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		<title>VB.NET Eye for the C# Guy</title>
		<link>http://bobondevelopment.com/2008/10/21/vbnet-eye-for-the-c-guy/</link>
		<comments>http://bobondevelopment.com/2008/10/21/vbnet-eye-for-the-c-guy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming to VB.NET from C#?  Oh, behave!]]></description>
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		<title>Is Microsoft Stretching Its Abstractions Too Far?</title>
		<link>http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/09/27/is-microsoft-stretching-its-abstractions-too-far/</link>
		<comments>http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/09/27/is-microsoft-stretching-its-abstractions-too-far/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is dreaming big for future .NET developer toolsets.  Maybe too big.]]></description>
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		<title>Speed Up String Processing with StringComparison.Ordinal</title>
		<link>http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/06/03/speed-up-string-processing-with-stringcomparisonordinal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you have to do a lot of string comparisons, there are some clear and easy performance wins available in CLR 2.0 and later that you may have overlooked.]]></description>
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		<title>Date Math in .NET</title>
		<link>http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/05/21/date-math-in-net/</link>
		<comments>http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/05/21/date-math-in-net/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 17:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[.NET Framework]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes when maintaining old code I stumble into situations where people are really going to too much effort to get something done. For whatever reason, this is particularly common with date math.]]></description>
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		<title>Optimize Memory Consumption Using String Interning</title>
		<link>http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/05/19/optimize-memory-consumption-using-string-interning/</link>
		<comments>http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/05/19/optimize-memory-consumption-using-string-interning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 22:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[.NET Framework]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A somewhat obscure but simple technique can save tons of memory on those infrequent occasions when you need to load a lot of string data.]]></description>
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		<title>VB.NET vs C#: Auto Compilation and Case Sensitivity</title>
		<link>http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/05/15/vbnet-vs-c-auto-compilation-and-case-sensitivity/</link>
		<comments>http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/05/15/vbnet-vs-c-auto-compilation-and-case-sensitivity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 13:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[C#]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid, VB partisans.  C# is inevitable.  Resistance is futile.  I'm joking.  Really.]]></description>
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		<title>Disabled Scrollbars in WinForms DataGrids</title>
		<link>http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/03/11/disabled-scrollbars-in-winforms-datagrids/</link>
		<comments>http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/03/11/disabled-scrollbars-in-winforms-datagrids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[.NET Framework]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a WinForms DataGrid about 10 rows high whose DataSource was a DataTable of perhaps a hundred rows -- yet, the vertical scrollbar was initially disabled until I sorted or resized a column.

If this one bites you, there are some solutions.]]></description>
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		<title>Should You Use Properties Internally in a Class?</title>
		<link>http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/03/02/should-you-use-properties-internally-in-a-class/</link>
		<comments>http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/03/02/should-you-use-properties-internally-in-a-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I participated in a discussion recently on the microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.performance newsgroup entitled &#8220;Accessing Property values vs private variables&#8221;.  It was interesting on two fronts.
First, the original poster&#8217;s question (the subject line would have been more clearly titled, &#8220;Accessing Property Values vs Private Class Fields&#8221;) was concerned with the performance of properties vs. fields &#8212; which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Use Language-Specific Features That Replicate provided .NET functionality?</title>
		<link>http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/02/07/do-you-use-language-specific-features-that-replicate-provided-net-functionality/</link>
		<comments>http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/02/07/do-you-use-language-specific-features-that-replicate-provided-net-functionality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VB.NET]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My personal tendency is to avoid legacy language constructs except when they aid porting.]]></description>
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