Monday, June 05, 2006 - Posts

posted Monday, June 05, 2006 4:05 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Windows Error Reporting

There are some additions to the Windows Error Reporting API’s in Windows Vista – the Problem Center within the OS provides the central place to manage these things and looks like this; You can see that my problematic WER.EXE application Read More
posted Monday, June 05, 2006 3:52 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

My Glass Keeps Getting Dirty

I’m running Windows Vista B2 on my laptop and, once or twice, I’ve had a minor glitch with the Glass theme. ( I have a Toshiba M3 with an NVidia GeForce Go 6600 with 128MB ) Essentially, from time to time (it’s happened about 3 times Read More
posted Monday, June 05, 2006 3:19 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Vista, Desktop Window Manager and Thumbnails

There’s a great post over here about the Desktop Window Manager and its role on Windows Vista I think I’ve referenced it before. One of the things that the DWM can do for you is that it can provide a “representation” or a Read More
posted Monday, June 05, 2006 3:02 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Toshiba's 2.5" drive delivers 200GB

I’d like 2 of these in my laptop please: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32173 :-) I was looking at hard-drive prices for the desktop the other day and it looks like it ranges around the 33–37p per Gigabyte mark (hope I got that Read More
posted Monday, June 05, 2006 2:54 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Dependency Property Snippet

Visual Studio has a snippet for a property in Visual C# (prop) and I’ve been defining one or two dependency properties lately in demos and I’ve been using a snippet to do it. The other day, someone asked me to share the snippet and so here Read More
posted Monday, June 05, 2006 2:38 PM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

Workflows, Persistence and Versioning

One of the key services in Workflow Foundation is the persistence service which provides the capability of persisting your Workflow Instance to some store (either one that you implement or SQL Server through the provided SQL persistence service) when Read More