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How Geeky?

- by DarrenFieldhouse

I saw this on Julie Lerman’s blog and had to give it a go. I’m quite relieved to say: 54% Geek I’m glad to be a bit geeky, but wouldn’t want to score too high!!!

I’m not a big fan of #region, I use it occasionally but generally try to avoid it. It’s always frustrating to open a code file and be presented with nothing but collapsed regions – sure, it looks neat (and lets face, more than a few programmers are a little OCD) but I want to see the code, that’s why I opened the file in the first place! Don’t worry, I’m not going off on a rant, I just want to direct you to a much more level headed explanation of The Problem With Code Folding. I couldn’t agree more.

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Designer resources for Developers

- by DarrenFieldhouse

If like me, you have to turn your hand to design every now and then, you might find some of these useful: Fonts Free for commercial use fonts. http://www.fontsquirrel.com/ Colours A very cool flash based colour picker. http://kuler.adobe.com/#create/fromacolor Another colour scheme design – all HTML this time… http://colorschemedesigner.com/ Icons A library of icons with various licences. http://www.iconlet.com/ Hope you find some of these useful… leave a comment if you have any other suggestions.

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Why doesn't VB.NET 9 have Automatic Properties like C# 3??

- by Chris Pietschmann

Would having a nice little feature that makes it quicker to write code like Automatic Properties fit very nicely with the mantra of VB.NET? Something like this would work perfect: Public Property FirstName() As String Get Set End Property UPDATE: VB.NET 10 (coming with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0) will have Automatic Properties. Here's a link that shows a little info about the feature: http://geekswithblogs.net/DarrenFieldhouse/archive/2008/12/01/new-features-in-vb.net-10-.net-4.0.aspx In VB.NET 10 Automatic Properties will be defines like this: Public Property CustomerID As Integer

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