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Finding work
So yesterday was my first day as a contractor. Well, actually, it was my first day as an unemployed individual. The contract I was supposed to start on has gotten stalled in some "red-tape" and its uncertain whether this will be solved to everyone's satisfaction. Scary, to be sure. But this is one of the possibilities I planned for when deciding to go independent. Many W2 employees have a false sense of "security" when it comes to their jobs. You should always plan for the possibility of being out of work tomorrow!
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The EventLogTraceListener and EventLogEntryType
If you've ever used the EventLog class, you know it's a convenient way to write entries into any of the event logs on a machine. The WriteEntry method has a number of overloads and one of them allows you to specify an EventLogEntryType member to indicate the type of event log entry to create -- Information, Warning, Error, SuccessAudit or FailureAudit.
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Instance variable initializers - C# vs. VB.NET
I ran into an interesting issue today when changing some VB.NET code. I was surprised at the outcome so I did a quick repro case in C# and didn't have a problem.
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Taking the plunge!
Tomorrow begins my final week as a W2 employee. As of Monday, February 27th I become an independent contractor!