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Euler problems in other languages
I've had some comments on the Euler problems, so I'm assuming there is some interest. There's also been interest among other developers in our office. Darrell Hawley has started solving the problems in Python. Marina Fedner has started solving...

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My second DNR TV is live
The world-famous Carl Franklin invited be to be on DNR TV again. The episode is live here: http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=105 We discuss generics in C#, and how you can use generics to create more reusable block of code. We go from fairly obvious...

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Brian Beckman explains monads
I try to do more original writing here than posting links, but this is too good not to reference. http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=358968 Brian Beckman is one of my favorite experts from Channel 9. He's a real rocket scientist, but that's...

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Wallpaper Changing gadget for Vista
A bit out of date, perhaps, but the Coding4Fun blog contains a vista gadget that changes your background wallpaper at regular intervals: http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2007/07/16/3904885.aspx Point the gadget at a directory containing photos...

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New Visual Studio Magazine online site (includes all my recent articles)
It took a while, but the new Visual Studio Magazine online site ( www.visualstudiomagazine.com ) is now live. All my columns for the C# Corner are found here: http://visualstudiomagazine.com/columns/columnist.aspx?columnistsid=54

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Sara Ford saves me time again
Sara Ford has been posting tips about the VS 2005 editor. Today's tip( http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/28/did-you-know-how-not-to-accidentally-copy-a-blank-line.aspx ) shows a nifty little setting that disables Copy and Cut when you're...

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One of those blog posts to keep handy
all the time, when you're developing Karen Liu, one of the Product Managers for the C# IDE, was briefly blogging this summer. One of the posts http://blogs.msdn.com/karenliu/archive/2006/06/12/628756.aspx contains all the C# keyboard bindings for...

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If you break the rules, have good reasons
And document them Rico Mariani posted another Performance Quiz last month (I meant to post this earlier, but I didn't get to it). In this installment, he discusses the performance benefits of a struct with public fields. He broke the rules in the...

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