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February 2006 - Posts

Exceptional rule of thumb

posted Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:55 PM by jwooley
I can't remember where I initially saw it, but the best advice I've seen for when to use exceptions is as follows: "Don't pee your pants in order to see if your fly is unzipped." You should always check to see that you are in a valid state before Read More
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Advantage of TryParse

posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:21 AM by jwooley
I recently had the opportunity of showing the Altanta VB group the advantages of using the new TryParse method introduced in .Net 2.0. The presentation materials along with a sample project are available at the group's website. In early versions of .Net, Read More
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XamlPad has it Perfect

posted Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:58 PM by jwooley
It can be overwhelming with trying to keep up with all of the technologies Microsoft has coming out at the moment. It seems that their developer tools divisions are progressing much faster in terms of release cycles than Office or the OS areas. One Read More
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