Technology | Gabriel Magaña Gonzalez

Solution to “The OutputPath property is not set for this project.”

Apr 1, 2010 | .NET, Technology

I spent about a full day solving a strange error in one of my Visual Studio projects. It is a VS2010 (RC) solution that I upgraded from VS2008. The thing that started it all was my adding a new configuration to the solution via the configuration manager. I added the...

Open source fails when it most matters

Nov 22, 2009 | Open Source

So I was looking for alternatives to the Mantis issue/bug tracking system. I am pretty much fed up with its lackluster usability. Simple things take several clicks. There is no ajax anywhere. You are redirected to pages just to be told that an operation completed...

Hotmail POP3 & SMTP connections – Or how to use Outlook with a Hotmail account

Sep 12, 2009 | Windows

If you could point to a problem that a great many people have had over the years with different solutions and no clear answers, it is the problem of configuring Outlook (or any other email client) to access your Hotmail account. There are plug-ins, conflicting...

C#: Working with Images, image files, and PictureBoxes

May 20, 2009 | c#

One of the most frustrating things you run into when working with image files, Images objects, and PictureBoxes is that once you release your application, some users will get “file locked” errors when trying to manipulate files that you have displayed onto the screen...

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