Windows XP Bliss – The Story Behind The Wallpaper

Windows XP Bliss - Can you remember the first time you saw Windows XP? What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word 'Windows XP"? The image of the Bliss wallpaper immediately springs to mind (in my mind anyway). Charles O'Rear is the photographer behind

The Daily Six Pack: April 16, 2014

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Build 2014 Event Videos 5 Tricks for catching up on the Channel 9 event videos for Build 2014, Jon Galloway Other Where’s That Record?, Rohit Agrawal HTML5 Client Side Storage (Local Storage and Session Storage), Pravinkumar Dabade A rundown of the Build 2014 keynote announcements,

The Daily Six Pack: April 1, 2014

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Windows XP Bliss It's Bliss: behind the iconic Windows XP photo, Lexy Savvides Other Build Quick Windows Phone Apps using Windows Phone App Studio Beta, Vikram Pendse 6 Simple Performance Tips for SQL SELECT Statements, Mpumelelo Msimanga Six clicks: Weird tricks that will actually make

The Daily Six Pack: March 14, 2014

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Google Drive Price Slashed Google slashes Google Drive storage prices to take on Box & Dropbox, Harrison Weber Other Install Google Drive on your computer, Google Podcast: LightSwitch, a Hidden Gem in Visual Studio, Beth Massi VLC Media Player Beta for Windows

The Daily Six Pack: March 10, 2014

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: VS Regular Expression Search Visual Studio 2013 Tips & Tricks – Regular Expression in Find and Replace Dialog, Senthil Kumar Other Enhancements to Debugging Exceptions with IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2013, Nitin Choubey New “How Do I…?” Videos and other Resources for Building Cloud

The Daily Six Pack: March 4, 2014

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Auto Incrementing Visual Studio 2013 Version Number How to Get Auto Incrementing Version Number in Visual Studio 2013?, Abundantcode.com Other New CodeLens Indicator–Incoming Changes, Mathew Aniyan Monitor or Limit Data Usage in Windows 8.1, Shawn Keene Microsoft Provides Free Data Transfer Tool

The Daily Six Pack: February 28, 2014

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Visual Studio IDE Enhancements Some IDE Enhancements in Visual Studio 2013, Pravinkumar Dabade Other A C# Feature I’d Really Like to See in a Future Version, Roland Weigelt RIP: Windows XP end of support, Iris Classon C#/.NET Little Wonders: Getting Caller Information, James Michael Hare When

The Daily Six Pack: January 23, 2014

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Visual Studio 2013 Update Visual Studio 2013 Update 1, S. Somasegar Other What are Bitcoins? Stackdump, an offline browser for StackExchange sites Visual Studio Tips and Tricks: Enhanced Scroll Bar, Susan Ibach Implementation of TransactionScope on C# Code without Database, Abhishek Sur

The Daily Six Pack: January 17, 2014

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: TryParse TryParse Indicates Whether a Parse Operation Will Succeed, Sean Sexton Other I Sold a Chrome Extension but it was a bad decision, Amit Agarwal Microsoft extends updates for Windows XP security products until July 14, 2015, Emil Protalinski Episode 87 of Visual Studio Toolbox,

The Daily Six Pack: January 9, 2014

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: VirtualBox And Hyper-V Switch easily between VirtualBox and Hyper-V with a BCDEdit boot Entry in Windows 8.1, Scott Hanselman Other Windows 8.1 Developer Training: Geek Edition, Senthil Kumar Document Your Code with IntelliSense, Peter Vogel Securing Windows XP after End Of Support