Jeff Key's blog archive

New source control: The most important "feature" May 24, 2004 XP vs RUP: Which is better for the less experienced? May 24, 2004 VS 2005 -- Now with integrated testing and code coverage May 24, 2004 Getting the true type of a parameter passed by ref or out via reflection May 22, 2004 If you're holding your breath waiting for ObjectSpaces, you better stop May 22, 2004 More "journalist" FUD May 19, 2004 Forget IT outsourcing, we need to outsource lawyers May 14, 2004 Extend TreeNode, place on Clipboard, do not pass Go May 13, 2004 Get your hands off my queue May 12, 2004 Re-throwing exceptions May 11, 2004 Call the Justice Department, there's a monopoly in the house May 10, 2004 Enums with duplicate values May 8, 2004 Error messages that tell you what's wrong, but not what's right April 26, 2004 ¡ding! April 25, 2004 Web Design for Morons April 25, 2004 Operation: Chicago Meet-up -- Success April 21, 2004 IComponentSiteServiceContainer demystified April 20, 2004 Last call for meet-up in Chicago April 18, 2004 Winner in the hood April 16, 2004 Clarification on dropped WinFS "features" April 13, 2004 Now Playing: ReSharper April 10, 2004 In Redmond, not MVP April 3, 2004 Favorite command prompt feature of the day: Wildcard auto-complete April 3, 2004 Speaking of "free" software April 3, 2004 Penguin pushers pondering predicament April 2, 2004 Favorite VS.NET feature of the day: CTRL+} on #endregion and #endif April 2, 2004 Checking a string for null or empty string April 1, 2004 You are now leaving Gateway Country April 1, 2004 Baseline alignment in VS 2005 March 31, 2004 I want my WSE March 31, 2004 Remove default comments in C# files March 30, 2004 Bob Edwards ousted from Morning Edition March 26, 2004 Unheard wish fulfilled March 26, 2004 VS 2005 download tips March 25, 2004 .NET Assembly -> XMI (UML 2 file) -- any interest? March 25, 2004 VS Wish of the Day March 25, 2004 1 spam in 19,675 emails. Not bad. March 24, 2004 Favorite VS.NET keyboard shortcut of the day March 19, 2004 Poll: Do you have a blog? March 17, 2004 First Annual International No IntelliSense Day March 17, 2004 Finally, SmartTags galore March 15, 2004 Generics design guidelines March 15, 2004 Chicago Pragmatic Practitioners March 14, 2004 Protocols.NET March 13, 2004 News Flash: Chappelle Day March 13, 2004 WOW.Net March 11, 2004 Last call for post-DevDays Chicago get together March 7, 2004 .NET Remoting: "I'm not dead yet!" March 7, 2004 Clean up your test MSI mess March 4, 2004 Stick a fork in WSE 2.0 -- it's (almost) done March 4, 2004 Bad Analysis Worse Than None March 3, 2004 The cost of calling March 3, 2004 XP -> ? -> Longhorn February 26, 2004 MSBuild sample scripts February 24, 2004 So you think you know why finalization is bad? February 23, 2004 ClipboardViewer February 23, 2004 CS101.NET February 23, 2004 33% Evil, 0 Calories February 22, 2004 Favorite album February 22, 2004 Your parents will never be safe: Visual Spoofing February 16, 2004 Anonymous delegates exposed! February 16, 2004 Whidbey project converter February 16, 2004 More than you ever thought you needed to know about DateTime February 13, 2004 Vault: New, improved and free! February 13, 2004 Well that's cute February 13, 2004 WMA Good, iTunes Bad February 12, 2004 Hammer + NIC = Problem Solved February 11, 2004 Do stockbrokers need a college education? February 10, 2004 New Microsoft Professional book series February 10, 2004 Real World: Longhorn, part II February 9, 2004 Gunnerson interview February 9, 2004 DevDays Chicago + drinks = ? February 8, 2004 MyDoom removal tool -- run it February 6, 2004 Newer Whidbey at DevDays? February 6, 2004 To ReadOnly or not to ReadOnly? February 5, 2004 Pretending is fun February 5, 2004 Reflecting on properties and fields (literally and figuratively) February 4, 2004 Late to the show, but the seats are still good February 4, 2004 NCoverViewer February 4, 2004 NCoverGui February 3, 2004 .NET method inlining January 29, 2004 XP results in fewer defects January 