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Monday, March 24, 2008 1:36 PM

What ever happened to easter eggs ?

No, not the chocolate ones or the decorated chicken eggs... I mean software easter eggs. Like the ones in Excel where you could display an animated scroll of all the contributors. And they had similar in Outlook, and even in Visual Studio 6 ! Has all...
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 2:29 PM

Too much information or the philosophy of "less is more" ....

On Monday night I was walking along the streets in Melbourne heading out to give a presentation on VB 2008 . while waiting for some pedestrian lights I noticed this guy standing outside St George's bank with signs all over him. He had newspaper clippings...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:28 PM

Inserting snippets in VB.

Sara Ford writes about inserting snippets in VB and C#. Unfortunately, Sara hasn't got it quite right. In VB 2008 the statement completion window does NOT show snippet shortcuts. It only shows namespaces, types, members and keywords. It just happens...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 11:07 AM

Snippet paths and duplicates in VS 2008

If you install VS 2008 on a machine that has VS 2005 on it, you'll be prompted to let VS 2008 import as many of your settings from 2005 as possible. Generally this is a good thing, but you might run into some issues with code snippets as you might...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:45 PM

Update on Snippet Editor

I've finally given the Snippet Editor a major make over including a new look. To go with this, I've given it a new home on my web site: http://billmccarthy.com/Projects/Snippet_Editor And I've added a Snippets category to this blog for feedback...
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