If you follow my tweets, you would know that my site was in maintenance mode from almost week now. I had some issues with my hosting provider and I had almost lost my all blog posts. Luckily I was able to retrieve all the blog posts. However, this down time gave me the opportunity to explore other ... [More]

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Before I begin, I wanted to let you all know that I was not able to blog from long time mainly because I was bit busy with my project at office. Anyways, I am in a new project now and I am the only developer for the current project directly working with the client. I feel it has given me opportunity... [More]

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Visual Studio Addins 1. GhostDoc This is a free addin that automatically generates the XML comments for your code. Click on the method/field name and press Control + Shift + D and it generates the XML comments for you. GhostDoc provides two commands. a. Build Documentation b. Re-build Document... [More]

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I just finished developing a web application for my client. I was asked to create a developer reference document for the project I completed. At the end of the document, a solution architect in my team felt a need of a diagram to explain the control flow inside the system. To draw the diagram, I di... [More]

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Recently I found out that my wife has all VS 2003, VS 2005 and VS 2008 installed in her laptop. It is our usual practice that we hit devenv in Windows run menu to open our Visual Studio IDE. So whenever my wife hit devenv in run window, it always opened VS 2003 editor, where as she wanted it to open... [More]

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I recently completed a minor update to my Favorites Menu for Visual Studio add-in. The new installer is already put under ‘My Development’ section on my site. The update includes a minor bug fix i.e, toolwindow icon is not set properly inside Visual Studio 2008. I do not remember from w... [More]

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The singleton pattern ensures a class has only one instance, and provide a global point of access to it. There is a nice article about choosing between Singleton pattern and the static class here with examples.

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Pedram Rezaei has written how we can let .NET debugger know, not to step in to certain elements of your program with the help of DebuggerStepThroughAttribute. Read it here

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Found an excellent article explaining how the computers boot up.

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Recently, one of my friend digged in to metadata of TypeCode enum type and found out that, it does not have value 17 in it.   Even I was surprised to see this, and wanted to know the reason behind value 17 missing from the enumeration. I googled and found a link to blog which explains, why... [More]

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