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This week end I encoded some my old DVD in wmv file because I’m destroying my old DVD player and I don’t want to buy a blue ray disk (I’m sorry Sony:-). After the encoding arrived the boring time to organize file names, and because now PowerShell is available...

I’m writing here because every time I need to set up a bunch of virtual machines, I have to go back and look up where to find the Sysprep tool and how to use it. Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7: C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\sysprep...

God Mode is a secret Windows 7 Feature (If you can call so!!), which provides you an extended control panel to control your machine. Here are the Steps to invoke the God Mode: Create a new folder (right-click and click on “New Folder”). Right-click on...

I receive often emails with big attachment that fill my inbox space very quickly. On the other side, I usually like both to remove these attach and keep the email to preserve the thread for future use. Outlook 2007 don't have this feature so I wrote the...

I am quoting information from [ http://blog.tjitjing.com/index.php/2007/03/things-i-can-and-cannot-get-to-work-in.html] because I tumbled in this issue and forgot to " just " restart Outlook :^) Whenever I went in to Tools - Macro - Macros,...

I had a table on SQL 2005 I am accessing it via LINQ. I had to select an item via a “where” condition (see below). var item = (from snap in adc.Snapshots       where snap.file == image       select snap...

To write a web site and give to the entire site a coherent “look” with ASP.NET and master pages is very easy and productive. In brief, into the master page you need to put “placeholders” using the tag <asp:ContentPlaceHolder/> and into the content...

I love keyboard shortcuts and W7 add some new really cool… Managing Your Windows . Windows 7 simplifies document and program management by allowing you to “dock” a window or manipulate its size with one mouse maneuver or a simple keystroke. To dock your...

If you try to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools - Visual Studio 2008 Extensions, Version 1.2 on Windows Vista, you will get an error message telling you that you have to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in order to install the tools...

Step to extract a content type and columns to CAML (XML) Create you content type and columns in the web UI. Create a list/library item using you new content type. Load up Sharepoint Designer to the site where you created you item. From the File menu,...

Edit the HOST file in Vista is difficult than ever, thanks to UAC. If you’re a geek that changes HOST file daily this can be a bit frustrating. I circumnavigated the difficulty with a shortcut. Right click on the folder you want to place the hyperlink...

Yesterday evening I had the opportunity to read in detail the document that describe Google Chrome features . Interesting is that if I read "O.S." each time in the document appairs the word "browser" all the document continues to have...

PolipoMatico is a Windows Vista sidebar gadget that allows to retrieve and show italia traffic infos from octotelematics web site ( www.octotelematics.it ) Why Because traffic in Italy is a serious topic, and because we like to be at home, at the end...

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I found the following (and very) interesting post where is well described how to provide your windows presentation fundation client application with a context sensitive help. Chek it out! http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehillberg/archive/2007/07/26/a-context...

I just developed a PoC where I demonstrated to my customer how is feasible to integrate and manipulate a Win32 application ( Remedy Client in my case) into a CCF (Customer Care Framework) client application. In this context I had some problem in piloting...

You can easily integrate resources in your Windows Presentation Foundation application by using the WPF designer for Visual Studio and "pack:" URI scheme provided by XAML to reference resources in your application's XAML. for more information...

Step 1 : Install this update to enable remote management of a Windows Server 2008 computer running the Hyper-V RC0 role Step 2 : If the server is either a member of WORKGROUP or is in a different domain that is untrusted by the client, then the connection...

Hyper-V, the fantastic Windows Server 2008 new feature have a small limit I discovered when on my "home/handmade server:-)" I tried to use it. It doesn't manage wireless networks. This is "by design", as clearly described by Ben Armstrong...

As you discovered from my previous post, today I'm working on WPF, Again on codeproject, I found this series of articles that can be a good start point to understand basics on WPF, XAML, resources, styles...   WPF- A Beginner's Guide - Part 1 of...

Today I used this useful article found a couple of articles that describe first steps on WPF ListView Customization. Check it out if you have time. Custom ListBox Layout in WPF from Codeproject Styling the highlighting colors for Combo/List/View/Box from...

If you want (REALLY WANT :-) to change the Outlook file attachments security levels (i.e. to read e .exe file attached to a received email), and you know how to use the regedit.exe tool, you can follow the procedure below: Start...Run..."regedit"...

On Vista, even if is extremely easy to disable hibernation, re-activate or activate it for the first time, is an activity that you can do only via command line . While if you search on Live || Google you can find many answers to this question, my personal...

as described below you can use vsp1cln.exe to remove SP1 uninstallation information and recover up to 1Gb of disk space... Windows Vista SP1 File Removal tool (Vsp1cln.exe). Vsp1cln.exe is an optional tool that you can run after you install SP1. This...

UPDATE : I think that information below are not correct because in days after this post, I continued to have this problem in other scenarios too. At the end of the story I just re-installed the machine with a "Vista&SP1 integrated" and now, after...