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Barry found this and showed me some time ago. I had forgot about it and stumbled across it today. I keep forgetting it's there. I'm hoping by Blogging it I will remember. When you are editing code in Visual Studio hit CTRL-I . You will see this little
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Did you ever wonder how dynamic help works? The Visual Studio IDE continuously emits keywords and attributes depending on what you are doing in the IDE. Lets start by turning on debugging in Visual Studio. I don't mean the kind of debugging you do to
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There are a bunch of ObjectSharp people and Friends of ObjectSharp at Tech Ed this week. Their Blogs are making good reading. I feel like I'm there. If you wish you had gone to Tech Ed or wonder what you are missing. Check out the Blogs below. ObjectSharp
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I notice a lot of developers do not use the Immediate window. If you are one of those users, do yourself a favour and check it out. It's terribly useful. For those of you who are not familiar with it here are some highlights to get you started. The window
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I'm looking for investors! This idea will change golf forever. I think I can at least double this industry's revenue with one small inexpensive change. I want to open a golf course where a round of golf is 12 holes. Don't go, hear me out. I golf occasionally.
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This might be a bit of fun for the old C programmers out there like me. A long time ago I used to teach C programming. This was before C++ and Windows. When we used to have to write whole applications that fit into 250K of Ram because the rest of the
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Regular expressions are a very powerful tool for validating or parsing a string. I don't claim to be an expert in the use of Regular expressions by any means. But I have used them with great success on a number of occasions. They are very useful. I have
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One of the new features in version 2.0 of ASP.NET is a new form of cCaching. This is a cool feature but not as easy to get working as it would seem. In case you haven't heard about it, using SQL Dependency you can tell the Web Page not to refresh until
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For anyone else who received the recent Whidbey 2005 preview. And thought they would uninstall an older version of Whidbey. Here is what happened when I did it. I un-installed Whidbey. Then I had to separately un-install: Microsoft .NET Framework 1.2
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