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v4 is awesome, but... [v4 is awesome, but...]

ktr — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:17:22 GMT

The header is kinda weird looking, as if it wasn't finished or something.

Anyway I'm not going to complain without trying to contribute something, so here's my take at a simple header:

EDIT: Added a live demo of what it would look like. Feel free to take source code or images or whatever else you want.
...Hopefully this link continues to work. It is up on SkyDrive.

EDIT: I tried to keep it very similar

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Aggregate Row String Concatenation in MS Access [Aggregate Row String Concatenation in MS Access]

ktr — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:43:11 GMT

Does anyone know how to perform an aggregate string concatenation in Microsoft Access without using a VBA module? I want pure SQL.

Across columns of a table is easy. Ex:

People

Id Name Dob
1   John  1/2/1975
2   Bob   1/2/1975
3   Tim   5/7/1955

MS Access SQL:

SELECT p.Id, (p.Name & ' ' & p.Dob) AS Person
FROM People p

I have no idea how I would go about concatenating rows. Does anyone have experience with that?

Ex: Get a comma-delimited list of people with the same birthday

Results should look like this:

Dob       People
1/2/1975 John, Bob
5/7/1955 Tim

Thanks for the help.

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Silverlight Video Player Too Slow [Silverlight Video Player Too Slow]

ktr — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:56:01 GMT

the new silverlight video player is cool, but it is really slow to load. it takes about 30 seconds for me in firefox 2 on xp sp2. and the worst part is during those 30 seconds, firefox becomes unresponsive.

i don't know if this is just a silverlight bug, but it is really annoying. does that happen to anyone else?

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C# Extension Properties? [C# Extension Properties?]

ktr — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:58:32 GMT

In C# 3 you can create an extension method like this:

public static class Extensions {
    public static string ToCamelCase(this string s) {
        // perform action
    }
}

Well what about properties? They could act as an indexer would, by using brackets around parameters:

public static class Extensions {
    public static object Cell[this DataTable t, int row, int column] {
        get { return t.Rows[row][column]; }
        set { t.Rows[row][column] = value; }
    }
}
// ...
// usage
dataTable.Cell[0, 2] = "Hello World";

That example is simple, but I think it could be a powerful concept. Take, for example, Extended Properties in WPF, which can't be added to the class. Extension Properties would allow a simpler syntax. There are also areas in the .NET Framework where a Property would be better suited but a "GetXXX(type param)" method was used because Parameterized Properties don't exist.

I dunno, it could end up cluttering the language. What do you think?

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channel9 beta ideas [channel9 beta ideas]

ktr — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:43:25 GMT

this channel9 beta is exciting. any of you artists want to share ideas for what you think the spirit of channel9 is (*cough* jamie *cough*)? maybe some nice mockups the team can get some inspiration from? i had a really simple header design one, it's almost the same as the current one. i want to see what everyone else thinks...

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Apple WWDC Keynote Stream [Apple WWDC Keynote Stream]

ktr — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:10:37 GMT

:O

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/d7625zs/event/

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Question for da programmers.. [Question for da programmers..]

ktr — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:32:32 GMT

When you're programming, your brain is running 3000 miles an hour, and you're "in the zone," you go to copy something to the clipboard (cause ya know... its faster) then you're holding this precious peice of code in the clipboard... do you sometimes forget what it is lol... cause I do all the time. I don't know.. maybe I'm crazy... :|

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ASPNet User Account [ASPNet User Account]

ktr — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:48:36 GMT

ASP.NET 2.0 User Account .. Not seeing it. Already tried reinstalling .NET. Anyone have any ideas?

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Windows XP VPN [Windows XP VPN]

ktr — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:47:18 GMT

Everytime I use a VPN in XP, my internet stops working. I hope that's not supposed to happen... is it? :@

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Visual Studio IDE ... wtf?? [Visual Studio IDE ... wtf??]

ktr — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 04:18:51 GMT

This is no photoshop.. here's what I get in my toolbox (Visual C# Express 2005)

WTF?

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Vista 5536 + IE7 = lightspeed [Vista 5536 + IE7 = lightspeed]

ktr — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:50:07 GMT

OK.. im running Vista 5536 and IE7 and I have one thing to say... SSSPPPEEEEEEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's just like click, done. click, done. click, done. I love it!

Microsoft, I applaud you! <applause noise="999" />

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Vista build 5536 for PUBLIC download [Vista build 5536 for PUBLIC download]

ktr — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:25:04 GMT

For those that don't know, Vista build 5536 is up for PUBLIC download

Download It!

via Paul Thurrott's SuperSite For Windows

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System.Drawing.Image.Save( ) and GDI+ [System.Drawing.Image.Save( ) and GDI+]

ktr — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:02:53 GMT

I'm having some troubles in ASP.NET with System.Drawing.Image.Save()...

I'm passing a stream (MemoryStream specifically) and ImageFormat.Jpeg.

On the the first PostBack, everything works as expected and the Image is saved to the MemoryStream correctly... Any subsequent PostBacks generate this error:

A generic error occurred in GDI+.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Runtime.InteropServices.ExternalException: A generic error occurred in GDI+.

Here is the code I'm using to Save the Image to the stream

public static byte[] ImageToByteArray(System.Drawing.Image image)
{
    if (image == null) return null;
    using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
    {
        // ** BREAKS HERE **
        image.Save(ms, image.RawFormat);
        return ms.ToArray();
    }
}

I have no idea what is going on.. anyone ever delt with this before? any ideas?

Thanks

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Best O/R Mappers [Best O/R Mappers]

ktr — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:37:58 GMT

What's your favorite O/R Mapper? I really like LLBLGen, but i think its a little too much for me. I'm looking for something really simple that can do relational mapping (1:1, 1:m, m:m) What do you suggest?

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Portable Database [Portable Database]

ktr — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:37:49 GMT

I'm looking for a portable database that does not need to be installed.

Any suggestions?

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Windows architecture.. Vienna.. [Windows architecture.. Vienna..]

ktr — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:57:14 GMT

Do you think Microsoft should change the architecture of Windows for the next release (Vienna) even if it impacts compatibility?

If not, then when? How big of a role do you see virtualization playing?

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Vista "Basic" UI update... whyyy?? [Vista "Basic" UI update... whyyy??]

ktr — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:46:53 GMT

The new "Basic" UI is much much much better than
before... however why is it still so different? I’m sure most of you have seen the Vista imitation themes for XP

If it can (and has already been) done, why can’t MS do it?

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C# Casting .. New Feature Request [C# Casting .. New Feature Request]

ktr — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:23:08 GMT

Casting is too verbose, imo.. we need a simple way to test if an object is a certain type without writing so much code, since most of you do it like all the time..

currently, here is how i would normally do it:

        string SomeProperty(object o)
        {
            Car c = o as Car;
            if (c != null)
            {
                // o is a Car, do stuff with it
            }
        }

or perhaps even like this:

        string SomeProperty(object o)
        {
            if (o is Car)
            {
                Car c = o as Car;
                // o is a Car, do stuff with it
            }
        }

hey... but this is C# right?? lets keep it clean:

        string SomeProperty(object o)
        {
            with (o as Car)
            {
                // o is a Car, do stuff with it
            }
        }

Pretty Nice... all code inside the with block would treat o as a Car, and the block would be skipped if o was not a Car.

LIKE IT?

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