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Vista lets you use forward slash at the command prompt!
I was just setting at a command prompt in Vista on my laptop and I typed
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My first .NET User Group meeting and FSDNUG
Last week, a small group of us traveled up to hear Jean-Paul Boodhoo present to the Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group. JP presented on advanced uses of generics in .NET (i.e. more than just strongly typed collections) though we also had a great look at Test Driven Development as well as some of the new features in C# 3.0.
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Don't you wish Path.Combine supported multiple arguments out of the box?
I’ve found myself wishing that I could pass in more than two arguments to Path.Combine. That is, something like this:
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Learning technologies outside (and inside) of the Microsoft ecosystem
In my post looking forward to 2008, I mentioned that I wanted to take more time this year to learn new technologies, particularly outside of the Microsoft communities. With all of the push in .NET towards dynamic languages right now, why not look to some of the dynamic languages that have been out there being used for years?
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Welcome Brian to the blogosphere
In much the same way that Colin welcomed me to the blogosphere a few years back, I now get to welcome Brian Sullivan. Check out his inaugural post and leave a comment.
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The _NT_SYMBOL_PATH settings with the .NET Framework reference source
I couldn’t find this information anywhere (yet), so I thought I’d share this. If you’re already using the
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My attempt at converting the VIM Wombat theme to support Visual Studio
I absolutely love trying out different Visual Studio color schemes. I’ve used John Lam’s port of Vibrant for a while as well as some of Tomas Restrepo’s VS themes and they’re all great. After watching this VIM screencast from the Eleutian guys, I decided to give VIM another try. I’m not able to fly with it yet, but I am picking it up a lot better.
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Welcome 2008, 2007 in review
It’s hard to believe that it is already 2008… 2007 completely flew by. I spent most of this Christmas holiday telling my family I had seen them just a few months ago when, in fact, I hadn’t seen them since… last… Christmas.
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The Remote Debugger from Visual Studio 2008 isn't backwards compatible
This is probably a big duh for some of you out there, but if you’re running the remote debugger that comes packaged with Visual Studio 2008 (you can find it at C:\program files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\Remote Debugger) on a remote machine and you try to attach to that remote machine using Visual Studio 2005, you’ll get an error. In fact, VS2005 will tell you that it can’t find any servers running on the remote machine. All afternoon yesterday, I was trying to figure out how this one users’ security was wrong and keeping me from attaching to a remote debugger he was running when, in fact, I just had an older version of Visual Studio trying to talk to a newer remote debugger.
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ZoomIt - Great for presentations as well as when your eyes are dilated!
This morning, I had my annual eye appointment and I completely forgot that they might dilate my eyes. Of course, my appointment was also scheduled first thing in the morning - essentially before work. Now, I’m sitting in front of my computer and literally everything is completely blurry. I can’t read anything on the screen. It doesn’t matter if I get close to the screen or far away, it is all blurry.
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