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adventures in windows forms and wpf

May 2006 - Posts

Pretty darn excited - two presents shipped to my desk
A copy of Chris Sells and Michael Weinhardt 's book appeared on my chair today. I guess Chris had his boys working the presses . ...and I can now download a version of Cider that supports the delete key . Read More...
Love for Lucida 14 and a brand new font for VS
Don Box gave a great channel 9 interview on how to give a technical presentation. 11 min and 30 seconds into the talk, Don had me breaking into a fit of giggles when he professed his love for Lucida Console 14. "If you're going to give a technical talk Read More...
Plugging in your own templates to Create New Project and Add Item
I wanted to let you all in on a trick I've been using for creating my test projects. If you open up VS 2005, a new menu item has snuck on to the File menu: "File->Export Template". If you're always adding in the same sets of files into your project Read More...
Ever wish you could do this when your PM stops by?
No more feature requests JIM ! Read More...
You gotta learn to let it go: Top 4 memory leaks
I got a note from Mukund, who is investigating a memory leak problem. Hi Jessica, Is it true that you cannot explicitly destroy objects in VB.NET? Mukund, the truth is that the CLR both giveths and takeths away the memory for you. Once a whole bunch of Read More...
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