After switching from Outlook to Entourage, I noticed that there is no option to request a read receipt on an email as Entourage doesn't support read receipts. The best work around is to create an email account excluded from send and receive that has the following header set on the Options tab of the...

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Yesterday, I purchased a MacBook Pro. I'm still getting over the learning curve and I'm really pleased with it. I'm using OSx for day-to-day computing and running Windows Vista Enterprise x64 in a virtual machine in VMware Fusion as needed. Below is a listing of software I installed so far to replace...

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I found this on Caleb Jenkins blog . Pretty cool....

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I put together a small example in C# that demonstrates how to use the ListView , DataPager , and LinqDataSource . This example can be downloaded here . The example uses the AdventureWorks database which you can download here ....

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Resharper 4.0 is now RTM. You can read more about the new features of Resharper 4.0 here . If you haven't used Resharper before, I strongly suggest you give it a try. It's one of my favorite Visual Studio productivity add-ins....

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I ran across this issue at work. When passing a boolean value in the form of true/false and not 1/0 in an XML string to SQL Server, SQL Server 2000 doesn't have the ability to convert true to 1 and false to 0. This is not the case with SQL Server 2005. The solution is to either convert true to 1 and...

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Last night I completed the migration of content from community.strongcoders.com to this site. As such, StrongTypes.com and community.strongcoders.com shut down a week early. If you notice any broken links or images, please let me know and I will fix them.

On Friday, May 30, 2008 I will be shutting down community.strongcoders.com and strongtypes.com. Downloads currently on community.strongcoders.com will be moved to RyanOlshan.com and their download links will link over to the new download location. Also, live code demos on articles.strongcoders.com will...

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For a side project, I was unit testing a class with custom events and needed a way to test those events. Anonymous methods makes unit testing of events easy. The below example is simple, but demonstrates how easy it is to unit test events with anonymous methods. using System ; using NUnit . Framework...

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I got the below backwards looking error when Witty attempted to update. I'm guessing not much attention was given by Microsoft to the OneClick update error screen....

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