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I'm getting out of the office for a few days, going to man the booth at a local (300 mile drive) trade show...hooray  At least it's in Daytona Beach. I could think of worse places to go. Have a good weekend coders! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I feel really, really sorry for you!
A couple of tips I have picked up over the years:
1) Don't wear new shoes. Old, comfortable (but still smart) is much, much better - you are going to be on your feet for 9 or ten hours - and new, stiff and painful shoes do not help at all...
2) Eat a good, big breakfast. You don't know how busy the stand is going to be around lunch time, and if you don't get time for food it can affect your thinking.
3) if you smoke - wear a patch instead.
4) Stuff a bunch of pens in a pocket - visitors will nick them all.
5) Make notes on the back of the visitors business card - good as you can, but anything is better than nothing - it's pointless having his card if you don't know what he is interested in a week later.
6) If at all possible, get contact names and address back to the office the same day - and get them to send info with a "thanks for visiting" cover and a promise to get back to them when you are in the office again. Keeping your company at the top of their mind is important here, and they will get confused as to who said what just like you will.
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Quote: Don't wear new shoes
You have more than one pair of shoes? You - you - capitalist pig! 
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Not so, they are like any tool - you need the right tool for the right job!
So...
Trainers - normal footwear for me (1 pair)
Dress shoes - for when I have to wear a suit (1 pair)
Worn out shoes - for mowing and other dirty jobs round the garden (1 pair)
Steel toe cap boots - for heavy duty or dangerous jobs (1 pair)
Bike boots - for motorcycling (1 pair)
And that's me lot!
The only thing I do insist on is buying quality: buy "fashionable", or "cheap" and they don't last. Buy decent quality - which does cost more - and they last a lot, lot longer and that means they are comfortable for longer, and end up cheaper as well!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Thanks OG! All really good advice. I almost started the previous post with 'My feet already hurt'! 
OriginalGriff wrote: Eat a good, big breakfast
Lucky I work in nutrition...only a handful of software companies, but a ton of food vendors...I will be surrounded by sample sized food for two days! As much as I hate doing these shows, it does give me a chance to show off all the hard work.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Just a natural extension of the Bass-O-Matic[^].
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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There's been a niggle with VS for me for a while: I use CTRL+C and CTRL+V to copy and paste, but they are close together and occasionally I get a Copy when I wanted a Paste. Normally I just sigh, and go back to copy it again - but it annoys me a little when I'm on a blank line with nothing selected, and the Paste operation copies the blank line to the clipboard. Why? Why do that?
Well, it's deliberate: there's an option to specifically do that.
Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> All Languages -> General ... "Apply Cut or Copy commands to blank lines when there is no selection"
And for whatever reason the default state is "Yes, copy a damn blank line to the clipboard when there is no selection".
Why, Microsoft? Why? 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Why, Microsoft? Why?
I can't answer that, but if you google that phrase (with quotes) you get over 11k hits!
In the meantime a heartfelt "Thank You"  It's always bugged me too.
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I guess you should start leaning "How to keep focus on which button I am going to click".
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Don't you know WordStar?[^]
Ctrl-Insert for copy
Shift-Insert for paste
Works everywhere. Visual Studio messes it up. 
Solves that empty-line-copy problem too, from what I can tell.
* EDIT *
Oh, interesting, Ctrl-Insert and Shift-Insert are from the IBM Common User Acess (CUA)[^]
modified 14-May-15 8:56am.
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That's the old school way of doing it. I can remember it from the DOS / Word Perfect / Quatro Pro days. Funny thing is, nobody ever considered copy/pasting an empty line back then. We did things more efficiently by using the huge [Enter] key on the keyboard.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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DJ van Wyk wrote: old school way of doing it
best way...
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They were the ones shown on the menus in Win 3.1
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greldak wrote: They were the ones shown on the menus in Win 3.1
You're right. That's how I learned them and I've never forgotten them. They work in places the other hotkeys don't.
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Even more bizarre is that someone had the foresight to make that behavior configurable.
Marc
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I'm gonna guess that in the early days copy just copied whatever was there even if it was nothing, people kept complaining, eventually they added in the option to make it behave more sensibly but didn't want to make the default different to accustomed behaviour.
Which is a sensible general policy.
True sense comes, however, from not blindly applying your policy, no matter how sensible it may be.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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IIRC, copy only ever did anything at all if there was a selection - and most apps work that way even today.
The whole idea of copy working on non-selected data is bad, I think - but I wish it worked in MS error message boxes where you can't select anything anyway! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ctrl+C works in "most" error message boxes. It copies the complete contents + title + buttons as text. I love it. You don't need to "select" anything except to have the message box focused.
Sample:
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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Cannot move 'RandomFile.Debug.config'. The destination folder is the same as the source folder.
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OK
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You have hit the nail on the head.
This is the reason why copying non-selected makes you shoot blanks, but it lets you copy the un-selectable.
Sort of nice.
I am a bit pissed off about this as I didn't know about this until your post.
So Thanks Corneliu.
There is always a reason.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Using copy on a line with nothing selected actually copies the whole line including CRLF; pasting that puts the whole line you just blank-copied above the line where your cursor is sitting. SSMS, VS and Sublime all do it and it's pretty nice once you get the hang of it.
Feel your pain on the MS error boxes though 
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What's bizarre is why y'all are making such a deal of it. It's a FEATURE. You put your cursor on any line (w/out selecting anything) and Ctrl-C copies the whole line. That's useful. No mouse necessary.
You DO know that VS has unlimited memory on the clipboard, right? If you accidentally copy something when you meant to paste, just Ctrl-Shift-V a couple times and VS will cycle back through your recent clipboard items. Easy workaround to your stated problem.
Chill. No smoking necessary.
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kdmote wrote: just Ctrl-Shift-V a couple times and VS will cycle back through your recent clipboard items.
Huh, no I didn't know that!
Caveman Marc
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Interesting way to clear the clipboard so as to not have 'forgotten' items in there that may be inadvertently posted later.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: way to clear the clipboard so
I've done that when I've copied and pasted large amounts of information from other projects or applications just to clear the clipboard.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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