Archive for December, 2010

Win+Tab in Debugging

Friday, December 31st, 2010

Placing a breakpoint can be dangerous. In some code sections, like drawing a menu, Windows doesn’t like to be interrupted. The debugger will stop your application, but your app will remain on-screen and Alt+Tab and all other options of changing the current application are blocked.

Except, if you’re using Windows 7.

For some reason the 3d-flipping mode with Win+Tab still works. And allows you to switch to the debugger.

Devloping asp.NET websites in 3 simple steps…

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

Step 1: Waste hours researching to find out how to do something trivial. (Like renaming the insert link)

Step 2: Curse Microsoft

Step 3: Throw out the MS way and program it yourself.

Repeat for every trivial issue.