Archive for June, 2007

Now That's A Helluva Headline

Date June 18th, 2007 Comment No Comments

When you see a headline that reads Woman Jailed for Testicle Attack you’ve really got a duty to have a sneaky peaky at the story. It was never my intention to cause harm to Geoff and the fact that I have caused him injury will live with me forever. I am in no way a [...]

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Update: ContextMenuStrip.SourceControl bug

Date June 13th, 2007 Comment No Comments

Dan has submitted this bug to Microsoft, and they’ve recognised it as a bug. Thanks for your feedback. We have reproduced this bug on Visual Studio Codename Orcas Beta1, and we are sending this bug to the appropriate group within the Visual Studio Product Team for triage and resolution. Thank you, Visual Studio Product Team. [...]

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"FindForm()" for ContextMenuStrip Items (almost)

Date June 12th, 2007 Comment No Comments

In a similar manor to the previous post, the following code can be used in the controller for event handlers for ToolStripMenuItem’s on a ContextMenuStrip. Unfortunately, due to a bug found by Dan, this code will not work for any ToolStripMenuItem’s that are in sub-menus in the ContextMenuStrip. Even when combined with the code from [...]

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"FindForm()" for MenuStrip Items

Date June 12th, 2007 Comment No Comments

In C#, you have a Form that has a MenuStrip. The MenuStrip has several ToolStripMenuItem’s at different levels. The Form has a separate controller class. The controller class declares and initialises the Form and handles the Click events raised by the ToolStripMenuItem’s. With most other controls on a Form, a reference to the parent Form [...]

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Have You Signed?

Date June 6th, 2007 Comment 1 Comment

A petition has been started to change the ridiculous Tiswas/Live & Kicking logo for the London 2012 Olympic campaign. Please sign it and help get this embarrassing piece of brain-splurge removed from history. Update: Thanks to everyone who signed the petition. Almost 50,000 signatures speaks volumes. I have decided to close the petition as it [...]

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Conflict with Live Writer and WordPress

Date June 4th, 2007 Comment 2 Comments

I spotted Gary’s post about the next beta release of Windows Live Writer and thought I’d give it a try, since the other one worked well. Upon launch, it detected all of my previous settings so I went to edit the settings for each of my blogs. I clicked Weblog -> Edit Weblog Settings… -> [...]

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