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March 2004 - Posts

The Crystal Method @ The Tremont

Posted Wednesday, March 31, 2004 2:45 PM by robgruen
A couple of us hit the Tremont Music Hall last night to see The Crystal Method . All I can say is Thumpin' ! Kudos to the Queen City (Charlotte, NC) for having such a great turnout; TCM was impressed with the huge Tuesday night crowd! MichaelP also has Read More...
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Adding support for XP Themes to VB6 Apps

Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 2:30 PM by robgruen
XP has some nice visuals and VB programmers definitely want in on XP Themes. Unfortunately Microsoft DOES NOT support VB6 applications that enable themes. Q309366 INFO: Visual Basic 6.0 Does Not Support Windows XP Themes or Visual Styles . If you want Read More...
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Incorrect Overloaded functions called when specifying Enum Parameters

Posted Friday, March 26, 2004 5:50 PM by robgruen
I was sent the following code with an subject similar to this blog entry title: Option Strict On Option Explicit On Option Compare Text Public Class ExampleClass Public Overloads Function Member ( ByVal IntegerArgument As Long ) As String Return CStr Read More...
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Showing a topmost form without deactivating current active form

Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 10:37 AM by robgruen
Q: Is there a way to show a borderless, topmost form on the screen without deactivating the current active form? A: I bet your first instinct is to go with ShowWindow and specifying SW_SHOWNA , it was mine as well. Unfortunately it does not work. It appears Read More...
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Different IL when compiling .NET assemblies on different Windows versions?

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 2:32 AM by robgruen
Someone asked if you compile a .NET assembly on two different operating systems (ex: Windows 2003 Server versus Windows XP) could there possibly be any differences between the resulting assemblies? Given that we know that .NET applications compile to Read More...
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Near-Earth Asteroid visible with Binoculars

Posted Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:59 AM by robgruen
For those of you living in the Southern Hemisphere, some parts of Europe and Asia : The LINEAR asteroid survey found an asteroid that is passing within 3.4 Earth diameters around 5:08PM EST . So, those of you with a nice pair of binoculars or a telescope Read More...
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"That would be a redundant waste of time."

Posted Friday, March 12, 2004 2:48 PM by robgruen
While walking down the hallway I heard this sentence uttered and was completely confused. Say the sentence out loud. Now think about the implications of this statement and wonder whether or not the speaker intended this sentence to be self referential. Read More...
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A Primer for Restoring Lost Source Code from IL (a.k.a. Reverse Engineering .NET apps)

Posted Monday, March 08, 2004 11:33 AM by robgruen
I’ve been working on several internal tools for some of the folks on the exchange support team. I had recently incorporated some additional features that my “customer” requested. I sent the updated EXE to the users after implementing Read More...
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Frustrations With Transparent WinForms

Posted Tuesday, March 02, 2004 4:32 AM by robgruen
I was working on an application today trying to get a transparent form to work and for the life of me what I was trying to do was not working the way I expected. Basically I was trying create a transparent form and draw a “moving” geometrical Read More...
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