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One of the nice additions to the .NET 2.0 Compact Framework is the WebBrowser control. This control has always been present in the full framework, but to implement a web browser on the PocketPC you would have had to either write your own managed wrapper or use an existing one such as OpenNETCF’s HTMLViewer. But now that it’s included in the CF, we should give it a try. Many developers, myself included, use an embedded browser control to display rich, custom formatted content in their .NET apps. You can do this with the WebBrowser class by generating the HTML and setting the DocumentText property on the control. However, the new managed WebBrowser has a major drawback: Everytime you set the DocumentText property it shows a progress bar while loading the content into the browser. As far as I can tell, this behavior is only on Windows Mobile 5 devices, not on PocketPC 2003. Read on to figure out how to disable this behavior.

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Our last day is over. Today was the Sex and the City tour, then some shopping, then Beauty and the Beast Broadway show. We’ve got to get up awful early tomorrow morning to make our flight, so I’m just going to say the day was fun and leave it at that.

A lot of the pictures from today are Sex and the City filming locations. Don’t be surprised if you don’t recognize any of them .

http://www.chriskarcher.net/photos/thumbnails.php?album=6

Wow. I just lost an entire post about today thanks to my ignorance of Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts. Here’s the abbreviated version:

Ellis Island/Statue of Liberty:
Very cool. Got some good pictures but Denicia’s battery started dying so we had to slow down on the picture taking.

Ground Zero:
If you’re ever in New York, it would be a crime not to visit here.

Daily Show:
Didn’t actually end up waiting in line for this. We made it all the way to the studio but got the impression that waiting in the “standby” line would be a waste of our time. Instead, we decided to go see a broadway show.

Letterman Show:
Saved! Fate intervened and on our way to buy Broadway tickets we heard a Letterman show employee advertising free tickets. I had tried to get these earlier online but knew they were near impossible to get. I guessed on the trivia question they use for screening and actually got it right! Some higher power really wanted us to see Letterman instead of Broadway. The guests on the show weren’t that great (Rene Zelwegger, some toy lady, and Taking Back Sunday), but the experience was once in a lifetime.

Pictures at http://chriskarcher.net/photos/thumbnails.php?album=5

Another exhausting day but several more things checked off our TODO list. We woke up this morning and had breakfast at a hole-in-the-wall place named Olympic Diner, where we enjoyed a greasy NY chicken panini with some cheese sticks. Not your typical healthy breakfast but hey, we’re on vacation!. After that we toured Central Park, browsed through the Metropolitan Museum of Art, saw Blue Man Group, and then topped it off with a trip to the Empire State Building. Quite a busy day!

Tomorrow we planning to hoof it out to Ellis Island and then try to get in on the taping of the Daily Show. It’s very likely we won’t get into the Daily Show taping, so we’ve got Broadway planned as a backup. (All prayers for us to get into the Daily Show are greatly appreciated).

We took a lot of pictures today and they’re going to take a decent time to upload, so I’ve kicked off the process and will finish adding them to an album in the morning.

UPDATE: Pictures available at: http://chriskarcher.net/photos/thumbnails.php?album=4

Notable Central Park pictures include the fountain from the opening scenes in Friends, Celine Dion’s Loft, and the building that houses Jerry Seinfeld’s Porsche collection of 60 some-odd Porsches.

We’re exhausted, so this will be short and sweet .

We traveled all day, arrived around 4PM, and then hit NY hard. Once we got checked in at our hotel we went exploring and saw all sorts of neat stuff. Just like Las Vegas, New York is as cool as it look on TV. We got pictures of billboards, tall buildings, and even a live newscast. Our first major location stop was Rockefeller Center because it’s only a 5 minute walk from our hotel. The Christmas tree was amazing! We walked around for a bit and then went ice skating after eating some authentic NY pizza. Funny thing, while we were waiting in line to skate we met 6 different people all from Austin. Either it’s a small world, or a lot of Texans want to get somewhere cold for Christmas.

Tomorrow, we’re going to hit up Central Park during the day and Blue Man Group at night. If we have time, we might go check out the Empire State Building as well.

As promised, here are some pictures:
http://www.chriskarcher.net/photos/thumbnails.php?album=3