Chad Hower

Shelfari - Could be the Largest Social Book Site in the World

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:59:10 GMT

Chad Hower writes "...Not only is it a great idea, but it also excels in another area that most website fail. In implementation, it is simply awesome...If you are a bookhound like me and like to track the books you've read..."

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Workaround for Wireless Card Failure During Windows 7 RTM Install

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:01:39 GMT

Chad Hower writes "...If you have a D-Link DWA-520, I hope this will save you the headaches I suffered...During the Windows 7 RC, every time I updated my wireless drivers my wireless card would stop working...solved my problem by..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Microsoft Windows Client

Support for Quad Cores and RAID 0

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:44:08 GMT

Chad Hower writes "...If you think MSI installs have really solved much, why are there so many non MSI installs? Secondly try...On every machine I've installed SP1, it conflicts with "Machine Debug Manager". This is a service which appears to be part of Visual Studio 2008. Searching shows..."

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Solving the Leaky VPN Problem

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:02:58 GMT

Chad Hower writes "...Solving it is generally not easily accomplished...Using DNS you can solve the leaky VPN problem. Follow these simple steps:"

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Windows Virtualization

Key Differences in IP Forwarding Versus NAT

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:14:33 GMT

Chad Hower writes "...I could not find a definitive answer to this. After much frustration and by accident, I've found the answer to what the difference between these two are. At first it appeared that NAT was just IP forwrading plus reverse support..."

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Open VPN Set-up Tips

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:46:37 GMT

Chad Hower writes "...I just set up a VPN using OpenVPN. What an amazing piece of software OpenVPN is. Here are a few tips and tricks for non standard setups that I hope will save someone else some time..."

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Web Cam Rides Rocket Launcher Remote via MSN Messenger

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:08:16 GMT

Chad Hower writes "...attached a web cam to my rocket launcher and using WCF remotely controlled it. Now Dream Cheeky has released a model with built in web came and remote via MSN Messenger...fire your 3 shots wisely..."

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Windows 7 Install - Surprised to See Minimum RAM is 1 GB

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:17:04 GMT

Chad Hower writes "...I installed it on my ASUS 1000 netbook with 1 GB RAM and a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor. I also have XP and Vista installed...I was surprised to see the minimum RAM is 1 GB, which is double that of Vista for the Home Basic edition. This might not seem like a lot, but with virtualization it makes a big difference...It is claimed that Windows 7 runs better than Vista..."

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2009 Predictions - The Ink, Pen and Tablet

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:10:19 GMT

Chad Hower writes "...Windows 7 will continue to garner excitement, and many XP users will wait for Windows 7 to be released before upgrading...Ink and tablet computers will remain a niche and vertical product. Software needs to be redesigned around the pen and until that happens tablets will not hit the mainstream...Touch will continue to get a lot of excitement but in the end..."

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Windows 2008 Activation Issues

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:42:55 GMT

Chad Hower writes "...installing Windows 2008 from MSDN or Technet, there are some issues with activation...In enterprises volume license versions are "automatically" activated using a local key server. But when a volume licensed version of Windows is installed standalone, as happens with MSDN and Technet users, problems arise."

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Windows 2008 Activation is a Bad UI Nightmare

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:30:46 GMT

Chad Hower writes "The activation of Windows 2008 is a case study in bad user interface. I installed Windows 2008 x64 on one machine, and x86 on another. On both machines I had identical problems trying to activate Windows....While investigating this problem many other users wrote to me saying that they had the same exact problem. I hope this helps other users in the same situation..."

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Unicode in Tiburon Code Compatibility Troubles

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:28:28 GMT

Chad Hower writes "When I first heard that the default string type in Tiburon would be Unicode, alarm bells went off. Pre-Tiburon string=AnsiString. With Tiburon, string=UnicodeString...After taking time to think, this is the right choice. Here is why this breaks so many libraries and affects your code as well..."

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6 Steps Lead to Clean and Small Virtual Machines

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:12:13 GMT

Chad Hower writes "I use desktop virtualization because it has better desktop integration with the host with things like the clipboard, drag and drop of files between them, mouse and keyboard interaction, and graphics performance in most cases is better. The contest between Microsoft and VMWare in the server virtualization space is hot and competitive with both offering...."

