Cool Stuff
Don B. singing, Steve B. dancing, Bill G. joking... you'll find it here.
The powerful combination of WPF and XAML is finally showing up as real and quite useful applications. See a few examples I've found so far:
Know more impressing real-life-examples of WPF/XAML usage? Drop me a line.
Have fun exploring!
Although I really prefer talking to humans this virtual guy I found at Chris Sells' blog knows a lot and comes quite handy.
Use IM to Ask Encarta
If you add encarta@conversagent.com to your MSN IM contacts list, you can ask it questions, e.g.
- What is the size of Mexico?
- When was Leonardo da Vinci born?
- How many calories are there in an orange?
- I want to see the map of Italy.
- When was Abraham Lincoln born?
- Solve 2x^2+7x=5
I especial love the "solve" thing. If I could figure out how to give it simultaneous equations, most of my boys' math home would be solved in IM...
Here's an excerpt from the MSDN Library:
Platform SDK: Active Directory Schema |
drink
The drink (Favorite Drink) attribute type specifies the favorite drink of an object (or person).
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CN |
drink |
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Ldap-Display-Name |
drink |
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Size |
- |
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Update Privilege |
- |
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Update Frequency |
- |
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Attribute-Id |
0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.5 |
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System-Id-Guid |
1a1aa5b5-262e-4df6-af04-2cf6b0d80048 |
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Syntax |
String(Unicode) |
Implementations
Windows Server 2003
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Link-Id |
- |
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MAPI-Id |
- |
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System-Only |
False |
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Is-Single-Valued |
False |
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Is Indexed |
False |
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In Global Catalog |
False |
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NT-Security-Descriptor |
O:BAG:BAD:S: |
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Range-Lower |
1 |
|
Range-Upper |
256 |
|
Search-Flags |
0x00000000 |
|
System-Flags |
0x00000000 |
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Classes used in |
- |
The original article can be found here.
Looks like I'm actually the first to blog that:
Windows Notepad turns 20 this year!
Enough reason for me to sit down and create a page with facts, features and tips about the best Windows text editor ever written.
Check out my Notepad page at http://www.dotnet-online.com/notepad/ and the legendary NOTEPAD.ORG.
I still haven't discovered who at Microsoft developed our beloved Notepad. Anyone has a clue?
What do you get when Pat Helland is on vocals, Don Box is on guitar and David Chappell is on piano?
You get a hilarious song direct from TechEd Europe.
Pat sings his version of Don McClean's American Pie.
The lyrics were written by Pat in response to Nicholas Carr’s Harvard Business Review paper “IT Doesn’t Matter” in which Mr. Carr proposes that businesses reconsider their IT investments. Pat says this is not the vision he sees for the future, but rather what is implied by reducing the investment in IT as proposed by Mr. Carr. This is a “speculative retrospective” in which we examine what happened “The Day That IT Died”.
For some of Pat’s technical work, please see www.pathelland.com
(Click on picture to view video on channel9)
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Here are some videos my collegue Holger made from the phenomenal appearance of the one and only "Band on the Runtime" with Don Box and David Chappell at the PDC in L.A on 27.10.2003.
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