January 2007 - Posts
There seems to be a bug in VS2005 that, when you either a.) increment a version number, b.) do a major change, or c.) sneeze on your keyboard, that makes setup projects break. It is not all that uncommon of a problem, as you can see here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=151159&SiteID=1
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Here is the situation. You have a generic collection class that inherits from Collection, or some other base that allows the class to be a generic collection. Furthermore, you are doing the equivalent of that in LINQ, with the idea that you intend to
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Imagine - you are the CIO involved in a merger. Your company has applications, and the company you are merging with has a similar set of applications. And the due diligence team from Big 4 Corp that the Big Investment Banking Sachs hired to decide which
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Programmers to Blame for Hard To Use Software In one of the least informed articles of our young year, the author of the linked article assers that programmers are to blame for software that is “hard to use”. It starts out finding a problem
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