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Random ramblings on gaming and .NET development

First UI to hit 100.000 installs with the AOC UI Installer

clock September 5, 2011 09:54 by author Freddie
InvenUI has now surpassed 100.000 installs in just 15 months!
A close second is Stonerune with 95.500 installs in same period.
Kudos to both authors!

Below is an overview of the most installed mods in Age of Conan:
Click Here to see large image


Get a FREE TRIAL of our new digital signage software

clock September 3, 2011 10:10 by author Brian

Want to cut costs on advertising? Try out our new simple digital signage software. It allows you to turn your existing LCD/Plasma screen and your existing computer into a powerful digital sign.More...



XElement - Getting OuterXML and InnerXML

clock August 29, 2011 07:52 by author Brian

Recently i faced a problem where i needed to get the InnerXml and the OuterXml of an XElement object. The solution was easy to find on the InnerXMl method but the OuterXml method was a bit harder. Here is what i have done.

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My GMail looked like it lost the stylesheet, top elements was scrambled together

clock May 4, 2011 12:24 by author Brian

I experienced a very annoying thing revently. My GMail looked like the top elements (buttons colors etc.) was scrambled together like the CSS was wrong or something. On my other computers and my phone and iPad i had no problems. It turns out that it detected the page as to be shown in "Compact View". Now i changed it to be shown in standard view. Here is how to solve it if you run into this problem:

1. Open the Gmail page

2. Press F12 to access the developer tools

3. Go to the menu "Browser Mode"

4. Change this to IE9 (the one i was using)

 

Now you are all done and GMail should again look like it should. Hope you find this helpful



Accessing the connectionstring in Linq2SQL from a class library

clock May 1, 2011 19:35 by author Brian

One of the problem I recently ran into was that my project had refactored the business logic and the dataaccess out into a seperate assembly. The problem i ran into was that i kept getting connected to the old database i used before and not the new one i installed on lmy local machine. I stumbled across this blog entry explaining that my connectionstring was being saved several place. I followed this simple receipe and voila, it works.

http://goneale.com/2009/03/26/untie-linq-to-sql-connection-string-from-application-settings/

 



Free Article rewriter

clock March 30, 2011 12:58 by author Brian

Have you ever made SEO articles for your blogs and wanting to optimize across several blogs, but find yourself staggering along coming up with clever variations of the same article. Look at the FREE article rewriter, it will help you generate the different articles. Press here to go to the download page. Enjoy.



Affiliate Webshops, making passive money, from home

clock February 11, 2011 09:39 by author Brian

A couple of years ago i build the first version of this affiliate webshop. At that time I used it for a couple of small affiliate stores which didnt generate a lot of money. Recently i took the time to migrate it from an old solution to a more userfriendly interface. This to help others in making money more easily More...



New Company, New Digital signage

clock January 19, 2011 13:52 by author Brian

Hello everyone. Its has been a long time since anything has been posted on this blog. I blame Freddie :-) Since the last time I have been busy busy busy,. I have started my own company which i am working for in weekends and evenings so its not something to live from  - yet :-). Well what im doing is, digital signs! Yeah yeah you think, but this is very interesting, me and the guy whom i started this with has developed a new platform for digital signs which we think will revolutionize the world as we know it. More...



Blog spammers

clock April 7, 2010 09:22 by author Freddie

Due to fucking idiotic blog spammers we have disabled the possibility to enter comments.
We dont want to use 10-15 minutes every day removing spam.

This is really sad, since it kinda ruins the purpose of having a blog...



AOC UI Installer version 3.x

clock March 19, 2010 11:00 by author Freddie

Finally I am going tell you guys about my plan with version 3.x

Version 3.0
1) Plugins - starting with the Buff tweak as a plugin.
2) Install wizard - UI Modders will have more options to let the users decide what they want to install.
    See preview video here: UI Wizard.avi (147.50 kb)
3) Remove an access violation - this is comming from some code I was playing around with and forgot to delete.
4) If an unknown UI is loaded the UI Installer checks a webservice for install information.
    This makes it possible for me to publish install information for any custom UI at any time!!
    Only limitation is the file name of the UI zip must be unique, and not named "Customized.zip" but a proper
    name like "Awsomeness.zip", because this is used to locate the online install information.
5) A proper installer for my program :-)

Version 3.x
1) More plugins - Font modification and hopefully more.
2) Smart install - The AOC UI Installer must be able to install UI's not know to it. By analysing the folders and files it will try to install the mod.

Im am working on a program for generating the AOC UI Installer xml file, making it easier for UI developers to
Make their UI's compatible and to make it easier to generate the new xml required for the install wizard.
It is hard work and has required some rewrite of core functionality, but I think it is worth it!
I am aming at a somewhat intelligent program that can build the entire package into a zip file.

This is subject of change ofc.
Feel free to add suggestions in the comments



About the authors

Your blog hosts are:

Brian: Software Developer, .NET Addict, and always wondering why on earth you would consider doing something manually when you can get your computer to do it for you.

Freddie a.k.a. Azagatoth:
I am a full time developer hired to implement business intelligence.
My hobbies are gaming, diving/svimming and developing stuff for games.


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