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In both of those cases, the style guides vary. At the risk of citing Wikipedia[^], it recommends an apostrophe for single letters. Other style guides disagree:
Chicago manual of style: Q. Is it the three R’s or Rs? The NYT seems to use R’s—I thought I’d double check with you folks before I publish something.
A. Either way is fine, but Chicago style is Rs. (The New York Times evidently prefers to follow NYT style.) Please see CMOS 7.14.
Similarly:
In fact, style rules at The Times (and some other publications, including the Chicago Manual of Style) do call for using an apostrophe in the plural of abbreviations that include periods.
But do not use apostrophes for plurals of abbreviations without periods, or for plurals formed from figures: TVs, PCs, DVDs; 1990s, 747s, size 7s.
Either way: you disagreed with two of his items wrong on fairly obscure uses of punctuation. How do you go from that to, "the guy is illiterate"?
I should add that I agree with your use of the apostrophe (at least in the acronym camp), I'm just being a lame tone troll here. (Some days I think there is just too much crankiness in the Lounge)
TTFN - Kent
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Some days?
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Well that's very true. I guess I should have said, "it bugs me more somedays." Ah well, two days off now to recover and recharge.
TTFN - Kent
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Oi'm frum Portsmuff, so Oi fink pedants shud ave there balls chopped off.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: there balls
Surely you mean "their balls".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If ever a reply deserved an upvote...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I have misplaced a button in the designer - the one that displayed the form in its current state and allowed simulated button clicks, checkbox checks, etc.
It was there in 2003 (and I think in 2005) but I've misplaced it in 2008. It there one? If so, where is it?
Thanks.
Gus Gustafson
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gggustafson wrote: I have misplaced a button in the designer
How would we know where you put it?
I actually don't know what button you're talking about. Then again, I haven't done windows forms in a long, long time. 
Hope you can find it.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It also worked for WebForms
Gus Gustafson
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gggustafson wrote: It also worked for WebForms
Like a preview form option? I think you're either making this up or had a VS add-in.
Either way, I'm curious to find out what it is.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I first used it, out of the box, in VS 4, then in VS 6, and then (I think) in VS 2003. Somewhere along the line the preview form button went away or became hidden. If it's the latter, I'd sure like to know where MS hid it.
It was useful to see how the form would look in the current version without having to add the glue. It was especially useful in showing a customer/client what a page would look like. Much better than PowerPoint. Too the customer/client could suggest changes to the form and they could be made on the spot. If the revised form didn't meet expectations, then tweaking could also be done on the spot.
Great productivity tool!
Gus Gustafson
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Have you looked behind the fridge?
It's the last place anybody looks, so it's almost guaranteed to be there.
Have a look, I'll wait.
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Last time it was so cruddy that I'm never going back
Gus Gustafson
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Then you've probably lost your button.
And the keys, a couple of TV remotes, ...
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Is it in 2013? I haven't seen a version 2008 in like 500 years.
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Slacker007 wrote: I haven't seen a version 2008 in like 500 years.
Either you carried the 1 too many times or you're missing a decimal point.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Or his experimental time machine started working next week.
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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I think this is the "Test" button that I remember from way back when (VC 1.52, Win32 days).
/ravi
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Yes, something like that.
Gus Gustafson
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I remember something exactly like that, but I think it was for MFC, not Windows Forms.
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Never did MFC only WinForms. It was a feature of the VS Designer.
Gus Gustafson
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I remember it from VS6 but that was C++ MFC, and yes, very handy. I use VS2005 frequently (WinForms) but I don't recall it being there. If you've used in WinForms it must be in VS2003 as you've said. I pretty much get the form ready and test it by running it before any of the controls are wired up (except the "Close" button.)
BDF
The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer.
-- PaulowniaK
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Hmm, I don't recall seeing in WinForms. I used it a lot during MFC development.
/ravi
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Looks fine from here! 
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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