Roland Weigelt

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Is Your IDE Hot or Not?
Interesting: Devs posting their font and color settings to a website ( http://idehotornot.ning.com ). Most of the themes are pretty dark, seems like people either have fond memories of their first PC or watched too many Hollywood “hacker” movies (no offense...
Firefox 2.0 : Going Back to 1.5 Style...
Ok, I really tried, but after working with Firefox 2.0 for a few days I still don’t like the Close buttons on the tabs (I know IE7 has them, too, but that doesn’t make things more usable for me personally). Fortunately it’s simple to go back to 1.5 style...
Posted: Nov 06 2006, 04:46 PM by WeigeltRo | with no comments
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My Personal Fonts and Colors Settings for Visual Studio 2005
After reproducing my old VS.Net 2003 settings ( using a proportional font ) on Visual Studio 2005 and playing around with features like bold fonts , I’ve finally settled on fonts and colors settings. Here’s a preview what source code looks like: Download...
Why throwing an exception should be the exception
Alex writes about the impact of throwing an exception on performance and that it may not be as bad as one may assume. In the comments, people write that using exceptions for flow control is not the Right Thing to do. Here’s my #1 reason why throwing an...
Posted: Mar 29 2005, 01:58 PM by WeigeltRo | with 3 comment(s)
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Raising C# events doesn't feel right (and seems to have problems too)
[This blog post was inspired by reading “ Events, Delegate and Multithreading ” by Brad Abrams .] I'm pretty sure the language designers thought about the whole thing way longer than I did, but from the very beginning raising events simply didn't "feel...
The Power of First Impression
After months of ZIPping up the GhostDoc source files every now and then, I finally have a source code management solution running (better late than never ;-). I've built and set up a server from spare parts, mainly to be used for storing files (e.g. backups...
My Transition from Fixed to Proportional Width Fonts for Editing Source Code
I always find it interesting to look at source code I wrote years ago. Old dot-matrix printouts (BASIC and Z80 Assembly code from the 80's...) found in a drawer while searching for something else. Or source files in some remote "OldStuff" folder on my...
Posted: May 31 2004, 09:13 AM by WeigeltRo | with 3 comment(s)
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Don't Underestimate the Benefits of "Trivial" Unit Tests
Take a look at the following example of a trivial unit test for a property. Imagine a class MyClass with a property Description : public class MyClass { ... private string m_strDescription; public string Description { get { return m_strDescription; }...
Posted: Apr 18 2004, 03:58 PM by WeigeltRo | with 4 comment(s)
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Looking for a New Year's Resolution?
There are many exciting .NET topics waiting for us in 2004. Simply too much stuff to be tried and understood, too much knowledge to be gained. If you're making plans for 2004, here's one single thing I can fully recommend: If you're not already doing...
Posted: Dec 31 2003, 10:14 AM by WeigeltRo | with 3 comment(s)
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Documentation Patterns
Keith writes about documentation - or the lack thereof. Even though writing documentation inside C# source files brings immediate benefits (e.g. tooltips when using intellisense) and is generally a good idea for any non-trivial library, a lot of code...
Posted: Aug 05 2003, 05:51 PM by WeigeltRo | with 4 comment(s)
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