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Tuesday, June 29, 2004 11:24 AM

Debugger Goodies in VS 2005 Beta 1

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 is announced at last! Previously known as Whidbey (and internally it will forever known as Whidbey, as 7.1 is forever Everett, as 7.0 is, er, 7.0) this beta is going to be available to MSDN Universal subscribers, and some other
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Monday, June 28, 2004 1:45 PM

How Software Development has changed in 20 or so Years

A conversation with a workmate made me think back to my early programming days, and how things have changed in the eighteen or so intervening years, so I thought I'd share a time from my early history. No punch cards though (I'll spare you my school days).
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Thursday, June 17, 2004 1:46 PM

Debugger Window Menu Items: Where should they be?

The VS debugger since 7.0 has put most debugger windows on the Debug menu, under the Windows sub-menu. I say 'most' because the Output window lives on the View menu, under Other Windows sub-menu. Where do you expect debugger windows to be on the menu?
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Thursday, June 17, 2004 9:56 AM

Visual Studio Key Bindings : why do we do change them?

Every new release of Visual Studio comes with changed key bindings. Excuse me, “better” key bindings, as the designers would have you believe. I don't buy it. I still use the VC2 key binding set, because for me F8 is Step Into. We should never
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Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:31 PM

Why don't cordless phones have a global phone book?

I want to get a new 4-handset cordless phone, ideally 5.8GHz, but as far as I can tell, none of them have a global phone book. They all store the phone books in the handsets, and most give you a way of copying between handsets, but none just store it
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Friday, June 11, 2004 10:47 PM

Roku HD1000 Review

Here is the place to discuss anything about my review of the Roku HD1000 HDTV media player.
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Friday, June 04, 2004 1:50 PM

Visual Studio Breakpoint Helper

I have created a prototype Breakpoint Helper that deals with the most common issues that Visual Studio Debugger users have when their breakpoints don't work. This is only a prototype, but I hope people will still find it useful. If the feedback is promising
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