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  • Getting around Truecrypt’s “Windows is not installed on the drive from which it boots”

    Today I tried to encrypt my drive with TrueCrypt (7.0a). Although I do not plan to loose my laptop, you never know what happens, and there is potentially sensitive data on there from me or my clients. I already successfully did this on several other machines and was not expecting the error message “Windows is […]

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  • Turning of automatic restart after windows update

    Today I received my new laptop (yay!). One of the first things I do after setting up a new machine (because if I forget I am sure I’ll shoot myself in the foot at least once before doing so), is turning off allowing Windows Update to restart my computer after it has installed updates. I […]

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  • Open a .cs file in code view instead of winforms designer

    This bugged me for a while. It didn’t bug me enough to spend much time looking for it, but every once in a while I would give it a try and then I’d give up again. The problem? When double-clicking a file in the solution explorer, it would open in the windows forms designer. I […]

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  • Select all text in a textbox when the user clicks to focus

    A tiny patch of code can sometimes save your users a lot of time. In a project I was working on, I used a lot of small textboxes to have the user input small numeric values. (Actually the textbox was a part of a kind of self-constructed NumericUpDown, but that’s another story.) Watching a tester […]

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  • WinForms ComboBox does not always fire SelectionChangeCommitted

    Today I ran into the problem that a ComboBox in my project did not always fire the SelectionChangeCommitted event when I expected it to. To be specific, if a user dropped down the list, used the arrow keys to move to an item, and then TABbed to the next control, the new item would be […]

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  • Firefox 4 released

    The Mozilla team released the final version 4 of Firefox (after 10+ betas or so). I like the fact it checks in advance if your plugins will be compatible, which would be the major reason for me to not upgrade if they weren’t. Looks like I’m alright for all plugins that really matter to me, […]

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  • The case of the Visual Studio blank properties window

    I experienced the strangest thing with my installation of Visual Studio 2008 last Friday. In the middle of developing a Windows Forms application, I noticed that the Properties window had stopped working. It was still there, just blank, and so was the dropdown above it where the components usually reside. Update 19-12: This blog post […]

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  • Hello world!

    Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging! I think I’ll leave this message as is. I consider it a fitting title for a blog about software development. 🙂

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