The Daily Six Pack: May 15, 2015

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Visual Studio Code Snippets Creating and Using Code Snippets in Visual Studio, B. Clay Shannon Other How to Find Objects that Contain a Certain String in SQL Server, Matan Yungman What Every Programmer Should Know About Compiler Optimizations, Robert Lawson C# Futures: Managed Pointers, Jonathan Allen MVP Virtual Conference

The Daily Six Pack: September 23, 2014

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: New In C Sharp 6 C# 6.0 What's New, Filip Ekberg Other Using WCF in .NET Native, Immo Landwerth Bing Developer Assistant Beta for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Gallery How much a European city has changed in 100 years, Casey Chan Tuning SQL Server Code

The Daily Six Pack: March 14, 2014

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Google Drive Price Slashed Google slashes Google Drive storage prices to take on Box & Dropbox, Harrison Weber Other Install Google Drive on your computer, Google Podcast: LightSwitch, a Hidden Gem in Visual Studio, Beth Massi VLC Media Player Beta for Windows

The Daily Six Pack: February 4, 2014

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: iOS 8 What Changes Coming in iOS 8: Health, iWatch and Payment for Physical Goods, Aamir Usman Other Exposing internal Members to Another Assembly, Sean Sexton What would Satya Nadella be like as the new CEO of Microsoft?, Emily Parkhurst 9 Things You Should be

The Daily Six Pack: January 17, 2014

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: TryParse TryParse Indicates Whether a Parse Operation Will Succeed, Sean Sexton Other I Sold a Chrome Extension but it was a bad decision, Amit Agarwal Microsoft extends updates for Windows XP security products until July 14, 2015, Emil Protalinski Episode 87 of Visual Studio Toolbox,

Creating a Windows Service with a Timer

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Okay, you probably all know this, but somewhere someone doesn't. And I thought it might be a nice article to post. Have you created a Windows Service Timer that isn't working? The reason for this is because you probably added a Windows Forms Timer to your Service instead of a