Patrick Steele's .NET Blog

From Brad Abrams:

Ok, kind of off-topic, but we're all geeks, aren't we? Found this cool Matrix-style screensaver that's highly customizable (and small too -- only 50k).

Got a neat tip today from the boss! Consider the following Explorer view:

I know that DotNetMagic had gone commercial last year, but I thought the last free version was being maintained at SourceForge. I searched there for "dotnetmagic" and found nothing. Google showed a lot of references to the project at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dotnetmagic/, but SourceForge says this isn't a valid project.

I was pulling my hair out today. I had a test fixture containing a particular test case I didn't want to run anymore -- but I didn't want to remove the code. Instead of adding the "Ignore" attribute, I simply commented out the attribute with "//". After re-compiling, the method was still showing up! I shutdown nUnit and restarted. There was the method! I checked it out with ILDASM -- no "Test" attribute. What was going on?!

Carl Franklin is giving back some training goodness to the INETA community:

Thom Robbins had a quick post explaining the 'Optional' keyword in VB.NET. For those with a VB6/COM background, you should be aware that the optional parameters behave differently. I blogged about this last September (scroll down near the end of the post).

Kudos to Phil Scott for creating an add-in for Reflector that increases the font size to something suitable for presenting to a class. And further kudos for keeping the post up after being informed via a comment that it's simply a command-line setting. Thanks Phil! I learned something new today too!