2005

Explore posts from 2005 below.

VS2005 Office Development Restrictions

While listening to various podcasts and reading blogs on VSTO 2005 I got the distinct impression that there are so many deployment restrictions to the VSTO functionality, it would be difficult to...

visual-studio office microsoft development-tools
April 1, 2005
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Toshiba M200

I bit the bullet recently and bought a new Toshiba m200 tablet pc. Its an incredible piece of hardware, but I have found a few things that are annoying which will be posted over a period of time.

tablet hardware windows
March 26, 2005
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Jim Gray on Channel 9

An absolutely fascinating interview with Jim Gray is over at Channel 9. He labels his views as "the lunatic fringe". Huh!? It all made wonderful sense to me.

video software-architecture web-services industry-trends
March 22, 2005
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Field Name Colors

Eric Gunnerson wrote a post on field name conventions where the conclusion was that having an m_ prefix in front of field names makes it easier to identify fields versus variables.

visual-studio code-quality programming
March 10, 2005
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DisposableResource

This post contains some very minor variations of the Dispose pattern implemented in a class that implements IDisposable. A typical example of how to implement the Dispose idiom can be found over...

csharp memory-management design-patterns programming
March 8, 2005
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Media Center Update

Our big screen TV karked it a month back, so I haven't done much with the media center experiment up until recently. We had an extended warrantee on the TV so ended up getting a totally new unit.

media hardware windows
March 8, 2005
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