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Paste Special

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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Firefox

Firefox

Because of all the recommendations to stop using Internet Explorer, I decided to give Firefox a go. There were no problems getting it downloaded and working....

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July 11, 2004
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Vendor PC Annoyance

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
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VS.NET Addin Weirdness

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...

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July 5, 2004
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AOP and .NET

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 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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dotnet.tv

dotnet.tv

I followed this dotnet.tv link via Ingo Rammer's blog. Lot's of fun with analogies and an enjoyable view. One of the comments asked for sub-titled versions of the earlier videos that were done in...

June 28, 2004
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DiffDebugging

DiffDebugging

Martin Fowler is one of my favourite technical authors. Recently he wrote a bliki entry titled DiffDebugging. I got the same sense of deja vu with this piece as a I did when first reading the Design...

June 26, 2004
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Whidbey Class Designer

Whidbey Class Designer

The May preview of Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) included some of the Whitehorse initiative functionality. As I'm particularly keen on UML diagrams as a means of communicating technical concepts...

visual-studio uml class-design dotnet csharp
June 23, 2004
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