Rob Garrett - Blogs

January 2005 - Posts

• Google Browser?

  This morning I was reading more about the rumors that are circulating about the Google browser . It's apparent that Google doesn't want to think of itself as just a search engine company, and the addition of GMail and Google Desktop Search to their repertoire Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:40 AM by Rob Garrett | 4 Comments

• Expose a .NET Assembly via COM - without RegASM.exe

  I kept promising myself I would write a post on how to expose a .NET assembly to COM without having to use RegASM.exe . Someone asked me today for the very code to do this, so I thought now would be as good as time as any to write my post. Microsoft provided Read More... Posted Monday, January 24, 2005 3:07 PM by Rob Garrett | 3 Comments

• Visio 2003 IFilter and MTA

  I recently had a problem instantiating the Visio 2003 IFilter from C#.... The following code instantiates an IFilter using COM Interop. The CLSID is obtained from the registry (method excluded for brevity) and then used to obtain the COM object type, Read More... Posted Monday, January 24, 2005 9:52 AM by Rob Garrett | 10 Comments

• Project Management

  This is the funniest picture I've seen all week, acurate too Thanks to Sashidhar Kokku for finding this gem. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More... Posted Sunday, January 16, 2005 4:42 PM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments

• More on Null and Empty Strings

  Following on from Jeff Atwood's post about comparing a string to empty string (""), I found out that C# and VB.net do not behave the same when comparing a string that is null. In the following C# snippet, the code will display The String is NOT Null : Read More... Posted Sunday, January 16, 2005 12:02 AM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments

• Null, Empty Strings and Performance Programmers

  Jeff Atwood makes a complaint about "performance programmers" breaking his code. In his example , Jeff shows the following snippet of code: If Value <> "" Then If nvc.Item(name) = "" Then nvc.Add(name, Value) End If End If ... which was then changed Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 12, 2005 8:38 AM by Rob Garrett | 4 Comments

• I-Filters

  Today Carved out a chunk of the day to work on I-Filters. I-Filters are COM dynamic link libraries that convert known file types to text under Windows XP/2K/2K3. The OS's indexing service uses I-Filters to convert PDF and Office file types to text so Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 11, 2005 5:24 PM by Rob Garrett | 28 Comments

• How Nerdy are You?

  Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More... Posted Monday, January 10, 2005 8:16 AM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments

• Album Art and ID3_V2

  I have been messing with my music collection today (in my lunch hour of course). I spent time making sure that each MP3 and WMA file in my collection contains the correct song title, artist name, and album title (where possible) ID3v2 tags. I also went Read More... Posted Thursday, January 06, 2005 4:47 PM by Rob Garrett | 12 Comments

• Speeding up Firefox

  I found this little gem on Forevergeek.com . If you a nice fast broadband connection, this power-user tweak will instruct Firefox to make multiple connections so it can download more pages at once. Zoom-zoom.... Here's something for broadband people that Read More... Posted Saturday, January 01, 2005 2:49 PM by Rob Garrett | 7 Comments