Archive for April 30th, 2009
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Help I’m stuck using decades old technology! Tales of a 16 bit sql server client connecting to a named instance server.
Lets face it no matter where you work, if you’ve been there long enough you find out that some piece of legacy software (perhaps an internal tool) is still being used but hasn’t been updated for a decade or two. Think about all those versions of the .NET framework dating back to 1.1 and 1.0, [...]
The return of Modal dialogs in ActiveX controls hosted by Internet Explorer 8 ( IE8 )
When IE8 was released I was asked to do some evaluation of our somewhat large ActiveX application to see what issues to expect. The single largest issue was the fact that suddenly none of our modal dialogs were modal any longer! Now depending on your design, this new behaviour could be disastrous (and it would [...]
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