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If you've participated in usenet, mailing lists, or web forum discussions for any length of time, you're probably familiar with Godwin's law [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law]: > As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving
When people find out I'm a big fan of AMD's Athlon 64 -- specifically the dual core X2 chips -- they often ask how I'm enjoying 64-bit Windows. They're always surprised to hear that I have no interest in a 64-bit OS
SQL Server 2005 doesn't include the classic Pubs and Northwind databases. You can, however, download them from Microsoft [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=06616212-0356-46A0-8DA2-EEBC53A68034&displaylang=en] . You'll get both binary database images (*.mdf and *.ldf) as well as SQL scripts. If you
Why is it that fully half of my interactions with GotDotNet are extremely unpleasant? I was telling someone about the Microsoft sponsored IronPython project [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c6a7fee3-6495-427f-8b1f-768a2715170c&displaylang=en] today and I foolishly attempted to click through to the GotDotNet workspace [http://www.
After I discovered the CTRL+I incremental search function in Visual Studio [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f27e8wzh], I never used the standard find dialog again. Incremental search is so good that it makes traditional search dialogs completely obsolete. If you think that's hyperbole, consider that Chris
In this era of 3ghz processors, 1gb memory, and 500gb hard drives, why is the Windows clipboard only capable of holding a single item? Sure, you have fancy multi-level undo and redo in applications like Microsoft Word and Visual Studio. Did you know that the humble Windows textbox supports a
Brad Abrams recently posted [http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2005/10/26/475085.aspx] another great excerpt from the unfortunately named .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Volume 2 [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321194454/codihorr-20]: > Avoid creating methods with Boolean parameters. Boolean parameters make calls
As I mentioned in Formatting HTML code snippets with Ten Ton Wrecking Balls, copying code to your clipboard in Visual Studio is often an excercise in futility if you want anything more than plain vanilla text. VS copies code to the clipboard with bizarro-world RTF formatting instead of the sane,
Here's a handy little Visual Studio .NET macro which searches for the currently highlighted term in Google. The search is launched as a new tab within the IDE when you press Alt+F1 I know what you're thinking: you've seen this macro before [http:
Charles Petzold is widely known as the guy who put the h in hWnd. He's the author of the seminal 1988 book Programming Windows, now in its fifth edition. And he can prove it, too. He has an honest-to-God Windows tattoo on his arm: This is explained in
Between my server and my Windows Media Center home theater PC, I have at least two PCs on all the time at home. Have you ever wondered how much it’s costing you to leave a computer on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? The first thing you
Here's an interesting regex problem [http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=34782]: > I seem to have stumbled upon a puzzle that evidently is not new, but for which no (simple) solution has yet been found. I am trying to find a way to exclude an entire