Marketing/technical alignment still hasn't happened. The Windows Phone Mango update is officially called Windows Phone 7.5, but my phone reports the OS version as 7.10.7720.

Ghosts don't have to be evil. Perhaps this will be the Windows version of Caspar. Or... is that worse? Clippy and all that. Hmm...

Jeremy Hutchinson wrote:

Right, the exception that proves the rule. <- how is that even a saying, it really doesn't make sense if you think about it so I'm going to stop thinking about it.

"The exception proves the rule" means that if an exception to a rule is specified, it proves the existence of a rule to be excepted from. In a simple example, if a sign were to read "No parking from 7am to 5pm", then that exception proves the rule that parking is allowed at other times. It's used in court cases to help establish right and wrong when the rules aren't necessarily clear. When you say "the exception proves the rule" when simply referring to a counter-example, then you're misusing the phrase.

In my case, I know both really well because SQL Server 2005's SSIS script tasks only support VB. I always take a shower afterward, though, so it's OK. I'm not contagious.

There's a particular manager in my office that's much the same. Anything important you need to convey should be in the first paragraph of the e-mail. That paragraph can be no more than 3 sentences. Lately, I've stopped including the rest of the e-mail and just stick with that opening paragraph. He has a nasty habit of printing out the long ones, then coming into my office and essentially doing a "cooperative reading" off the printed copy, reading out loud and asking questions as he goes. Kind of defeats the purpose.

And no kidding on the expiration dates. I opened a bag of Sun Chips last week and was a little confused after the first bite. I didn't remember Sun Chips tasting so much like peanut shells. The expiration date? March 2009. Perhaps I should clean out my desk drawers.

Use capturing groups to keep a reference to the part of the pattern you want to keep. string pattern = @"(\(\d{3}\)\s\d{3}-)\d{4}"; string sRpl = @"$1XXXX"; You can have as many groups as you like, each one being references by $1, $2, etc. You can also name the groups, but that seems like overkill for this case. :)

You can even get around that to some degree. You can use the report viewer control on your ASP.NET page and run the reports in local mode. It doesn't require SQL Server, and the report runs off of DataSets, so you can use any data source. You just have to go through the extra step of creating the DataSet first. The local mode reports have extra limitations, but they cover our needs easily.