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I’ve heard that Fred’s and some of the other stores are itching to reopen, so the hippie café is moving on.  My only regret from our trip is that I never got to eat there.  We tried once, but the line was too long.  I had an aunt and uncle...

Through the powers of email, i’ve heard that St. Clare will be featured tonight on Scarborough Country.  There’s a small write-up about Waveland on the show’s blog.  When we went down there with our U-haul, most of our non-clothing supplies...

Sweet!  Today’s tip is our first tip sent in by a customer.  Got a VS tip you want to share?  Saw a great tip on the MSDN Forums?  Let me know! Right-click on your solution in the Solution Explorer, select “Set StartUp Projects…”....

My 4 year anniversary at Microsoft was Sept 17, so this post is just a little late. Number 10:  How the Metro Bus System Works My first year here there was an alias you could email your street address and building number to, and they would give you...

Today’s tip comes from both Jim and Steve . From Steve’s blog : Hold the Ctrl button down to make DataTips transparent. [ Pictures ] From Jim’s blog : DataTip Keyboard Functionality Use the [down] and [up] arrows to move through the items in the expanded...

I won’t know the results of the exam until our head teacher is ready to give them to us.  I’m guessing they are waiting for our checks to clear before we can go to the bank and pay the 20 buck to stop the check.  =) Wow, I’ve received several...

I’ve worked with my teammates on VS Core to come up with this list of tips on writing good bug reports.  Take it from me as a tester, the better the bug report, the easier it is to get the issue resolved quickly and adequately.  Tip #1 – Clear...

Did you know you can use SmartTags to automatically qualify your classnames?  Using C# as an example, let’s say you were to type in private Process proc; But you don’t have the appropriate using statement included in your code.  You can put...

Good lord, am I the last to know about this site regarding the reconstruction of Bay St. Louis and Waveland?  Well, several people on the team forwarded it to me right when I got back from our trip to Waveland.  I only took a quick peek and...

From the MSBuild Team Blog … Have you ever run into a situation where you had to recursively copy files from one folder into another as a part of your build process?  We certainly have run into it a few times, and I thought I’d share with you a neat...

This blog post has been moved to http://saraford.net/2005/11/02/did-you-know-how-to-use-the-undo-and-redo-commands-on-the-standard-toolbar/

The experience below comes from an emergency doctor who went to Waveland, MS with the North Carolina –State Medical Assistance Team from the Carolinas Medical Center. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2005/11/01/waveland-experience...