an anchor is technically wrong.. and so if you ever have a requirement for accessibility or otherwise, then you should know what to avoid (popups factor into accessibility anyway anyway).

If the popup sits over the anchor, then you can use the background-image of it.

stevo_ said:

Theres a couple of things wrong with what you are doing aswell, for one - you are abusing the anchor tag to get a hover, this is done undoubtedly because ie6 only supports hovering on anchors and nothing else.

I'm not sure how you are placing an image in the anchor, but if you are doing it with an img tag, this is also wrong, it should be a css background image because its a stylistic image, not an actual image resource that the site (document) is displaying.

Strangely.. I stripped this out of the page it is in.. and placed it in a blank HTML document.. and it does work in FF.. with the IMG.. so I guess I just have to start the deductive process and try to find out what is breaking it.

I figured there's got to be a couple CSS experts on here

I'm using a CSS based popup.. that relies on an anchor tag.. with a span inside of the anchor tag. Here's the css that drives the popups:

        a.popup{
            position:relative; /*this is the key*/
            z-index:24; background-color:#ccc;
            color:#000;
            text-decoration:none;
        }

        a.popup:hover{z-index:25; background-color:#ff0}

        a.popup span{display: none}

        a.popup:hover span{ /*the span will display just on :hover state*/
            display:block;
            position:absolute;
            top:auto; left:15px; bottom:15px; width:350px; height: auto;
            border:1px solid #0cf;
            background-color:#cff; color:#000;
            text-align: center;
            overflow: auto;
        }

The corresponding HTML looks like this:

<a class="popup" href="#">Mouse Over<span>Popup Text</span></a>

This works well in both IE and Firefox. My problem is that if instead of "Mouse Over" I want to have a small image which triggers the hover, in IE it displays the image correctly but in Firefox the image is being hidden along with the span, even though the image is not contained within the span.

I don't really know if this is a quirk of Firefox, or if that behavior is expected and IE is not conforming. Any help would be appreciated, I'm not sure where to turn with this problem. Thanks!

I re-worded it so its clear the vote is submitted for you. That's why it said once per hour.. your vote had been submitted. Sorry for any confusion

I have no idea why they limit it to an hour..it seems an odd time frame. A day maybe.. but an hour is strange.

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Thanks