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Friday, April 30, 2004 7:43 PM

How to replace notepad.exe with notepad2.exe

Thanks to some great comments and a specific one from James I have now replaced notepade.exe with the vastly superior notepad2.exe and prevented Windows File Protection from replacing the new notepad. Here are the steps (warning, process with care, no
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Friday, April 30, 2004 6:15 AM

Even better notepad.exe

From Roy Osherove . Notepad is one of the apps I use most on Windows. It's especially handy for removing formatting from text, storing quick snippets and so on. However, it was probably written in 1995 and hasn't changed since. Notepad2 is a FANTASTIC
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Friday, April 30, 2004 4:52 AM

Windows Forms 2.0 Simple Multithreading

Check out the new BackgroundWorder component . This is so very cool. I've had to do similar things in at least 5 different projects I wrote in the past year. It's great that this stuff will be built into Windows Forms 2.0. It will sureley save me a bunch
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Friday, April 30, 2004 2:03 AM

Getting Things Done 2 months later

It was about 2 months ago that I started using the Getting Things Done system. First I bought the book , then I got the software , then I organized my life and now I'm a lot happier for it. LauraJ just wrote a post on how GTD has impacted her , and Marc's
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Thursday, April 29, 2004 11:39 PM

Great Smartphone companion desktop application

Wow, this is something I've always wanted on my PC. Jeyo Mobile Companion lets you send, receive, and generally manage your SMS messages on your Windows Mobile Smartphone. You can also manage your call history I just installed it and it seriously rocks.
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Thursday, April 29, 2004 7:42 PM

Opening Acrobat PDFs in IE

As I just mentioned , there is a way to make Office documents open in their respective apps rather than IE. Since PDFs are quite common on the net I am always getting annoyed when they load in the browser for many of the same reasons I mentioned earlier
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Thursday, April 29, 2004 6:34 PM

Office Documents opening in IE

One of my biggest gripes about Windows and Office is that when you click on a word, excel, or PowerPoint doc (or acrobat doc) in Internet Explorer, those documents render in the browser pane. This is one of the biggest usability issues I face with Windows.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:58 PM

iTunes 4.5

iTunes 4.5 is out . Most interesting new features: Can import WMA files New format, Apple Lossless Welcome to the party. I rip all my audio as WMA Lossless cause I don't want no stinkin compression. However, I trancode all my audio to the latest and greatest
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004 7:56 PM

When COM Registration fails in an MSI (vsdraCOM has no affect)

Summary In this weeks’ installment of I hate COM , lets talk about a frustrating problem I’ve been having (turns out I had this problem when I wrote my Media Center Front Panel Display but found a different workaround I mention below). It
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004 6:15 AM

Send to OneNote from Outlook PowerToy

At long last, my PowerToy is live! Send to OneNote from Outlook lets you send Mail, Post items and Sticky Notes to OneNote (note, this was previously called Outlook2OneNote). While you are there I also recommend Send to OneNote from Internet Explorer
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Monday, April 26, 2004 4:35 AM

Programming for Outlook using managed code is hard

Background Programming for Outlook using managed code is hard. I take that back. Programming for Outlook is relatively easy if you can figure out where to stick your code. Working out the problems you’ll encounter is hard (and I’m still working
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Sunday, April 25, 2004 4:40 AM

AssemblyVersion build and revision number

The other day I was wondering where the AssemblyVersion build and revision numbers come from if you use the default synax in your AssemblyInfo files: // // Version information for an assembly consists of the following four values: // // Major Version
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:03 PM

OneNote SP1 Preview Rocks

Chris Pratley has a write up on OneNote SP1 Preview . This is a huge upgrade and has lots and lots of new features. I've been running it for a few months now and love it. Here are my favorites: Capture Screen Shots and Snippets. Scratch Out Gesture for
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Saturday, April 17, 2004 3:53 AM

Creating Managed Outlook Buttons with Icons

I've been working on an Outlook Add-in in C# using the Visual Studio Shared Add-in project. I referenced this article on how to create a custom icon for your button: Custom Button Faces in a Managed Code Add-in for the Microsoft Office System In addition
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Friday, April 16, 2004 8:59 AM

Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies Installation

I'm working on a cool Outlook .NET Add-in that target the Office 2003 PIAs. I just read this post from Brad Abrams that points to this new article which discusses designing Office XP add-ins and Office 2003 add-ins by using the .NET Framework. Well imagine
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Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:53 AM

Dictionary Tool update and source

I've been meaning to get to this for a long time, and finally did. I created a GDN Workspace for Dictionary Tool for Tablet PC . This is a Tablet PC PowerToy that I released last year . It was the first .NET code I had ever written and a few months ago
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:21 AM

NewsGator for Media Center

I've been using this for a few weeks and it's dammed cool. Check your RSS feeds while being a couch potato using Windows Media Center 2004. It even streams videos from feeds such as Channel 9 .
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Thursday, April 08, 2004 7:25 PM

Bedlam

When I joined Microsoft this story was already very famous. There have been a few instances since then where people would reply to mysterious DLs saying take me off this and then the flury of replies. However, someone who has been here long enough usually
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Sunday, April 04, 2004 8:15 PM

Entourage: A journey to becoming an Office application

It’s not often that a new Office application is born. That’s especially true on the Mac. This is a story about Entourage , a product that was called Alpaca for the longest time. I joined Microsoft in January 1999. At the time, the team I joined was publicly
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Friday, April 02, 2004 8:32 AM

System.Drawing.Image Performance Update

Update : I've been informed that using the method below can have significant consequences in the future. Using private reflection isn't a good idea because the private methods can change in the future and this code WILL BREAK . Be forewarned. Well, thanks
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Friday, April 02, 2004 7:58 AM

Laptop gripes

Dennis just wrote about some laptop frustrations . I have to agree. I can't tell you how many times I've closed my laptop lid, placed it in my bag and opened it back up on the train a 30 minutes later to find the battery half drained. Since I refuse to
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