Every now and then this was cropping up as a problem for me, but it was particularly random and I really couldn’t figure out why the “Find in Files” functionality of Visual Studio would just stop working for no apparent reason. Finally, I got fed up with this, after a […]
Monthly archives: April 2009
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Visual Studio Tip of the Day “Visual Studio will always try to build everything when you run a single project, even if that project doesn’t depend on everything. This choice can be changed, however. Go to [Tools] –> [Options] –> [Projects and Solutions] –> [Build and Run] and check the […]
In a vote which should shock no one, the European Parliament voted to increase copyright on musical works from publication/performance date + 50 years to publication/performance date + 70 years. Keep in mind that this new extension also gives producers extended income as well. However, the legislation also makes a […]
So for a while I’ve been manually adding items and it finally occurred to me that there must be a faster way to add whole folders to a Visual Studio project. Recently I came across this blog entry – it’s rather obvious and it works. Can’t believe I didn’t know […]
On Sunday night we ascended Q1 at Surfer’s Paradise, to get a view from the heavens. View Full Album QDeck – Q1’s observation deck, by night, offers a complete view from the Byron headlands (south) all the way to the hinterland and greater Brisbane (north). Towering more than double the […]
Over the weekend I’ve been working on a query abstraction approach which is interoperable with both LINQ to SQL and the ADO.net Entity Framework (using IQueryable) – with some minor modifications to suit each data model. As I was putting this to use on a somewhat semi-realistic search pane, I […]
Greetings from a rain soaked Gold Coast. It’s this time of the year that we’re either:a) travelling overseas,b) ‘spring’ cleaning, or,c) visiting relatives This year we are doing none of those three things. Having just relocated from Brisbane’s south-east to the Gold Coast, we need a break from cleaning/unpacking, we […]
Well, I’ve landed back home on the beautiful Gold Coast in Queensland, and it is at this time I can continue my previous writing about the World Premiere at the Sydney Opera House of J.J. Abram’s new film “Star Trek”. This is Part 2: The Movie. Having described the surreal […]
Last night, the 7th of April, 2009, Paramount Pictures screened the world premiere of JJ Abram’s new Star Trek movie at the Sydney Opera House. As it happened, I was one of the lucky few who were able to purchase a limited release ticket to the red carpet event. The […]
Republished mostly from this blog entry here.. Here’s my version of “Things Programmers Say..” “That’s weird….” “It’s never done that before.” “It worked yesterday.” “How is that possible?” “It must be a hardware problem.” “What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?” “There is something funky in […]
Hi Everyone, since I’m off to Sydney from Monday until Wednesday next week (and unlikely to be publishing anything new during that time) here is a bonus post. See you after I return.. /R One of the like-to-haves with SQL Server has been the enforcement of column uniqueness but allowing […]
Thanks to Bridger for pointing me in the direction of this excellent video of former SysInternals and current Microsoft internals guru Mark Russinovich demonstrating how to use some of the various debugging utilities with a particular view to debugging “plugins” and hosted programs which could be causing performance problems. The […]
So recently I was playing with an abstraction for dynamic LINQ queries. The typical usage scenario arises when one needs to search one or more tables with “dynamic” filter patterns. Usually this is one of those intoxicating multiple search criteria (“Advanced Search”) screens. To illustrate my point, let’s work with […]