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How to Implement IMessageFilter in an Office AddIn
Andrew Whitechapel writes, "First a warning: this is an advanced scenario, and you should not attempt to use this technique unless you’re sure you know what you’re doing...it’s also easy to get wrong in ways that could interfere significantly with th... more

Code Showing How to Programmatically Add EventSetters in WPF
David Mohundro writes, "I wanted to be able to let a user click on an item in a ListBox and drag across, selecting multiple items in the process. Basically, I want to emulate the behavior that the Outlook calendar provides. I ended up coding up the f... more

Code for IPSecurity Restrictions in IIS 6
Steve Schofield writes, "I made a reference to the IISOle.dll and used the following code to add restrictions. It requires .NET 3.5. You can use Visual Basic Express to compile the code..." more Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:25:16 GMT ... more

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Future of Correlation Examples
Nicholas Allen writes, "The correlation query describes the structure or piece of information that you'll be correlating on. This information may be part of a message, a message header, or maybe even some function that gets run that doesn't depend on the message at all. Some of the queries will return matches and produce query results...For example," more

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:30:49 GMT

Imagine Cup Deadline December 31
Mark Johnston writes, "The Imagine Cup 2009 is in full swing. And there is no better year to compete - there has been so much going on in the world of Microsoft technology recently...You have until 31st December to get your idea in," more

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:28:13 GMT

Scary MSBuild Log
Samuel Jack writes, "Unfortunately, I had miss-typed ...so MSBuild was defaulting to the empty string. Thus the LogFile Item was being populated with a list of all the files in my C:\ drive, and the Delete task was obediently purging them....make sure you've at least got a cloned Virtual machine from which to copy any files which might get trashed...." more

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:26:27 GMT

Shortcuts Allow You to Quickly Search for VS Objects Within Your Solution
Sara Ford writes, "Another good keyboard shortcut many don’t know about. I only say that because I forgot all about this one until now…There is a command called View.ClassViewGoToSearchCombo" more

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:16:10 GMT

Warning on Hyper-V hosts under SCVMM
Ben Armstrong writes, "When you first add a Hyper-V host to SCVMM 2008 you may see a warning icon displayed with the message "Needs Attention" and "Virtualization service version status is not up-to-date". To get rid of this alert there are three updates that need to be applied to the Hyper-V server:" more

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:13:48 GMT

Malicious Code Spreading Through USB Flash Drive Devices
Don Patterson writes, ", there are two popular methods by which USB flash drives are being infected with malicious code. Please note that these are not the only two methods available. The first of these methods is referred to as simple file copy..." more

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:10:23 GMT

Code Showing IronPython and WPF Background Processing
Harry Pierson writes, "SyncContext is an abstraction for concurrency management. It lets you write code that is ignorant of specific synchronization mechanisms in concurrency-aware managed frameworks like WinForms and WPF...here’s the new version of BGThread and UIThread. Slightly more complex, but still pretty simple clocking in at just under 30 lines..." more

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:08:49 GMT

Code Showing Inner Join of Two Excel Tables
Eric White writes, "...posted some code that allows you to use LINQ to query Excel tables. The source for these queries is the Open XML document – you don’t need to involve the Excel application to query the data in these tables...This post shows a join of two tables using the extension methods and classes" more

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:54:19 GMT

Expression Blend 2 Tip For Demos
John Papa writes, "

...there is a toggle button (F4) in Blend that simply make the sidebar windows collapse or expand. This is very cool when you are doing a presentation and the screen resolution is so tiny that the audience cannot see what you are doing...For example, the following Blend screenshot shows the Interaction and Properties windows cluttering up the screen" more

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:40:21 GMT

Troubleshooting SharePoint Add-in Installation for Reporting Services
Teo Lachev writes, "As a first stop for troubleshooting SharePoint integration issues, you should examine the add-in log after the add-in setup completes to verify if it was installed successfully....If all is well, the log files should look as follows:" more

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:36:53 GMT

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Samuel Jack

I started blogging partly to combat brain-rot: writing crowd-pleasing posts on solutions to maths problems in Functional C# is great mental exercise and stems the outflow of knowledge cached during my Maths degree 5 years ago. My blog, Functional Fun, is also an outlet for my enthusiasm about all things .Net. In my day job, building business modelling software at Paragon Simulation, I work on Agile projects using C#3.0, WPF, WCF, LINQ, etc., providing abundant material for interesting posts. more

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:02:20 GMT