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I'll preface this by saying that I make my living as ASP.NET programmer so I'm not trying to slight MS. I'm just curious. http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.bin…

Right Click (in Windows) -> Zoom In, Zoom Out, etc. Does anyone use it? Why is it there?

I tried asking this question on the actual site, but it was closed as "non-programming-related" fairly quickly. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/674232/could-stackoverflow-work-f…

You make a great point and I do agree to a certain extent. However, there have been some projects I've worked on where having a great manager made all the difference in the world. …

Any (non U.S.) folks with startups in the countries on this list? Is the article consistent with your experience?

This sets the bar for an elite programmer fairly low IMHO.

I've been running two monitors on my desktop pc for a few years now and I really like it. In fact I'd say it's a requirement for me. My next pc purchase will in all likelihood be a…

(it only gets difficult if you need to start embedding charts and specifying fonts) We do need to do some of this

The latest (licensed) version of Office we have is 2003. As far as we know using Office 2003 for server side Excel generation is not recommended. Thanks for the link to the Python …

I haven't had a look at that...looks promising. Right now I'd be looking for something I can use with C#. Thanks for the suggestion.

I was curious to know if anyone could recommend a component for server side excel generation (both xls and xlsx) for an ASP.NET application. We cannot install Office on the server.…

You're right - it has been there since at least 2.0. I threw that in there as an example. I apologize for not clarifying that.

It's actually possible to write slightly less verbose code with C# 3.0. For example: //... char[] someChars = {'A', 'B', 'C'}; var moreChars = new [] {'D', 'E', 'F'}; SomeMethod(ne…