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April 2005 - Posts

Silly me!

Posted Thursday, April 28, 2005 6:19 PM by robgruen
I'm working on this managed application that's doing some remoting. The app's got all sorts of heterogenous channels being mixed and matched....at one point I was getting an error with this text: "Tcp channel protocol violation: expecting preamble." I Read More...
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Me, my picture frame, and being OOF

Posted Sunday, April 17, 2005 12:54 PM by robgruen
I have the benefit of owning a Digital Memory Frame (thanks michaelp ). Well, I'm going to be OOF for 9 weeks on an extended business trip. Indeed a long time. My plan is to take my digital camera with me on my journey and remotely post pictures to my Read More...
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Marsrovers get Life Extension

Posted Monday, April 11, 2005 2:00 PM by robgruen
I just read an article stating that the rovers have been guaranteed an 18 month extension to their operations: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7398672/ . This is good news since the Hubble space telescope has been written off: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7353224/ Read More...
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1.6x + 2x = 320-1280mm

Posted Monday, April 11, 2005 1:51 AM by robgruen
To quote Mazda : "Zoom Zoom!" I just ordered a 2x extender for my camera bag. My primary plans are for using this with my telephoto zoom lens . Given my camera's built in 1.6 focal length multiplier, the new 2x extender, and my 100-400mm lens; I now have Read More...
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Read this if you're getting an InvalidCastException when referencing a type created with AppDomain.CreateInstanceFrom

Posted Tuesday, April 05, 2005 11:43 PM by robgruen
I was helping someone out with an issue the other day. Basically we were attempting to create an instance of an object within an AppDomain and then use that object. Unfortunately when casting the object from the object returned from CreateInstance to Read More...
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Ever chat with SmarterChild?

Posted Tuesday, April 05, 2005 11:39 PM by robgruen
I read an article that discusses an IM agent that people can chat with called SmarterChild . While I haven't fired up my AOL IM account in so long it's probably been deleted it was still very cool to read about. Does anyone have any memorable conversations Read More...
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Just like everyone else here @ blogs.msdn.com

Posted Saturday, April 02, 2005 11:39 PM by robgruen
I've been migraged along with everyone else and have picked my new theme. If it's hard to read or the layout doesn't work let me know and I can find another one that works better. Read More...
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Product Activation changes....

Posted Friday, April 01, 2005 12:20 PM by robgruen
Thanks to JaSoN for alerting me to this. Just a "buyer be ware" kind of thing. http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/partners/productactivation.mspx Attend our Free Live Web Chat Get answers to your questions about Production Activation from Microsoft experts. Read More...
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