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The Guys

In 1989 I entered a famous local primary school and started my study. In that exact year, Peter Weir made a film named Dead Poets Society, which wins an Academic award. I watched that movie when I ...

GrapeVine Voice: Delay Because of Bandwidth

I have to say running an open source project is not easy. I knew this when I read about open source for the first few months. I never thought I could make money from Code Beautifier Collection. Une...

Windows Service File Name

When you get a ServiceController instance, how do you know the executable name and path? WMI makes it possible. You can use this GetServicePath function to query service executable name and path. ...

GrapeVine Voice: DXCore for Visual Studio

CodeRush for Visual Studio is now 100% native .NET code. Yes, the same as Code Beautifier Collection for CodeGear RAD Studio. And what else do the two look alike. Both use plug-in architecture so e...

Dundas Chart Help Hell

I thought Dundas Chart was great, so I recommended my company bought it. However, when I installed and used it, I found the help in fact helpless sometimes. I can provide an easy example. When a u...

Summer of Code: Google's Plan

It is so wonderful that Google holds Summer of Code every year. After subscribing to Monologue, I can see how SoC helps Project Mono. When those talent students join the projects during the summer...

Product Review: GhostDoc for Visual Studio

There are so many add ins for Visual Studio designed by MVPs and I can almost draw a conclusion that if you make a popular VS add in, you may become an MVP some day. GhostDoc is one of the best a...

Product Review: Windows Live Photo Gallery vs. Picasa

I have been using Picasa for a long time so you can see I am addicted to Google most of the times. However, you cannot double click on an image and open it in Picasa as you may expect. Picasa is no...