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• Visual Studio 2005 oddity of the day: Kind-of resizable QuickWatch window

  I don't recall ever seeing anything like this before. A resizable dialog that can only be resized by grabbing the lower-right corner. Isn't that how Macs work? What's up with that? Posted Jan 29 2005, 04:29 PM by jeffreykey with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Apps, FFotD

• Favorite Visual Studio 2005 feature of the day: Better VSS integration

  Look at the image below and pinch yourself. It's real! I still use VSS at home and was shocked when I got a similar dialog when moving a file from one project to another. I crossed my fingers, tried a rename and waddayaknow. BAM ! It worked. The rename... Posted Jan 28 2005, 09:23 PM by jeffreykey with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Apps, FFotD

• 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

• Favorite Visual Studio 2005 (documentation) feature of the day

  I spend a lot of time in the MSDN docs, and something that's always frustrated me is that you/re always returned to the top of a page when you press the back arrow. No more! This is great news. Posted Jan 25 2005, 06:06 PM by jeffreykey with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Apps, Development, FFotD, Platform

• Favorite Visual Studio 2005 feature of the day

  I've had a lousy week, so I thought I'd spend a bit of time in VS 2005 to boost my spirits[1]. I haven't done much in it since the early CTPs, and things have come a long way. I'm incredibly happy to see that a number of improvements center around simple... Posted Jan 21 2005, 10:34 PM by jeffreykey with | with no comments Filed under: Apps, Development, FFotD