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Adding IntelliSense to Custom .config Editing
02 Apr 2008, 06:56:00 PM
     A few people have posted this already—though for older versions of VS—but the Visual Studio XML editor will add IntelliSense if it can associate the file you’re editing with an XML schema. How it does this varies with the Visual Studio version, ...
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Yet Another Reason Why Physical Security is Paramount
19 Mar 2008, 04:50:00 PM
I got wind of this from Bruce Schneier’s Schneier on Security blog.   I’m primarily a PC user, and while I have machines with Firewire interfaces, I don’t have any devices that make use of them—I have lots of USB whatnots, though.  According W ...
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aspnet_regsql.exe and "Cannot create trigger" Errors
20 Sep 2007, 09:19:00 PM
There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot about it online, but out of the box, ASP.NET’s included tool for enabling Polling-Based SQL Cache Dependencies doesn’t work with SQL 2005’s schema names.  However, a few manually steps can get them to interop ...
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A WPF Screen Saver Library
19 Jul 2007, 08:05:00 PM
While Visual Studio 2005 includes a starter project for writing managed screen savers, it [the screen saver] doesn’t support display in the Screen Saver Settings dialog’s preview window, and isn’t built around WPF.  As an exercise for learning W ...
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