I noticed that my preferences pane was getting cluttered with applications; some of these applications, mind you, have been uninstalled far back. So I did some sleuthing today to try to figure out how to get rid of them. It turned out to be super-simple: control+clicking on the application icon gives you the option of removing it from the preferences pane. Doh!
I was playing around with Active Directory and C# today. I don't pretend to understand anything yet, but you don't need to know anything about Active Directory or LDAP to do stuff against it with C#.
To start with, the classes we're interested in are found in the following namespaces:
System.DirectoryServices;
System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory;Continue reading "How to get all users and computers in a domain via C#"
Suppose you set up your email account (person@domain.com) so that all its e-mails get forwarded to your Gmail account. It's really easy to get Gmail to send a reply to any e-mail you received to this account as that account.
That is: the "From" field for any reply will be "person@domain.com" instead of "person@gmail.com."
Continue reading "How to send e-mail as someone else from Gmail"
I was poking around the .NET framework yesterday and came across these three methods in the TextInfo class:
string text = "this is a test string";
System.Globalization.TextInfo info = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US", false).TextInfo;
// First letter of every word is capitalized.
System.Console.WriteLine(info.ToTitleCase(text));
// Lowercase all letters
// System.Console.WriteLine(info.ToLower(text));
// Uppercase all letters
// System.Console.WriteLine(info.ToUpper(text));
info = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("de-DE", false).TextInfo;
System.Console.ReadLine();
Nice. :-)
A quick tip on TFS: how to set the working folder (in which all files and folders are dropped when you do a "get latest").
For some mysterious reason, this option isn't available via the context menu but anyway: the workspaces dialog box (File » Source Control » Workspaces) lets you add or modify working folders.
Joy.
Scrivener is a project management tool for writers. It won't try to tell you how to write - it just makes all the tools you have scattered around your desk available in one application.
I’ve been using Scrivener since beta versions and I love it! It’s a fantastic application tailored for writers everywhere and it’s well worth the $35. It’s loaded with a lot of great features, so let’s get started:
Continue reading "Review: Scrivener from Literature and Latte"
Today marks the end of my not-so brief sabbatical from my blog; thanks to everyone who stuck along. I can promise some free templates not to mention some nice EE themes within the coming weeks.
Anyway, yesterday I was working on a stored procedure that required me to select a field from the table into a variable. I figured it had something to do with the SET keyword, but it took me a while to figure out the exact syntax:
DECLARE @VariableName INT
SET @VariableName = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Customers WHERE State = 'MN')