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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... Posted Mar 10 2006, 09:43 AM by jeffreykey with | with no comments Filed under: Apps, Design/Architecture, Development, News

• 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 Posted Jan 29 2006, 11:20 AM by jeffreykey with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Apps, Development

• Required reading

  You'll probably have a few extra minutes on your hands while waiting for VS Express to download . Do yourself another favor and check out the breaking changes in .NET Framework 2.0 [ BradA ]. The list is pretty small, considering the breadth of the framework... Posted Nov 14 2005, 10:17 PM by jeffreykey with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Platform

• 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... Posted Nov 14 2005, 09:43 PM by jeffreykey with | with no comments Filed under: Apps, Development, News, Utils

• 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... Posted Nov 14 2005, 12:08 AM by jeffreykey with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Apps, Beef, Development, Platform

• MessageDialog

  This has been sitting on my hard drive for a while, so I threw it up on the website. Posted Mar 01 2005, 08:30 PM by jeffreykey with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Development

• ReSharper Appreciation Day

  Honestly, every day is ReSharper Appreciation Day, but I appreciate it most when I can't use it. I feel physically ill. I'm not kidding. I can't think of a single product that's ever made me so productive[1]. Trying to get anything done without it is... Posted Jan 29 2005, 06:40 PM by jeffreykey with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: Apps, Development

• Favorite Windows Forms 2.0 Feature of the Day: Improved ListView

  So much has been released about everything .NET 2.0 in the past year and a half that stumbling upon something new is the exception, not the rule. Such was the case for a me and some new ListView features, both available only to XP and 2003: Grouping and... Posted Jan 28 2005, 12:49 AM by jeffreykey with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Development, FFotD

• Favorite C# 2.0 feature of the day: Anonymous Methods

  I haven't done anything particularly interesting with anonymous methods yet, but the simple fact that they reduce clutter in Windows Forms makes me one happy camper. Consider the following bit of code, something which you've probably seen a thousand times... Posted Jan 26 2005, 09:02 PM by jeffreykey with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Development, FFotD

• Writing requirements and specifications for class libraries

  Does anyone have a favorite book, paper, blogger, whatever on these topics? We have experience writing these things at the application level and that's what most literature focuses on. We've going at it for a while but would like a fresh perspective that... Posted Jan 26 2005, 10:16 AM by jeffreykey with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Design/Architecture, Development