Tired of looking at the same screen?
October 31st, 2011
For all you VS techies, these are pretty cool to mess around with if you just want some change in your life. God I am a nerd.
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Archive for October, 2011
Visual Studio Cut or Delete the Current Line
October 31st, 2011
In the past month I have written over 1,000 lines of code every single week (not that this is anything new) but without realizing it I was spending a lot of time highlighting, deleting text, then removing the carriage return/line feed. This short-cut may not seem like much but it is a huge time-saver as you work to design your classes in a structured extensible way and it has speed up my editing by over 10%.
Keyboard: CTRL + L (cut text); SHIFT + DEL(cut text and carriage return); CTRL + X(cut text and carriage return); CTRL + SHIFT + L (delete)
Command: Edit.LineCut; Edit.Cut; Edit.Cut; Edit.LineDelete
Versions: 2008,2010
Open Source API for working with Excel in C#
October 28th, 2011
Here is a nice open source class to work with Excel files that does not use COM and therefore does not require Excel to be installed on the client machine.
Highly Recommended Free DIFF Software
October 26th, 2011
I found this to be one of the better Diff type programs available (yes it is free).
Try it out for yourself, http://www.sourcegear.com/diffmerge/index.html
Delayed Messages in Outlook
October 25th, 2011
If you are anything like me you spend the greater part of your day doing more than one thing at a time. This keeps even the best of us under a lot of pressure as we rush to get things done. Often times I realize AFTER I send an email that there is a simple error: spelling mistakes, wrong subject, etc.
There is a way you can create a delay after pressing “send” that will cause your emails to not be sent right away. This provides you with the extra time to make corrections.
Working with INI files in C#
October 18th, 2011
After reading several articles online about using the native functions in windows for working with INI files via Kernel32 I decided to write my own class that does not require COM and thus does not incurr the performance and memory characteristics of a com wrapper in C#.
Enjoy 
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SSRS Syntax Reference
October 10th, 2011
After a few months its easy to forget some of the syntax for SSRS especially when you use a lot of different languages day to day. Here is a simple reference with just about everything you’ll need under most practical circumstances.
