RambleJam

I’ve spent a large portion of today trying to figure out why my project wasn’t able to create an MSI for me … I found this, no luck … still running this worked!
regsvr32 “ole32.dll”

Just found this really useful collection of byte sized tidbits to improve the performance of your usage of the data context.  Takes less that 5 mins to read some of these things and they will definitely improve your knowledge and use of LINQ to SQL.  Read it here.

http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/4897/

If like me you are trying to use this really handy method and are having problems, it’s not your code … There is a bug with this method if you are using the, also very handy, |DataDirectory| macro in your application settings. Basically, using this macro (with SQL Compact 3.5) in your connection string, [...]

OMG, its only been a matter of years I’ve been waiting for this, but finally the first real taste of Spore is out now!  You can grab a trial version of the Spore Creature Creator application using this link:
http://www.spore.com/trial

Well, I was just sat here happily working away on some code and BANG! My trusty old Cornerstone P1750 went up in smoke! Great, I thought, finally a chance to get a decent sized LCD jobbie! After looking around for a while I decided to pop off to the local store to [...]

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After a lot of poking around on this subject I found a rather neat way of enforcing an application to behave in a single instance manner. I’ve only just started looking at this issue so I can’t vouch for its security at the moment but in light of a few examples I found this [...]

Mozilla are trying to go for a World Record with the number of downloads of Firefox 3 today!  Pledge to download and help them out!!  Download FIreFox 3

I spent far too long today thinking about ways to code what at first appears to be a simple C# statement regarding file recursion. I’m building a new class based on code that has been tried and tested, the only difference was that in some scenarios I wish to ignore the root C:\ drive. [...]

I’ve just put together a really dirty and VERY simple app that uses the MediaElement class in .NET 3.5 as an example for someone on CodeProject so I thought I’d post it here as it’s lying around on my web server.
Here is the class:

public partial class Window1 : Window
{
ObservableCollection _filestoplay = new ObservableCollection();

public Window1()
{
this.InitializeComponent();
this.lstFilesToPlay.SelectionChanged += [...]