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This version introduce many of the new and exciting features to help you easily manage your running applications. Here is a quick list of the new features in the version 2.0 Let’s you reorder the Taskbar groups similar to simple application buttons. Custom grouping of the running applications in the Taskbar . Easily hide all…
When developing a desktop application, it’s often required that only one instance of application should be executable at a time. This is usually implemented in different ways depending on Language/Tools you are using to build the application. Some common techniques used are either using the Mutex or getting a list of active processes and making…
If you are writing any application which adds an icon to the Taskbar notification area, it’s recommend to handle the “WM_TASKBARCREATED” the message sent by explorer. This message is sent by explorer when it’s creating the taskbar. As after crash explorer doesn’t remember the original notification icons, you should handle this message and then re-register…
Page break in HTML pages When generating reports directly in the HTML, it’s often required to do a forced page break so that a new sections always prints on a new page. Fortunately, this is very simple with the help of CSS. For this you just need to add the “page-break-before:always” or “page-break-after:always” styles to…
One has to often import and export dates in different format in the day to day programming. Though most of the .Net developers know how to export (convert the date to string) in a specific format, it’s little tricky when it comes to importing that i.e. loading the date in a custom string format to…
I recently got new MacBook Pro notebook. This is my first Apple notebook. I am regular user of the Windows and need it for both work and home (game playing). I also like to have a Linux flavor on my disk to do the time to time research and testing. So as soon as I…
In one of my Win32 DLL projects, whenever I tried to add a resource file, I got the “Automation server can’t create object” object. Similar to other errors, this was not very informative. After searching for this error, I found this the common cause of this problem is that Windows Scripting host is corrupt. You…
As the Office 2007 is growing and getting more popular, I get more and more files from the client and other colleagues in the new Office 2007 format. I still have Office 2003, yes that ancient one, and it was not able to read those files (not correct, read more). I had thought many time…
