I'm rebuilding my computer after a hard drive failure, and I keep running into issues where things I've taken for granted are missing – things such as the "VS Command Prompt Here" Windows Explorer context menu items. Years ago, Scott Hanselman posted INF files to add VS 2005 to the context menu. Using that as inspiration, I've created a version of the file for VS 2008 and another for VS 2010. For what it's worth, I tweaked his VS 2005 file because my copy of VS is installed in "P...
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Have you ever been in one of those meetings where it seems that everyone in the company is there, even though they don’t need to be? I think everyone has and it is especially frustrating when you are one of the ones that doesn’t really need to be there.
Well, based on a web site I saw a few weeks ago (the link escapes me at the moment), I wrote a little Windows Mobile app that will calculate just how much any given meeting is costing you and your clients.
It’s a pretty simple application...
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June is just a week away. That’s insane. It’s cliché to say it, but time goes so fast. My son is already four months old, and my daughter is getting hilariouser by the moment. (I know some of you may not consider hilariouser a word, but as I mentioned before, I make up words and add them to my dictionary to get rid of the red squiggles.) So anyway, I went to Tech-Ed a couple weeks ago and it was great. I had a lot of fun, met a lot of people, caught up with a lot o...
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On Friday, April 17, Jeffrey Palermo will be giving a full-day seminar on ASP.NET MVC at UWM in Milwaukee. The event isn’t free, but is affordable at $125 – cheap for a day-long training session, especially from someone of Jeffrey’s caliber. If you’re interested, you can find out more at Jeffrey’s blog. I’m hoping to be able to go myself, but haven’t got that worked out yet. P.S. This is not a WI .NET Users Group event, so I don’t have any more details than what you can find on Jef...
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Well, tomorrow begins March 2009. This year is already one-sixth over and it has been a blur. As I get older years seem to go faster, but this one even faster than normal. Maybe it’s the “big project” at work and the “big project”, errr, new baby, at home. The work project ends in about another month. The other one will last a little longer. Whatever it is, the last two months have flown by. Also, I found out a couple days ago that I am going to Tech-Ed this ...
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I've been writing code with curly braces for a dozen years or so, starting with C++ in college, then JavaScript for many, many years, and for the last few years, C#. In all that time, I have been a fan of putting the opening curly brace on the same line as the declaration or control statement. For example: private void DoSomething() {
// ...
if (somecondition) {
myval = true;
}
// ...
}
At work, though, I have been working on someone else's code, and...
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I'm very excited to announce that we are planning the first ever GiveCamp in the Milwaukee area: GiveCamp MKE. In fact, it's one of the first GiveCamps anywhere. "What's a GiveCamp?", you ask. In short, it is an opportunity for developers, designers, DBAs, project managers and anyone else involved in the software development process to give back to the community. And we do it by doing what we know how to do best -- building software. We will soon be accepting a...
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I've been using the free version of TimeSnapper off and on for some time now, but pretty regularly over the last few weeks since I started my new job. I'm doing billable work again, and am notoriously bad at getting my time entered. TimeSnapper helps by taking screenshots at some interval throughout the day and allowing me to play them back like a movie. I've been thinking about getting the Pro version for a couple weeks because there are a few more features that could be helpful.&#...
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Just got a book in the mail from Amazon: Embedded Programming with the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework. It was only about $6 from the "Used and New" section of alternate sellers. An upcoming project at work is currently planned for Compact Framework, but, if my limited understanding is right, hardware needed for the Micro Framework is cheaper. So as long as it will perform as needed, this might be the way to go. Has anyone done any development with the .NET Micro Framework...
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Silverlight 1.1 becomes Silverlight 2.0. (Thanks for the heads up, Dave.) Now I just have to find a way to get to Mix '08 next year.
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