torsten's .NET blog In the end, everything is a gag [Ch. Chaplin]
# Sunday, October 26, 2003
Kalt, aber schön
Das Wochenende hat uns von den Temperaturen her schon auf den Winter eingestimmt, aber dafür hatten wir den schönsten Sonnenschein während unseres heutigen Spaziergangs am See (Schachen, Anlegestelle). Unsere Kids und und auch unser Besuch aus Giesen war sichtlich angetan von der wunderschönen Herbststimmung. Hier nochmals: schön daß Ihr hier wart, Jutta, Olin, Fellice und Florence! Und Dir Olin: alles Gute in Boston!
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Sunday, October 26, 2003 8:15:48 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)    #  Comments [0]  | 
# Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Look and feel
Neither SharpReader nor RSS Bandit renders my business card nicely. They both strip out or otherwise deactivate the CSS tags that are used in rendering the card. So go my web site if you want to see the card "for real". Raises an interesting question. How much support should syndication feeds like RSS have for look and feel? [Harry Pierson's DevHawk Weblog]
I think the main goal of a RSS Reader is to syndicate feed informations, with stress on information. So a consistent GUI is more important than to get an idea of the personal preferences of colors/design of each individual. But there are always links within the detail view: at the top to the main blog page, and within Read On... directly to the post itself.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2003 9:27:46 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [0]  | 
Re: Outlook 2003 sucks
Don't think so: Outlook 2003 Sucks Ass. Bigtime. [Chris Pirillo] I'm not always with Microsoft, but I really like Outlook2003 (compared to v.2000). I'm happy with the hotmail account integration, search folders, per account signatures, my last beta of Cloudmark Spam filter still runs, the new GUI. I don't like: my rules does not apply/work in Offline mode, archived mails (.pst) are incompatible with 2000 archives. Constructional criticism is a better base to discuss on.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2003 8:09:23 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [1]  | 
Howto: [assembly: AssemblyKeyName("")]
Takes me a half hour today to figure out how to get the assembly attribute AssemblyKeyName to work. The normal provided MSDN docs are always describing the way how to use the AssemblyKeyFile attribute and simply hint: "... or install the key into the CryptoServiceProvider (CSP)". I didn't like the idea to provide the company keypair file to each dev.Machine. So here it is:
once> sn.exe -k companyKeyPair.snk
each dev.client> sn.exe -i companyKeyPair.snk CompanyKey

AssemblyInfo.cs: AssemblyKeyName("CompanyKey")]
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Wednesday, October 15, 2003 7:15:32 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [1]  | 
# Tuesday, October 14, 2003
User Sample

Posted my piece of code to embed the IE WebBrowser control in .NET without wrapping DLL's [.NET] as a GDN User Sample In general it is a rework of the code posted here, but with some extensions I needed and without saving static html to temporary file to navigate to later. The crux of matter is how to define the correct Interop for IHTMLDocument2.Write().
Here is my working solution:

using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace System.Windows.Forms.Html {
  [InterfaceType(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsDual), ComVisible(true),   Guid(@"332C4425-26CB-11D0-B483-00C04FD90119")]
  interface IHTMLDocument2 {
    ...     
    ///

    
    /// Write complete html doc content including markup.
    ///
    /// object[] containing the string(s)
    ///
    ///
    /// IHTMLDocument2 document = control.GetDocument();
    /// if (document != null) {
    /// document.Open("", null, null, null);
    /// object[] a = new object[]{"Hello world"};
    /// document.Write(a);
    /// document.Close();
    /// }
    ///
    ///

    void Write(
      [In, MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.SafeArray)] object[] psarray);
    ...
  }
}

May be there is an Interop Guy that is able to solve it in a more elegant way? Currently IJW. This functionality is covered by the control itself. Usage of that feature of IE Control looks like this:

htmlControl.Html = myHtmlString;
htmlControl.Navigate(null);

With this approach you will also get the NavigateXYZ() events to listen for further usage.

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Tuesday, October 14, 2003 8:26:12 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [3]  | 
# Friday, October 10, 2003
No Autumn anymore
Two days ago we had the first snow this year. Yes, it was October, the 8. Unbelievable after that hot summer time. So it seems the winter season follows immediately the summer this year
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Friday, October 10, 2003 4:17:56 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [0]  | 
# Saturday, October 04, 2003
Half hour and a smile
Since then I'm part of the RSS Bandit community I usually read my (mostly geeky) news feeds in a half hour at morning. So I was happy finding the Dilbert feed that makes me also smile.
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Saturday, October 04, 2003 2:23:40 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [0]  | 
# Wednesday, October 01, 2003
The Return of the Kings
trailer, the last part of "Lord of the rings" is out at Apples Trailersite (Quicktime needed).
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Wednesday, October 01, 2003 9:37:19 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [1]  | 
Extend reading of subscribed mailing lists
Found via Jon Udell: an email-to-RSS gateway called MailBucket. Very useful to reduce the amount of filter rules needed in Outlook to sort them out... The impermanent feeds aren't really a problem. An Rss Reader seems to be more and more important like a Web Browser, or e-Mail Client. BTW: where is the NNTP-toRSS-gateway?
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Wednesday, October 01, 2003 8:45:17 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [0]  | 
Richtig so.
In grossen Lettern schwarz auf weiss prangen die Warnungen auf den Zigarettenschachteln - ab heute auch in Deutschland: "Raucher sterben früher", "Rauchen verursacht Lungenkrebs"oder "Rauchen verursacht Impotenz". In anderen EU-Ländern sind die Süchtigen schon länger mit diesen Wahrheiten konfrontiert. [tagesschau im Internet]
Aber wer liest schon das "Klein-Gedruckte"?
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Wednesday, October 01, 2003 7:56:37 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [1]  | 
New machine