28, 2004 The Devil is in the Detail January 28, 2004 Free virus scan January 28, 2004 RIP: UnitedLinux January 23, 2004 How Windows 9x support extension ties into Longhorn January 22, 2004 PSA: Dell to replace smoking motherboards with smoke-free ones January 22, 2004 NCover (GDN version) does indeed work January 21, 2004 Can't we all just get along? January 20, 2004 The Moore things change... January 20, 2004 Web Services panacea: Protocol or API? January 20, 2004 New FxCop on the way January 20, 2004 NCover * 2 January 19, 2004 One year per year January 19, 2004 Linux is not free, part II January 19, 2004 Windows on Sun box: Hell at record lows January 18, 2004 Death by convenience January 17, 2004 Linux rollout in trouble because of budgetary concerns. How can that be -- it's free, right?! January 16, 2004 CES, Jobs, Licenses January 9, 2004 System.Web.Mail, oh my! January 7, 2004 End-to-end Longhorn application demo January 5, 2004 Sweet Action January 5, 2004 2004 Predictions #1 January 4, 2004 WSE + Indigo = ? January 2, 2004 MSDN killing trees/spirit unnecessarily December 31, 2003 AMAZ kicking butts, taking names December 31, 2003 Second time not a charm December 23, 2003 Testing, 1, 2. ::tap tap:: Is this thing on? December 23, 2003 Shut down without being hassled by The Man December 22, 2003 When a sale isn't a sale December 22, 2003 GEEK HOLIDAY PRESENT ALERT December 22, 2003 Orbitz, you are the devil December 20, 2003 C# coding standards December 19, 2003 Happy Windows Day! December 19, 2003 World not changed, Segway not selling December 19, 2003 Focus-stealing dialogs should not have default buttons December 19, 2003 What's the deal with Whitehorse? December 16, 2003 HP to ship 2.5" SATA RAID in 1U blades December 16, 2003 WinXP SP2 to ship late 1H 2004 December 16, 2003 You know you've spent too much time in VS.NET when.. December 14, 2003 Whidbey CLR helps with unmanaged resources December 13, 2003 Better API design with the Cognitive Dimensions Framework December 13, 2003 Updated StateBrowser December 13, 2003 linuxbox.net December 13, 2003 Cunningham.NET December 13, 2003 Windows XP 2.0 December 13, 2003 IsDebug util December 10, 2003 New SingleDrive December 10, 2003 Intel to loan Itanium 2s to RISC shops December 10, 2003 TechNet Script Library December 10, 2003 Microspeak reference December 9, 2003 CAN-SPAM? No, CAN-SPAM can't can spam. December 9, 2003 2004: Year of the exabyte December 9, 2003 What is an advanced user? December 9, 2003 Creating a memory leak is as easy as IntPtr December 9, 2003 Windows Rights Management Services overview December 9, 2003 Distributed not-so-good when it comes to blog comments December 5, 2003 Fun with "for" December 4, 2003 Microsoft's lack of innovation (again) December 3, 2003 Limiting Callers to a .NET Assembly December 3, 2003 Sorry, Diskkeeper, not this time December 3, 2003 Why not integrate every application into VS.NET? December 2, 2003 NullTextWriter November 29, 2003 SingleDrive November 29, 2003 Please enter a path that does not contain embedded spaces. November 29, 2003 Concise preview of C# v.Next and related technologies November 28, 2003 Where is the line between a property and a method? November 28, 2003 Why default parameters are bad November 28, 2003 Determining if a C#/VB.NET assembly was compiled as DEBUG or RELEASE November 23, 2003 Determining if a table exists November 23, 2003 Six of one, 1/2 dozen of another. Or, sprocs vs. generated SQL November 23, 2003 InkLog: Huh? November 22, 2003 Get your PDC demos here! November 22, 2003 Public fields or no public fields: That is the question. November 22, 2003 SqlCop November 22, 2003 SATA == Super-Awesome Technology. Amen! November 22, 2003 Hey, SQL Server DOES scale! November 14, 2003 PerfBlog November 14, 2003 CLR Profiler 2.0 available November 14, 2003 Operation: Expansion -- Success November 7, 2003 Interesting VS.NET Whidbey tidbit of the day November 7, 2003 Least favorite limitation of the day for VS.NET Whidbey: Project settings