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[.NET 2.0] Playing Around with BuildProvider and CodeDom by jdanforth

This is old news for some of you, but I've never looked at the ASP.NET buildprovider functionality in more detail until tonight, and it is pretty cool. The buildprovider can generate/build code from certain file types you drop into an ASP.NET project...
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[.NET 2.0] On Battery or Not by jdanforth

I'm thinking of writing a small utility to manage which of my apps gets started at startup of Windows, depending on if my laptop is running on batteries or not. Normally, when I boot it up on batteries, I don't want to start things such as my...
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[.NET 2.0][Unit Testing] Good Tutorial on System.Transactions (and Unit Testing) by jdanforth

On my random blog reading and Googling around System.Transactions and Unit Testing, I ran into a series of short but great articles by Stuart Celarier which actually covers both topics. Stuart teaches the reader about System.Transaction by using unit...
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[.NET 2.0][Unit Testing] Using Anonymous Methods when Testing Events by jdanforth

I've not used anonymous methods too much when coding, but I ran upon a (what I think is) great use of it when writing unit tests and specifically when you need to test events. Mark Seemann blogged about it some time ago (and got lots of comments)...
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[.NET 2.0] Detecting Idle Time with Mouse and Keyboard Hooks by jdanforth

I thought I could share some piece of code I wrote a couple of years ago to detect if a user is idle or not. I used it on a chat client I developed because we were not allowed to use Messenger at the site. So the way to do it is to set up a coupld of...
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WinFX Renamed to .NET Framework 3.0 by jdanforth

Picked this up from Soma's blog : ...we have decided to rename WinFX to the .NET Framework 3.0. .NET Framework 3.0 aptly identifies the technology for exactly what it is – the next version of our developer framework. What a pack of good stuff developers...
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[.NET 2.0] Anonymous Methods by jdanforth

My mate Eric blogs about how useful Anonymous Methods could be when calling on multiple asynchronous methods. Check it out.
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[.NET 2.0] Testing Generics, Collections and Yield Return by jdanforth

I've not looked too much at the yield return statement in c# 2.0 yet, but if you learn how to use it I'm sure it will become something you use "every day" when programming. Whenever you need to do some conditional iterations on a collection, array or...
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[.NET 2.0] Quick Way of Closing VisualStudio Files by jdanforth

If you end up having a zillion files opened in the VisualStudio 2005 IDE and want to close a few of them, just click with the MIDDLE mouse button on their tabs where you see the filename. Quick and easy.
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[.NET 2.0] Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project V1.0 Released by jdanforth

From the Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project webby : Today we released the V1.0 release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project option. You can learn about it here , and download it here . You should then check out the tutorials on this site to...
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