Monthly Archives April 2010

Programmers need these!

Large monitor, or if possible – two of them! Reasonably fast PC (compiler, IDE, browser and db server etc to go fast) As much RAM as possible(PC should not slow down due to lack of RAM when RAM could be expanded) Reasonably fast internet connection (Not to watch movies, but to view self-learning videos etc) [...]

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Top features of Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 (not all, only which apealed to me)

Better Ajax (e.g. ClientID in webforms, clean HTML emission)Better Entity FrameworkBetter WCF, WF and WPF (specially DataGrid in WPF)Covariance and ContravarianceCode ContractsCharting in ASP.NetDynamic Language Runtime and dynamic keyword in C#Generate code element from usageImproved Intellisense and Code navigationManaged Extensibility FrameworkMemory-mapped filesMulti-MonitorMVC (Area and Asynch controller) Named and optional argument in C#Office programmabilityOne-click DeploymentProfiling, Debugging [...]

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Great but lesser known shortcuts in Microsoft Word 2007

Ctry+Y: Redo (reversing Ctrl+Z!)F4: Repeate Last CommandF5, Ctrl+G: Open Go To DialogboxCtrl+L/E/R/J: Align Left/Center/Right/JustifyCtrl+B/I/U: Bold/Italics/UnderlineCtrl+F/H: Find/ReplaceDoubleclick on word: Select wordCtrl+Click: Select sentenceTriple Click: Select ParagraphClick small arrow on bottom-right of group in ribbon: Open dialogbox F7: Start spell checkerCtrl+Arrow Keys: Jump wordsCtrl+Shift+Arrow Keys: Select wordsAlt: See shortcuts on screenCtrl+F1: Show/Hide ribbonCtrl+F2: Show Print PreviewCtrl+F6: Change [...]

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How to unhide column A in Excel 2007

I was working on a spread sheet in excel 2007 and suddenly reallized that there is no column A. It was starting from B!. I could not remember when I had hidden that column. Column contained information, but was not very important one – or atleast I did not need to see that data very [...]

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