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Bad Apples

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:11:57 GMT

Chad Hower writes "...they seem to do extremes...If Apple would focus on hardware or at least make hardware that came with Mac OSX and/or Windows they would sell a lot more and do a real service to Windows users...my story...I simply wanted to install Windows 2008 on my Mac Mini. First I tried to boot a standard CD ROM containing Boot It Next Generation (aka BING). No luck. I then tried other bootable CD's including Windows XP, and Windows 2008..."

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What it Takes to Successfully Create a Localized Version of Your Software

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:49:56 GMT

Chad Hower writes "Localization is more than just translating the UI text into another language. Performing only a translation often provides localized texts that are confusing, embarrassing, and even insulting to users...Learn about commonly made mistakes..."

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Puzzling Problem with SQL Server and Firebird

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:47:22 GMT

Chad Hower writes "Recently I stumbled onto a small difference between SQL Server and Firebird that can cause unfortunate side effects. Take this SQL as an example. It contains a sub select....SQL server though treats sub selects differently than Firebird..."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd : Tracks : Database Platform

Puzzling Problem with SQL Server and Firebird

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:14:03 GMT

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : SQL Server

3 Reasons why Silverlight will be Pervasive

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:03:23 GMT

Chad Hower writes "...most common questions I am asked about Silverlight is about the end user requirements to install Silverlight. However this will not be an issue, and here are the reasons why..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : NET Framework

5 Steps to Clean, Small and Backed-up Virtual Machines

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:03:16 GMT

Chad Hower writes "I normally have 4-5 running at anyone given time on my development machine, and I also do development on the host as well... This also requires a decent backup strategy. Virtual Machines take up more space than raw data, but there are ways to keep the size down as well as keep them running efficiently..."

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Impending battle LINQ to SQL vs. Entity Framework

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:48:58 GMT

Chad Hower writes "There is a battle brewing between LINQ to SQL and the upcoming Entity Framework. Some say that it is already settled and that LINQ to SQL is DOA, destined to be replaced by Entity Framework. I do not think it is quite that simple..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : SQL Server

Annoying bug in IE and SOCKS proxy

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:23:26 GMT

Chad Hower writes "IE has settings for a SOCKS proxy, and it uses it for retrieving web pages. However other applications that normally pay attention to IE's settings and use IE's HTTP engine ignore it. If you set the HTTP proxy they will use it, but..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Security

Delphi is back but is it too little too late?

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:23:22 GMT

Chad Hower writes "...So, is it too late? Well it is most definitely late. A lot of damage has been done to the user base and ecosystem..."

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The PC in 10 years: will form follow function?

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:00:36 GMT

Chad Hower writes "...we are still interfacing with the computer in an inefficient way...We are at a point now and actually have been for a number of years that we should reexamine this premise. What would a computer look like if we had never seen one before? Why do we always assume it has to have a keyboard and mouse and only try to incrementally improve on that?.."

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Review of Today's Tablets

Tue, 06 May 2008 14:24:59 GMT

Chad Hower writes "...you want to buy a tablet today. How can you find a list of what is even currently available...I will start a list and keep it up to date as a reference of what..."

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C# to Create an Inline X86 Assembler

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:35:50 GMT

Chad Hower writes "This is from the Cosmos project but could easily be used to generate any X86 code. It's really neat, write C# like code that has 1:1 mapping to X86, and to generate the X86, just run the C# code...."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : NET Framework

Create an Inline X86 Assembler

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:57:08 GMT

Chad Hower writes "....could easily be used to generate any X86 code....write C# like code ...."

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Tablet Needs Scroll/Zoom Input Device

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:30:15 GMT

Chad Hower writes "....It would be great though if there was some other input device that one could use in the other hand to scroll and zoom the tablet screen, and change applications. Tablets of course have a few programmable buttons and I've programmed them to help. But I really want to take it to the next step...."

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A Tale of Two Keyboards

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:14:33 GMT

Chad Hower writes "Both are a bit funny to type on the first day. However after my first day of usage I absolutely love the keyboards. I have been using them for about 2 months now. The Wireless It is near perfect, but it has a few serious usability flaws. The keyboard has several missing keys....The Wired...I have only one complaint about this keyboard. If you plan to use with a portable..."

