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Deleting forum posts?

Let's say you are selling a product and you have a support forum where your (potential) users can ask questions, give suggestions, etc. - the usual stuff support forums does. So, what do you do when unpleasant questions pop up? IMO one shouldn't delete
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Where has strong typed dataset's XSD gone?

If you use an earlier version than Visual Studio 2005 (who doesn't?) it is easy to change or view XSD that defines a strong typed dataset: you have to open a strong typed dataset and then, at the left bottom of the window, you have two buttons: DataSet
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Deploy multiple .net assemblies as a single file with ILMerge

Ever wanted to merge all .net assemblies (or just some of them) into a single file? Don't look further, MS has a free ILMerge tool available for download here . Brief description from download page: "ILMerge is a utility that can be used to merge multiple
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Countdown to VS 2005 RTM

According to this post there are 60 days left till Visual Studio 2005 goes RTM and everything looks good.
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GOLD is good

I am not talking about gold but about GOLD - A Free, Multi-Programming Language, Parser. Recently I had a need to implement a text box that allows entering either a string|int|date or a list of string|int|date divided by char '|' meaning OR. The obvious
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Change in nullables implementation

Acording to this post Microsoft has decided to change the nullable types implementation for the August CTP. This is a bold move (and also a good one) being so late in development cycle. Anyway, now you can compare a boxed nullable type against null value
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How to deserialize a Dictionary<TKey, TValue> descendant using binary formatter

I just run across the problem of how to deserialize a Dictionary<TKey, TValue> descendant using BinaryFormatter . Serialization is not a problem, just mark the derived class with [Serializable] attribute and there you go. However, when you try deserializing
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New CodeRush/Refactor Pro/Refactor for VB.NET 2005

Developer Express just released new version of CodeRush family, including a new free version of Refactor for VB.NET 2005 . It has new refactorings and improved UI amongst the other changes. Go, check it out. You might also check my free plugins for it
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OziExplorer's map-> GPSTuner's gmi converter

These days I am evaluating GPSTuner PocketPC application. It displays your position on a map based on GPS input (and of course it has many more features besides this). The maps are basically normal bitmaps with calibration info added in a separate file
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NDoc is another fine utility

I have been using NDoc here and there for quite some time and I recommend it as a very cool utility for generating documentation out of your code comments. Generation of great looking help file is a matter of settings few properties, clicking on Build
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