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Microsoft Surface SDK sample

This video show how simple it is to use the Microsoft Surface SDK to develop WPF programs....

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SeaDragon hooked up with Microsoft Surface

This new technology from Microsoft Labs is so fascinating. Using Microsoft Surface and SeaDragon, this video shows a completely new way of communicating with your computer. Take a look at this video, it is truly amazing....

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Cannot insert the value NULL into column '', table ''; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails.

I stumbled upon this error all of a sudden when I was working in a project. There was this SQL Server 2000 database that existed, that very few knew nothing about. This error message confused me a lot, because it didn't show up when I was running some scripts from the Query Analyzer, but is showed up...

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Using ASP.NET Development server with NOD32

So, you have installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008, created a Web Project using the ASP.NET Development server, hit F5 and you are greeted with this: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage. This is NOD32's fault. Set the NOD32's control panel to advanced mode. Go to Setup->Antivirus and...

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Enable advanced performance, what's the deal?

So, on my laptop, a HP 8510w running Windows Vista Ultimate x64, I did enable the advanced performance option in the Policies for the disk: What I hoped for was a blasting performance increase that would blow me away. I enabled it and let it on for a couple of weeks. To my disappointment, I didn't notice...

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Google: Please Trust Us

I found this quote from Google's co-founder Larry Page a bit interesting, taken from TimeOnline : “One of the big assets we have is a big consumer brand,” added Page. “It is very clear that our users are everybody and that is who we are answerable to. We need you all to trust us or...

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Cannot open your default e-mail folders. You must connect to Microsoft Exchange with the current profile before you can synchronize your folders with your offline folder file.

Well, that isn't nice. I did get this error message when I was trying to connect to a customers Exchange Server. I had all that I needed, an AD account, and Exchange account, a dedicated Mail profile set up. And everything worked flawlessly using their Outlook Web Access. But when I tried to connect...

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So, Intel, which button should I click?

Today I received a Windows Update for my HP 8510w laptop. The Intel wireless drivers had a new version to install. Here's what was thrown at my face: So, Intel, which button do you want me to click? And no, the Windows Close button doesn't do nothing, that's really nice....

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Adobe Reader Update: Installation Incomplete

Today I got a update dialog from Adobe Reader, it wanted to update my Reader to v8.1.2. Fine. It downloaded the update and starts to install it. However, in the System Tray I got the following little guy: So I click it, and the Adobe Updater tells me the following: Hmm... ok. It doesn't say what problem...

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How to do a redirect on an article page in Community Server

So, you have written an article that you have moved to somewhere else. To keep all links working from search engines, you want to redirect that article page to the new location. Open up the article in Edit mode, and click on the HTML button. On the very first line, add this code: < META http-equiv...

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