Contents tagged with Usability
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Ellipses (…) In UI Command Text
Some times, command text is followed by ellipsis (…) or not:
For years, many developers told me that ellipses mean a new window or dialog will pop up. For example, here:
- Clicking New / Save / Exit will not pop up new window or dialog;
- Clicking Open… / Save As… / Page Setup… / Print… will pop up new window or dialog.
But this is not correct. Take a look at About Notepad.
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Crazy Bug in Visual Studio 2010 RTM: Copy And Paste
The copy / paste functionality is very buggy in Visual Studio 2010 Beta and RC. In Beta sometimes this even cause Visual Studio crash. Now after using RTM for a week, I found the bug remains, and greatly affect the experience. I searched the Internet and found this comment from Microsoft:
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The Volume In Windows Media Center
I developed a tool for Windows Media Center in 2008 in Redmond, and I got a very cool Windows Media Center remote controller. Since then I became a fun of it. Windows Media Center + remote controller makes my Alienware M17x into a powerful home theatre.
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Understanding LINQ to Objects (8) The Design Of IEnumerable<T>