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My Faq on "hashtable lookups for struct types" is published at http://blogs.msdn.com/CSharpFaq

Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/csharpfaq/archive/2006/03/20/556192.aspx for a FAQ on Hashtable lookup for value types.

Guidelines on clean up code

Many a times, we use the catch block inside the try catch block for our clean up code. Something like try { // Do something } catch { // work failed, clean up code here } Rather than the above approach of using the catch block, it would be nicer to use...
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Visual Studio Tip of the day - Bookmarks

How often do you wish that you could put a mark at a particular location in your source code and then switch to that point with a simple click? With Visual Studio , you can do that with the help of bookmarks. A bookmark is a virtual placeholder which...
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Incremental search - VS2005

One of the lightly used features of VS2003 and VS2005 continue to be Incremental search. Developers usually know the text which they are searching for. Due to lack of awareness of the VS editor features, I have seen many a developers editing code in TextPad...
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