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Author Archives: r2
Painless Free Annual Credit Reports
There is finally a (relatively) painless way to receive your Free Annual Credit Report from the Big 3 Credit Agencies. It is a really good idea to keep your eye on your credit report these days. The folks at AnnualCreditReport.com … Continue reading
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Weather Widget now in the Silverlight.net Showcase
The Silverlight Weather Widget made it to the Silverlight.net Showcase and is mentioned in the News section of the Home Page. WooHooo.
Posted in Silverlight 1.0
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The New Generic Kid on the Block–HashSet<T>
In mathematics, a Set is typically thought of as a collection of distinct objects that is usually defined by some rule that determines whether they are a member of that particular Set. For example, a Set could be defined to … Continue reading
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A Better Way to Remove a Trailing Slash from a Path
How many times have you written this to trim a trailing slash from a path: if (myPath.EndsWith("\\")) /* or "/" in the case of a URI */ myPath = myPath.Substring(0, myPath.Length-1); Next time, try this: myPath = myPath.TrimEnd(new char[]{'\\', '/'}); In addition … Continue reading
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My First Look at the (Silver)Light
Over the holidays, I was finally able to catch up on some reading and take some time to play with Silverlight 1.0. The two books that I spent the most time with are ASP.NET Ajax in Action and Silverlight 1.0 … Continue reading
Posted in ASP.NET Ajax, Expression, Silverlight 1.0
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Sharing Folders in Remote Desktop
Today, I was struggling with getting some code deployed to a client’s test server and called him to double-check FTP credentials and such. He casually mentions having the ability to share your hard drive (and other devices) with a Remote … Continue reading
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Deep Dive: CSS for the ASP.NET Developer
Thanks everyone for the comments and tips offered after I gave this presentation at Alabama Code Camp, as well as, at the Atlanta Cutting Edge .NET group last week. I received several "so that’s how it works" comments and that … Continue reading
Posted in CSS, Presentations
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Time for T : An Introduction to .NET Generics
Finally able to grab a minute to post my code and slides from the Introduction to Generics presentation that I did this past weekend at the Alabama Code Camp at the University of Alabama. This is the abstract from the … Continue reading
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Generic Methods: Find Controls by Type
Although this was originally part of my recent Generics presentation, I have received several requests to publish it separately. The reason that I created this originally was that I found myself often-times wanting a strongly-typed list of all the checkboxes … Continue reading
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Google, Live, MSDN Search within Visual Studio 2008
Since Matt Ranlett has now harassed me several times for removing the Google/MSDN macro from my blog, I decided to repost it. I have added Live Search to the mix this time and I have tested all of the searches … Continue reading
Posted in Macros, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008
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