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    Visual Studio Tip: Creating and Consuming an Item Template

    These days there are a lot of cool ways for .NET developers to be more productive. From code generation to refactoring, there is never a shortage of plug-ins out there to help us in this goal. But let's not forget about the great tools and features already built into Visual Studio that we can use. One feature I have started using recently is the item template. Whether you know what an item template is or not, you use them in your every day development. Item templates are those pre-written files you add to your project whenever you need a new ASP.NET...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
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    Visual Studio Tips & Tricks

    Being a professional developer requires that you invest some time in learning your tools. Working with .NET my tool of choice (not that there is a whole lot of choice) is Visual Studio.  It’s an excellent IDE that’s very customizable and can be extremely productive if you learn how to use it well. The best way to increase your productivity is to learn some keyboard shortcuts. Yes, the toolbars are all nice and pretty, but you can do pretty much absolutely everything with the keyboard. I even know some people who don't use any toolbars at all! In my opinion that's...
    July 09, 2008 3 min read
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    PNDs, UMPCs, MIDs – what’s it all about?

    Let me clarify first that the title is a bit misleading. You may think that the story will comment on these devices in general, but you are wrong :). I will comment NVidia’s* entry in the handheld and portable devices business in particular, and what it means for the whole industry. Will they shape the landscape the way they did in the GPU market? Why is this event important enough to compel a guy that develops software to blog about hardware? Why the Nvidia Tegra? Why not the IPhone 3G? Or the HTC Diamond? A lot of tough questions to answer...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
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    Manage Your Dev Space with Virtual PC 2007

    I don't know about you, but sometimes I feel behind the times. Often when I learn something new it seems to me like it's something I should already know. Today was definitely one of those days. I've played with Microsoft's Virtual Server and Virtual PC products in the past, but never gave them more than a cursory look just to see what they hype is all about; I never personally saw a need to start using them. Well, my eyes have finally been opened. I remembered reading one of Scott Hanselman's blog posts in which he described using Virtual Machines (VM) for presentations, turning...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
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    Tip of the Day: Remove the most annoying Visual Studio shortcut - F1

    Have you pressed F1 in Visual Studio? Did you wait a couple of minutes cursing it? I did. And I found a cure, a very simple cure - remove the F1 shortcut. Here are the simple steps: in Visual Studio -> Tools -> Option -> Keyboard -> find Help.F1Help shortcut -> remove F1 key binding. You are cured!...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read