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MSI Installs without registering with Add/Remove Programs (ARP)

Jun 16, 2004 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I had a student ask how to do this, because they have problems with their users dabbling with Control Panel's ARP applet. I suggested a tighter group policy, but went on to research the MSI …

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Google Email (GMail) having an effect on Yahoo

Jun 15, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Looks like Yahoo is supersizing their free email capabilities to 100mb and freeing up many previously inactive addresses in a preemptive strike. Ain't competition great? BTW - It looks like 100s, …

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The "Unit of Work" Pattern

Jun 15, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Had a student ask me about this one today, so I investigated further. It seems that this is the design pattern which keeps a list of objects (or records) affected by a business transaction and …

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No-Touch deployment in .NET

Jun 14, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Wanted to list a few good resources here for this technology: Chris Sells' article on command line arguments Launching No-Touch Deployment Applications with Command Line Arguments Chris Sell's …

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Delayed Signing of an Assembly

Jun 14, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I've known that this process exists, and why to use it, but this article by Craig Wills walks you through it in a very straightforward manor.

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Dialpad.com rocks!

Jun 14, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

So as some of you know, I'm traveling overseas -- in Serbia right now, teaching a .NET architecture class for Microsoft. So I wanted to call home, and didn't want to pay the 403 Yugoslavia Dinars/1st …

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Bletchley Park open to the public

Jun 14, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Once the most secret place in Britain, Bletchley Park is now giving the public a first look into the hut where math genius Alan Turing worked on cracking the Nazi's Enigma codes. I would love to visit …

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Microsoft Internet Explorer does not properly validate source of redirected frame

Jun 13, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Just heard about this latest exploit from US-Cert This caught my attention, because I sometimes use frames and redirection. Yikes!

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ADO.NET changes in Whidbey (May 2004 CTP)

Jun 5, 2004 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Dan Fox of Quilogy presented this topic First, What's not going to be in ADO.NET 2.0 :-( ObjectSpaces moved to the Longhorn wave Data Paging - (DbCommand.ExecutePageReader method) Stand-alone table …

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