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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:49 AM

Sliced bread ain’t got nuthin’ on this!

Forget being the best thing since sliced bread – this is the best thing ever . Well maybe not quite that good, but it's still darn cool! Finally – FINALLY! – you can get decent IntelliSense for JScript inside Visual Studio ! Holy hotcakes, Batman! This
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Sunday, January 16, 2005 12:27 AM

Inheritance Demands for Interfaces

I'm cheating here by re-posting an e-mail I sent the other day... but hey, you don't expect me to come up with new content for this blog do you? :-) Here is a deliberately contrived example of why you might need to protect interfaces with inheritance
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Saturday, December 18, 2004 8:29 PM

Changing Abstractions in an Object Model is Hard

Up until recently, I was working on a rather large spec for an as-yet-un-announced product. The majority of the spec consisted of class definitions and the details surrounding their interactions, but there was also a rather large conceptual component
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Monday, July 26, 2004 4:22 AM

Tin Foil Hat Tool

Based on some of Nicole's feedback , I decided to write a basic app that checked your .NET security settings for you -- kind of like a very basic version of the Windows XP SP2 "Security Centre" tool which pops up and annoys you if you don't have the firewall
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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 6:13 AM

RequestRefuse and RequestOptional example

Dave asks for an example of how to use RequestRefuse and RequestOtional . Here's my attempt to post a short blog entry that describes it (luckily I had the code already at hand... ;-) ). The code consists of two libraries ("Optional" and "Refuse") and
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Sunday, July 18, 2004 7:25 PM

Everett SP1 Tech Preview and VSA / VSTO

Updated information about VSTO below As you may know, the .NET Framework 1.1 ("Everett") Service Pack 1 Tech Preview is available for download . You should try to install this on your non-production machines and test to make sure your existing applications
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Sunday, March 21, 2004 12:10 AM

Developing as Non-Admin

Keith Brown writes a comment in one of my older posts about a chapter in his book dealing with developing code as a non-Admin . A great read if you're still one of those people running as an Administrator because you think you need to in order to do programming.
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Saturday, December 06, 2003 4:57 PM

Developers frustrated by Administrators

A link on Slashdot points to a rant about why one developer thinks that administrators are the scum of the earth. There are some good counter arguments on the comments page. It's interesting because we spend quite a bit of time at work trying to make
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Monday, November 03, 2003 4:10 PM

VSTO Security Model

How we 'remove' My Computer Zone
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Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:38 AM

PDC Session on Office Development with VS "Whidbey"

Session TLS346
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Tuesday, October 21, 2003 6:26 PM

Mitigating Code Repurposing Attacks

A cure for insomnia?
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Thursday, October 16, 2003 4:22 AM

Code Repurposing

It's what keeps me up at night
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Monday, October 13, 2003 4:45 PM

Another debugging tip

Renamed assemblies
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Monday, October 13, 2003 11:55 AM

More VSTO Press

VSTO has been picked by a few more places; you can pick your favourite link from Google News results or just go straight to the Australian version :-) Now if this would somehow make it to Slashdot , I could retire happy. I would have written an entry
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Monday, October 06, 2003 2:43 AM

Successfully debugging VSTO projects

A few simple tips
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