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Reduce winsxs directory size in Windows 7

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6 days ago
by Ivan Femia in ,

One of the biggest directory in a Windows 7 (and not only) operation system is the winsxs.

What is it?

Winsxs, which stands for ‘Windows Side By Side’, is Windows native assembly cache. Libraries which are being by multiple applications are stored there. This feature was first introduced, in Windows ME and was considered as Microsoft’s solution to the so-called ‘dll hell’ issues that plagued Windows 9x. [1]

In this post I will share a solution in order to reduce its size

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Happy New year SCN and Happy New Excel with abap2xlsx

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1 month ago
by Ivan Femia in ,

Dear community, it was in the far July 2011 that I gave you updates on the abap2xlsx project with the reporting of my adventures at SAP Inside Track in Chicago (blog). In the last weeks, I had the idea to write a blog and few days ago a great present by SAP Mentor Gregor Wolf to the project (I will give you more detail below, keep reading) gave me the final sprint to be there on time for the New Year celebration.

Abap2xlsx is still the most popular project on Code Exchange with more than 3,500 downloads and close to 300 members. There is a great interest for this project, discussion board on Code Exchange is very hot, many people are asking and helping and many members are contributing (thanks you all) to improve this project adding new features and fixing some bugs ( yes, we had some :) ).

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Set GMail as default mail program in Chrome

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3 months ago
by Ivan Femia in

I don’t know way but in the last 2 days I could not use GMail as default program for mailto addresses, looking around I found this post in the Google support.

The solution below was exactly what I needed.

I report the solution if any of you may need it  :mrgreen:

1. Enable javascript handling in Chrome. You may be able to do this through the options menu, but I did it manually.

a. Close Chrome
b. In a text editor, open C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Local State
c. Find the protocol handler section:
"protocol_handler": {
  "excluded_schemes": {
    "afp": true,
    "data": true,
    "disk": true,
    "disks": true,
    "file": true,
    "hcp": true,
    "javascript": true,
    "mailto": false,
    "ms-help": true,
d. Find “javascript”: true, and change it to false: “javascript”: false,
e. Save the file

2. Launch Chrome
3. Open GMail and login
4. In the address bar type or copy and paste
javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler(“mailto”,”https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s”,”GMail”) or if you have multi account
javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler(“mailto”,”https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s”,”GMail”)
and press Enter or hit Go.
5. You’re done.
6. To cleanup, close Chrome, change the javascript setting back to true in Local State.

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Dropdown by key or Dropdown by index, that is the question of a WDA developer

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3 months ago
by fabio.dimicco in , , , ,

Introduction

During my experience as a Web Dynpro for ABAP developer, I often had  the doubt if it was better to use the UI element DropDownByKey or its brother DropDownByIndex.

In these last days, I realized that I always prefer and use the DropDownByKey, it doesn’t matter if the list is inside a table, an ALV table or a simple element in a view.

Clearly the index approach is also working well but I feel it as a more complex task that requires spending more time, and I’m wondering to know about your experience.

As a reference, I’m sharing below the step-by-step guide to build a DDL even without necessarily entering the fixed values ​​associated to a domain of the field.

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SAP Mentor Outreach is now available on JQuery Mobile

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3 months ago
by Ivan Femia in

Many of you already know the application SAP Mentor Outreach published by Thorsten Franz about 6 months ago. This application is designed basically to “help SAP Community to connect o SAP Mentors” as Thorsten wrote. Recently Bjoern Weigand and John Moy published the iOS version porting for iPhone and iPad.

What is still missing? An application that would be useful for all the other mobile devices; few weeks ago I decided to think about a porting of this application in JQuery Mobile and today I’m proud to present SAP Mentor Outreach cross mobile version. I’m just a bit in late for TechEd Bangalore but in time for TechEd Madrid.

Check it out at http://www.plinky.it/SAPMentorOutreach/

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