Well, I guess I didn’t solve my screen woes as I had thought. Twice over the weekend the display switched to a mode the monitor said it couldn’t handle. Once I was able to key stroke my way to safety and log in as another user (which caused another video mode switch and brought the image back online), but the other time I had to reboot. I don’t think this has anything to do with MCE per se, but annoying nonetheless.
At the client I’m at now I’m using VB.Net (I’d prefer C#, but it’s not my call). I was stepping through some code and had the IDE set to stop “When an exception is thrown” (see the Debug menu under Exceptions; this is handy when you want to catch exceptions that may be getting masked by other exceptions down stack). All of a sudden the IDE popped up a “First Chance exception” window on a line using the VB IsDate function.
Next week the Cincinnati .Net User’s Group will meet. If you’re interested in Team System, or just want to do some hob-nobbing with local geeks you should drop by. I have plans to be there. From their website:
“Visual Studio Team System
_Visual Studio Team System is a suite of extensible lifecycle tools that helps software teams collaborate to reduce the complexity of delivering modern service-oriented solutions. This presentation will focus on the project management, code analysis, testing, source control, and change management features of Team System.