Ben Griswold on February 20th, 2007

“Familiarize Yourself with Continuous Integration” has been pushed to the bottom of my tasklist for the better part of two years now.  As a result, the closest I’ve come to continuous integration is “getting the latest” and hitting F5 about 1000 times in a given day.  I have dabbled with test driven development, but otherwise, [...]

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Ben Griswold on February 8th, 2007

I installed Vista on an insignificant laptop without consequence last night.  I had no problems, but then again, I wasn’t looking for them either.  My first impression was “Aren’t you a pretty little operating system?”  And really, it is.  I’m more excited about Vista’s look than I was when XP was first released.  I remember [...]

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Ben Griswold on February 7th, 2007

Out of the box, you can do a lot with the DataView.RowFilter property, but you can’t make use of the top clause. However, if the view contains a column with unique values, you can obtain the same results by setting the Sort property and then generating a RowFilter which uses the in condition. Here’s a [...]

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Ben Griswold on February 3rd, 2007

Since being turned onto SVN no so long ago, I’ve been looking for hosting.  Per a recommendation spotted here, I picked up an account with SVN Repository about two weeks ago.  So far, it’s been a flawless experience. Here’s what I can tell you:  I purchased their small business plan which gives me 2GB of [...]

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Ben Griswold on February 3rd, 2007

I brought attention to my dreaded mouse addiction a couple of months back.  For those of you with a similar problem, The Daily Grind made reference to a keyboard shortcut reference poster available for download here.  I printed out the C# shortcuts and paste the poster on my monitor.  I can’t see what I’m typing any longer, [...]

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