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DutchTab for Windows Mobile is out of beta, and now officially supports both Pocket PC and Smartphone devices running Windows Mobile 5 or 6. This application is a joined venture with my friend Pascal who made an iPhone version of DutchTab at the same time I was working on my Windows Mobile version. This application is a bill-splitting tool, but ...

A new version of slimKEYS is now available. Though the list of new features is slim, it took me more than just a few hours to get through translation of the interface to French, and to finally make slimVOLUME support 64-bit Vista systems. In the first case, it was a long and tedious job of moving every string to a resource file, translate each ...

I wanted to upgrade my SmartFTP 2.5 to version 3.0 to overcome many crashes I get on Vista. Not only did the setup told me my maintenance was expired and had to renew it in order to use the upgrade, it told me the following applications were using files it had to upgrade: You need to upgrade files in use by slimKEYS? Or by xplorer2? I ... ...

I had an agreement. I gave my word. In order to win the book, I had to make a critique of it. I read it. I took notes. I enjoyed many topics, considering the book as a very good read for someone like me who's starting with web development and ASP.NET. But the critique never came. With my current time employment, it fell very low in my priorities. ...

This morning, my Google alerts pointed me to this page, a Russian web site talking about a product called SLIMCODE. Google Translate tells me it's a box of capsules for a weight loss program. I'm fine with that. It's normal, on this planet, to have some name collisions, as long as the domains of business are different. Where it hurts a little is ...

I'm getting crazy. Totally. I'm now convinced aliens kidnapped me in my sleep and changed my Vista installation. This morning, I tried to open a Command Prompt as administrator. I pressed Win-Z, typed ''cmd'', pressed Ctrl-Enter to get to the slimKEYS extended options, made sure the verb was ''runas'' and pressed Enter to launch the app as ...

I bought myself a nice gadget lately; an HTC P4000 mobile phone. While everybody is getting all excited (for good reasons, I admit) about the iPhone SDK, I decided to stick with Windows Mobile, a platform I was used to (both using and developing for). My phone has both a touch screen and sliding keyboard, two features that were important for me. ...

With Scott's Visual Studio's theme rundown, I'm getting requests for my VS Settings file for my older example. I can't give you the exact same colors, as I've tweaked them a little. Fear not, the look is almost the same, but I did change the font. Here's the rationale: With a bigger LCD screen, I do benefit from ClearType. Then ProggySquare ...

My very good friend Pascal Bourque is one of the lucky 5 nominees for the MSDN Canada Code Awards 2008, for his key role in the creation of the Xceed DataGrid for WPF. I often compare Pascal's technical skills with Scott Guthrie, who I happen to admire a lot too. The five nominations were made by Microsoft members upon submission, but one of ...

I just updated the web site and slimKEYS package for the newly released version 1.2.8069... 8069 you say? What's that? It's my new version numbering. Well, not that new, I stole the idea from Xceed, but it's partly my fault anyway if they use such a number. I even have a Vista widget, err, gadget displaying the current day's version number: ...