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Changing the Desktop Wallpaper Programmatically on Windows
12 October 07 01:39 PM | john | 0 Comments   
My friend Scott asked me the other day how he might go about changing the desktop wallpaper programmatically. It's one of those things that is still buried in the native Windows Win32 API. The call you need is SystemParametersInfo and the action you need Read More...
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Visual Studio Column Guides Redux
22 March 07 09:06 AM | john | 2 Comments   
I was just informed by one of my colleagues that there is a hidden feature in Visual Studio to add guidelines into the text editor. Guidelines are virtical dotted lines that show character column boundaries. This is useful if you are formatting something Read More...
Visual Studio Macro Balloon
17 January 06 09:10 PM | john | 0 Comments   
I've always loved editors with built in macro languages. Once you have macro control of every facet of the editor you can pull off some really cool and time saving tricks. I gave up macros back in the early 90's for the graphical environment of Microsoft Read More...