Visual Studio environment layout settings

on Visual Studio .NET

While working in Visual Studio yesterday I accidentally hid the tabs that show the open files, and couldnt figure out how I did that or how to reverse it. With a bit of looking around in the Visual Studio menus (after failing to find an answer in google) it turns out that I changed the environment settings from Tabbed to MDI. To get this back to what it was the solution is, go to Tools->Options, click on Environment then General and select the tabbed option.…

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ICANN meetings in Wellington this/next week

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I read in The Press yesterdaythat ICANNwillbe meeting in Wellington from 25-31 March and that one of the things thatwill bein discussion is the registration of the .xxx domain extension. Apparently the Bush Administartion is trying to stop the realization of this domain extension. For the following reason. “Over 6000 people made their objects by either E-mail or a letter. They are afraid the new .XXX domain extention will legitimize the porno industry.” I’m not sure what legal consequences the realization might cause but IMO having the extension available will really make things better.…

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Windows Vista AERO graphics, I just couldn't resist!

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Not long ago I installed a copy of the Windows Vista Feb CTP sadly though, my graphics card was not good enough to show the aero graphics, I’ve been enjoying using Vista a lot lately and just couldnt resist not having the AERO graphics, so I went and got myself a nice new card, and finally, I can now see the AERO UI, very very nice! You can even choose your favourite color theme, adjust the intensity, enable or disable the transparent glass …etc Very cool. Here’s a screenshot illustration……

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Chris live blogging from MIX

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It looks like Chris Auld has started his live blogging from Las VegasforMIX06. Keep an eye on his blog for live info on whats going on there. Here’s his first post and I’m sure there’s more to come..…

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Windows Live Mail

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I dont know how long this has been the case, but it looks like Windows Live Mail beta is now available no non US residents. I’ve signed up for this a while back and received my invite today. – I can now enjoy a hotmail account with 2Gb space, nice, wont have to worry about downloading my messages every now and then now. – It integrates very nicely with Windows Live – I really like the grouping of services that Windows Live does. My wish tho is that Windows Live would allow you to plug in other email accounts to it than…

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More on Vista

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So far I’m very happy with my Vista experience, I’ve managed to installed WinFX and VS 2005 last night and everything went smoothly with no issues during setup. Will post more as I start playing with WinFX a bit. One thing I didnt talk about in my previous post of the things I liked, is the way the ‘All Programs’ menu behaves now. The changes are great. If you recall the old programs menu, you’ll remember that you could endup having 3 to 4 panels open and if you slip your hand in the last panel, outch…

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Windows Vista: First Impressions

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I’ve been using Windows Vista for a few days and here are some first thoughtsI like the new interface a lot. The L&F is very nice (tho no aero for me). – The way things work now makes it a lot easier to do things. – If the changes on how you get things done are confusing, you can switch to classic view in some things such as the ‘control panel’. I was looking for something in the Vista view that at first was unable to find, then I found the option to switch to ‘classic view’ – Nice! It’…

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Go get yourself a geekzone blog.

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There has been a few posts about the new Geekzoneblog feature lately. Want to know what people think. Mauricio, Tim , Darryl and Nic all posted about this. I was lucky to get no 9! Still not convinced you should try it, thenhere are my comments! 🙂…

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Viruses are going mobile!

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“A security association is reporting what it says is the first virus that can pass from a PC to a mobile device and then erase files.” I guess with viruses targeting new markets in the near future, we might see lots of antivirus software moving there in the future too… I would have never thought I might be running say Norton or McAFee on my Smartphone but who knows; if viruses can go mobile then surely antiviruses will too! See the article here…

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