Category Archives: .NET

Batch Add Contacts in Outlook

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Rick Lobrecht

I finally got an iPhone, and will be syncing it to my company’s Exchange environment.  I used to sync my WinMo phone with my personal world.  I wanted to start adding contact pictures so they would show up on my … Continue reading →

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Live Mesh

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I finally got Live Mesh working on my Mac, my phone, and my fileserver.  I’m waiting on a new laptop for work, so I haven’t installed there yet. I have to say  this is very cool.  At the very basic, … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter and Whitelisting

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I recently discovered that I was occasionally missing emails from correspondents.  Reviewing the emails, it is obvious how they could be construed as SPAM (one sentence with a URL) however these are from regular correspondents, who are unlikely to be … Continue reading →

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Porting Excersise VB6 to C#

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

I’m in the middle of a porting/refactoring excersise of some old VB6 code to C# 2.0.  In the VB code there are “types” and I had no idea of what the equivalent would be in C#.  For example: Private Type … Continue reading →

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post to del.icio.us from PPC

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

Cool.  Dale Lane has posted a Pocket IE extension that allows you to add the current page you are viewing as a new bookmark in del.icio.us. He also posted the source.  

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Access is Denied using sn.exe

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

I was just attempting to use sn.exe to create a strong name key pair, and ran into the error Access is Denied. D:\Documents\Work\Code>sn.exe -k foo.snk Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Strong Name Utility Version 2.0.50727.42Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. … Continue reading →

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Your Code is Suboptimal

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

I got the SourceGear t-shirt I requested.  It looks great.  A couple of pics (yes, he’s much cuter than me, even when trying to look like the Evil Mastermind.)  

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This is how you recruit

Posted on March 29, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

Check out this Jackson Fish Market post, which leads to Paul Senzee‘s account of Red 5 Studio‘s attempt to recruit him to be one of their new game developers.  Now game development is a tough market, and having the best … Continue reading →

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DiffMerge

Posted on March 28, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

SourceGear has released a free download of their new DiffMerge product.  I downloaded and installed it yesterday, and I have to say its pretty nice, especially for the price.  It will be interesting to see how it compares to Beyond … Continue reading →

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How to merge to SS databases

Posted on January 8, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

Reminder for myselfHow to merge two Visual SourceSafe databases  

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