The Cause: For inexplicable reasons, Microsoft chose not to include a FontWeight.Bold in their xaml specification

The Solution: Microsoft did include a FontWeights (note the S) class  To bold text in the codebehind, all you have to do is write this

tbbDownloader.FontWeight = FontWeights.Bold;

And presto!  Bold Text.

The Problem: I could find no obvious way to update the mscorlib reference in my solution, so I decide to simply delete it and add it again, and hope that it magically updates to the most recent version.  This is actually what usually happens with Visual Studio.  However, I delete the mscorlib reference, and I am unable to add it back again, I get the error message telling me that mscorlib is already included in the project.

The Cause: This is a known problem in Visual Studio.

The Solution: I just went into my project (.csproj) file and added the following line

<Reference Include=”mscorlib” />

And that fixed it.  I still have no idea how to make it use the most recent .Net Framework though.

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As I’ve gotten older I am now writing things out far more than I used to (thank you Pormodoro Technique) I’ve noticed that my printing has markedly improved, while I’ve forgotten how to write cursive, and I can no longer write anything in Cyrillic, though I can still read it to some degree.

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I’m something of a novice presenter, so I’m sure that this will not be news to many of my readers, but here are the lessons I drew from the four 90 second presentations I made

My actionable lessons learned: I should

• speak more slowly
• make more eye contact
• coordinate hand gestures with eye contact – I had them off time for a bit and it did not work well at all.
• stress the online nature of Stronico – at the beginning, middle and end.  The online nature of the application was lost on some people
• use more props –  On the spur of the moment I held up a stack of business cards I had gathered by the middle of the event, and that was an “aha” moment for some people
• stress that Stronico is Mac compatible.  This is something I always assumed that everyone else would assume, but it is not.
• concentrate most on the independent artisan – the pro networker is already too heavily invested in their existing system to ever switch to something else, and the mid level corporate person does not have the power to make any sort of software decisions.  The independent artisan is dependent upon a strong network for business, but maintaining the network will never be their top priority(that is why they are artisans) so social maintenance outsourcing is something they are either looking for or open to.
• have brochures made.  Selling a visual product verbally is tough.

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<div id=”HomeNavItem” class=”TopNav SelectedNav”>Home</div>

In other words, you’re just putting them in the same class declaration.  I’ve been doing this for years and I’ve never done that before.

Download:

• CallSheet (Microsoft Word Document)
• CallSheet (PDF document)

Feel free to download and use!

1. Open up your template document in word, and put any target areas in special Brackets, the text would read something like “I, [FULLNAME] do hereby affirm that”.  I found that the target area had to be in uppercase, I’m not sure why
2. Go to “Save As Html, Filtered”, and save it in a writeable directory.
3. In your C# code, first load the entire document into a string
4. Convert that string into an instance of StringBuilder
5. Use the StringBuilder Replace function, it would look something like this –  sb.Replace(“[FULLNAME]“, strFullName);
6. Create a TextWriter, and write the StringBuilder to it – make sure you’re saving it with a “.doc” extension.
7. Close the TextWriter

All told, the code looks like this

//Create a new filename

string strFileName = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString();

string strPathRoot = “d:\\domains\\MyDomain\\Word\\”;

string strPath = strPathRoot + “TemplateHtml.doc”;

string str = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(strPath);

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

sb.AppendLine(s);

//replace the text

sb.Replace(“[FULLNAME]“, strFullName);

//save it out

TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter(strPathRoot + strFileName + “.doc”);

// write a line of text to the file

tw.WriteLine(sb.ToString());

// close it

tw.Close();

tw.Dispose();

That’s it!

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He had his neurotic moments, like the time he chewed through drywall and insulation during a thunderstorm, or the time he opened a locked door (he was quite bright) and climbed the back fence during the Tornado of 2008, but he was a great dog through and through.  Over the past year (his 14th) he entered a marked physical and mental decline and it got to the point of being cruel to let him continue.

Godspeed Mr Buddy.

Me: Do you know how you always forget people you meet and then don’t see for a while?

Potential Customer: Oh yes, that happens to me all the time

Me: Well, Stronico helps you remember people by showing you where they fit into your life.  You can see their interests, their friends and how you know them in the first place.

Coming up with that is an illuminating exercise.     “Visual Contact Management” is an accurate description of what Stronico actually does, but most people don’t see the utility in that description.