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Too late, I bought it anyways

2008-07-23T00:17:48Z

You guys took too long so I went ahead and got the Violin myself. I'm still curious what it would take to get something out of this community though. How about this, a project of some sort: using whatever technologies you want be it JavaScript, Si...

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Idea for Simple Multi-threaded Software

2008-07-21T16:25:14Z

As multi-core CPUs become more and more common, the ability to write quality software that takes advantage of them will become more important. The tools currently available are not adequate to this task. We are seeing a few things emerge to help...

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VB.Net vs C#, Round 2: Partial Namespaces

2008-07-17T17:31:25Z

I've talked about this before, and I don't want to go over the same issues a second time. However, I recently had a project where I finally spent a few weeks in C#, with no VB work at all. At last, I had a chance to develop a deeper familiarity ...

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Make your Code as Useful as Possible

2008-07-16T17:35:23Z

I don't know how many times I've seen code similar to the following on programming help forums: Function MyMethod(ByVal InputParameter() As String) As String() 'Do Stuff here that returns a different string array End Function That's okay. We...

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The Power of Declarative Code in ASP.Net

2008-07-11T15:55:55Z

ASP.Net is often mistaken for a simple update to Classic ASP. Just take ASP, throw in some .Net classes, and you're done. You get a better IDE and you might get a small performance boost from using pre-compiled code, but not much else. Of cours...

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PowerShell rescues wedding photos

2008-06-22T20:54:31Z

One of my friend reached out to me last week for help. The photographer she hired for her wedding had gone bankrupted. Since she has not gotten the album now she can't even get her wedding photos in either prints or digital form. All she has acces...

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Excel Column Names

2008-06-12T20:51:53Z

I ran across a request in a forum today to create an Excel column name from an index. It sounds simple, but it's harder than it looks. The obvious solution here is to think about a column name as a base 26 number, with A-Z for digits. Unfortunat...

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Video of Alt.Net Opening

2008-04-19T15:44:03Z

You can probably see me standing in the back, as I got there late!

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meepers is a funny name for a silly game

2008-04-03T00:19:55Z

Story Back in my early teen years I learned about this programming thing called BASIC, and from there borrowed/bought a bunch of books to learn how to make a video game (amongst VB 6.0 apps). The game is reminiscent of the Zelda (NES) dungeons o...

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Connect to a WCF Service from a Silverlight 2 application

2008-03-31T04:52:01Z

This post assumes you have installed the necessary pre-requisites for Silverlight 2 beta 1 and are using Visual Studio 2008. Setup your solution Open Visual Studio 2008 Click File > New Project Select the Silverlight 2 project type Sel...

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