I used Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 to try WPF for very nearly the first time. I discuss how I managed to clone an interface I admire in four hours over on my JMPInline blog.
Hashtables are inherently unsorted, but when you're printing a hashtable's contents to the console, it can certainly be helpful to sort its contents by key. Although it's not obvious, the way to do it is pretty easy. Let's start with defining a hashtable and play with it until it's obviously unsorted.
Great. Now let's sort it:
Ergh! Wh...
As much as I love to work with PowerShell, it was hard to give up the doskey macros I had defined for CMD.exe. But I just found out that doskey can work all its magic for PowerShell too, so here's the trick...
Doskey defaults to working only with cmd.exe, but by passing the /exename= parameter to it, you can set macros for PowerShell as we...
As the .NET Compact Framework developers work to add features, fix bugs, and refactor code, we often have to determine whether a given change could break existing customer code. The ideal is that NetCF 3.5 will run all apps that ran on NetCF 2.0 and 1.0. We run hundreds of apps and many, many tests before shipping each product to check ...
I now have three blogs that I post to: this one, JMPInline, and NetCFTeam. Which posts will I put where? I think I'll post everything software-related to both JMPInline and this one, then for those that specifically relate to NetCF I will post a link to the NetCFTeam blog as a small post. Rather than copying posts I've already wri...