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Omer has been professionally developing applications over the past 8 years, both at the IDF’s IT corps and later at the Sela Technology Center, but has had the programming bug ever since he can remember himself.
As a senior developer at NuConomy, a leading web analytics and advertising startup, he leads a wide range of technologies for its flagship products.

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Quick Blurb: Test Tools Toolbar in Visual Studio and Useless Icons

Test IconsLet's play a little game. To the left of this text are the five central icons from the Test Tools Toolbar in Visual Studio. Their commands are, in an unordered manner: Test List Editor, Test Runs, Test View, Code Coverage Results and Test Results. Connect the icon to the appropriate command, without checking Visual Studio.

The purpose of this game? To show that whenever you don't think about your icons enough, they're meaningless and therefore useless. There may be a certain logic behind this set of icons, but since it has eluded me for the few seconds I tried to understand it, it's as if it wasn't there in the first place.

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AndrewSeven said:

The purpose of this game? To show that if you have too many windows, you will also have lots of icons.

# June 2, 2008 12:24 PM

Omer van Kloeten said:

There are plenty of windows, tabs and toolboxes in Visual Studio and almost all of those have icons that can be differentiated.

# June 2, 2008 1:37 PM

AndrewSeven said:

Plenty != too many

;) :D

# June 2, 2008 2:08 PM

Dew Drop - June 3, 2008 | Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew said:

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# June 3, 2008 9:52 AM
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