Archives
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Installing Windows Live Writer on Windows 2008
How long can it take to update a crappy installer and remove a hard-coded platform check?? Whatever...
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How to install MySQL on Windows 2008
When you finish the setup, the configuration wizard may not start, and upon starting it manually, you might get:
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Why do we need yet another .NET mocking framework?
I got this question a couple times in the past MIX08 at Las Vegas. And this is a very valid question indeed, given that there's already Rhino, EasyMock, TypeMock and NMock (to name a few). So why did we give you Moq?
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HP MediaSmart Server does NOT support 64-bit clients???
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How to get rid of the auto-generated #region for implemented interfaces
I HATE this default so much. Every stupid interface gets its own #region in my code file. I wonder who thought regions were so cool...
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How to hide System.Object members from your interfaces
Sometimes, System.Object methods (Equals, GetHashCode, GetType and ToString) only contribute clutter to VS intellisense. Everyone knows those members are always there, yet they are seldom used explicitly. This is especially important (and annoying) for fluent APIs that define the flow of invocations in terms of interfaces and usually have few members at each "step" of the statement.
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Silverlight + Seadragon = amazing Hard Rock memorabilia
Just go and see it at the Memorabilia Hard Rock site.
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PowerCommands for VS2008
From Pablo's announcement:
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Integrating SMS-based data entry with geographical visualization: a TED demo