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We finally made the change to Community Server here at bloggingabout.net. Because of this, some stuff will change. One of them is the appearance of all the blogs. And I’m not entirely happy with the way my blog is looking right now. I guess it takes some getting used to. Maybe I’ll switch a little the next days. If you think I should keep a certain skin (or loose it!): drop me a comment…

<LI class="MsoNormal"> <SPAN lang="EN-US">Which methods allocate which types of objects?</SPAN><br /> <LI class="MsoNormal"> <SPAN lang="EN-US">Which objects survive?</SPAN><br /> <LI class="MsoNormal"> <SPAN lang="EN-US">What is on the heap?</SPAN><br /> <LI class="MsoNormal"> <SPAN lang="EN-US">What keeps objects alive?</SPAN> </LI></UL> <br /> <LI class="MsoNormal"> <SPAN lang="EN-US">Additionally:</SPAN><br /> <UL type="circle"> <br /> <LI class="MsoNormal"> <SPAN lang="EN-US">The call graph feature lets you see who is calling whom how often.</SPAN><br /> <LI class="MsoNormal"> <SPAN lang="EN-US">Which methods, classes, modules get pulled in by whom</SPAN> </LI></UL> <br /> <LI class="MsoNormal"> <SPAN lang="EN-US">The tool can profile applications, services, and ASP</SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US">.

Last weekend I went to see the musical Hair at the Stadsschouwburg in Eindhoven. It was played by an allmost all American cast: only the male lead was a Dutch guy, if I understood correctly. (Normally the female lead was Dutch too, but that role was played by someone else last saturday.) And I have to say: it was really great! Unbelievable vocals, great play and a pretty cool way to bring all those long forgotten beautiful songs back to life (Aquariuuuuus).

This one is actually quite simple: Crystal Reports supports exporting to a PDF. Exporting can be done to disk, or to a stream. And a stream can be written to the Repsonse property of a page. And there you go 😉 // Variable declarationCrystalTest crystalTest;MemoryStream memoryStream;// Create a new instance of the report you want to display as a PDFcrystalTest = newCrystalTest();// TODO: Add some stuff here to fill the report with data// Export the report to a stream with the PDF formatmemoryStream = (MemoryStream)crystalTest.

View the interview Channel 9 had with Microsoft’s CEO: Steve Ballmer. The interview in short: _Why does Microsoft care about developers? 01:11 Why does Microsoft have an evangelism team? 01:48 What is your call to action for developers right now? 02:44 Microsoft is a leader in transparency and blogging. Why did you allow blogging? 03:38 Time for some tough questions. On the blogs there are those that say that Microsoft doesn’t innovate, can you give us some examples of where Microsoft is innovating?

This Microsoft sites makes it possible to enable ClearType fonts in Windwos XP from a web interface (using Internet Explorer). Neat! There’s a powertoy available also… ClearType is a special way of displaying fonts that makes fonts stand out more on LCD screens. It’s almost as if you’re looking at a piece of paper with the words printed on it. Click here for more information on ClearType.

My last message was about this strange error I received. Today I got it again, which led me to believe a hardware failure was not the reason. So after some more investigation I found out Index Server was to blaim. Taken from support.microsoft.com (click here for full article): If you run Index Server (Cisvc.exe), then Index Server may rescan the Temporary ASP.NET Files directory while it requests a Microsoft ASP.NET page.

I’ve been using skmmenu for quite a while now, and I think it’s great! But last Friday I was fooling around in Visual Studio, trying to make some fun stuff in ASP.NET, when I got a strange error about a reference. The information part: _ === Pre-bind state information === LOG: DisplayName = skmmenu (Partial) LOG: Appbase = file:///c:/inetpub/wwwroot/Site LOG: Initial PrivatePath = bin Calling assembly : (Unknown). ===_ LOG: Policy not being applied to reference at this time (private, custom, partial, or location-based assembly bind).

Soon bloggingabout.net will switch to new (and better) blogging software. Because of this, the URL to my blog (and any other blog at bloggingabout.net) will change. In stead of bloggingabout.net/username, all blogs will become available through URLs like bloggingabout.net/blogs/username. Don’t worry if you can’t remember: the old URL will keep working for a while: it will redirect to the new one. I’ll keep you posted when the change is going to be done.

Although we’re not using SourceSafe at my current project (yet), I found out about a cool feature recently: Keyword Expansion. It enables you to get information about the revision, date, author and so on of the version of the file you are looking at inside the file itself. This way you can see version information in the comments of your code-file, without even starting SourceSafe. Taken from an MSDN entry about VS2k5:

The default ComboBox has some weird characteristics…We created our own control which derives from the ComboBox because we wanted to create a ComboBox where the user could type (parts of) the value he or she wants to select, but would not be able to type something that was not in the list. So that’s kind of a combination between the DropDownStyles DropDownand DropDownList. The basics weren’t that complicated, so we created the controls pretty fast.