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Setting a WinForms textbox to numbers only
Friday, January 30, 2004 7:42 PM

I needed to create a TextBox control on my Window Form so that the user can only enter numbers. VBers have it easier as they have a built in method to check isnumeric() but C# and other languages need to write their own. The most popular one

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posted by travisowens (Comments Off)

The best mouthwash money can buy
Friday, January 30, 2004 3:40 PM

I've been a hardcore user of Listerine for about 4 years but the thing is, even after you rinse, I sometimes get that nasty morning taste after a couple hours. I can say after only 3 days of using Biotene I was sold on the product, it's simply the 2nd

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posted by travisowens (Comments Off)

When choosing a company to work for....
Friday, January 30, 2004 3:35 PM

When I was chit-chatting with our network admin he mentioned how his brother at Xerox is only one of two of the last developers left after the axe was swung and dozens of developers lost their jobs to outsourcing. And the though that has

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posted by travisowens (Comments Off)

CD/DVD Sales figures for 2003
Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:55 PM

MMIS (Magnetic Media Information Services) has published preliminary sales figures for various media types sold in 2003 including recordable CD/DVDs....CD-R production increased by an impressive 17 percent, to 7,150 million discs.DVD-R shipments of about

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posted by travisowens (Comments Off)

XML web service everything or not?
Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:17 PM

Yesterday I had a lengthy meeting with our sister company as it appears I'm going to serve as the (sole?) developer of an enterprise wide intranet using MS Sharepoint 2003 and lots of custom web parts.This sounds like a great challenge but

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posted by travisowens (Comments Off)

Automation Server Can't Create Object error in Visual Studio.NET 2003
Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:13 AM

I'm running Windows 2003 server and Visual Studio.NET 2003 and after 2 months of normal usage I got this out of the blue error of Automation Server Can't Create Object when I tried to create a new project, class file or Windows Form.I have no idea why

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posted by travisowens (Comments Off)

Finally bought a legal copy of Nero
Monday, January 26, 2004 8:46 PM

I'm ashamed to admit that I have been using Nero 6 illegally since it came out, although I did purchase Nero 5.5 back in the day. Anyways, I got my copy of Nero 6 in the mail today and installed it over my naughty copy.Ahh, the release of guilt

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posted by travisowens (Comments Off)

Extending Intellisense
Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:53 PM

My XML Web Services class went great, I learned a lot. But what I found amazing was that the guy next to me simply does not use Visual Studio's intellisense and he kept falling victum to spelling and case mistakes, talk about a waste of debugging

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posted by travisowens (Comments Off)

If your IP is listed here, be scared
Wednesday, January 21, 2004 9:03 PM

On SlashDot I just read...The RIAA has filed 532 new lawsuits, but because ISPs are not giving up records anymore, the RIAA has filed the lawsuits against IP addresses in hope ISPs will be forced to resolve/look up their IP info.The list of IP addresses

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