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November 2004 - Posts

What to do when TreeViews or ListViews don’t show selection or inactive selection
While working on a community app project (you’ll hear more on this later), I needed help setting the selection (and inactive selection) on a tree view. Just a refresher from my first ever blog post , Explanation of Focus and Selection Focus: Only one Read More...
Disabling the IDE Navigator (Ctrl-Tab Dialog)
I’ve had a few questions come back to me about disabling the IDE Navigator , aka the Ctrl-Tab Dialog. Here’s how to do it: Open Tools – Options – Keyboard Under “Show commands containing:”, type in “Window.NextDocumentWindowNav” Press the Remove button Read More...
Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor
Update 12/2/2004: Uploaded an image from Visual Studio 2005 Beta. Note the image below shows guidelines at column numbers 5 and 30, but the regkey value is RBG(255,0,0), 4, 29. The Guideline column numbers are 0-based in the registry. Update 11/29/2004: Read More...
Heading back home to N’awlins
Technically, I’m from the Mississippi Gulf Coast , but I tell people I’m from New Orleans . The Mississippi Gulf Coast is radically different than the rest of Mississippi . It’s the New Orleans spillover and arguably the retirement community for the city. Read More...
And yet another post about Halo 2... but at least this time it comes from a girl ::shrugs::
Update : I've finally created an xbox live account. My gamertag is "OMG a girl". Halo 2 kicks butt. Yep, I was one of those waiting in line an hour before the company store opened to ensure I would be playing Halo 2 when I got home from work. Alas, I Read More...
What is a Nighlty Test Case?
Why is a nightly called a nightly? A nightly is a test case that must be run every time there is a new build. Since a new build is published every night, these tests are run nightly, hence the name. Other teams call these tests Acceptance or Self-Host, Read More...
A look into our wonderful world of testing
ScottGu , the ASP .NET Product Unit Manager, has put together quite a detailed overview of the ASP .NET testing team’s world, which maps closely to my team’s world. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2004/10/28/249458.aspx Check out the Maddog screen Read More...
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