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February 2004 - Posts

Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:14 PM

Wireless Networking Troubles (aka I want those three days back)

This is the story of a wireless networking problem I had at home, what it was, the clues I missed, and how I eventually solved it. The Setup My main router is an MN-700 , and its wireless is somewhat secure via WEP. I do broadcast my SSID as it makes
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Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:44 AM

C# breakpoint troubles in VS 2003 : Work in progress

I put my blog Contact page on a few newsgroup postings as we are seeing some strange reports of breakpoints not working in managed code. By not working I don't mean in specific scenarios, but not working at all, under any circumstances. I am working with
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004 7:37 PM

Windows XP Bluetooth Support : A Rant

As promised, I thought I'd rant a bit about the Bluetooth (BT) support in Windows. In the beginning there was Windows XP and it had its BT support cut before release, as the standard was very new, and I think that was the right decision at the time. Then
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Friday, February 13, 2004 10:59 AM

Improving the reliability of the Visual Studio debugger on managed code (aka FuncEval is evil)

If the debugger hangs on you when debugging managed code (C#, VB, J#), try disabling “Allow property evaluation in variables windows“ (Tools/Options/Debugging/General). Technical Details In order for the debugger to display the value of a
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Friday, February 06, 2004 3:13 PM

How to Not Step Into Functions using the Visual C++ Debugger

Disclaimer: This is not a documented or supported feature. That means it was not tested, and might not work, and if it doesnt please dont call Microsoft Support and complain. If it does work, then hoorah. Introduction Ever stepped into a function you
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Tuesday, February 03, 2004 4:37 PM

Why no C# Edit and Continue?

I received an email from Bill T. who was asking why C# wont be doing Edit & Continue (EnC as we refer to it) in VS “Whidbey”. He asked “I've always wondered WHY that's so much more difficult in C#. Perhaps you could write something in your blog describing
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