March 2007 - Posts

Side-by-Side Problems
28 March 07 02:05 PM | john | 2 Comments   
If you still write C++ code on Windows then sooner or later you are going to run into SxS configuration problems on Windows. At work we tend to run into them more frequently because the C runtime version is changing all the time (because we're building Read More...
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Reading Custom Configuration Sections in .NET 2.0
22 March 07 09:35 AM | john | 2 Comments   
I just spent an annoying amount of time figuring out how to do this because sadly our documentation is so bad. So I'm going to blog it quickly so that I at least have a record of what I did and hopefully someone else will find it useful. Thanks go to Read More...
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Visual Studio Column Guides Redux
22 March 07 09:06 AM | john | 2 Comments   
I was just informed by one of my colleagues that there is a hidden feature in Visual Studio to add guidelines into the text editor. Guidelines are virtical dotted lines that show character column boundaries. This is useful if you are formatting something Read More...
Visual Studio - "Defy All Challenges"
16 March 07 11:32 AM | john | 0 Comments   
The VS marketing folks have just launched a new campaign call Defy All Challenges . Go check out the videos. Very Red vs. Blue . "There are currently two parties on the call, a Mummy and a Unicorn... A drunken pirate has joined the call." Read More...
Subtle Visible Whitespace in VS 2005
02 March 07 12:16 PM | john | 2 Comments   
Sometimes obvious things elude me. My colleague, Steve Steiner, just pointed out that if you go to Tools, Options..., Fonts and Colors and change the setting for Visible White Space under the settings for Text Editor to a more subtle color, like Silver Read More...
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