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February 2007 - Posts

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 8:28 AM

Performance Problems Survey

Rico (who I am currently listening to on a new episode of " Behind the Code ") posted an interesting survey about performance problems. And then he posted a follow-up . I think that's one facet of my " Premature Generalization " sin...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 8:10 AM

Taking snapshots of WPF animation

I've been playing around with WPF animation, and ended up wanting to take a snapshot of an animation at a specific place. Specifically, I have a canvas that has some pictures on it that are moving, and I want to be able to save a bitmap of what it looks
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Thursday, February 08, 2007 8:15 PM

Back on the 'sauce

My grandfather on my mother's side was an orchardist, growing apples and pears just outside of Yakima. Every fall we would head over the Cascades to visit them, and we always came back with lots of fruit - primarily apples and pears, along with a few
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Friday, February 02, 2007 10:16 AM

Where is the file menu in Word?

In case you're as stupid as I am... You get to the file menu operations in the new Word by clicking on the round "jewel" in the upper left. I'm afraid I won't admit how long it took me to figure this out.
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Friday, February 02, 2007 8:59 AM

More on properties vs fields

Some nice comments on what I wrote . First, a non-controversial question. Robin asked whether you would capitalize them in that case, and I think you should, as having something accessed externally that isn't properly cased will be surprising to people.
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Thursday, February 01, 2007 9:29 AM

Properties vs public fields redux...

My blog reader burped recently, and gave forth a post (and reply ) than Rico wrote last September, but since I didn't comment on it then, I'll comment on it now. And, yes, I've written about this in the past... Basically, this revolves around the question
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