Your machine is dead. Now what? I keep these bootable CDs on hand, just in case: SpinRite. This program has saved me several times. Fixes unusable disks that cause systems to hang. Worth $90 the first time you use it. Ultimate Boot CD for Windows. This will allow you to boot a dead system from a CD and copy all the important stuff to an external hard drive (plug the hard drive in before booting). There are also a lot of system utilities on the CD to help with repair. Free but requires a Windows XP...

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Enumerated constants in C# can be represented 3 different ways: as a C# program constant as a number (typically int) as a string spelled identically to the C# constant Here a sample program demonstrating how to convert between any of these formats. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; namespace ConsoleApplication2 { public enum Color { red, white, blue } class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { string toString, fromString = "red"; int toInt, fromInt = 1; Color...

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I sent my kid off to college this fall and it didn’t require a soothsayer to know that she wouldn’t do any backups and at the end of the semester her hard drive would crap out. After an emergency repair with the magnificent SpinRite, I started looking into personal cloud based backups. Dropbox was the only solution that did it all just right. After installing Dropbox you designate a folder to watch (your dropbox). Then just do your work, saving it in your dropbox. Every time a changed file is closed...

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I’ll be speaking on New Debugging Features of Visual Studio 2010 twice next week. First will be the New Jersey Microsoft Developer's Group on Thursday, March 4 at 6:00. On Saturday, March 6, I’ll be one of many speakers at Code Camp NYC 4, speaking time not yet set. Hope to see you at either event

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