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Adventures into the world of amateurgramming. I'll leave the programming to the professionals.

February 2008 - Posts

'Alt Tab' for Visual Studio
Alt+tab is a common operation for Windows users.  Once a user masters the skill they can navigate between windows quickly.  Visual Studio has something similar but not with the same shortcut keys.  Crtl+Tab will bring up the window I show Read More...
Get Your Windows Live Hotmail In Outlook
If you have a Windows Live Hotmail Account you can actually check your email in Outlook with the Outlook Connector .  My favorite part about using this approach is that it doesn't add the advertisement at the bottom of your emails when you send them Read More...
Checking Return Values Without Saving Them
Often times I will be debugging some code and I want to see a return value of a function; but the value of the function is not saved into a variable for one reason or another. In the simplest form you can see this scenario in the following code: 1: using Read More...
It Is Nice To Be At The Top Of The Food Chain
The Back Story A very long time ago, maybe it was even as much as 2 years ago now, I wanted to answer the question 'Just how much overhead is there using one API call compared to another API call?'. This question came to mind after I realized just how Read More...
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