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I downloaded a .NET app the other day and wondered how the author was accomplishing one piece of it. He had made the source code available for download, so I downloaded it and started digging in. But it didn't take me long to realize the the author had...
I picked up a copy of Mike Gunderloy's Coder To Developer book the other day and did something I rarely do with a technical book - I read it from cover to cover. I've read several reviews of the book and find that they range from rave to rage . The typical...
Although SharpReader doesn't have a lot of fancy bells and whistles, I keep coming back to it after trying the “latest and greatest“ aggregators. Like most people, I don't have time to read everything that I subscribe to, so I tend to read...
It's a good idea to be explicit with parentheses when building arithmetic expressions. For example, at first the following code doesn't look like it would cause a problem: Dim i As Integer = 1 i = i + i - i Console.Writeline(i) Executing this code will...
When I'm interviewing candidates for a development position I typically write a number down and ask them to convert it from decimal to binary. Of course this is a very minor factor in the interview, but I find it interesting to see their responses. It...
I've been tinkering with Linux lately and one of my favorite KDE features is the desktop switcher. Tonight I found Virtual Desktop Manager , a Microsoft PowerToy that does basically the same thing. It looks promising so far. Update: This thing was really...
While reading chapter 4 of the MSPress “Inside Microsoft Visual Studio.NET“ book, I ran across this paragraph: “ By right-clicking on a macro in Macro Explorer, you can bring up a shortcut menu that lets you work with the macro directly...
For no appartent reason an app that had worked fine for two years all of a sudden started failing with primary key violoations. Of course I had “optimized“ it shortly before it started failing, but I didn't see how my changes could have caused...
Situation: Your buddy has created a cool VB.NET application that you want to use. He sends you the source code and it consists of a solution (MySolution) containing a single project (MyProject). You attempt to open the solution and find that it has SourceSafe...
As you probably know, it's easy to sort an array in .NET using Array.Sort(). But what if you want to sort an array of structures on a particular field defined in the structure? It can be done, and what follows is the approach I took. I created a structure...
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