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How to Generically Convert One Data Type to Another?

I once had this problem to read an Xml file and populate an object's properties with the value from...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 03/14/2008

How to Build TFS Build Locally?

If you need to test your TFS build after playing around with the TFSBuild.proj, you can do that by...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 03/11/2008

How to Make Sure InstallState Files Are Removed After Uninstall?

If you are building setup using Visual Studio and you have several custom actions and you noticed...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 03/10/2008

How to Correctly Pass TARGETDIR to A Custom Action?

If you have a custom action setup, passing TARGETDIR to the custom action, and suddenly you are...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 03/10/2008

DreamSpark, Quality Stuffs for Students (FREE)

I just learned about this, Microsoft gives professional level developer tools at no charge. If you...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 02/20/2008

Having Fun with VS Setup Project - Database Deployment

I was given a new task, to create an installer for internal use. I wrote installer before, but it...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 01/30/2008

Bill Gates keynote video (CES 2008)

I just watched his video. This is hilarious, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Video here....

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 01/07/2008

Free Microsoft Press e-books (LINQ, ASP.Net AJAX, Silverlight)

Microsoft is offering free e-books from Microsoft Press. The subjects that I have seen, LINQ,...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 01/03/2008

Happy New Year

Happy New Year! I hope 2008 will be a great year for you. This post is pre-recorded, I am on...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 12/31/2007

Photo Editing and Management in Windows Vista

Are you looking for a photo management and photo editing tools? If you are using Windows Vista,...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 12/31/2007

Dynamically Getting Namespaces in an XML

I have a utility that process XML files, ideally, I would like to be able to feed XQueries into the...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 12/28/2007

Last Working Week at Winqual (Online Device Services)

This week is my last working week with Online Device Services. If you go to...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 12/21/2007

Tintin, the movie

I just read that DreamWorks is making a movie about Tintin. Tintin was and is my hero. Grew up with...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 12/18/2007

ActiveX component can't create object, when creating a 32-COM object in a 64-bit machine

I had two posts to resolve an issue with applications that use a 32-bit COM object in a 64-bit OS....

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 12/12/2007

A Welcomed Change of UI

Finally I had some time to install Office 2007 at home. My wife surprised me when she told me that...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 12/12/2007

Finally, WM 6 Update for AT&T Treo 750

I have been waiting for it for a while, WM6 update for AT&T Treo 750 is now available. If you...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 12/05/2007

Stay at Home Servers

What? You have not heard about Windows Home Server? Check out this site:...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 12/04/2007

Testers Unite!

Microsoft announced a new web site focused on software testing, Tester Center. This is a great...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 12/04/2007

Remotely restarting Windows XP

If you are using Remote Desktop quite a lot, you may need to restart your XP machine remotely, but...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 11/23/2007

Windows Home Server

I received an email from my friend, he has not heard about Windows Home Server yet. This is a really...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 09/17/2007

Why does my application requires an elevated privilege?

I am writing an internal utility, and it bugged me that my utility requires an elevated privilege. I...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 09/15/2007

Home networking, wiring my house

I have been wanting to pull Ethernet cables in my house, just the ground floor for now, wiring the...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 08/24/2007

Using X86 COM interop with ASP.Net application in Windows x64

It has been almost two months since my last post. It has been very busy here.. I got several good...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 07/13/2007

New thing in Vista, Copy as Path

I discovered something really nice in Vista. You can press shift and right-click on a file name on...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 04/19/2007

x86 COM Interop in x64 Environment.

I encountered a problem with one of my application. It stops working when I executed it on Windows...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 04/12/2007

Thinking about moving to Vista? Want to know if your devices are certified for Windows Vista?

You can check it here https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/. This site has a comprehensive list of...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 03/23/2007

Unwanted Meta tag after xlst processing.

I have an xslt that I use to generate a nice HTML representation of Visual Studio unit test result...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 03/19/2007

Live.com rocks! Image search is the best.

I am saying this not because I am a Microsoft employee. Live.com is cool. I love the image search...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 09/24/2006

Thou shalt not bring liquid to the airport

I know this is an old news; I have been very busy lately.You cannot bring liquid unless it is a baby...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 08/26/2006

Today is a SAAD day....

Happy SAAD day! Today is the last Friday in July, it is the System Administrator Appreciation Day!...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 07/28/2006

Code Coverage result from ASP.Net project

One thing that I love from Visual Studio 2005 unit testing is the code coverage result. Obtaining...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 05/05/2006

Redirecting scheduled task output to a file.

Scheduled task is very helpful, the problem that I had, I was unable to get the output of the batch...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 05/05/2006

Hello World!

Hello!Let me introduce myself, my name is Erwien Saputra, and yes, I work at Microsoft.I love...

Author: YouHadMeAtHelloWorld Date: 05/05/2006

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