I moved my blog to www.stuff-for-geeks.com. Check it out and update your links ;)

Thanks stuffforgeeks.net for hosting my blog for the last years!

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Placing a control on a Form and on a TabPage with the same Location property set result in different positions on the screen, because there are different points of origin. I figured out that there are different offsets for x and y axis. (Offest is valid for TabPage/Form on Windows CE) x) +5 y) +31 ......

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I'm wondering why I can't find a search function here?!

Any ideas?

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I just wanted to pass a generic KeyValuePair(of String,DateTime) over a webservice. The generated client proxy is: Partial Public Class KeyValuePairOfStringDateTime End Class Well, this is not really what I wanted...., but the classname is nice ......

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I came over this issue, while extending a webservice written in .net 1.1 with a 2.0 - plugin. I implemented the correct interface in my plugin, which is needed to be recognized by the plugin loader. Once the plugin was deployed I saw, that the plugin was not loaded at app-startup. I wanted to investigate, why there was this behavior. So I connected ......

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I just read Hannes post about the fictional future of "search engines" and how they work with any given information. In my opinion there is a general risk for a persons privacy when search algorithms add information such as buying patterns in real life (which is possible with RFID technology) to a personal profile ......

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One week ago I switched on ClearType on my desktop system. The system is a dual head system with one crt and one tft connected. I never heard about ClearType before I got my Axim X5v PDA which has ClearType enabled by default. The reading experience on that device is very nice. Everything is very smooth. Now I'm using ClearType on my desktop and this ......

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Last Friday I met my old friend Hannes Pavelka. We had some beer in a really nice pub here in Dortmund (Limericks ) as he talked about unit testing in his current project. They use NUnit throughout the whole developing process. The biggest problem though is that they do not write their test before implementing, because it is to time consuming! There ......

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It's 2005. We are in the year of .net 2.0. Looking around and searching for new projects at http://www.gulp.de I noticed that there are 110 open projects when entering "Java" as the keyword compared to only 18 projects with "C#". For me as a consultant who is specialized on .net technology it is a very disappointing result. Are the Germans so slow when ......

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Well, this is my first post in my own blog. Thanks to the guys at www.geekswithblogs.net for offering me the space. As a developer and consultant I want to share my experience in building applications with .net technology. The main focus will be on developing software for mobile devices. I started with .net in 2003. Hannes, a friend of mine, gave me ......

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