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Over the years I have grown very sceptical of the “fewer slides, more demos” kind of presentations. I simply have seen too many presentations where things went downhill from the moment the speaker opened Visual Studio. In an internal presentation or at...
One of the first things I do each time I start using a new version of Visual Studio is to customize the font and color settings. For Visual Studio 2010 this turned out to be a bit more complicated, though, because of the way XML documentation comments...
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...
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...
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...
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...
[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...
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...
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...
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; }...
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