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IE ToolTip Bug?

I have coded a WinForms marquee scroller program in VB.net/VS2003. Everything works great, but some users have noticed a bug.

When my program is running, IE stops displaying tool tips (TITLE and ALT tags). When my program is closed, they start working again.

I have debugged and went through all the code, and seemed to have found the culprit.

Private Sub tmrTicker_Elapsed(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs) Handles tmrTicker.Elapsed
lblMessage.Left = lblMessage.Left – 7
End Sub

That line of code causes the tool tips to disappear. It is also the key line of code that causes my marquee to move from right to left. I have tried making the control a label, textbox, rich text box, and they all did the same thing.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is it a bug?

I have tested, and Mozilla allows tool tips when it is running (the TITLE tags at lease, Mozilla doesnÂ’t display ALT tags in general). Also, Windows XP still displays them, and Outlook, etc do to. The only program that doesnÂ’t display tool tips is IE.

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Projects – Update

Well, I installed the Visual Basic Express product on my “home” laptop. It barely runs, but it still works. It is cool, a little different from VS 2003.

SQL Server Express doesn’t work on XP Home edition, what a rip. Anyways, I started on my Web Bot. You put in a URI, and then it goes to town, finding all the links,
then going to all of those links, etc, etc.

I need SQL to store the info though. I might make a VMWare image on my screaming laptop to play around with it.

Express Products

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Projects

Im getting bored. Thinking of new projects to work on. Maybe a web crawler bot or something like that. Or maybe a remote event log editor. Just ideas ….

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Firefox

I have been using Mozilla Firefox browser now for about a week and I would have to say it is totally cool. There are some bugs tough. Opening PDF’s seems to crash it. Also, if I opened links within my RSS Aggregator or Outlook 2003, it would act strange and one IE and one Firefox browser would open (I have Firefox set as default browser).

I found a link to fix the second problem:

Firefox

Firefox Default Browser Bug Fix

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VMWare

VMware is a product that lets you create “virtual machines”. I used it at training to run RedHat on top of Windows XP. It worked like a champ. Today, I set up Windows 2003 Server in a virtual machine and was playing around with it. Very cool. If you haven’t checked out this product, you should download the 30 day trial and mess around with it.

VMWare

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Buffer Overflow

Wow, well I was at training for 6 days. Talk about buffer overload. My head is filled with so much information, it is just crazy. I learned so much, it is just awesome.

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Virtual Linux…

Well, this is my first post from a Linux machine. I installed VMWare and I am running a redhat virtually on top of Windows XP. Pretty cool if you ask me. BTW, I am at “Hacker Training” all week, so hopefully I learn something!

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MS SBS 2003 : Remote Web Workplace

I started reading a magazine today, and inside the front cover there was an ad for “Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Remote Web Workplace”. It is like a portal web page you can log into from anywhere on the internet and get to your corporate network. You can check you email, browse your intranet, etc. It looks totally rad. I’m not sure, but I think you need Small Business Server installed to run it, but it still looks really cool.

Overview of Remote Web Workplace

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Dell: Windows XP Home or Pro?

If you have ever browsed the Dell website, maybe you have seen this, it really doesn’t make sense to me.

Everywhere on their site, they say “Dell recommends Microsoft Windows XP Professional”. But here is the catch, for all home PC “customize” links, it defaults to XP Home Edition. I just don’t understand why they do that. If they “recommend” XP Professional, then why don’t you get a deal if you buy it, instead you have to add 70$ to the starting price of a system on the main page. So at first glance, you see these cool systems that don’t look that bad in price, but right away, you might as well add 100$ to the price.

Dell

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The API War (Battle of Microsoft)

Rebuttal on the API War article!!

This is from Joshua Trupin’s weblog. He’s the executive editor of MSDN Magazine. He answers Joel Spolsky’s now famous “Microsoft lost the API Wars” post.

MSDN Magazine has a CAMP?