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February 2004 - Posts

I can’t leave some things alone

Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:01 PM by jledgard
Visualizers in Whidbey are going to be cool, but you can do some awesome debug customizations in VS.NET 2003 today with the VSTweak powertoy. Check out this thread for more info. I agree with Darcy, there is no Software Crisis , unless you are a person Read More...
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Technology that’s not ready yet

Posted Monday, February 23, 2004 10:26 PM by jledgard
I love technology. I love new tech toys. Sometimes I’ve jumped headfirst into something that wasn’t quite baked yet. Here is a list of things that IMO aren’t really there yet, but are oh so tempting. Windows Media Center or a New DVR Read More...
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Help Choose a Dog (Warning: No cool techy stuff ahead. Only Puppies.)

Posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 6:30 PM by jledgard
My wife and I are looking to get our first Berner (Oliver) a brother. We’ve recently received pictures of the three dogs we have to choose from. We’ll obviously get to meet them first next week, but based on these pictures who would you choose? Read More...
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Forgot a Visual Studio Settings Location

Posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 6:08 PM by jledgard
Other Tools Options So far this post covered a lot of customizations that you don’t find in the tools->options dialog. Most of these settings, and more, are stored in the current user registry location for Visual Studio. If you open regedit <Warning Read More...
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Strange Googlings of Late

Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:51 PM by jledgard
I knew that Google was huge, especially for developers and techies, but the ratio of everyday search Google hits to non-Google hits leading to my blog amazes me. Google is at least 30 to 1 the favorite. This was even when yahoo was using google technology. Read More...
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VS Settings and Early Testing (Mindless Linkage Ahead)

Posted Monday, February 16, 2004 9:41 AM by jledgard
If you like C# and you have opinions on default Visual Studio settings you should check out this post . Another testing article I’d like to write is about effective early testing. At Microsoft we use a BVT process that has been nicely explained Read More...
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Software Testing 7: Dogfood and Automation

Posted Saturday, February 14, 2004 2:06 PM by jledgard
I got a lot of requests to write more about testing. There was also a request to hear more about my Bernese Mountain Dog ( berner.org ). What better way to kill two birds with one stone than to talk a bit about how we use dogfooding internally to test Read More...
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How Trustworthy are Blogs?

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 12:07 AM by jledgard
As we strive towards to enabling Trustworthy Computing I was thinking recently about how trustworthy blogs are as a new communication medium. For reasons blogs.msdn.com readers can discover on their own I’ll call it “The moo Effect” Read More...
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What should Josh write about?

Posted Monday, February 09, 2004 10:46 AM by jledgard
Now that I’ve proven there are at least 5 non Microsoft people reading this blog I’d like to do a service to those 5 people. What would you like to me write about next? I have no shortage of potential topics. I could talk more about software Read More...
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Visual Studio .Net 2003 Customized Settings Explained Further

Posted Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:06 AM by jledgard
I’ve had a request to explain further where Visual Studio settings are stored in VS .NET 2003 to make it easier for people trying to copy settings from machine to machine. In this post I’ll break down where a lot of these settings are and Read More...
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Please don’t Beat People with Sticks made out of Patent Applications

Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2004 8:59 AM by jledgard
Recently I’ve seen a lot of negative press around the whole patents concept. Slashdotters, for example, go crazy whenever someone throws them a bone of an example like “One click shopping”. Imagine if someone actually read through the Read More...
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Vacation = Tab Completion and More for VSCMDShell

Posted Monday, February 02, 2004 8:49 PM by jledgard
I previously mentioned, after the work I put into the VBCommentor project that I’d be spending time on the VSCMDShell project. The purpose of this project is to enable a tool window in VS.Net that hosts a command shell like “cmd.exe”. Read More...
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