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Archive for November, 2008

Weirdest Visual Studio bug ever

By Winston ⋅ November 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The Bug
My loathing for Visual Studio continues.
Suddenly, every time I ever tried to search for anything, the search wouldn’t even start.  It would just say:
No Files Were Found To Look In.
Find Was Stopped In Progress
Gross.  Nothing fixed it.  Restarted.  Nothing.  
The Real Problem is that Visual Studio is Giving Me CTS
The search feature was [...]

Digging Google Chrome

By Winston ⋅ November 14, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I just installed Google Chrome and it feels nice, fast, and lightweight.  But it’s weird looking at my Task Manager and seeing tons of chrome.exe processes running.  Still, if it’s less of a memory hog than FF, I’m all over it.

BindOnPreRender Control

By Winston ⋅ November 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

One useful little control we wrote for ASP.NET is our BindOnPreRender control.  It simply calls DataBind() on itself at PreRender.
Its utility may not be obvious.  This is sort of related to my post on WebForms DataBinding.  Binding is better.  It lets us bind properties to objects in our markup, which helps reduce code-behind.  I’m not [...]

AppDomain Recycles

By Winston ⋅ November 12, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Oh my dear sweet lord I am SOOOO tired of ASP.NET AppDomain recycling!!!

New MindTree HTML and Clipboard Features

By Winston ⋅ November 12, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

Lindsay has been traveling the world for work a lot lately.  This week she’s in Vegas, and I’m home taking care of Claire, which means I have a lot of time on my hands late at night.  So, I’ve managed to do a bit of MindTree development.
A lot, actually.  But I don’t have much to [...]

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