I recently found a way to do a distinct operation on the DataTable class in dotnet 2.0: DataTable products = GetProductList(); DataView dv = new DataView(products); products = dv.ToTable("products", true, new string[] {"ArticleId","ArticleName","Description"}); And the products DataTable will be a distinct list of all products (in this case, one product can belong to two categories as well - so there are duplicate items with different price, attributes etc.).

I like to use my own User Controls and Web Controls in my web projects, and when I was building the current one on a lovely morning at 4am, Visual Studio 2005 bombed me with 365 warnings (one for each day of the year:))  stating there's a type conflict in my project. What the hell?:) I really hate errors and warning messages, so I checked what happened:  when i created a web control in my project, and dropped the control to a webpage in design view, visual studio 2005 added the /bin/projectname.dll as a reference to the project itself - and when i was building, the two dlls (the old and the new) had the same types. the solution was to remove the self-reference... update: i found the same error reported on Microsoft Connect.

I always wondered how to hide the unused menu items in Firefox - here's the solution: download Menu Editor from Mozdev.org!

I needed to work with a MySql server which was behind a firewall, and only the port for SSH was open. Of course, in this case, I need to use the portforward feature:ssh example.com -l myusername -L:3306:localhost:3306 However, if I type 'localhost' in MySql Query Browser, it tries to connect via socket - of course which is not avaliable. I tried my local IP and the outer one (I'm behind NAT), but nothing worked... then came the idea: use localhost's IP address! So in the connection window, I typed: 127.0.0.1, and voila, the window opened listing all tables...:)

Under ~/Library/Safari you can find the files Bookmark.plist and Form Values. If you copy over these files to another mac, you can have the same functional Bookmarks menu, and all Saved form values will be remembered.