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Open Source - Opening the Divide before it was Cool!

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:22:58 GMT

Chad Hower writes "....I won't claim to have been one of the open source pioneers, but I definitely was into open source before "it was cool".....but for now I wanted to "initiate" the conversation and invite feedback. Do you notice radical changes and attitudes affecting the open source community?"

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Social Network wannabee's black hole

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:45:25 GMT

Chad Hower writes "....Most of these programs (especially ICQ) are notable memory pigs. Her IM programs used more memory than Outlook and Windows combined. This is where I think we are headed with all the new "social networks" I'm being asked to join....I'm not sure what the solution is. Hopefully CardSpace and other Identity providers will be used soon...."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : TechTalk

Error TF30063 - TFS You are not authorized

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:16:01 GMT

Chad Hower writes "Recently I tried to log into the TFS at CodePlex and received an error "TFS30063 - You are not authorized". In case you encounter this, here is what solved it for me....TFS uses webservices to access the repository, so all traffic is HTTP. It pulls any proxy settings from Internet Explorer. CodePlex uses....As soon as I allowed SSL HTTP tunneling on other ports, I could log into TFS again."

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WPF has no KeyPress Event

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:23:26 GMT

Chad Hower writes "....Thats ok, there are KeyDown and KeyUp. I can live with that, I can even understand why. But its the KeyEventArgs that I cannot understand. In WinForms you had access to the physical key data, as well as an easy way to obtain the ASCII value for the key. Now ok, Unicode is better. But surely then there should be an easy way to figure out for non control keys, what the heck character the user wants?"

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Microsoft Windows Client

Good Support Infrastructure can Overcome Mistakes

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:22:46 GMT

Chad Hower writes ".... But Asus has one global website, and allows users to leave comments in the FAQ's and has forums per product. A quick read of these led me to a link where a user posted a link to the drivers.... because of a better support infrastructure it was overcome. In case you need them, the drivers are here."

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Using the Apple Wireless Keyboard on Windows

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:18:08 GMT

Chad Hower writes "....AutoHotKey is an amazing utility that lets you remap keys, and key combinations. It even has scripting support. I'm finding that use it now even on the computer without the Apple Wireless Keyboard. To save you time I have already figured out replacements for all the keys."

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XP and SP3 - a plea to Microsoft

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:54:30 GMT

Chad Hower writes "Not everyone is going to Vista quite yet. XP will remain very strong for at least 2 more years and still retain a sizable user base beyond that. Because of this, I think Microsoft should consider a few simple changes to XP for SP3...."

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Calling all tablet users!

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:59:27 GMT

Chad Hower writes "Many people wonder why the tablet platform has not taken off. I can tell you why, its the pen input. Pen input on Windows is an afterthought.....In response to this, I have designed Inker and worked with developers to build it"

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Microsoft + 64 = 32

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:59:26 GMT

Chad Hower writes "How is that Microsoft continues to be have the worst record of 64 bit compatibility? Windows Home Server is out, but you cannot use it if any of the computers in your network are 64 bit...."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd : Tracks : Windows Client

Review of PGP vs. TrueCrypt

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:11:28 GMT

Chad Hower writes "I used to use PGP disk. Now I'm looking at TrueCrypt....TrueCrypt volumes apparently can only be mounted to drive letters, and cannot be mounted to paths. This is a real shame as every virtual drive tool I have ever used (including PGP) can easily mount volumes to a path....upgrade to the latest PGP disk...From a security aspect, it looks fine. It's all the other items that scare me."

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Skype and Offline Messages

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:49:05 GMT

Chad Hower writes "....something I just found....For home users this is not a big deal, but for travelers who only occasionally connect, this can cause messages to remain undelivered for days, if not weeks, while playing a game of chance to see if the other party happens to be online at the same time."

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The Programmable Keyboard is almost here

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:15:06 GMT

Chad Hower writes "....a keyboard which has little LCD displays for each key. They can be easily reprogrammed for any language, or even have icons in them for games, graphics packages, etc....The full programmable 113 key version...."