November 7, 2003 IE 6.05 to have popup blocking November 7, 2003 Longhorn: How managed is it? November 7, 2003 Woww, finaly! November 6, 2003 Favorite VS.NET Whidbey feature of the day: Expansion November 6, 2003 Microsoft creates bounty fund. Who's bounty-worthy? November 6, 2003 Bounties alive and well in the (north)West November 4, 2003 SCO finds seven open source people not already loathing the company November 2, 2003 Seven Bad Reasons to Bar Windows from the Enterprise November 2, 2003 A brief history of XAML November 1, 2003 Longhorn installers beware November 1, 2003 See Avalon, Indigo and WinFS in action on your own legacy OS November 1, 2003 Official PDC post October 31, 2003 Best PDC Overview Award October 31, 2003 Microsoft Temp Employee Fired for Blog Posting October 31, 2003 Apple's new security strategy October 31, 2003 MSGoogle October 31, 2003 Connect with the Vibe™ in November October 24, 2003 Extra PDC ticket? Want to sell it? October 24, 2003 Pumping iron at the PDC October 23, 2003 Strange coincidence October 23, 2003 My official gripe with blogs October 22, 2003 Lindows' Robertson: Crackhead? October 22, 2003 Certifying Architects October 18, 2003 iTunes: Great program I'll (probably) never use again October 18, 2003 iTunes for Windows bullet review October 16, 2003 WinXP SP2 a security bridge to Longhorn October 15, 2003 Windows Dominates Server Market October 14, 2003 Windows powers most reliable hosting companies' web sites October 13, 2003 Paul reviews FrontPage 2003 October 13, 2003 How many geeks does it take to screw in a light bulb? October 13, 2003 Windows Server 2003 Feature Packs and Tools October 6, 2003 IntelliCSharp October 6, 2003 Most exciting news of the day October 6, 2003 Windows Tips and Tricks October 6, 2003 Spam: 0, Me: 384 October 2, 2003 Are there any hotel rooms left in LA? October 1, 2003 New Snippet Compiler October 1, 2003 GetHashCode() != GetHashCode() September 30, 2003 Some WinFS info, but not really September 30, 2003 Al Michaels: Masks make hockey players hard to identify September 29, 2003 VS.NET: Pretty on the outside September 29, 2003 NGen Exposed September 27, 2003 Yes, I'd like to Super Size it September 24, 2003 Fix for bad performance on Windows Server 2003 workstation September 22, 2003 IntelliType for Windows Server 2003 September 22, 2003 Hosting and controlling other applications September 22, 2003 Always open forms in design mode September 21, 2003 Retrieving file system icons September 20, 2003 New Snippet Compiler September 18, 2003 Looking for testers September 14, 2003 Snippet Compiler IDE updated September 13, 2003 The Blind Men and the PDC September 11, 2003 Grab a jacket September 11, 2003 Snippet Compiler update #495 September 10, 2003 MSDN Documentation request September 10, 2003 Time to call your parents (again) September 10, 2003 A Conversation with Anders Hejlsberg, Part III September 10, 2003 Doo, dudududingggggg.... ding.... ding... ding... September 10, 2003 Why Russell Beattie is Insane September 10, 2003 Microsoft is valid, I am not September 10, 2003 New MSDN search: Is it better? September 10, 2003 System Tray, where are you? September 10, 2003 QuickCode is my new best friend September 9, 2003 Updated Create Shortcut September 9, 2003 New Snippet Compiler with ASP.NET, multi-snippet compiling, etc September 8, 2003 Give me your money September 7, 2003 Lack of content in commentary, or, will someone please turn down the noise? September 6, 2003 Death by ListView September 6, 2003 Blame Microsoft September 5, 2003 Super-sized SnippetCompiler on the way September 5, 2003 You want it, you got it (another SnippetCompiler update) September 5, 2003 Security flaw in all Office apps September 3, 2003 Updated SnippetCompiler September 3, 2003 "..why it is so difficult to accomplish even the most modest business tasks with Java?" August 29, 2003 NewsPage on every folder in NewsGator August 29, 2003 Looking for VS.NET Add-In August 29, 2003 Firewall as default in WinXP -- now August 29, 