Here is a quick tip.  If you have the following Enum
Enum Frequencies
DAILY
WEEKLY
MONTHLY
End Enum

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I was writing a small utility for Outlook 2007 and was using LINQ to query Outlook Tasks.  This query was nested within another query.  While debugging, I realized that looping though the query results in my For Each loop was taking too long.
If you have read anything about LINQ, I am sure you already know […]

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Let’s say you are trying to animate a “zoom-in” e.g. zoom to a part of an image.  Once the user is done zooming in, he will probably want to zoom back out, you want to animate the zoom-out but in reverse.  It turns out to be very easy to do with Expression Blend.
Step 1
Add an […]

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I wanted to reuse the same animation for multiple objects, which should have been a simple task.  Unfortunately, it took me a while to figure it out. 
In theory, all I should need to do is set the Storyboard.TargetName property to a different object and I am done.  I tried all kind of combinations and […]

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