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Creating custom controls in VB or C# is an easy process and will speed up development time if used properly.  A good example of this is when you have a combobox that displays the same customer information in multiple forms across your application.  Another reason I've used this in the past is to standardize the look and feel of certain controls across an application.

This is a weird error that I've received while building apps for Android.  I do not know what causes it, but it seems like it would be an easy fix.

If you receive a Null pointer exception in Eclipse while opening strings.xml take a look at your resources xml element.  Usually mine look like this when I receive the error:

<resources>
...
</resources>

To avoid the Null pointer exception change the resources tag to look like this:

I have to admit, I'm split about the title of this one.  I seriously thought about calling it "To lib, or not to lib.".  Reason being is a code library is supposed to reduce the amount of code that you have to write.  Then you have to look at all lib's and decide which one to use taking into account how much it's going to make your code base grow. 

Over the past few days I've had the wonder experience of trying to configure an 871W router from Cisco. After working with the software for a day and a half I've decided cisco's software engineers really need help.