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December 2006 - Posts

MSDN Wiki

Have you noticed the new Community Content sections on msdn2 documentation? These new sections are part of the MSDN Wiki project, currently in Beta.
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Custom C# Code Snippets

Code Snippets allow developers to create templates for common C# programming constructs, XML documentation, or any other text that one might want to quickly insert into C# code with only a couple of keystrokes. Snippets even provide the refactoring capabilities found in the Refactor menu. In this blog entry I provide the code snippets that I use frequently, discuss some of the benefits of snippets and briefly describe how to use them.
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Seekers, Solvers and Science

Where there's a problem there's a payment!
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Handling Exceptions for Contingency

Quite often developers (myself included) will take notice of certain inconspicuous issues with code before they even cause any real problems during testing. Being the cautious developers that we are, it's not uncommon to take action ahead of time by adding
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The Thick and Thin of a Paradigm Shift

If I had a time machine :-p, the first thing I'd do would be to go check out the Dinosaurs, alive and in all their spectacular glory. Then, certainly, I'd jump right into the future to see where we are heading with our development tools, platforms and standards.

References, Citations, Paraphrasing and Plagiarism

Are newsgroup respondents committing plagiarism? How useful are references and are they desired?
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