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-- Update:  I used "Toposphoid" as my character name in the Entropia Universe but haven't been in that virtual reality for some time, now.  The old email address is gone.

In the time when dinosaurs ruled the earth, I grew up with command line interfaces, which offered vast improvements over punched cards.  As a result, I find it immensely helpful to know about Visual Studio Commands and I frequently use the Command Window, both in Command Mode and Immediate Mode.  Learning how to use these Visual Studio tools can really increase an engineer's efficiency in .NET development.  Oh, and don't forget to memorize some of the Pre-defined Visual Studio Command Aliases (even though you can get a list of them any time by entering "alias" in the Command Window). Of course, you can really hum if you create your own Custom Aliases for complex operations you execute frequently.  It is worth taking some time to get to know these tools.  Strongly recommended!

The Shortcut Key Guide from Mastering Visual Studio .NET looks to be very handy.  I don't know how long this link will stay active on the Safari Bookshelf site, so you might want to either buy the book or "SaveAs" a local copy.

I wish the Weblogging community could adopt some general convention for referencing posts on other Weblogs.  Personally, I evolved a format like this: [Don Box: XML eclipses COM].  It allows me to cite source and content in a single link.  I would prefer to use a standard format that we all would recognize. 

I was relatively blown away by [Don Box: XML eclipses COM] and, was definitely over-awed by [Dilip Kumar: The XML Family of Specifications: The Big Picture]. How naive we were when we thought XML was simple and cool!

Sam Gentile has summarized the essentials of using the Microsoft .NET Framework's support for Enterprise Services. He makes it seem so simple.

The new FxCop version is up at the FxCop Team site at GotDotNet.com, including versions for both the 1.0 and 1.1 versions of the .NET Framework.