Got a new laptop on monday: not the brand new model (PIII mobile, 1GHz, 512 MB RAM), but incredible fast compared to my previous one (PIII, 300MHz, 256MB RAM). It takes the whole day to install all the useful and needed things again, but it was also a kind of spring finery: all the older not often used tools get lost. The most important change was that of the OS itself: used W2K for years now (professional and personal) and learned to use this as the most important tool. Now I started snatching fresh air: Windows XP. First impression: installing the wireless connection was very easy, switched the Teletubbies look back to the familiar, installed Office 2003 (slow download, fast installation), yes it feels good. But may be the major reason is the faster machine... :)

The last days I was sick.

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Wednesday, October 01, 2003 6:59:07 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [1]  | 
# Saturday, September 27, 2003
MSDN strikes Google as Top Referrer
Hey, since the publication of the article Revamping the RSS Bandit Application I posted here, Microsoft MSDN is my Top referrer, not Google... :)
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Saturday, September 27, 2003 3:29:16 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [0]  | 
Heise Verlag mit weiteren RSS feeds
Neben http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise.rdf gibt es jetzt auch noch die http://www.heise.de/security/news/news.rdf. Bin mit meinem RSS Bandit: a .NET RSS News Reader">Banditen via Auto discover... drauf gestoßen :). Und es gibt dort auch noch mehr...
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Saturday, September 27, 2003 3:12:05 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [0]  | 
Notable
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Saturday, September 27, 2003 2:55:11 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [0]  | 
# Friday, September 26, 2003
Nice notepad replacement, done.
Found this via [Don Park's Daily Habit], and checked: it also works for Windows 2000 -

How to replace Notepad.exe on Windows XP/2000

Windows XP/2000 has file protection so Notepad.exe will get restored if you just replace the file with renamed Sc1.exe. Follow these steps:

  1. Download Sc1.exe from SourceForge or Notepad2 and rename it to Notepad.exe
  2. Save a copy of the original Notepad.exe somewhere.
  3. Replace Notepad.exe in following three locations (order is significant):
     
    • %WINDIR%\ServicePackFiles\i386 (if any SP is installed)
    • %WINDIR%\System32\DllCache
    • %WINDIR%\System32
    • %WINDIR%

      *%WINDIR% is your Windows folder (i.e. C:\Windows)
       
  4. Press Cancel when a warning dialog appears.

That's it. Enjoy.

Update: have a look at simonguest's post how to get that work on Vista too.

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Friday, September 26, 2003 11:38:55 AM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [2]  | 
# Friday, September 19, 2003
Missing: beer from germany
Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
... and after that meal having a beer from Germany make you happy... :-)
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Friday, September 19, 2003 11:15:14 AM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [1]  | 
RSS Bandit on MSDN (revamping)
No posts here the last ten days: RSS Bandit Application" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnexxml/html/xml09152003.asp">this is one of the reasons... :)
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Friday, September 19, 2003 11:09:02 AM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [0]  | 
# Tuesday, September 09, 2003
Feedster goes AIM/Yahoo/MSN
Cool feature: feedster in AIM, Yahoo and MSN. [The FuzzyBlog]
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Tuesday, September 09, 2003 11:09:31 AM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [0]  | 
# Friday, September 05, 2003
For what is app.config meant?
[dive into mark]
Thanks to our app.config usage in RSS Bandit each user can correct the base link without a redist of the whole package: simply open it with Notepad and change the value for the key validationUrlBase ...
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Friday, September 05, 2003 12:18:14 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [0]  | 
# Thursday, September 04, 2003
Das gute alte Frühstyxradio
Ja, bin heut aus einer sentimentalen Laune heraus mal wieder beim www.fruehstyxradio.de vorbeigesurft. Alte Erinnerungen wurden wach (hallo Melle!) an das jed-sonntägliche Hörvergnügen auf Radio FFN (analog im Großraum Hannover empfangbar, ja, auch in Magdeburg :). Ein paar unveröffentlichte (nicht auf CD/MC) Onkel Hotte Märchen sind bei Marcel Lohmann zu finden, Adam und Eva machten meinen Tag. Leider ist das Ganze hier unten in Bayern nicht so bekannt (und nicht hörbar :( , außer von CD/MC), außerdem spricht Onkel Hotte nicht bayrisch ;-) Aber einen kleinen Vorteil als Zugezogener muß/darf man ja auch mal haben...
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Thursday, September 04, 2003 12:46:02 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)    #  Comments [2]  | 
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