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Neat way in PPT 2007 to remove notes

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:09:11 GMT

Chad Hower writes "PowerPoint 2007 has a new, yet little known feature that can remove slide notes and other hidden data. In fact, it is not even unique to PowerPoint. This feature is also available in Word and Excel."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Office System

Lost Effect in WPF: Rendering WPF to Video

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:44:36 GMT

Chad Hower writes "I often need to save WPF output for display on my tablet which is not very fast. So I have also devised a way that given a WPF user control, it can be rendered frame by frame into a video file."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Microsoft Windows Client

WNA - .NET for the Wii! Who would be interested?

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:16:00 GMT

Chad Hower writes "...more work to do, mostly non technical. But I believe I have the groundwork for being able to run .NET on the Wii. The biggest obstacle? The Wii will not load any code except what is signed, and the home brewers have not found any exploits yet. So the only way to load code is to run in GameCube mode which then....Who would be interested in WNA?"

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : NET Framework

Betting on the Adoption Rate of Silverlight

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:56:29 GMT

Chad Hower writes "A major advantage of Flash over Silverlight is its adoption rate. It is on nearly everyone's desktop. However I expect Silverlight will be adopted at an extremely quick pace, and here is why. WMV Players....Major Sites Already on Board....Moonlight...."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : NET Framework
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd : Tracks : Web and User Experience

Wizard of Death

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:56:28 GMT

Chad Hower writes "I use VMWare and find it to be excellent software. But even excellent software makes mistakes. If you are building wizards into your application, please do not build in this behavior....And guess what happens when you click OK? It quits and makes you start all over!"

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32 or 64 bit Windows?

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:56:23 GMT

Chad Hower writes "I will list major software that is either incompatible with 64 bit Windows, or has issues.....But if you have something in the list below, you will need to make adjustments. Most 32 bit software runs unchanged on 64 bit Windows and does not require separate builds. Some software does, depending on what libraries and system services that is uses...."

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Expression Blend and the "rest of us"

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:56:20 GMT

Chad Hower writes "Blend is certainly very useful, but it would be a lot better if they could make some very small and simple changes....0 many of these were not fixed in 1.0. Now Blend is at 2.0 preview, and unfortunately no changes appear to be in sight."

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IE7 - now without WGA!

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:51:15 GMT

Chad Hower writes "....I suspect that the IE team simply just wants to compete more heavily with FireFox. Whatever the reason, I'm glad WGA is no longer required. Now if we can just get this change applied to other Microsoft software as well."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd : Tracks : Unified Communications

TFS / CodePlex Clients

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:19:18 GMT

Chad Hower writes "Here is a list of known TFS clients....Know of some others? Post a comment and I will update this entry. "

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Visual Studio Team Systems
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd : Tracks : Web and User Experience

Vista killed my WiFi

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:19:14 GMT

Chad Hower writes "It turns out that this is a common problem, even with many D-Link and Linksys models. It is caused by Vista's TCP window scaling feature. Fortunately you can turn this off....I fixed it by "

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Tech Ed SEA 2007 LINQ Demos & Slides

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:08:42 GMT

Chad Hower writes "....The demos were all built using Orcas Beta 2. They will not load in Visual Studio 2005 as the project files are different. However if you install the May 2006 LINQ CTP...."

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Should be a better answer: Shut Down and Install Updates

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:45:25 GMT

Chad Hower writes "On XP sometimes (ok WAY too often) updates require me to reboot to finish installing....Why is there no Reboot and Install Updates? What exactly are you to do with a remote server?"

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Beautiful Book to Nearly No One

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:31:35 GMT

Chad Hower writes "....the handful of us who need it are extremely thankful...it is something that needed written about. Serge Lidin is obviously very qualified on ILAsm....The book contains a lot of information even for those who will never use ILAsm, but need to understand the CLR in more depth."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Suggested Reading

Comparing video support: Silverlight versus Flash

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:19:11 GMT

Chad Hower writes "When I first started playing with Silverlight I expected it to support MPEG4. When I found out it supported something called VC-1 instead, I was initially dismayed. But after looking into what VC-1 is, I understand why. One reason is that VC-1 is better suited to High Definition (HD) video playback on personal computers...."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : NET Framework
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Wiimote + Excel = WiiWatcher

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:08:28 GMT

Chad Hower writes "I am doing more and more Wiimote integration. Buttons are easy. But how to analyze the motions? How can you know what to respond to....It logs input and allows you to graph the results....I decided to use Excel because of its built in analytics capabilities....In addition Excel allows you to save tests for later use."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Office System
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd : Tracks : Office and SharePoint

Properites or Fields, which to access?

