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Birthday 2006 Originally uploaded by ScaleOvenStove.

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been searching for a while on how to test HttpContext and Cache in VS2005 Unit Tests, using the built in unit testing suite. Found this today..just add TextWriter tw = new StringWriter(); HttpWorkerRequest wr = new SimpleWorkerRequest(“/webapp”, “c:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\webapp\\”, “default.aspx”, “”, tw); HttpContext.Current = new HttpContext(wr); to you test method and the correct “using” statements, and [...]

I bought an Xbox 360 today. ScaleOvenStove is my gamer tag for Xbox Live – I put the card up on the sidebar of my blog. I got Call of Duty 2 and King Kong, I am liking it so far, also the Media Center Extender capabilities. Pretty Sweet – I am already happy with [...]

Funny, Microsoft had to change the way they handle ActiveX in the browser because they lost a patent…well, Outlook Web 2003 succumbs to the change, as in a new message, it asks you to hit enter or tab to activate the control. What a waste…you would think they could have a better workaround or just [...]

I have around 70 DVD’s, and I want to just watch them from my computer. I first thought about just ripping to avi/divx, which is good, but you lose metadata. Also, with Media Center Edition 2005, there is the My DVDs area which you dont get to use with avi’s. I decided to use DVDShrik [...]