January 2006 - Posts
What do you do when your “small” ergonomic chair is actually taller than your original chair? Sigh. Well, at least with the armrests off, I can finally lower my desk to the proper height. And to think I was a soccer goalkeeper in high school. At least
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Rob asked me to get the word out that the Team System people are looking for some testers to conduct usability studies. You can find more info on Rob’s blog and on Steve’s blog .
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Today’s post marks the 100th Tip on the Tip of the Week! To celebrate the occasion, let’s recap our top 10 most visited* tips. #10 - How to bind Keyboard Shortcuts to commands #9 - How to do column selection #8 - What C# books to read #7 - How to optimize
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Are you passionate about your community and your customers? Do you want to take Visual Studio to the next level in Community? Do you love PowerToys? We have two PM positions open on our team that do just this. From Josh’s blog : I’ve got two PM openings
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If you ever want to disable add-ins from starting on launch, you can hold down the Left-Shift key while VS is loading. If you find yourself running into random crashes, you might want to try disabling add-ins (either by this Left-Shift method or going
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Today’s tip comes from Scott Allen’s blog . Scott has provided a VS 2005 macro that will dynamically build a web.sitemap file based on the files in your project . For any questions related to ASP.NET, please check out the ASP.NET forums ! Got an ASP.NET
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Black is an awesome color to wear! Here are some pictures from tonight’s ceremony.
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There’s been a lot of discussions about merging the two cities. Funny, I always thought Waveland would make it because it had the Walmart (which has been opened when nothing else was). The ball has been in Waveland’s court, until now. Coincidentally,
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The Sun Herald has these really cool flash animations showing before and after Katrina photos. I’ve been asked to provide some pre-Katrina photos, but alas, one never thinks to take a picture of the things you’ve seen every single day for 20 years. http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/special_packages/renewal/before_after/
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After 4.5 years on the VS Environment / VS Core team, I’ve finally decided to make the switch into Program Management. Don’t get me wrong, I love testing. It’s still the ultimate “you broke it and I’m telling.” But, I can't resist the temptation of the
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You can find the VS 2005 Automation Samples at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79C7E038-8768-4E1E-87AE-5BBBE3886DE8&displaylang=en If you have any questions regarding the samples, you can ask them at the Extensibility Forum.
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