Monthly Archives: August 2008

Convert a FAT32 partition to NTFS on XP Home

Posted on 25.8.2008 by Anteru (Updated on 25.8.2008)

If you are using XP Home on a slightly older machine, your primary partition might be very well FAT32. At least on the two machines that I had with XP Home, FAT32 was the default. FAT32 is a pretty old … Continue reading →

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WPF: Minimal WPF DataBinding example

Posted on 18.8.2008 by Anteru (Updated on 27.12.2009)

WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is slated for becoming the next GUI toolkit for Windows (superseding Win32, MFC and Windows Forms). Unlike the others, WPF does not base on Win32 at all, but works on DirectX, providing features like fully vector-based … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio 2008 SP 1 /.NET 3.5 SP 1 out

Posted on 12.8.2008 by Anteru

Well, as expected, the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 has been released yesterday, together with an updated TR1 implementation. It contains some important fixes. Quoted right from the VC++ blog: The three most significant fixes are: * A massive performance improvement … Continue reading →

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What are you waiting for?

Posted on 11.8.2008 by Anteru (Updated on 11.12.2008)

If you are serious about programming, you know this feeling: You start working with something, and after some while, you hit some kind of road-block. Looking around for an easy fix, you find out that version N+1 is going to … Continue reading →

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