Archive for November, 2008
Windows Skydrive to upgrade to 25gig online storage!
Nov 21st
If you don’t know, Windows Skydrive is Microsoft’s offering of free online storage – previously it was only 5gig but now they are upping this limit to 25gig, more than likely to bring them in line with other free online storage providers out there (me cynical, nah!)
Anyways I played about with it a few months More >
Microsoft to offer free malware and other security offerings!!!
Nov 19th
Techradar.com has pointed out that Microsoft are to offer free Malware tools to comabat the increasing problem of botnets etc on users PC’s
Microsoft is getting serious about global security, offering a free anti-malware package code-named Morro that has been specially designed for low cost PCs in developing nations.
The software will be available in the second More >
How to programmatically turn on the Numlock Key
Nov 7th
The following code will allow you to turn on the numlock key upon startup. Can’t credit anyone as i’m not sure where it came from but it does work 100%
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
class SetNumlockKeyOn
{
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
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Deleting elements from XML Documents
Nov 7th
If you need to delete either a Node, Element or Attribute from your XML document, try the following code as it actually works!!!
XML Document Structure
<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“utf-8” standalone=“yes“?>
<!–XML Config file–>
<Tests>
<Test>
<ID>47d272cd-877d-4d0f-ad4a-cfa31200d966</ID>
<Object>Obj1</Object>
<TestType>Fail Yes</TestType>
<Command>fail yes</Command>
<Time>202</Time>
<Expiry>0</Expiry>
</Test>
<Test>
<ID>71b211a7-99e4-4041-ada7-2925b6aff46f</ID>
<Object>Obj2</Object>
<TestType>Fail No</TestType>
<Command>fail no</Command>
<Time>243</Time>
<Expiry>0</Expiry>
</Test>
</Tests>
To delete the element based on the GUID I Use:
///
/// Allows you to delete an element from the XML File
/// More >
Using Regular Expressions to see if string validates as a numeric or number value
Nov 7th
The following method will take in a string and return a bool value if it’s a valid number:
///
/// Uses Regular expressions to see if we are a number
///
///
///
static bool IsNumeric(string inputString)
{
return System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.IsMatch(inputString, “^[0-9]+$”);
}
The end of an era – Windows 3.x
Nov 5th
Windows 3.x established the look of the operating system.
An application has expectedly quit.
Windows 3.x has come to the closing moments of its long life.
On 1 November Microsoft stopped issuing licences for the software that made its debut in May 1990 in the US.
The various versions of Windows 3.x (including 3.11) released in the early More >
Rubik Cube Wedding picture on Concorde ± Manchester Airport October 20th 2008
Nov 4th
Create your own Rubik’s Cube