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Composite C1 web content management system

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:59:00 PST

I have been recently busy with a couple of projects and had to decide on a new CMS framework to build them on. I had tried Umbraco in the past and found I had some issues with the...

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Screen capture software...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:38:00 PDT

I find myself taing screenshots often at mostly portions of the screen; whether it is to show work in progress to others or something else. For those instance, I have been using Snagit from...

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Hyperlink in RichTextBox

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:10:00 PDT

Today I learned that the default RichTextBox control does not handle hyperlinks out of the box. If you do want to have hyperlinks work, you need to do the following: DetectUrls...

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nopCommerce ASP.NET ecommerce platform

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 08:04:00 PST

While researching options for a shopping cart module for an ASP.NET application, I came across several packages. Of course, I had already gone through the list of the popular players in this...

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Swype for mobile devices...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:35:00 PDT

I have had a Nexus One cellphone for a while and with so many applications available, it is usually a common topic to ask what the best application for an Android device is. The same is true with...

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Silverlight Validation & Tootip Styles...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:14:00 PST

Silverlight 3 comes with built-in validation for many of the input controls. Setting them up is fairly easy and they are styled well enough that you could use them right out of the box. If you...

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Wavelength to Colors in Silverlight

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:50:00 PST

I haven't done many experiments lately and thought I'd do a quick one I have been meaning to do for a while. It is basically a slider that runs from 350nm to 780nm (visible spectrum) and...

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Another Silverlight Clock experiment...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:24:00 PDT

I thought I had told myself I wouldn't do anymore watch or clock-related experiment. Well, maybe one more and this is it...! In this case, I saw a YouTube movie showcasing a beautiful and...

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Vacheron Constantin watch experiment..

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:55:00 PDT

This morning I ran across an article about some watches and there is one that caught my attention. It is a Vacheron Constatin Mercator America and it is a beautifaul watch. A bit pricey, but if I...

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Web.Config inheritance tip...

me.nospam@nospam.miguelmoreno.net (Miguel Moreno) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:00:00 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 12:26:00 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 13:08:00 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 18:54:00 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 21:50:00 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 08:11:00 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 14:51:00 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 20:13:00 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 16:29:00 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 23:30:00 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 21:06:00 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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