Contents tagged with Tips
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Visual Studio easter eggs
Are these the new easter eggs?
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Saving Microsoft streaming media files
In case you ever wanted to save a local copy of that streaming movie trailer or funny video a friend sent, there's a neat little program called SDP (Streaming Download Project) Receiver which allows you to do this. Best of all, it's freeware.
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An Extensive Examination of Data Structures
Scott Mitchell has already delivered three parts of his six-part series on data structures:
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Coding unit tests is even harder than you think
Jamie Cansdale has put a nice application online he calls Code Blog. This application expects you to write an implementation based on a set of unit tests.
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Win32 to .NET API mapping
One for your bookmarks:
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A case where interface versioning works
In some situations, interface versioning is not a problem. I'll expose a scenario in order to show you a case where it works fine and it's simple.
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Power of blogs / CSV files
I'm still amazed by the power of weblogs when I see that this post (Manipulating CSV files) is number two or three on search engines when you search for CSV files. What do you know, maybe my small experience with CSV files can actually help someone out. Well, I just added two links to the post for more information about the Schema.ini file since this is where people are landing when they are in need for that kind of information.
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Boosting search engine results with URL rewriting
I don't know whether you noticed this trend that consists in masquerading URLs such as http://mysite.com/Article.aspx?id=123 so they appear like this: http://mysite.com/Articles/123.aspx
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Bitfield enums and the Flags attribute
You can work with enum as bitfields if you use powers of 2 for the values.
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Authentication flow in ASP.NET - Get the big picture
All the authentication flow: look at this picture from Srinath Vasireddy.