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Archive for August, 2009

I woke up this morning to an interesting question.

“Using VB.net 2008, I want my project to be a Windows Forms Application, but upon startup, I want to check a few files to see if they exist and if they don’t I do not want the startup form to load. I just want the program to quit. If you have to start this type of application with a form, how do you keep the form from displaying?”

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Here is a great question from a visitor.

“What is the exact use of GetHashCode of an object in .net? Does it have any relation with garbage collection?”

Let’s answer the second question first. No, it has nothing to do with garbage collection.

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Last week we parsed the HTML and created code that keeps track of the various attributes we are going to need when we create the PDF.  Today we will finish the code and create the Elements that we can include in our PDF document.

One consideration we will need to keep in mind as we write out the PDF is that we have pushed various font characteristics that may overlap onto our stack.

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Last year I provided a list of reasons why I won’t buy an iPhone.  Since that time I’ve had a chance to play with one and I must admit, it is a pretty cool little toy.

The keyboard is a lot more usable than I thought it would be. It has the ability to accept push mail from Exchange server.  The browser is probably the most usable hand-held browser on the market.  And the screen resolution is awesome.  In fact, when I first saw one up close, I was tempted to make it my new phone.

But even with that, there are a few apps missing.  And even if I heard that there was an application being developed tomorrow that would fill the missing gap in applications, I STILL would not buy an iPhone because of this one critical reason that I missed in my first list.

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