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Working for Microsoft: Week 1
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 Read More...
Posted 14 October 07 03:10 by Greg | 1 Comments   
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Working at Microsoft: Day 1
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 Read More...
Posted 08 October 07 06:59 by Greg | 2 Comments   
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Releasing the Source Code for .NET
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 Read More...
Posted 03 October 07 11:42 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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Developers Love Their Tools...
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) Read More...
Posted 01 October 07 10:08 by Greg | 1 Comments   
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Giving XBOX Live a Chance
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 Read More...
Posted 30 September 07 11:08 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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The Road Not Taken
"...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 Read More...
Posted 27 September 07 11:33 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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SamuraiProgrammer.Web.UI - v0.5
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 Read More...
Posted 27 September 07 10:10 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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String Concatenation
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 Read More...
Posted 16 September 07 09:27 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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Visibility of Fields Within FormView
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 Read More...
Posted 11 September 07 10:51 by Greg | 1 Comments   
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ConfigurationFileWather?
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". Read More...
Posted 30 August 07 08:40 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Tool List
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. Read More...
Posted 27 August 07 07:53 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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Outlook and Lotus Notes
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 Read More...
Posted 26 August 07 09:59 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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GridView Grouping and Checkbox Lists
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 Read More...
Posted 21 August 07 10:47 by Greg | 1 Comments   
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One-to-Many: What is the best way to store the values?
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 Read More...
Posted 19 August 07 10:43 by Greg | 1 Comments   
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Input Validation
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 Read More...
Posted 15 August 07 10:40 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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