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Twitter!

Edwin Vriethoff — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:10:31 +0000

After a long time I finally decided to join the twitter hype. Or perhaps isn’t it a hype anymore?

Regularly I found myself searching for a way to share or track small information. The problem is that it’s often too small to create a complete blog posting for.

Twitter seems to be a great tool to track or share small information, so today I finally made my first steps in the Twitter world at http://www.twitter.com/edwindotnet.

Find out which process is locking a DLL without extra tools

Edwin Vriethoff — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:28:40 +0000

Today I got the “The process cannot access the file … because it is being used by another process” error again, during a development build. And as long as the DLL is locked, it’s not possible to do a successful build.

Most sites and tips on the internet suggest to download some tool to detect which process is using the DLL. It seems that not many people are aware that, since Windows XP, we don’t need to download (or even pay for) a tool to detect this.

Just launch the windows console and navigate to the directory of the DLL. Now type “tasklist.exe /m locked.dll” and it will show you exactly which processes have loaded and locked this DLL.

Happy unlocking

Once upon a time I was tagged for the blogging Meme

Edwin Vriethoff — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:05:31 +0000

A long time ago, on April 11, I was tagged for the blogging Meme by my colleague Mirjam. The blogging Meme is a concept that let’s bloggers share some random facts about themselves.

These are the ‘Meme rules’:

Each player starts with five (used to be eight) random facts/habits about themselves.
People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their five things) and post these rules.
At the end of your blog, you need to choose five people to get tagged and list their names.
Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

So here are the 5 random facts / habits about me:

I just got engaged on 2008-8-8 at The Disney Magic Kingdom, Orlando
My favorite food type is Mexican
My car and my racing bicycle are Italian; I love to drive my 2001 Alfa Romeo 147 and I race on a Bianchi 1885 bicycle
I lived in Germany for 4 years
My favorite music artists are Phil Collins and Shakira

The 5 bloggers that I tag for the blogging Meme are:

Symbaloo: a personal desktop on the web

Edwin Vriethoff — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:35:11 +0000

This is just a post about something that I would like to share. Today I came across a new start page initiative. It’s called Symbaloo and it’s available in multiple countries. The site is still in beta, but it’s really worth to take a look at.

All information and sites are organized in colorful blocks that you can add, delete and move around. I think that it works very nice and it also looks great and simple. This is gonna be my new startpage.

How to open an Office 2007 document inside an Internet Explorer 7 window?

Edwin Vriethoff — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:53:07 +0000

Trying to build a document preview window in Sharepoint, I noticed that it is no longer possible to stream a Word document inside a browser window. This problem occurs when you use Office 2007 in combination with Internet Explorer 7 and is behavior by design. Microsoft decided on this behavior to increase overall security and usability.

But what if you really need to open the document inside the browser? There is only one way around; Microsoft published a KB about the issue which can be resolved by making changes to the registry which you can read here. If you have no control over the end-user’s computer you’ll probably have to find another solution like generating PDF previews. What a bummer…