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Office 2016 Public Preview Is Now Available

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by Dirk Strauss - May 5, 2015November 2, 2016 02679

Office 2016 Public Preview - Today Microsoft is expanding the Office 2016 Preview. This means it is available to Office users everywhere in preparation for general availability in the Fall of 2015. 8608

Writing Faster Code With Visual Studio 2013

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by Dirk Strauss - May 4, 2015November 2, 2016 04286

Writing Faster Code - I'm sure that many of you already know the following tips. Some of these are probably not even confined to Visual Studio 2013. Nevertheless, I called the article 'Writing Faster Code With Visual Studio 2013' because that is the version of the Visual Studio IDE I

Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code

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by Dirk Strauss - April 29, 2015 03126

Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code - It has finally happened. Microsoft announced the launch of Visual Studio Code today during its Build Developer conference. Why is this a big deal you might ask? Well Visual Studio Code is a lightweight cross-platform code editor that allows developers to create web and

Rebracer – Save Visual Studio Editor Formatting Settings Per Solution

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by Dirk Strauss - December 11, 2014November 16, 2018 26772

Rebracer - Today a fellow MVP asked a very interesting question. I didn't think of this before, I must admit. Not until Matt asked it, which got me thinking that there must be other developers out there using Visual Studio that have the same requirement. It boils down to having different

Ajax Control Toolkit – JavaScript Runtime Error

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by Dirk Strauss - July 21, 2014November 2, 2016 05784

So here I was on a Friday afternoon with another doozy of an error. I recently needed to make a modification to an existing web application we wrote. The original developer had left the company and I had to take this project over for the change. The forms make use

Exception Thrown By The Target Of An Invocation – Resolved… Sort Of

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by Dirk Strauss - July 17, 2014December 26, 2018 24104625

The other day I truly had a dumbstruck, absolutely floored, speechless moment. I tried to run SQL Server Management Studio and was presented with an error telling me that an exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. Well that error message was about as helpful as the first

Destroying Programmer Productivity

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by Dirk Strauss - July 15, 2014March 27, 2017 54744

There is much to be said for the programmer that can zone themselves out from all the noise in the office. I used to work with such a programmer. She would sit and code with her headphones on (not uncommon for most programmers), but what made Taryn unique was that

Typical Developers Life… in GIF’s (How you feel when…) – Part 2

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by Dirk Strauss - March 26, 2014November 2, 2016 18388

Typical Developers Life - As you might know from my previous blog post, The Typical Developer’s Life… in GIF’s (How you feel when…), I really enjoy these GIF's that illustrate a different feeling or meaning to a scene. I decided that it was time to post another one. So here it

CodeFluent Entities – A Tool For Developers by Developers

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by Dirk Strauss - March 25, 2014November 2, 2016 46385

CodeFluent Entities - I love being a lazy software developer, especially when a great tool such as CodeFluent Entities is involved. It is incredible how much control this tool puts in my hands while allowing me to generate code with ease. In this article I will show you how to

Visual Studio 2013 Reference Build Error Resolved

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by Dirk Strauss - November 26, 2013November 2, 2016 414082

Visual Studio 2013 Reference Build Error - I was recently playing around with some code when I switched my solution configuration from Debug to Release. Suddenly, my builds all failed. There was a warning in my Error List that told me that it could not locate one of my references. The strange