Cum Grano Salis
Eliminating CLR bugs in the Whidbey ListView (Virtual mode)
I discussed using a ListView control in virtual mode in a previous post. When using the ListView...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/18/2006
Whidbey Form Designer crashes with inherited form due to asynchronous events
I am porting some code from 1.1 to 2.0 and ran into this problem. After debugging devenv a bit I was...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/07/2006
Using the CLR 2.0 Virtual List View
I started writing an article about the bugs with the new ListView in virtual mode, but decided that...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/06/2006
Having problems with MSN searches on MSDN2? Here's a stupid workaround.
So say you search for GetExportedTypes on msn search:...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 02/21/2006
That was quick... OneCare subscription will be for three machines.
As stated in news.coms article, the OneCare service will work for up to three machines. Not a bad...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 02/07/2006
Thoughts about subscription-based software - OneCare on multiple machines?
Just read some a news article about OneCare. I like the idea, and I dont mind paying a subscription...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 02/06/2006
Yidish Wikipedia - priceless
I have only been using wikipedia for a year or so and have so far found it to be a relatively good...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 01/30/2006
My S1 TiVo has finally been retired.
Replaced with an S2 140h TiVo I got for free from TiVo (through their rewards program). Now I have...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 12/23/2005
What's the bloody point? American Express Gift Card...
So I'm standing in a safeway, at the register. There's an American Express $100 gift card. You pay...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 12/22/2005
Another DRM legistlation. Wonder where it will stop.
As reported in Slashdot (and other places):...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 12/19/2005
I never knew how protected I was from spam.. Until somebody changed the winisp filters...
In the past 24 hours I have been getting spam emails at a rate of one per minute on my non-ms email...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 12/15/2005
Copy (Ctrl-C) works in Message Boxes
This feature has been working since windows 2k or early versions of XP, and still many people do not...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 12/14/2005
Defensive Programming - small introduction and one not-so-tall tale
Recently, I helped one of the devs (lets call him dev1) figure out a bug. The bug was introduced...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 12/12/2005
Mailbox too big? MSN Desktop search to the rescue.
In our internal exchange system, MS has various limits on email size, depending on what server you...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 12/11/2005
How to access the “real” x64 registry from a Win32 .NET Application – Part I
Jerome, one of our testers, ran into a problem when trying to access the real x64 Windows 2003...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 12/09/2005
Why does this spelling mistake bother me so much?
Not being a native English speaker, makes me less critical about other peoples spelling. However,...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 12/08/2005
ShowDialog() from within a ShowDialog() - both closing
I hit this really weird behavior with Win Forms dialog boxes just now. Try opening a Dialog Box...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 10/04/2005
That annoying c:windowsassembly folder
If you are anything like me, you want to tear your hair out and smash your head on a concrete wall...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 10/02/2005
A new blog comes to life!
I know this is very exciting to the multitudes that are reading this. You probably cannot contain...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 10/01/2005