When responding to a forum post, isn’t it nice to be able to have the original message scrollable separate from where you are typing your response?  Do you wish there was a way to do this when replying to a horrendously long email in Outlook?  The other day, I accidentally found out how to do [...]

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I originally started this post with a title of “WPF ToolTip Child Element Visibility Based on the Parent of the ToolTip IsEnabled Property… and you are not it with a dirty dirty dish rag on your toe reading behind a dirty magazine”, but I decided that in the best interest of my sanity (read: “what [...]

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I’m a big fan of the Office 2007 style tooltips and one of the areas where I feel .NET lets me down a little is in the ToolTip department. Here’s the default .NET ToolTip: Now take a look at the following ToolTips: Not only do they look much better, but they also provide some very [...]

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Here’s a quick tip I found out about the other day from a fellow co-worker: You can drag and drop a single file or folder onto the command prompt and it will paste the path automatically. This saves time compared to the old-fashioned way of selecting the address bar, copying, then right-clicking on the command [...]

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It really bothers me and my 17 month old son that Windows Explorer in Vista randomly forgets the column widths between different folders.  It also bothers us that there isn’t an option to have the columns automatically size to fit when I browse between folders.  So my day goes like this: Browse to new folder and see [...]

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