2003 Three new VS.NET shortcut keys for the mental toolbox August 27, 2003 TextBoxBalloonTip class August 27, 2003 MSDN .NET documentation wish (Xml docs, too) August 27, 2003 BYO data type August 27, 2003 View unhandled exceptions with $exception August 26, 2003 Free PCs! August 26, 2003 New util: CreateShortcut August 26, 2003 New util: GacDump August 25, 2003 YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE REQUIRED August 25, 2003 Have BlackBerry, will blackmail August 25, 2003 What's with the new Microsoft keyboards? August 24, 2003 Fowler on the irony of "architects" August 24, 2003 The .NET Show on DVD (sort of) August 23, 2003 Whidbey C# function pointers August 22, 2003 Anders Hejlsberg discusses the C# design process and checked exceptions August 20, 2003 Extract interface with Reflector August 19, 2003 Cruft-be-gone August 18, 2003 New NetPing August 17, 2003 Crash Different August 15, 2003 Stored procedure naming conventions 101 August 7, 2003 Where's Waldo*? August 7, 2003 Novell.NET: mono legit August 5, 2003 UI PowerTips August 1, 2003 EnableVisualStyles: Part of Evil Axis? July 16, 2003 So that's weird July 15, 2003 Code reuse: Does anyone still do this? July 13, 2003 Some MACs are created equal July 13, 2003 Kill an application pronto July 13, 2003 Caveat emptor at Tower Records July 12, 2003 .NET Success Story #613 July 12, 2003 Why Windows Should Be Open Source July 12, 2003 Gettysburg Address PowerPoint July 4, 2003 AppDomain fun July 2, 2003 The ultimate aggregator June 29, 2003 NetworkDriveInfo June 28, 2003 Swing.NET June 22, 2003 Find out why XmlSerializer doesn't like you and your Type June 19, 2003 Writing Faster Managed Code: Know What Things Cost June 18, 2003 New version of FxCop June 17, 2003 ericgu interview June 10, 2003 Free SQL query analyzer w/IntelliSense June 5, 2003 ADAM ETA EOM June 5, 2003 Yes, Virginia, there really is an X# June 5, 2003 Unifying Tables, Objects and Documents June 5, 2003 [DebuggerStepThrough] June 4, 2003 PowerToys for Visual Studio .NET 2003 June 3, 2003 Passing XML Data Inside the CLR June 3, 2003 Why people dislike Microsoft June 3, 2003 Two free MSFT e-books June 3, 2003 Genghis updated June 3, 2003 New WMI Extensions for VS.NET 2003 June 3, 2003 Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.1 Setup.exe Bootstrapper Sample June 3, 2003 Comprehensive study on SPAM and how to protect yourself from it April 17, 2003 Redefining Windows Storage April 17, 2003 McNealy: .NET is a joke March 19, 2003 BreadcrumbBar explorer toolbar March 4, 2003 sliver.Net source online March 3, 2003 BYOA (Build Your Own Aggregator) March 2, 2003 Searching added to the blog March 2, 2003 COM+ 1.5, Services Without Components March 2, 2003 Borland has a .NET optimizer March 2, 2003 Back up your files (or, a data recovery tool plug) March 2, 2003 ControlPaintTester sample app & source March 2, 2003 Renaming source controlled files in VS.NET projects March 2, 2003 Tracer sample online March 1, 2003 NetPing source on my .net site March 1, 2003 .NET Rocks -- Where have I been? March 1, 2003 I'm popular with the pirate crowd February 28, 2003 The latest chapter in the Don Box Mystery App saga February 28, 2003 Generics, iterators, anonymous methods and partial types, oh my! February 28, 2003 InfoPath (formerly XDocs) will change your life February 27, 2003 A tablet PC in every hand? February 27, 2003 Abstract methods in Visio February 27, 2003 New AllNetic Time Tracker beta February 26, 2003 Ted Neward on pattern abuse February 26, 2003 Old stuff links February 26, 2003 There's nothing like the smell of toner in the morning.... February 25, 2003 NEWS FLASH: Access to source code not cause for BSODs February 25, 2003 Using Explorer to get to physical files in the GAC February 25, 2003 Windows 2003 + SQL Server 2000 break more records February 25, 2003 The making of Windows 2003 February 25, 2003 New NetPing February 24, 2003 Delegates to properties February 24, 2003

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