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Command line life saver - LinkD
Craig explains and points to a wonderful tool that makes working with long directory names from the command line a breeze - LinkD . This and other useful tools can be found here .
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The blogger chain letter?
Hmm. Could this be the start of the blogger chain-letter of the future? I wonder if implementing such an idea here on .NetWeblogs might be viable. I know I'd like to see the "celebrity" bloggers answer 5 interview…
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Geek encounters
Yesterday, after work, I got the chance to meet up with Yosi & Lior and see where they work(at SPL ). Later we grabbed our cars and headed out for a small dinner(I still can’t eat anything even now, and its already noon…
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DirectCast
For us VB.Net programmers. You should know about DirectCast . (via Paul Vick )
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Downloadable MSDN magazine
Whoa! I didn't realize this, but Stephen Toub points out that the monthly issues of MSDN Magazine are available in downloadable CHM format . [ The Furrygoat Experience ] Cool! I read MSDN regularly, but havn't noticed…
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Patterns
You want to read those ... yes you do want to read them even if you alread went through the GoF patterns for C# . [ Benjamin J. J. Voigt ]
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Microsoft does, but can do even more
I was glad to see that Paul Vick read what I wrote (but answered on a different subject). It feels good to know that the right people are reading what you are saying. Paul - if youre reading this - I love what you did…
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Smile! You're on candid camera!
By the way, tonight's lecture was taken in Microsoft's offices in Kfar-Saba. Did you know that they tape all the lectures there on video ? ut not in a mounted - middle of the room camera. nope. It's like the ones used…
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Tonight's user group meeting went great (or - What does the matrix, X-Box's "Halo" and COM+ have in common?)
Just got back from tonight's Israel web developers group meeting . The lecture was made by Yosi Taguri & Lior Rozner and was about the basics of COM+. Now, I never got the chance to work on an application that used…
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Israel .net web developers group meeting
Hope to see you all this evening at the Israel .net web developers group meeting . It looks like its gonna be a very fun lecture about Enterprise services. All I know is that they'll have XBox machines there as well. I…
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Speed up Internet Explorer
I just have to re-post this amazingliy powerful tweak , as I've just installed my new machine, and had to do it again. boy, it helps! Speed up Internet Explorer
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IDE enhancements - conclusion?
In my last post, I named a few enhancements I’d like to see added to C#’s IDE. I then asked, for each of these, why was it not sensible to add them, or why do they not exist in the first place. I’ve gotten plenty of…
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Am I the stereotypical VB programmer?
Oisin responds to my requests regarding VS.Net IDE enhancements : "Roy, if there ever was a stereotypical VB programmer to be singled out as an example, it would be you. Absolutely no understanding of why things aren't…
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FeedDemon fixes abound!
Boy. It seems like FeedDemon's new beta release fixed and added a lot of the things that I complained about (I don't attribute this to me, I'm not that much of a self-centered guy!). Great!
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Advanced debugging tips and stuff you never knew about the "Find" combo box
1) You can set breakpoints on the callstack window as well - just select the call and hit F9 or right click. great for recursive functions. 2 ) You can set individual breakpoints on different expressions on the same…
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Passport identity change
I had to change my Passport ID today, because it was an iname.com ID, and that is manages by Mail.com , which totally sucks. Their server is slower than my grandmother's turtle(and he's cripple). Speaking of slow - the…
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There goes an hour or two
So much for a productive day. My work machine's hard disk failed, appearently during the weekend, so I get to work, and I find a nice black screen with nothing but a "Disk Read Error" message. Ugh. Why does that even…
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Visual Studio .NET and C# Tips and Tricks
Visual Studio .NET and C# Tips and Tricks Software legend Juval Lowy shares his tips, tricks and best practices. Juval demonstrates how to deal with common hurdles and how to effectively apply .NET, by presenting…
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Settings Add-in ver. 1.0 released on GotDotNet
OK. I've released version 1.0 of my VS.NET Settings add-in on GotDotNet. Here's the project's URL. You can download the full setup there ( Currently tested on vs.net 2002 only ). After installation you'll get a new menu…
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What's missing in today's hottest languages?
Some of these changes refeer to stuff that is simply missing as an IDE feature rather than a language construct, but you get the drift.. Things VB.NET should have had out of the box: Multiple lines code (i.e. no "_"…
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Export and import VS.NET's text editor's color and font settings
I like customizing the way my VS.NET text editor looks and feels. I like dabbling with the colors and settings of the editor until everything is just as I like it. One caveat – If I move to a different computer – all…
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How's this for less eye strain
I was fiddling with the color settings for visual studio, and was trying to get a less eye-straining environment for coding in. Turns out I made the perfect settings.. if I were a black ops agent or something...
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I’ve just learned that a friend of mine is looking for a job.
I’ve just learned that a very good friend of mine is looking for a job. If you’re looking for a Graphics artist/Web designer / Flash wizard and you’re based in the London area, you should seriously consider checking him…
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A much needed SchemaHelper class
Phew . I've made a fixed version of my SchemaHelper class (this time in C#). This class solves the problem of not being able to automatically find Data Relations while filling a Dataset object with tables. Although…
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A much needed SchemaHelper class
Phew. I've made a fixed version of my SchemaHelper class (this time in C#). This class solves the problem of not being able to automatically find Data Relations while filling a Dataset object with tables. Although…
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Nice MS Word shortcut
Say you have a document with multiple lines(duh!). Go to the middle of the document and select a couple of lines that have text above them or below them.. Press LEFT SHIFT+LEFT ALT + Up Or Down arrow several times...
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6 months and counting
I've just realized that I've been blogging here for almost 6 months. Should I light half a candle? Yey! Halfppy Blogthday :)
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About maintainable code
I'm currently into documenting my source code and creating infrastructure documents. It's amazing how important these things are, I'd say it's inversely related to how boring they are to do J . One of the most important…