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Initially I was planning to blog every day or so about my experiences within Microsoft, but alas, this has been the first free moment I've had so far after my last post. The reason? Well, as I mentioned in a previous post, the first three...
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Well, I have officially been in the Seattle area for about 24 hours. My flight in was fine and yes, the weather was cold and rainy. I'm very happy that I picked up a raincoat before I left. After arriving and checking into my long term housing, I...
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I was just about to head to sleep when I read this great post by Scott Guthrie. Apparently, Microsoft will be releasing the source code for the BCL (Base Class Libraries), ASP.NET, WinForms, etc. when .NET 3.5 and VS2008 (aka Orcas) is released later...
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Seriously, I think there are few things that Developers are more passionate about than the tools and toys they use to code. Carl has compiled a great list of Free Visual Studio 2005 Addins. You can read the list here. The addins that I use on a (almost)...
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I am far from a hardcore gamer. I don't log on and play for hours upon hours because well,I just don't have that much spare time to play. It's a shame, but hey, that's life. In any case, one thing that I've been meaning to do for years was sign up for...
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"...Somewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference." -- Robert Frost You may have noticed that I've been more quiet than normal for the past month or two. There is...
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One of my friends suggested that I should provide a download for all of the little code snippets, controls, etc. that I throw up on my blog so people don't have to constantly copy/paste into their IDE of choice. I thought about it and it sounded like...
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This is an old topic, but as I work with developers more and more, I find that there is still some gray area on this topic. Concatenating strings is probably one of the most comment tasks that most developers perform in their work-lives. If you've ever...
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A quick trick that I'm sure many of you know. Suppose you had a FormView on a page bound to a datasource. Within that FormView, you have several fields that may or may not contain data. Now, suppose that for whatever reason, your sponsor would like you...
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Just something I thought was a bit funny/interesting. I was debugging someone's code earlier today and I happened to glance down at my threads in VS and noticed this: Any idea of what caught my eye?Yup - the text that says: "_ConfigurationFileWatherThread"....
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Scott has posted his wonderful Ultimate Tool list for 2007. A lot of the great tools that I use on a daily basis were introduced to me via his previous lists. With a lot of the apps, you don't know what you were missing until you fire up one of them....
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About a year ago, my company (a large holding company) decided to standardize all of their sub-companies on a single e-mail platform. Since we are a holding company, each sub-company essentially used their own messaging software. In the US, that meant...
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I was helping a co-worker today with one of his screens and realized that it may makea useful little tutorial for all those other folks out there. This was somewhat interesting because it follows up pretty well on my previous postas I talk about saving...
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If you've been a developer for any period of time, you have probably come across this question. If you're given a one-to-many relationship in a table, what is the best way to insert those values into a database. For example, let's say that you had a Person...
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It seems that I always appear to run into this issue when performing code reviews. As has been well documented in various locations on the web - all input is evil, until proven otherwise. Some people attempt to mitigate this risk by providing dropdowns...
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I was catching up on some of my blog reading this weekend and actually journeyed over to David Hayden'sexcellent blog (more on that later) in a browser window - as opposed to my normal reading in the excellent Windows Live Mail Beta. In any case, I noticed...
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I've known about this for a while, but I just helped a co-worker that did not know about this nifty new property on buttons - so here's a quick blog entry that I hope will help someone else out in the future. In .NET 1.1 days - when you had processing...
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I had a rather lengthy blog entry about a month ago where I talked about the lack of a ternary operator in VB.net. You can read that entry here. Well, as it turns out, Paul Vick posted recently about new language features going into .Net 3.5 and it appears...
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I was researching something this morning and came across a great blog entry from way back showing an update to the tried and true TypeOf and Ctype/DirectCast code. I realized immediately thatI could apply this little tidbit to my current code. In-fact,...
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As I try to clear up my blogging backlog, I came across this entryfrom Scott Hanselmanabout removing programming crutches. This stems from one of his recent podcastsabout becoming a better developer in Six Months. I did a quick Google Searchon some key...
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A big congratulations to Scott Hanselmanas he makes a big move to Microsoft. He'll be on Scott Guthrie'steam. I've enjoyed reading his blog over the years and I think it should be interesting to hear a fresh perspective on the development of the .Net/Visual...
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This has been documented in numerous places includinghere, here, here(with an incorrect fix) and here. Essentially, if you set the Readonly Property of a textbox using either the XHTML or in the code-behind, any changes you make to the value of that textbox...
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For an internal application at my company, very particular users have the rights to download an MDB that contains links to a replicated instance of a DB. This was done so they could create their own queries without any assistance from IT - essentially...
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I've often asked this question - "What IS the most popular development language right now?" Antonio Cangianoattempts to answer this question using the Amazonsales rankings on various technical books. You can find the results of his "study" here. I found...
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