There are several stages of maintainable code, each suitable for a particular situation. Let us call each stage a maintainability level. The higher the level, the more maintainable code is, and the more time it takes to write in this way. Do you always need the best possible maintainability?

In enterprise software development with lots of money involved, it often ends up being poured into the following 3 categories; Business (business need, correctness of software in regard to business workflows), Quality (ease of maintainability, lack of bugs, need fewer developers), and Speed (hire offshore, copy paste code, cut corners).

File Locker did not work for me (access denied), but Windows UI tool worked perfectly. It has less options, but it does a read lock, which is what I was looking for.

Some people complaint about the need to sign in to Visual Studio 2013 for it to run, without a possibility of running a disconnected/offline setup. Introducing a static activation key licensing option (which I just discovered) - you can obtain it from your MSDN subscription page.

After a brand new checkout, developer is getting this error on commit - Commit Failed (details below); Error Access to '/svn/.../!svn/act/{guid}' forbidden

Let's say you want your custom control display empty string in a certain field, if it has a default value. For example, if your Text field on a custom Label control is identical to its name, show Text field as blank. Would be nice if it worked both ways, i.e. leaving Text field blank would make it identical to the name (or following a certain pattern).

Speaking about WinForms, there is usually a mouse pointer (cursor) on top of each logical control group in the toolbox. You use it to cancel control drawing mode and go back to control selection mode (default).

Here's one of the ways to embed an image into EXE file Left click the file in the project tree Set [Build Action] -> [Embedded Resource]. And here's how you can access this file in code...

One of the popular ways to do this - change format to " " (space) whenever null value is being set and roll it back to the old format on anything else. I have been looking for clean implementation of this approach. In the end I decided to write my own, using source code available on the net. Here is what I came up with.

In this article we are going to discuss basics of how to control code execution in a PowerShell script. There are several keywords, which have slightly different behavior - BREAK, RETURN and EXIT.