Aggressive installer is just like aggressive marketing (or guerilla marketing) - it uses inconvenient way to promote some other products. This is what I've been thinking for last few times I've been installing Java updates. When you click on that orange icon notifying you that update is available, you get an installation wizard which "will guide you though the setup process". At some point you are prompted to install OpenOffice or Google Toolbar along with Java, although I don't understand how they are related and why it is already selected by default. As I do not need nor use any...

Thanks to George J. Sun (web), Chinese Simplified language pack is available for Database Administrator. The ZIP file containing all languages is updated with the new file. I have to admit - I couldn't test it, as my system don't even display Chinese, so if anyone sees any problem in with the language file (not displayed properly and such), contact me or George to get it fixed :) As a reminder - DBAdmin is a tool for online managing your MS Access databases, written by me some time ago and using plain ASP (not .NET). Technorati Tags: DBAdmin,...

Janus's Grid doesn't allow custom controls inside its cells, but for my task, I had to show a progress bar on each row and was looking on how to do that. Well, I couldn't find any info apart from drawing the progress myself. Fortunately, progress bar is a simple rectangle and drawing rectangle is quite simple task. Below I'll explain how I did it. You can also download a zip file, containing sample project (you will have to have Janus GridEx installed on your system in order to be able to compile it though) - see the...

I was working on some project in Visual Studio 2003 with many user controls in it and suddenly, I found that I cannot open any control with Forms Editor. When I double-click on the file, it opens with CSharp code editor only. I'm still unsure how did this happen, but after looking at ".csproj" file in notepad, I have found how to fix this. Each file in .NET project is described in separate "File" node inside project file (or "Compile" node in Visual Studio 2005/2008), like in the screenshot below: Note, the SubType attribute -...

Well, I'm using TortoiseSVN at work, in conjunction with AnkhSVN - plugin for Visual Studio 2003. Don't ask me why, I do NOT like SVN in first place but this is what old projects use in the company I work in. And lately I had to do some changes in old project, so installed TortoiseSVN 1.4.x and AnkhSVN 1.0.2. This worked just fine for a couple of months but today I have decided to upgrade Tortoise to latest version. Yes, blame me, I forgot that this is an Open Source project and they do NOT think about backward compatibility....