Often during development I end up with "Constants" classes, classes of constant or static values that I want design time Visual Studio intellisense support for, and run-time domain checking. Consider the following class: public static classConstants { public static classClaimTypes { internal static stringClaimTypeNameSpace = "http://schemas.wtfsolution... public static stringFirstName = ClaimTypeNameSpace + "firstname"; public static stringLastName = ClaimTypeNameSpace...

I've been using Google Desktop Search for some time now. Most of it however, I don't find useful. I never search my desktop, and store my mail on a different server, so I miss out on a lot of the Google Desktop value proposition. So why use it at all? The answer is Google Quick Search. Google Quick Search is the little dialog that pops up whenever you press Ctrl twice. I enter a phrase and hit enter and the phrase is automatically sent to the Google search page, rendering the search results in my...