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Opening files from the VS "Quick find combo"

Ctrl+/ is quickly becoming one of my favorite and most used hotkey in Visual Studio. Pressing it will jump you to the "Quick find Combo" with a ">" already type in for you (which means interpret the text as a VS command). If you are like me you hate...
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2008 Scripting Games - My solutions

Here are my solutions to the 2008 Scripting Games scripting competition. This is a rather large post but I decided one post would be better than posting them all individually, this way they will all be in one place when I want to find them later. I had...

Issues with the XmlSerializer in medium trust environments

In my last post I briefly mentioned that CodeHTMLer had issues running in a medium trust environment. The simple web application front end I created kept failing before it ever got started. It keep hitting a SecurityException nested in an InvalidOperationException...

Hanselminutes

I've been subscribed to Scott Hanselman 's blog for a long time. I love all the tools, tips, etc he posts. Up until this point I have not really gotten into podcasts however due to Scott 's awesome blog I figured I would give his podcast, Hanselminutes...
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How do I access my Outlook contacts from my web application?

Question How do I access my Outlook contacts from my web application? Short Answer You don't, well at least you shouldn't (It is theoretically possible to access Outlook data from a web application, assuming Outlook is installed and the profile...

String Streams in .Net

I while ago (almost 2 years) I posted a way to create a string stream in .Net. There has been a number of new comments added to that post recently so I figured I needed to update that example. Most API's that look for a Stream will also allow either a...
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