Patrick Steele's .NET Blog
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View History doesn't work in VSS 2005
I was doing some work with VSS 2005 this weekend and had a very wierd problem. When I tried to view history for a file, nothing happened. No errors, no prompts -- it just did nothing. I tried this both from VS.NET 2005 as well as the VSS 2005 client. Same thing.
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It arrived!
After 5 1/2 years, I have retired my Kyocera Palm SmartPhone. Sitting on my desk in it's docking cradle is my new Samsung i730. If you look closely at the screenshot, you'll see its running Windows Mobile 5.0. The upgrade went flawlessly -- although I'm working with a brand new phone with no data on it and no additional 3rd party apps installed. -
The wait begins...
Finally! After 5 1/2 years with the same phone (yes 5 1/2 YEARS), I've finally found a phone with the features and price I want to replace my trusty Kyocera Palm SmartPhone.
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Followup on String.IsNullOrEmpty
My post about the utility method IsNullOrEmpty elicited an important comment. It seems there is a JIT optimization bug with this method that will bite you if you compile in release mode and run outside of the IDE. Seems like it might be best to avoid this one and wait for the fix. Thanks to Arjan Zuidhof for the comment!
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String.IsNullOrEmpty (.NET 2.0)
How many times have you written the following string validation code:
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DevCares Training Event
Yesterday, Bill Wagner and I spoke at the local Microsoft DevCares event in Southfield, Michigan. We spoke on "Incorporating Agile Development into Your Organization". It included a slide deck where we talked about what agile development is, how it can help you and how to go about getting an agile project started in your organization. In the second part of the event, we got into code! We talked about TDD and the testing and code coverage features available in Visual Studio 2005.
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Doubles, strings and parsing.
A guy at a client site quizzed me the other day on an interesting topic. Given the following snippet of code:
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Data Binding fails me again...
Please excuse this minor tirade I'm about to belch out...
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My last day as an MVP.
Today is my last day as a .NET MVP. I first received the MVP award back in October 2001 when there was only a single classification of ".NET" and awards were give out mainly on your contributions to the USENET newsgroups. Today, the .NET MVP awards are divided into subcategories such as C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET and awards are given for all sorts of community activities. It's been a great ride and I was lucky to have a great lead in Rafael Munoz at Microsoft.
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