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MehGerbil wrote: No better way to start a Tuesday morning than a note from the director asking for ideas on how to make sure this never happens again.
No better way to show your worth than giving him a solution.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Via my work Skype this very morning:
Dear Barrow,
It’s my urgent need For a foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction.I am Mizra Rezwan working with Barclays Bank here in Dubai(U.A.E)........
In 2007,one Mr. Husson Barrow, whose surname is same as yours and has your country in his file as his place of origin, made a fixed deposit for 36 months, valued at $26,700,000.00 with my bank. .....Sadly Mr. Husson was among the death victims in the September 2009 earthquake in Indonesia that left over 1,200 people dead while he was there on business trip.
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Mr. Mizra Rezwan
Barclays Bank of Dubai
Email:mizra9062@gmail.com
Seems legit - plenty of people in my Family called Husson (couldn't even spell Hussan/Husan) and it'd be odd for a small company like Barclays not to use personal gmail accounts....
I don't know whether to laugh, or be disgusted at them pimping their scam on the backs of an Earthquake.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Keith Barrow wrote: I don't know whether to laugh, or be disgusted at them pimping their scam on the backs of an Earthquake.
Those ones only make me feel the second option. I just find it sad, very sad. And even more sad, that some people still believe that and get scamed.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I hope you emailed them back (10minutemail[^] should do it) suggesting the money should go to the disaster relief fund? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Keith Barrow wrote: Dear Barrow,
Keith, I'm going to address you as "dear Barrow" from now on. 
/ravi
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Better than what the wife calls me.
Ithangyew
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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All these years I though I was good at WPF!
After a 2 year break (doing web dev at the moment) I am working on a WPF control (a menu and ribbon aggregate control). Obviously such control need good focus handling (focus scope, focus navigation, blab bla bla..)
To my horror I discover I suck at writing code handling focus!
Oh well, learning....
My latest bug.. my MenuItems can have whatever control as child control (to provide same experience as Office2013 popup, which look like hosting menu item and whatever), now the current show stopper is... my tab navigation stop on random control!
Why, Oh, why! I am doooooomed! 
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I've found that probnlems like this have one of two causes - either you're relying too much on the fram,ework to take care of you, or you're trying to hard to make the framekwork handle it all for you. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yeah, well have to do some experimentation!
Never ever even used KeyboardNavigation attached property until now... so I guess I need to do some learning!
The problem is, my MenuItem navigate well (I handle OnKeyDown) but now if I plug, say a slider in the middle, I want the focus thing to still navigate nicely! Hooo!  
Well... experimenting in progress...
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The fact that you realize you suck is proof you don´t suck  .
Most of us suck as well and DON´T realize it, which is far more dangerous.
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Sounds like you have an element in there with an IsTabStop="true" that's capturing the focus and not releasing it. My suspicion is that you've got a TaControl in there that's displaying content with the tab stop set to true and this is capturing the tabbing behaviour.
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My custom control is in a ContentPresenter.. mmm.. that makes me think I should look at the UI hierarchy in the nice newfangled WPF debugger tool! And look at those properties!
You gave me a good idea Peter!
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And that would do it. It's not as though I do WPF pretty much every day after all.
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I might go back to it, applied to a job in Brisbane!
BTW, the thing is in GitHub if you are bored:
http://github.com/superlloyd/MenuRibbon[^]
keyboard handling is pretty rough at the moment, but looks is alright, I reckon.... 
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Cool. I'll download it and have a look.
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It looks like you are right! I have an element with IsTabStop = true!
But, but.. why!!!
Anyhow thanks for the tip!
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IsTabStop = true is the default value! 
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I wrote a menu for Silverlight and establishing focus/etc. was not an easy task.
Although I use the menu I don't consider to be good enough to publish.
I will offer this advice: Use the code unraveling tool (the name escapes me) that shows you the source code for successful controls. It is a great way to learn the MS way of doing things and it is an education in and of itself.
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Super Lloyd wrote: To my horror I discover I suck at writing code
Nah, that's just how WPF handles things.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Nah! I love WPF!
Of course it's imperfect and we love to complain about it.. but like democracy, everything else sucks more!
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