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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