Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory
One of my favourite expressions happens the be this one “Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory”. At a very simplistic level it means simply when you are on the verge of success, you do something of a monumentally doofus nature that knocks you flat on your back.
Numerous examples of these abound at Redmond, but […]
Unexpected Behavior
Visual Studio’s immediate window, our old friend, is generally a very powerful debugging aid. A few judicious commands executed there can save hours of manually reading through source code that makes sense on paper on screen.
In fact the only place the immediate window fails to deliver is when dumping the contents of multi-line string variables. […]
