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July 2005 - Posts

Taught my first karate class all by myself
I’m getting ready to test for 1st kyu, again, for the third attempt (first two attempts failed due to injury). Yep, the rib has healed, and I’m back to running 3 miles 2-3 times a week. I started going back to karate last month, only attending once a Read More...
How le Tour de France works - everything beginners want to know
I’ve been asked this question so many times this week, and now I just heard it asked by the guest on tonight’s The Daily Show. Why didn’t you school him Jon, why? But I have to give the daily show credit for Monday night’s episode about Lance. It was Read More...
How do I become a personal trainer when I grow up?
If anyone out there is a personal trainer, I’d love to find out how to get started. Which books to read, which ones to avoid? What certification should I set as a goal? Right now, I’m just doing searches on the web for popular books, book reviews, etc. Read More...
Did you know… How to modify what gets saved before building?
Go to Tools – Options – Projects and Solutions – Build and Run page. The first combo box is Before building: with the options to Save all changes Save changes to open documents only Prompt to save all changes Don’t save any changes I’ll follow up with Read More...
Looking for Visual Studio .NET 2003 Tips and Tricks? – here’s a book for you
Minh Nguyen wrote a collection of Tips and Tricks for 2002 and 2003, with some 2005 Beta 1 tips too. The book’s called Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks . The book covers Editor and other IDE tips Compiling and Debugging tips Miscellaneous .NET tips Read More...
Accessibility and Interviewing
Gretchen is curious what your experiences have been like , either as the interviewer or interviewee. It makes me wonder how I would give a coding problem to someone who is blind, because I’m extremely visual and like looking at code on the whiteboard. Read More...
Did you know... How to optimize your Tool Window Debugging layout
If you’re dealing with callstacks only 5 lines deep, you’ll probably like the current layout – docked to the bottom. However, if you’re dealing with callstacks 20 lines deep, you probably want to be able to see more lines without wasting your Editor real Read More...
Did you know... How to have fun with MSO Command Bar Customizations you didn't know existed
Well, maybe you knew these existed, but I didn’t =) Double-clicking the Move Control On the left-hand side of the toolbars, there’s a resize / move control. When there are two or more toolbars together on the same row, you can use this control to resize Read More...
Did you know... How to optimize Visual Studio for Multi-Monitor setups
Update 7/20 @ 11:53pm: We have a bug: Please vote and leave your suggestions / feedback at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/viewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackId=cf3597fc-2acf-43c7-b09f-a7e1dd7474f5 Many thanks ShadowChaser! Update 7/20 @ 9:20pm: Read More...
Yippee!! You can now view all VS Tips and Tricks from this category!
Community Server was only returning the last 20 or so posts in a category until recently. The full category view appears to be working now. http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/category/9843.aspx Read More...
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