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Results: Using a dark theme in VS for a week
As I mentioned several days ago I’ve been seeing if a dark theme in VS would help my eyes a little. The short of it is – no, no it didn’t. The major sore point is that if you use a dark theme in VS then you find yourself constantly swapping between dark...
Posted: Sep 26 2008, 06:20 PM by gbarnett
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Experiment: Using a dark theme in VS for a week
I've been highly critical of using dark themes in Visual Studio particularly because the UI of VS is light in its very nature. The combination of the two proving to be an interesting proposition when using VS for large durations of time. I digress. Recently...
Posted: Sep 20 2008, 03:03 PM by gbarnett
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DSA book on 'This Week on C9'
First off thank you to all who have downloaded the first draft of Data Structures and Algorithms: Annotated Reference with Examples . At the time of writing this post there have been more than 3200 downloads within around 3 days of it being put up on...
Data Structures and Algorithms book (free) first preview available!
This is a little project that myself and Luca have been working on in our spare (spare) time in the last month or so. The book is no where near complete but we wanted to get it out there now and progress with it in view of the public eye rather than just...
My Visual Studio vNext wish list
My wish list for Visual Studio vNext isn't that long. The things I would like to see in Visual Studio vNext (I'm not that hopeful) are the following: A filtering intellisense members list box Some intelligent suggestions More refactoring options Unfortunately...
Posted: Aug 04 2008, 05:20 AM by gbarnett | with 5 comment(s)
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Copy-in, Copy-out and reference semantics
I see this question pop-up every now and then on various forums and generally within conversations. By default in languages like C# and C++ (and tonnes of others) copy-in semantics are used when dealing with the objects of formal method parameters. Each...
Posted: Nov 14 2007, 12:21 PM by gbarnett | with 2 comment(s)
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