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Multiple Monitor/Screen Information Example

March 20, 2010

Microsoft made it very simple to get information about the displays available to Windows with the Screen class in Windows Forms. Using this class you can identify the primary screen, and get properties like size from any display device.

For anyone developing an application which supports multiple monitors the Screen.Bounds property may be useful in finding [...]

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Weekly Links #2

January 26, 2009

Microsoft InfoMesa Project Whiteboard for your data
Fabric – like Capistrano but written in Python
A Visual Introduction to Screen
retlang – Google Code
Tim Sneath : The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets
update-engine – Google Code

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PowerShell and svnadmin dump/load

January 26, 2009

Recently I was migrating several Subversion repositories from a Windows server over to a Solaris one and ran into a rather frustrating issue. Actually it’s quite an interesting problem, but was frustrating due to the size of the repositories involved, and my fear that repositories were borked.
It all started with my decision to fire up [...]

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First impressions of Windows 7 Beta 1

January 11, 2009

After a very quick install on a Dell XPS M1710 laptop, and a few hours of messing around, I have come to the conclusion that this is going to be the best release of Windows yet. At the same time, it’s not very exciting for the alpha geek in me. Perhaps it is good to [...]

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