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Web.Config inheritance tip...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:00:00 PDT

Mainly writing this entry so I don't spend hours looking for a solution when I need it again, since I tend to forget rather quickly how exactly I solved a problem. In this case, I have a website...

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Google Android phone...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:26:00 PDT

Although I have pretty much always had one, I have never really cared much for the functionality of a cellphone, other than what it was meant to do...like placing phonecalls. I have an uninteresting...

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Desktop fences...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:08:00 PDT

On occasions, I come across some software that saves me a ton of time or help me be a bit more organized. Here is one that definitively helps me both ways. I use my desktop as somewhat of a...

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Silverlight 2.0 Moonlander game...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:54:00 PDT

A quick post here on an experiment that has taken way too long and maybe I have lost interest over time or it just became a bit more than a short experiment. In essence, it is a replica of the...

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More free stuff from DevExpress...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:50:00 PST

In a previous post I had mentioned about 60 free .NET components available at no cost at all. These are high quality controls and I still have to try many of them. Well, looking for a...

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What is the Windows Key for...?

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:11:00 PST

I don't know...it is just a key that doesn't seem to do anything when pressed and it is just in the way. So many years staring at it and wondering what it was good for. Well, it appears...

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Another Silverlight clock experiment...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:51:00 PST

Another attempt at yet another approach of representing time in an unusual manner. I saw this clock implemented in Flash and wondered what it would take to do this in Silverlight. Let's call it...

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Silverlight Error when adding objects

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:13:00 PST

I have done a couple of Silverlight experiments where I programmatically generate objects on the fly and then attempt to add them to the Canvas. In one scenario, I was trying to generate 10 circles,...

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Two more Silverlight 2.0 experiments...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:29:00 PST

I have been meaning to get some more Silverlight 2.0 experience under my fingertips and have taken a couple of Sunday mornings to acomplish a couple of experiments. Nothing spectacular, but...

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Joining Microsoft...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:30:00 PST

Well, that didn't take very long... a good opportunity presented itself almost immediately and although I was hoping for some downtime, I have decided to accept a job offer at Microsoft's...

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Added a couple of SharePoint Experiments...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:06:00 PST

Not really experiments, but two brief articles I had been meaning to write for some time, simply to share some interesting approaches to developing Features for SharePoint: A handy approach to...

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Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Progress...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:03:00 PST

Although it is undeniable that Silverlight has made quite an impact and, apparently been embraced without much resistance, it still has a long road ahead to catch up to its rival: Flash. As Scott Gu...

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Looking again...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:21:00 PST

Well. While on my vacation OpenText finalized the acquisition of Captaris, for which I have been working for four years and...let's just say my badge stopped working when I returned. I...

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6 tips from Europe....

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:23:00 PST

For our 10 year wedding anniversary, I decided to take my wife to the places I grew up in and maybe try to explain some of my behaviors she has never quite understood. We visited Holland, France,...

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Microsoft Releases Silverlight 2...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:17:00 PDT

"Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Silverlight 2, one of the industry’s most comprehensive and powerful solutions for the creation and delivery of applications and media...

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Bug tracking software

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:14:00 PDT

I am evaluating several bug tracking/project management software packages and have found a couple of interesting one that seem very robust and are quite popular. Even better, I have found that...

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Intellisense not working in Visual Studio...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:06:00 PDT

"IntelliSense is Microsoft's implementation of autocompletion, best known for its use in the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment. In addition to completing the symbol...

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Free license for 60 DevExpress controls...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:08:00 PDT

Here is an opportunity to take advantage of: DevExpress is offering single developer licenses for 60 of their controls free of charge – without royalties or distribution costs. These are...

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Optimizing tools for ASP.NET

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT

We all know that you can ask for directions to the same destination multiple times and get different answers each time. They will all lead you to your destination; however, some direction may get...

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Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1 released

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:05:00 PDT

Visual Studio Service Pack 1 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 have been released today. The downloads are available here: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (exe)...

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