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October 2003 - Posts

Everything old is new again!

Ahhh, yes, Microsoft unveiling new ways to put code behind web pages, interchangable Web and Windows controls and controls that have server-side events and can be used just like classic VB... ah wasn't 1998 wonderful....    WHAAAAAA???   I love finding Read More
posted Wednesday, October 29, 2003 10:26 PM by richard | 1 Comments
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Undock thy VS.NET Output window

I love this 'trick' for configuration of VS.NET - I hated the docked task and output windows at the bottom of the editor (regardless if they were hidden or not) How to make your Output window a full-fledge VS.NET window (and therefore actually usable):http://objectsharp.com/blogs/barry/posts/159.asp Read More
posted Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:11 AM by richard | 2 Comments
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Anders and me...

Anders spoke to me! Read More
posted Monday, October 27, 2003 5:28 PM by richard | 0 Comments
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Why I'm bored with .NET

Why does everything I read in .NET blogs/articles these days seem like the same stuff I've been reading for the past 2 years?  Oh, wait, that's right - because it IS.   With the notable exception of the addition of generics to C# (due about 12-18 months Read More
posted Wednesday, October 22, 2003 12:36 AM by richard | 1 Comments
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Would you like to biggie-size your stack?

A recent thread in the C# newsgroup yielded this cool tip that I didn't know (oh all the things I've missed not being a VC++ developer).  This will allow you to actually increase the stack size for any given .NET executable - very significantly if you Read More
posted Friday, October 10, 2003 1:09 AM by richard | 2 Comments
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I hate writing connection strings

So I just use this GDN sample/tool now... I think the part of my brain that deals with connection string writing was damaged in a tragic beer-related mishap years ago, so now I use this. Read More
posted Thursday, October 02, 2003 6:40 PM by richard | 0 Comments
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C#'s Elegant Singleton

Jon says it better than I could about this commonly discussed design pattern: http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/singleton.html Read More
posted Thursday, October 02, 2003 6:37 PM by richard | 0 Comments
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