Real World Computing

Testing, testing

20080116 [PC Pro]

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	1 Calculating salutations avoids you sending letters to "Dear Mr Smoth" (sic).

	2 An example of a reasonable error message.

	3 An example of error message in response to user input.

	4 Microsoft's new guidance on error messages gives plenty of examples of how not to do it.

	5 The Previous Versions feature lets you roll back to copies of changed or deleted files and folders.

	6 An in-place error message is often the best choice.

	7 A grouped list-view control may be a better bet than a tree view.

	8 SharePoint not only provides a network Recycle Bin, but can also save every version of a file.

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