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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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Naming UI control variables
Discussed variable naming conventions with a fellow developer yesterday, particularly variables that are instances of UI control (e.g. textbox, label, button) Now, the new direction away from Hungarian Notation and toward longer, more readable and, therefore...
What is code quality?
Recently I had the chance to examine, in detail, each of the code analysis rules built into Visual Studio 2008. These are, almost exactly, the same rules you will get in FxCop 1.36. In fact, as you consider working MS code analysis into your development...
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