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Java Annotations

Check out the new functionality in the Java "Tiger" release. Looks like the major .NET languages and Java language oriented functionality are going to be walking lockstep for the forseeable future.

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July 30, 2004
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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
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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...

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July 17, 2004
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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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