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Win friends and influence your team
Do you know where your data is? If you've been involved with software at any point in the past two decades, chances are it's in a database. It would seem silly to put data, especially frequently changing data, into code. How about those business rules...
Snippet Compiler update
I've uploaded a minor update to Snippet Compiler . I also put up an Add-Ins page with the following samples: Web References Folder Browser Settings ToolBar Snippet Repository
Grab an extra copy for your back pocket/purse
It's old news that the Visual Studio Express Editions are out, and free for a year. You, with your fancy MSDN subscription, probably looked right over this good bit of news. I don't know how many times I've needed VS while away from my computer, but didn...
Yes, it does mean everything
While doing my first ASP.NET 2.0 "publish" tonight I was presented with the following dialog box: Assuming that apps delete as few items as possible, I assumed that "existing files" meant files that matched those that were being copied. I was wrong. It...
Windows Desktop Search experiences
At home: It refuses to install on the x64 flavor of Windows. Nice. At work: Used it on Win2003 for approx two hours, then it crashed and greeted me with this when I restarted it: "We're sorry, but Windows Desktop Search has detected a problem with your...
Posted: May 17 2005, 09:56 AM by jeffreykey | with 12 comment(s)
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New images included with Visual Studio
The strangest thing happened a couple days ago: I opened Visual C# Express 2005, followed a link on the Start Page and learned something! I always thought the start page concept was silly, but I guess I've been proved wrong. (Nothing new there.) The link...
Posted: May 16 2005, 10:38 PM by jeffreykey | with 5 comment(s)
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System Monitor
(I'm a bit behind, so please forgive my tardiness. This is old news by now.) The first article in my " Cool Applications " section of MSDN's new Coding4Fun site covers System Monitor , a little monitoring application that hightlights a number of new features...
Posted: May 16 2005, 09:48 PM by jeffreykey | with 4 comment(s)
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We have a new ReSharper
Part of my weekday morning ritual is to check for a new version of ReSharper. It's been a while since the last release, but today brings us v1.5.1 , and it has more changes than you'd expect. Go get it!
Posted: May 06 2005, 09:30 AM by jeffreykey | with 3 comment(s)
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Preventing IE from opening Word, Excel, etc. docs in the browser
This is one of the first things I do on a fresh install of Windows. Makes Sharepoint more enjoyable. My Computer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types tab: Select the file type you want to modify (I picked Word). Click the Advanced button...
Posted: Apr 27 2005, 09:43 PM by jeffreykey | with 9 comment(s)
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Rhapsody on Windows Server 2003
Rhapsody just released an updated version that installs (and works!) on Windows 2003. Funny thing, that Rhapsody. It's owned by Real, which many consider to be the devil, but it's just so good . You'd like to avoid it, but you just can't. Take the bad...
Posted: Apr 27 2005, 08:53 PM by jeffreykey | with 2 comment(s)
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