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What is the downside to Conditional Attributes?: My code base has a lot of #if DEBUG/#endif statements that mostly... http://bit.ly/9vHuoc
Answer by MatthewMartin for Storing Connection String on Database: If the user is using the application which has ... http://bit.ly/dfmxVW
@dustyburwell Argument (and return value checking) on steroids = code contracts. http://bit.ly/dn5ZZg Similar but different from unit tests
If variable names are so un-important, why don't we use guids for all our variables names? It would reduce collisions. (bit o sarcasm)
D'oh! StackOverflow is so fast one can't retract a stupid question before people start answering it. Sigh. Needs a beer goggles test.
Comment by MatthewMartin on Where do I find the shut down reason notes for Windows Sever 2003?: I just did and I s... http://bit.ly/9pgIu1
Happy dance, I made VS2010 find the correct reference to Crystal 11.5! I will be happier still when I can rip Crystal from the proj entirely
Someone has to take a stand against fancy comment formatting. It's industrial sabotage. Anyone have a msbuild step for stripping out /*****/
Where do I find the shut down reason notes for Windows Sever 2003?: Where do I find the shut down reason notes for... http://bit.ly/blYI5T
Comment by MatthewMartin on Remembering to run tests before commit: This may or may not help, I've only used it fo... http://bit.ly/9UI1CT
How do I get my Agile merit badge?
http://bit.ly/dquDu1 MS LightSwitch, I thought it was a joke about software for wall light switches. Actually a real product, RAD for data
Answer by MatthewMartin for Rapidshare and Megaupload traffic shaping by ISP: Use M-Lab and Google's Glasnost tool... http://bit.ly/cb22jp
You can't fix a bug by writing if ( 1+1 == 3) { print( 2 ); }
Answer by MatthewMartin for best way to find webcontrols quickly: TextBox ControlId = (TextBox) FindControl("Contr... http://bit.ly/c9FKRy
Answer by MatthewMartin for Multiple application using one database?: Applications tend to copy the organizations ... http://bit.ly/b2PgdR
Answer by MatthewMartin for Tips for starting and running a Programmer's Book Club: I organize several book clubs ... http://bit.ly/92PUOn
Windows update KB983583 deleted some of my .NET framework assemblies-System.Data among them.so I get to waste some of the morning repairing.
Only 39 people can vote to close an stackexchange proposal. Anyone care to re-open zombie defense? No one can stop the zombies.
Comment by MatthewMartin on Can base classes see the protected fields of derived classes?: Elegant solution, too b... http://bit.ly/cROlMn
Can base classes see the protected fields of derived classes?: I don't know if this has to do with how FindControl... http://bit.ly/cWDeqV
Hmm, code needs more comments. Maybe I'll insert "//this is a line of C#" in between each line of the source code.
Answer by MatthewMartin for Application design for 5 years: The data and data structures (often) need to be legiti... http://bit.ly/c2x2Pt
Stick figure guide to AES encryption: http://bit.ly/aa2tjE
#VisualStudio Can someone create an addon that will strip code of comments made by GhostDoc? http://bit.ly/cEJmat
Answer by MatthewMartin for OpenID Security: It is also important to consider the alternative. It is well known t... http://bit.ly/bQlZu3
Xymon looks like fun, http://bit.ly/bbrnRS it is like a free version of MS-MoM. I probably have 20 machines at work and and home I admin.
Answer by MatthewMartin for Security considerations for an ASP.Net web application that will be used on a public c... http://bit.ly/92lX4U
Good =Find all "#region", Subfolders, Find Results 0, "Current Project", "*.*" Matching lines: 0 Matching files: 0 Total files searched: 912
Answer by MatthewMartin for Under what conditions would SELECT by PRIMARY KEY be slow?: The the row unusually larg... http://bit.ly/cLwkdn
Is is possible to get facebook to send me an email when someone RSVP's to an event?: Since I don't poll my faceboo... http://bit.ly/9FKfT3
Tron-- a rather good movie-- could have never happened with any basic understanding of how computers work.
Comment by MatthewMartin on How can I get VS2010 to use the 3.0 C# compiler instead of 4.0?: I need to throw this ... http://bit.ly/dz2YN3
How can I get VS2010 to use the 3.5 C# compiler instead of 4.0?: How can I get VS2010 to use the 3.5 C# compiler i... http://bit.ly/9TmMJT
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Answer by MatthewMartin for Publish Multiple Projects from a single solution from TeamCity: I think that can be do... http://bit.ly/cn4Ukh
Using unit testing principles to write better integration tests: My application is a database application. There i... http://bit.ly/bWeAIi
Answer by MatthewMartin for What are the ways to improve ASP.NET website's performance?: Eqatec
http://stackover... http://bit.ly/98OJZy