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Visual Studio ViEmu and “the Dark Side” all happy together
So, if you like vi as an editor and you use Visual Studio, pony up the money and get ViEmu . Best money invested in my productivity and ergonomic efforts of this past year, hands down. If you love to hate your mouse you owe it to yourself to investigate...
Friends Don't Let Friends Use VS Merge Tool
There are many things that Visual Studio does so well out-of-the-box, and then there is merging conflicts. The built-in merge tool is about as helpful as high beams on your car on a foggy night. The screen is full of information you just can't tell what...
Posted: Sep 16 2011, 04:05 PM by azenker | with 3 comment(s)
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Make your head hurt in a good way
I have been just as attentive to blog reading as I have to blog writing and was enjoying some extra-long fix/compile/test cycles today and was able to catch up on Eric Lippert’s blog. All I have to say is: “my head hurts … and it feels great!”. So much...
Custom Filter for a WPF TextBox
So, I had a need to implement a TextBox in WPF with auto filtering functionality. For example the initial requests were to limit a TextBox to numeric characters only. This was simple enough. Handle the PreviewTextInput Event and only allow numeric characters...
Posted: Jun 02 2010, 09:36 PM by azenker | with no comments
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New entry to blog roll – John Robbins
This most recent post by John Robbins is what motivated me to add his blog to my blog roll. However, it has been a must read for a while now. This post is actually more “fluffy” than most for him, I just loved the insight into things macros can do that...
The Achilles Thread
Recovered from DotNetJunkies blog -- Originally Posted: Sunday, November 18, 2007 "[when debugging] If you see hoof prints think horses, not zebras". Hunt and Thomas, in The Pragmatic Programmer Developing in the brave new world of managed memory and...
Forest for the trees – Don’t forget the compiler
Recovered from DotNetJunkies blog -- Originally Posted: Wednesday, June 6, 2007 Back in school my teacher was not much on the formal aspects of the course he was teaching.He was instead, as I describe him, the kind of guy you could imagine living in his...
That which we call a Namespace, by any other name would just smell.
Recovered from DotNetJunkies blog -- Originally Posted: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 There is nothing sweet about spending hours, days, evenings and weekends chasing "ghosts" in your code. In this context "ghosts" mean compile or runtime errors that are not...
It is Truly the Simple Pleasures In Life
Recovered from DotNetJunkies blog -- Originally Posted: Monday, April 24, 2006 The recent project list on the start page of the Visual Studio IDE seems like such a cool thing at first glance. However, very quickly it degrades into the "How many times...
Posted: Jul 10 2009, 10:29 PM by azenker | with no comments
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XAML editor and a life – no way!
Found this a while back and to search for it all over again to set up a new IDE. That’s one time too many. How to change your default xaml file editor in Visual Studio and save yourself lots o’ pain. http://weblogs.asp.net/fmarguerie/archive/2009/01/29...
Posted: Jun 18 2009, 02:48 PM by azenker | with no comments
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