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Friday, December 16, 2005 5:14 PM

Looking for the right exception?

This is mostly for my own reference; I am usually looking for the right exception to throw so here is a single list with everything deriving from System.Exception nicely nested and linked: System.Object   System.Exception     
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005 5:59 PM

Wanted: Experienced Tester to join the TT team

Our team currently has an opening for an experienced tester.  We are looking for someone who has the ability to implement and execute a testing strategy for our team utilizing some of the latest Microsoft technologies (like team system and foundation
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Friday, April 08, 2005 1:50 PM

How to return an array - null or empty?

I was writing some code today and had a few methods that were returning arrays of values.  I was wondering what the guidelines were about the proper way to return an array from an API so I did a quick search and turned up the following: “String
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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:59 PM

Visual Studio Won't Debug - Symbols not loaded - Fixed

Debugging stopped working on my laptop today.  No symbols would load for any assembly.  Even trying to load the symbols manually in the modules window wouldn't work.  I found the answer to this problem over on Min Kwan Park's blog.
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Friday, January 14, 2005 2:04 PM

HttpUtility.UrlEncode Does not encode spaces properly

I realized a while back that HttpUtility.UrlEncode does not properly encode spaces for URLs.  It encodes a space as a “+“ which most browsers do not interpret as a space for the obvious reason that + is actually a valid character for
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Thursday, September 09, 2004 12:10 PM

SOA Data - Inside vs. Outside

Pat Helland has struck gold yet again with a great paper on SOA data over at MSDN.  This time he goes into detail about how to manage data both inside and outside the service edge.  There is so much to un-learn when doing SOA development,
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Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:36 AM

Exporting Font and Color setting in Visual Studio

Not too long ago I got another computer for development @ work and needed an easy way to copy my font and color settings from my one machine to the other.  The solution? Export the  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.1\FontAndColors]
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Monday, August 09, 2004 2:25 PM

Windows Forms FAQ

Found a nice link to a site with some good WinForm tips by George Shepherd.  http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/WinForms/   .
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Friday, April 30, 2004 1:54 PM

Response.Cookies Bug

Admittedly, I am no Brad Abrams when it comes to API design and usage but I am pretty sure that this API faux pas constitutes itself as a bug.  The bug is in HttpCookie and has to do with the Value and Values properties.  You can use the following
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:29 AM

Prevent Client Side Caching with HttpModules

I am attempting to build a totally anonymous feedback system here at work and so I needed to find a way to prevent clients from caching any data coming off the server.  I started out by just putting in the standard cache killing code in the actual
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004 2:06 PM

Web Design - Control Layout

Ever since I was wee programmer I was taught that “good” gui design (as it related to controls) meant that you align labels and control right next to each other.  So if one were to create a data entry screen it would like so:
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Friday, April 23, 2004 9:29 AM

Web Design Guidelines

I was doing a little leg work for project TruckerHat (a significant re-design project I am tasked with this quarter) and came across a nice site put together by Oracle affectionately called BLAF (browser look and feel).  The site contains some pretty
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Thursday, April 01, 2004 1:57 PM

C# Compiler Line Limit

Well I found out today that the C# compiler only allows 2046 characters on one line.  I wonder why this is the case? Why was I putting 2046+ characters on one line you ask?  Well I was pasting in a rather large error message so I could play
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Tuesday, December 09, 2003 5:10 PM

ObjectSpaces Sample Code from PDC now available

Thanks Andrew for posting the links to Luca's sample code from his PDC presentation.  This is good stuff!  
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Thursday, December 04, 2003 12:46 PM

Why bother learning XAML?

I must say I am pretty hesitant to spend much time learning much about XAML right now since I think we are going to have a lot of options to develop XAML apps visually in the future.  The most interesting buzz that I have heard is about Microsoft's Sparkle.
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