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uuonclers: February 2010
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Random wonders at random moments. Friday, February 5, 2010. One use of RelatedImageListAttribute. Is to tell ImageIndexEditor. Where to get the images. Imagine a class called ClassA. With a property called ImageKey. And another property called PropertyB. Which is a structure with an ImageList. Then, this is how ImageKey. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Things of the Past. The Old New Thing. Sorting it all Out. When the challenge is made, some OEM partners have it, and some do not.
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uuonclers: Where is Windows Calendar?
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Random wonders at random moments. Monday, October 19, 2009. Where is Windows Calendar? One of the useful applications removed in Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 is the Windows Calendar. I especially missed it because I never want any email/calendar bundle like Windows Live Mail. Here is how to get it back:. Copy the Windows Calendar program folder from an earlier Windows installation to your new Windows 7/Server 2008 R2. Optionally import your existing iCalendar (.ics) file. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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uuonclers: November 2007
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Random wonders at random moments. Sunday, November 11, 2007. RichTextBox is not a simple RichEdit wrapper? There are several annoyances with the Rich Edit. Control. For example, using EM STREAMIN. Will clear its undo and redo queues. Why would this caused by simply reading the stream is beyond me. Inherits this problem, which means accessing its Text. Properties will clear the queues. What's more, calling its GetCharIndexFromPosition. Functions will also clear the queues. Why is that? Things of the Past.
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uuonclers: Where is the caret in a text selection?
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Random wonders at random moments. Wednesday, September 15, 2010. Where is the caret in a text selection? This wasn't intended but eventually becomes a followup on " Where is the caret? There are two directions to select some text in a rich edit: from left to right. Or from right to left. The initial position of a selection is called an anchor point, and the ending position is called an active end. These are the names given in the EM SETSEL. Quite surprisingly, TOM. Controls, but hey, what do I know?
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uuonclers: June 2008
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Random wonders at random moments. Friday, June 27, 2008. MSDN Documentation. Follow or Not Follow? When reading MSDN, often time there are sentences like " do not do XXX. Or " you have to do YYY. Without further explanation. This time it is on the OFNHookProc. Do not call the EndDialog. Function from the hook procedure. It happened that I also came across the HookProc implementation in FileDialog. Using the .Net Reflector. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Things of the Past.
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uuonclers: September 2009
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Random wonders at random moments. Wednesday, September 9, 2009. What's up with the Server 2008 desktop graphics bugs? When Desktop Experience is installed, Server 2008 provides similar visuals as Vista. One thing I noticed though, is that the desktop doesn't act the same as in Vista:. The drop shadow on icon text may disappear on hover. The selection rectangle has dotted outline as in Windows XP* instead of translucent. The selected icons don't have translucent background. Window, then the SysListView32.
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uuonclers: Where is the caret?
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Random wonders at random moments. Tuesday, December 30, 2008. Where is the caret? Carefully minded will spot at least one subtle difference between the Visual Studio editor, and the RichEdit. Control: the caret in selection. Why oh why I can get this cute blinking cursor when I select some text in Visual Studio, but not in WordPad or in RichTextBox. Maybe it's hidden for some bizarre reasons, I'll just call ShowCaret. To bring it back. Argh, doesn't work? OK, may be HideCaret. It's not exactly Font.
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uuonclers: March 2009
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Random wonders at random moments. Monday, March 30, 2009. How to get the Security tab in XP Home? How to add the Security tab to Explorer in XP Home. Download link of SCM. And boot to Safe Mode. XP Home File System Hacks, See security tab and run with WFP disabled like in safe mode! Or Security tab, ACLs in XP Home! Use the command line cacls. Or write your own GUI wrapper. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Things of the Past. How to get the Security tab in XP Home? Sorting it all Out.
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uuonclers: April 2008
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Random wonders at random moments. Wednesday, April 30, 2008. How to detect audio in DVR-MS files? Just yesterday I was working on the audio detection in dvr-ms files in one software. Seeing it as a proprietary format, I didn't expect much information on dvr-ms from the ASF specification. Projects come to rescue, and the key GUID has been discovered. Here's how I'm doing it:. When parsing ASF Binary Media, if the Major Media Type is 31178c9d-03e1-4528-b5823df9db22f503. Padded up to Format Data Size. Turne...
