Monthly Archives: September 2009

Introduction
When one looks at all the wastes, defects has to be the most obvious one. The cost and repercussions of finding defects varies depending on where in the cycle they’re found. Defects found early on in the development life-cycle are way les…

Automatically implemented properties offer a concise syntax for implementing property accessors that get and set a private field. They create a field backed property without requiring you to actually create a field. The compiler automatically generates it for you at compile time. They can be used only for simple get and set of properties because [...]

If you want to connect to a network during Setup, you must have the correct hardware installed on your computer and be connected to your network. If you will be using a network, first determine whether your computer is joining a domain or a workgroup. If you’re not sure, select Workgroup when you are prompted [...]

A computer can be configured to let you choose between two or more operating systems each time you restart the computer. With multibooting, you can choose which operating system to run or specify a default OS if no selection is made during the restart process. Computers Containing Multiple Windows 2000 or Windows XP Partitions Before [...]

You must first enable the Remote Desktop feature on your office computer so that you can control it remotely from another computer. You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group to enable Remote Desktop on your Windows XP Professional-based computer. To setup your office computer to use Remote [...]

Few days ago I was honored to speak about Agile Planning on Agile Eastern Europe conference that happened in Kiev on 18th and 19th of September. I promised many people to share the conference photos, so here is a slideshow. I also added some pictures o…

So I was having lunch with our Programmer Writer, Tamra Myers the other day, and we got onto the conversation of documentation. I’m a huge Huge HUGE fan of documentation, in fact, when I coded in anger, I was known for my extensive, well written, dow…

Pair programming is one of the more controversial extreme programming practices. Having two people work on the same piece of code at the same time looks very unpractical and inefficient to someone not familiar with this practice. Pair programming propo…

Expression trees first appeared in Visual Studio 2008, where they were mainly used by LINQ providers. You can use expression trees to represent code in a tree-like format, where each node is an expression. You can also convert expression trees into com…

The following code changes screen resolution and sets windows that are created as WS_POPUP into fullscreen mode: bool EnterFullscreen () { DEVMODE newSettings; // now fill the DEVMODE with standard settings, mainly monitor frequenzy EnumDisplaySettings ( NULL, 0, &newSettings ); // set desired screen size/res newSettings.dmPelsWidth = 800; newSettings.dmPelsHeight = 600; newSettings.dmBitsPerPel = 16; //set [...]