Windows 2000 DST Patch Utility

IntelliAdmin - Unofficial Windows 2000 Daylight Saving Time Patch

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Well, here we are. It is 2007, and Microsoft has published updates for XP, and 2003. But...No update for 2000 Workstation, or any of the server editions.

This is a huge problem for many organizations. I know some companies that have hundreds of Windows 2000 boxes....

The workaround that Microsoft provides is not easy to follow. Check out the KB article at Microsoft.

We have created a utility that will update any machine to the new daylight saving format (XP, NT, 2000, 2003, Vista). Obviously you only need it for 2000, or NT since those operating systems have dropped off support.

It updates Daylight Saving Time (Yes it is Saving, not Savings) in these time zones:
-Alaska Standard Time Zone
-Central Standard Time Zone
-Eastern Standard Time Zone
-Mountain Standard Time Zone
-Pacific Standard Time Zone
-Atlantic Standard Time Zone (Canada)
-Newfoundland Standard Time Zone (Canada)

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This is something that might come in handy in the coming month...

This is a GUI & command line utility to help automate the coming North American DST changes/updates for Win2k (works on newer Win OS's too). The source is also available (Object Pascal for Delphi).

(via E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" - More DST patches and tools)

Outlook To OneNote AddIn Code Project

Code Project - Outlook To OneNote

"This Addin is designed to solve a problem some users of OneNote face. Once people start using OneNote, many of them tend to move all their data into it. They then experience the problem of being away from OneNote and having information they want to add to it. Their only access may be to email, such as with a mobile phone or airport kiosk. They could rely on new functionality in Outlook 2007 which gives a ribbon button to send the contents of email to OneNote. There is a step or two here which can be eliminated with this addin.

This addin adds the capability of sending yourself email with a certain keyword in the subject and having Outlook automatically create a new page in OneNote's Unfiled Notes section when that mail item arrives. Outlook then deletes the email. It also allows power users to set the filter used for incoming mail items to trigger the code. It provides no UI for the user: "it just works."

I also included the setup project since it is needed to create the registry key when executed. If you just want to install and use the addin, the Setup zip file is all you need. Exit all office apps and run setup.exe.

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 This is an interesting sounding addin...

(via OneNote Extensibility & More.. - PowerToy: Outlook To OneNote AddIn)

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WCF Coding Standard from IDesign

Because I'm just a sucker for coding standards & guidelines... ;)

IDesign - IDesign WCF Coding Standard 

This is a short, 13 page PDF with very detailed and concise WCF coding standards and guidelines.

While you're there, make sure you check out their very cool list of WCF and .Net downloads and their IDesign C# Coding Standard.

(via Graham Elliott - A Must Have: IDesign WCF Coding Standard)

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US Government Budget for FY 2008

Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 2008

"Issued by the Office of Management and Budget, the Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the fiscal year. Other related and supporting budget publications, such as the Economic Report of the President, are included, which may vary from year to year.

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Want to see what your (assuming you are a US citizen) government is spending our tax dollars on? This is one place to start...

Visual Studio Power Toy Pack Installer Beta 2 Released

CodePlex - Power Toys Pack Installer

I had missed this...

The cool VS Pack Installer has been recently updated to beta 2 and is looking pretty cool.

(via Arno Nel 2.0 - the Information Worker - Power Toys for Visual Studio - Installer)

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CodePlex Update Released (1/30/2007)

CodePlex Weblog - New CodePlex Version!

"I know this is a few days late, but as of Jan 30th we are running a new version of CodePlex!

Some of the highlight features are:

• Source code browsing on the website
• Lots of improvements to discussions
• More granular RSS feeds for projects

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I saw that CodePlex was doing an upgrade, but wasn't sure what was IN the upgrade... The online source code browsing and specific project RSS feeds are very cool.

If you already have subscribed to a CodePlex feed it looks like it should continue to work and remain be a Project scoped feed. This is a big add for me... Some projects I want to see everything, some I just want to know if there's a new release. Thank you CodePlex team for listening...

To get at the new feeds, go to the new RSS Feeds tab for a given project.

Here's an example of the new feeds for my Text Template For Windows Live Writer Plugin project;

 wlwTextTemplate

Includes all project updates: wiki, releases, work items, source code check-ins, and discussions

 Wiki

Changes to the home page and other wiki pages

 Releases

New and updated releases

 Issue Tracker

New work items and updates to (including closing) existing work items

 Source Code

New check-ins of change sets

 Discussions

New check-ins of change sets

Flickr4Office (Flickr Add-ins for Word 2007 & Outlook 2007)

The Road to Know Where - New Microsoft Office 2007 Flickr Add-ins

"Microsoft's Codeplex project has released two Office 2007 Add-insa Windows Vista Flickr Uploader tool for uploading pictures to Flickr, specifically to be used in Windows Vista. Vista is capable of managing metadata (such as title, description and tags) inside picture files by storing it in an XMP section.

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Flickr4Word

Flickr4Outlook

These two plugin let you upload, search and browse images on Flickr and easily add them to your respective Word/Outlook document/email. 

Both were written by Tim Heuer, who is behind the cool Flickr4Writer and both use the very cool FlickrNet library. And being on Codeplex, the source (C# for both) is easily downloadable.