Overly Pedantic
Today my brain had a situation where it looped continuously making a decision whether to email a customer on their wording in an email....
July 20, 2004
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Debugger.IsAttached
The System.Diagnostics.Debugger class provides a handy means of interacting with an attached debugger and to determine whether a debugger is present....
July 18, 2004
Read More Unhandled Exception Reporting
I recently included unhandled exception processing in a Windows Forms application to help fault find some problems. Unhandled exceptions were processed by bringing up a user friendly message and...
exception-handling debugging winforms programming
July 17, 2004
Read More Null Checks/Plumbing Code
Brad Abrams posted on the NullReferenceException or ArgumentNullException question. For me, it's one of those "close call" questions....
July 12, 2004
Read More Paste Special
Just a thought: I seem to use "Paste Special ..." and then select "Unformatted Text" so often it really should be as much of a standard keystroke as Ctrl-C for Copy and Ctrl-V for Paste....
July 12, 2004
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Vendor PC Annoyance
In supporting customers recently, I've been getting the customer to request help using Remote Assistance. Once the customer gets the request process down (and UPNP routers are being used or a VPN is...
July 6, 2004
Read More VS.NET Addin Weirdness
Recently I experienced some weirdness in the Visual Studio.NET 2003 source code editor. The problem only occurred when editing C/C++ files and consisted of symptoms like being unable to select a...
visual-studio debugging development-tools cpp csharp
July 5, 2004
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AOP and .NET
Eric Gunnerson asked for example code on what scenarios developers would use AOP for. Aspect Oriented Programming is another one of those software development areas that I'd love to know more about...
aop dotnet csharp design-patterns programming persistence security
July 1, 2004
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Microsoft Developer Target Profiles
Microsoft just made available Beta-1 of the Visual Studio Express range of software developer tools. For some reason the C++ guy in particular made me think of the marketing/web people that created...
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June 30, 2004
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