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Scott Hanselman
3/11/2010
We've just pushed live an update to the http://www.asp.net site. This is the first of a series of updates to the site we'll be making this year. The home page for the site was getting bogged down with info and was too visually busy. It was too com...
I’ve been updating some file uploader code in my photoalbum today and while I was working with the uploader I noticed that the File Open dialog using Silverlight that handles the file selections didn’t allow me to ever see an image preview for ima...
I'm delighted to announce that I'm going to be speaking at the Norwegian Developer Conference 2010 in Oslo in June. Rune Grothaug announced this with the very modest claim that my talk (combined with a Q&A with Mads Torgersen afterwards) could "al...
Scott Hanselman
3/10/2010
My two-hundred-and-fourth podcast is up . This week Scott talks to new media consultant Liz Burr about working in Social Networking. What does a social media consultant do? Is it PR or marketing? How much is science and how much is gut? Are social...
DevTopics C# 411
3/10/2010
My C# program threw an exception from the following method: SizeF size = Graphics.MeasureString( text, font ); Unfortunately, the exception’s message was rather obscure: “Parameter is invalid.” After an investigation, I discovered the error occur...
There are some who think that the volume of email you send out directly reflects how much work you've done. So if you cc twice as many people, you've done twice as much work. For the rest of us, reading long emails is a time-consuming nuisance. To...
Right before I left CodePlex, I filmed my last Iteration Planning Meeting with the team to give you a bird’s eye view into the day in the life of an Agile Program Manager. I did this because last year at the MVP 09 Summit, I invited MVPs to sit in...
PlantUmlEditor is my new free open source UML designer project built using WPF and .NET 3.5. If you have used plantuml before, you know that you can quickly create sophisitcated UML diagrams without struggling with a designer. Especially those who...
Fabulous Adventures In Coding
3/9/2010
The Framework Design Guidelines say in section 3.4 “do not use the same name for a namespace and a type in that namespace”. (*) That is: namespace MyContainers.List { public class List { … } } Why is this badness? Oh, let me count the ways. Pa...
Scott on Writing
3/9/2010
About once every couple of months I need to write a bit of code that does one thing if a particular string is found within an array of strings and something else if it is not ignoring differences in case . For whatever reason, I never seem to reme...