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Author: Darren McLeod Created: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:05 PM
This will contain tips and tricks I learn at work. Mostly about programming with Visual Studio 2005 Team System, ASP.NET 2.0, VB.NET.

Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise

By Darren McLeod on Saturday, April 11, 2009 11:24 AM

 

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Speed Improvement

By Darren McLeod on Saturday, April 11, 2009 7:15 AM

 

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Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks. ExceptionManagement The event source x does not exist error

By Darren McLeod on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:48 PM

 

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VB.NET How to time a section of code.

By Darren McLeod on Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:17 PM

 

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How to check if a datetime field equals current date in SQL Server Transact SQL

By Darren McLeod on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:21 AM

 

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ASP.NET web.config in different evironment solutions

By Darren McLeod on Saturday, January 03, 2009 2:41 PM

 

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VB.NET refactoring add-in.

By Darren McLeod on Saturday, September 27, 2008 6:18 AM

C# comes with a refactoring tool built in, but for VB.NET instead of building it in, Microsoft just provides a link to a free add-in for VS 2005 & VS 2008 users by DevExpress.  You can download it here:

http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Visual_Studio_Add-in/VBRefactor/

I find it very handy especially Extract Method, Rename local, and Introduce Constant.


Darren

Oh and CreateOverload is very nice also.

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.NET Programming Standards and Naming Conventions

By Darren McLeod on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 6:56 AM

Here is a good site for naming standards.

http://www.irritatedvowel.com/Programming/Standards.aspx

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VS 2008 with Team Explorer Unit Test TestContext Error

By Darren McLeod on Saturday, July 12, 2008 8:02 AM

After upgrading from VS Team System 2005 to VS 2008 with Team Explorer I had a TestContext error when trying to run a unit test. I found the fix to the problem here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2459840&SiteID=1
 
You have to change the reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework.dll from v8 to v9.

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Required reading for anyone coding in VB.NET

By Darren McLeod on Saturday, June 14, 2008 9:15 AM

While at Tech-Ed 2008 in Orlando I picked up a copy of "Professional Refactoring in Visual Basic" by Danijel Arsenovski a Wrox Programmer to Programmer book by Wiley Publishing, Inc.  This book is absolutely the best book I have seen on doing object oriented VB.NET programming in the real world.  In my opinion it is absolutely required reading for anyone coding in VB.NET.

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