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:23:02 GMT

Chad Hower writes "There is a big debate that has been going on for years. If a property is backed by a field, is it safe to access the field instead for performance reasons? And if so, when is it safe to do so? There are a lot of opinions on this issue, but here is my take based on nearly 30 years of programming"

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : NET Framework
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How to sort listbox and comboboxes in WPF

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:16:21 GMT

Chad Hower writes "....I also considered using a string collection and sorting, then copying. But that of course is not desirable. The answer is, use a list, sort it, then bind the listbox to that list. Example"

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Microsoft Windows Client
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd : Tracks : Web and User Experience

Readyboost - Useless for most

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:33:47 GMT

Chad Hower writes "The readyboost feature in Vista is useless for most people. But it is not totally useless, and for those where it can help it is actually a nice feature....Unfortunately most people do not understand this and expect it to perform a "Turbo boost" on just about any computer. If anything is faulty, its the perception about what readyboost is designed to do."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd : Tracks : Windows Client

What about Silverlight on Linux?

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:11:58 GMT

Chad Hower writes "If Silverlight is designed to be so easily ported, then why is there no Linux support? To me it is simple, Silverlight is a desktop technology. Linux as a desktop operating system accounts for just over 1% of desktops. But worse yet, that 1.3% (July 30, 2007) is comprised of dozens of different Linux distros. Supporting Linux...."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : NET Framework
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd : Tracks : Developer Tools and Languages

Pay to play on your own XBox?

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:11:55 GMT

Chad Hower writes "....XNA, the .NET framework for developing games on Windows and the XBox. There is a dirty secret though when deploying to the XBox....I have a few theories on why Microsoft has done this...."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : NET Framework

Replacement Scenario for Offline Files in XP

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:36:44 GMT

Chad Hower writes "I never used the offline files feature in XP for many reasons. However in Vista I used it very often to keep files in sync between my tablet and my desktop....Returning to XP I decided to give offline files a try. Somehow I just knew I was headed for disaster, but I gave it a try anyway"

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Looking at Fingerprint Options for Motion Computing Tablets

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:36:40 GMT

Chad Hower writes "Its amazing in this day where security has become so important that Windows does not support fingerprint readers for log on. It is not just XP, Vista does not either....so when choosing software you must choose software that supports your fingerprint reading device. In my case I want to use the fingerprint reader"

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Taking my tablet back to XP

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:38:03 GMT

Chad Hower writes "....Vista has a lot of nice features, but here is why I am back to XP. The problem on my desktop is simple. Vista runs just fine.... However I have 4 GB RAM, and 32 bit versions of Windows cannot use 4 GB. Because of this I must run a 64 bit version of Windows...."

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Unleashing XNA

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:38:00 GMT

Chad Hower writes "I did show an XNA demo that used the motion sensors in the Wiimote. The nunchuck works as well. However what I showed was that XNA on Windows can use the full power of the .NET framework...."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : NET Framework

How to stop Vista from hogging your CPU

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:16:42 GMT

Chad Hower writes "I am still running XP on most of my machines, but on my tablet I have to use Vista. Why? The differences in tablet functionality in Vista and XP Tablet edition are enormous. But Vista on the machines I have it on every so often, and usually at very inopportune times just goes off and sucks my CPU dry....there is an easy fix"

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InDepthTalk.net : Editors Picks

Wii Key posted

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:19:20 GMT

Chad Hower writes ".... about controlling PowerPoint and other applications with the Wiimote. Now I have posted the code....."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Office System

Wii Key posted

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:44:58 GMT

Chad Hower writes "XBox fans might say it is heresy - but I have written a utility that allows the Wiimote to control PowerPoint. I have a Kensington PPT remote, an MS remote, as well as an MS Presenter Mouse. But the Wiimote allows me to do more - including drawing on the screen by pointing (this part still in the works). Now I have posted the code.... "

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