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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/07
Handig om te weten als je met direct marketing te maken hebt/krijgt:
De DDMA (Dutch Dialogue Marketing Association) heeft codes voor Privacy, E-mail, Listbroking (handel in adressenbestanden), Telemarketing, Verspreiding Ongeadresseerd Reclamedrukwerk en Streetmarketing.
–jeroen
via: DDMA codes – DDMA en http://www.ns.nl/home/privacy
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/04
Below is a list of companies that just blindly start sending SPAM to email adresses you enter on their site, without verifying the person actually wants to be mailed:
Most of them are giving you a really hard time to unsubscribe when you even haven’t subscribed.
Don’t buy stuff from them…
People notoriously for adding me on those lists:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/04
.lnk files are very usefull as they can link to both files and directories.
However, somehow the GUI tools for zipping .lnk files tend to compress the .lnk target, not the .lnk itself.
I tried the Windows Explorer, WinZIP and 7zip GUIs to no avail.
The 7za command-line to the rescue:
7za a -tzip lnk-files.zip *.lnk
Unpacking the zip using the GUI works fine though.
You can get the latest 7za here.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/03
I uploaded the EKON15 conference download materials to http://bo.codeplex.com.
The changeset you are after is http://bo.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/changes/70872
It contains most of the materials for the Delphi Tage and the Delphi Live conferences too, though I will upload the missing pieces soon.
With the [WayBack] demise of codeplex, these links now have moved to
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/03
Sometimes you just want to ask a user for a simple string of input.
The InputBox function is an easy way to do do this. It has a tiny issue with the icon (it uses the one that belongs to the application installation, not the icon in the project properties).
InputBox has been part of Visual Basic since the 90s. And it is very easy to use from C# and other .NET languages:
Microst.VisualBasic.Interaction.InputBox("Did you know your question goes here?","Title","Default Text");Sometimes you have to look a bit further than your regular toolbox for simple solutions.
I should dig up my 2006 session on the My Object in Visual Basic: that is also very easy to use in C#.
–jeroen
via: Input Message Box in C#?.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/02
Yesterday, Update 2 for Delphi XE2 / C++ Builder XE2 / RAD Studio XE2 became available for download.
A few notes from my experience upgrading from a full RAD Studio XE2 Update 1 install (from ISO):
There are a ton of changes (154 changes files in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\9.0\source directory tree alone) including some of the things I came across that now have been fixed:
–jeroen
Via: Update 2 for Delphi XE2, C++Builder XE2 and RAD Studio XE2 now available – DelphiFeeds.com.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/02
It has been a while, but I have done some WinForms maintenance on business apps. For those kinds of apps, WinForms still is a productive environment, apart from one thing:
When you have a Dock of Fill, sometimes that control fills more than it should.
The reason is the order in which things are being calculated.
I always forget the trick, as other very productive environments for writing business apps don’t have this peculiarity (they have others, life is full of interesting peculiarities <g>).
Simple solution:
Now it fills exactly the wanted area :)
Thanks Jeff Cuscutis for posting this concise solution.
–jeroen
Via: c# – Panel.Dock Fill ignoring other Panel.Dock setting – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/01
Delphi Tricks (from Chris Hesik, see link below) to show which units are compiled into an app:
–jeroen
Via: debugging – How can I find all the units in my Delphi app? – Stack Overflow.
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