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BatchRunner - using a collection of BackgroundWorker instances for fun
BackgroundWorker is a new class in the .NET 2.0 framework - it's purpose in life is to make it much...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/22/2005
It's the little things that help
Adam Singer had pointed out the little helpful "remap" functionality we have in our command-line...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/22/2005
gimp / photoshop / acrylic - oh my!
We were chatting about these today in the office, and I have a request for all you out there in tv...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/10/2005
"hint palette" for VS?
One idea I had pitched internally awhile back but we didn't have time for in Whidbey was that of a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/10/2005
OneNote powertoy contest
https://www.onenotepowertoycontest.com I hope someone codes a nice Getting Things Done powertoy - I...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/27/2005
What's in a (re)name?
Like several other source control systems, Subversion does rename via branch/delete - of course,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/20/2005
Code Snippet for ArgumentNullException
I got a chance to see BradA give his talk at TriNUG Wednesday night, and in honor of that...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/04/2005
IEnumerable is still great for lazy fetching
This isn't really a quiz per se, just a reiteration of how IEnumerable can be great for getting a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/16/2005
useless benchmarking
This is admittedly, for the most part, useless, but over a lunch last week I had mentioned writing...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/11/2005
VS 2005 code snippet for a typical event
If you follow the guidelines, events have a decent chunk of boilerplate code - they'll typically...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/07/2005
back to basics - three-way file merge
I had planned on writing a medium-sized post about three-way merge, mainly just as a foundation to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/04/2005
simple TcpClient echo client/server example
I was trying to help a beginner dev that (like many early on) wanted to tackle an irc bot as their...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/19/2004
Pretty-printing valid xml snippet
It's proven useful in a couple of places, and it's pretty small and self-documenting. I had written...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/11/2004
IEnumerable and interleaving of I/O with CPU
Not all problems lend themselves to this, but as a general suggestion, if you're handling T[] or...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/11/2004
starting a process on a remote machine
Uses your existing credentials, of course, but I wanted to pass along in case others could use this:...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/30/2004
System.IO api's, temp files, closing, and the right tool for the job
I have a couple of blog posts that are in stewing nicely, but they're not really ready yet and I...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/07/2004
pushd - autofs on Windows that i never knew about and other ramblings
It had been on my blog todo list for awhile, but Buck beat me to it :) pushd works nicely for...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/01/2004
.NET 2.0 meta-highlights
Junfeng has posted a great list of NET 2.0 highlights that is definitely worth a read. I think I'm...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/01/2004
Guess who starts Monday? Jim Hugunin!
Ever since reading JasonZ's post about it, I've been very interested in IronPython. Part of it was...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/30/2004
what to call an option to dump to stdout?
I'm working on our “view” command where you can view older versions of files as you want...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/16/2004
a few more answers to Stuart's excellent questions
I still owed Stuart a couple more answers from his last set of questions, and he posted a couple...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/13/2004
WRT Stuart's excellent questions
Stuart provided some great feedback on his experiences with VS 2002/2003 and SourceSafe. Since I've...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/12/2004
random weekend source control babbling
Playing “devil’s advocate” is very much in my nature, so in the absence of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/11/2004
fellow pro or amateur sysadmins, rejoice with the power of Monad!
The latest .NET show is Longhorn Fundamentals. While the initial chunk (in Technobabble) is pretty...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/18/2004
Anders talks about C# 2.0 features and other TechEd 2004 (San Diego) presentations
As Duncan mentions, the C# TechEd 2004 page is up. Make sure to catch Anders' presentation on new...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/17/2004
James Newkirk weighs in on VS unit testing and starts talking about the real VSTS value
The venerable James Newkirk has a nice post about VSTS integration. It came specifically in response...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/15/2004
Hello, World! and a couple of the things I like about C# (2.0)
Who are you? I'm a developer in the Visual Studio group, currently working on Visual Studio 2005...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/11/2004