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2003

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Feb 10, 2003

An honor

Well. what can i say. it's an honor to blog among people i respect and read their blogs so much. A little about me : I'm Married to my beautiul wife named Tal. we rent a house togather a little nrth of Tel Aviv in a…
Feb 10, 2003

The occasional Interop Nightmare

You would think that After 4-5 years of programming experience, after having learned many new tircvks and technonlogies, i would be less surprised by the bwilderment that overcomes me as i come to solve this interop…
Feb 10, 2003

Howto : Not lose your job

Chris Sells points to a nice trick on how to not lose your job
Feb 10, 2003

Killer IDE macro

I found there is only one(for now) macro that i use in the VS .NET IDE - the one that puts two curly braces in the following lines and puts the cursor in between them. this HAS to be a killer macro. i assigned it the…

.Net Original, Tips & Tricks
Feb 10, 2003

Escaping into code

Sometimes i wish i could just crawl up and snuggle in a dark, warm little place wth nothing but a nice keyboard, a big LCD screen ,a mother of a computer ,a fat T1 line and just learn and program stuff. oh yeah, and…
Feb 10, 2003

when you have a cat

Did a cat ever sit on your keyboavscdascccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc :)
Feb 10, 2003

Reading habtis - total agreement

Ingo Rammer points out that his reading habits have changed and now reads mainly thourhg RSS feeds. Although i am quite new to blogs and RSS feeds, i can certainly say that my habtis are starting to change as well. I…
Feb 10, 2003

RSS feeds are not for newbies, but should be

I first discovered this whole RSS thing (and blogging as well),just about a month ago. i read weblogs and kept seeing "syndicate" and other links like that. i couldnt understand what that was for. i had to really look…
Feb 10, 2003

Yey - i think

Which OS are You? Is this a good thing? thanks to CraigBlog
Feb 10, 2003

Cool: Google2Rss

Peter Drayton managed to post the following at 5:21 AM: Google2RSS is a command-line tool that runs a query using the Google Web API and spits out an RSS 0.91 feed containing the top 10 hits . [ Sam Gentile's Weblog ]…
Feb 10, 2003

Microsoft gives coders a bug-catcher

Microsoft gives coders a bug-catcher The software giant plans to announce on Monday that a plug-in created by security firm Sanctum, scheduled for release in March, will be the first to easily integrate with Microsoft's…
Feb 10, 2003

source code of the Internet Explorer Web Controls released by MSFT

Microsoft released the complete source code of the Internet Explorer Web Controls (TreeView, MultiPage, ToolBar, and TabStrip ASP.NET server controls). This is great! [via Fabrice's Weblog ]
Feb 10, 2003

Continued COM interop discussion

In reply to my rants about COM Interop , Sam Gentile writes: No, it shouldn't but it is . Welcome to the sometimes nightmare known as COM Interop. I have written extensively on this area starting about a year ago…
Feb 10, 2003

SmallTalk.NET ?

The SmallScript Common Dynamic Language Runtime (CDLR) System is a rich multi-paradigm dynamic and scripting language architecture. It includes S# as its primary language, a superset/dialect of classic Smalltalk-98.…
Feb 10, 2003

Microsoft's Dev Roadmap - Following the COM way?

So there i was at my VB User's Group Meeting. We had a lecture from a MSFT guy about MSFT's Dev Roadmap .It Appears Microsoft will attempt to Have the Next-Next Version of windows (aka LongHorn) be 70-80% .Net Framework…
Feb 10, 2003

.Net Remoting LifeSaver

Here's something i learned the hard way: When using configuration filnes in Remoting scenarios, be sure to put the following line in the remoting config file (if you use one) of the client application: <debug…
Feb 10, 2003

I hope this name isn't taken for a weblog..

I looked it up in Google with "weblog", nothing came up. I think it summs up nicely what a weblog does. don't it..
Feb 10, 2003

No plans for a Sourcesafe.Net tool in MS future

this is one thing i forgot to say in an earlier message . Appearently , accroding to the MSFT rep. that talked to us ,VSS will only be enhanced , but nothing more. there will not be a more robust version of it, or…
Feb 10, 2003

Yes it looks very nice Ingo

It's the time of the year again. http://www.ingorammer.com has undergone it's first major design change. Looks ok ? [ Ingo Rammer ] Slick and simple. I like it.
Feb 10, 2003

Ilan Ramon , The first israeli Astronaut, was barried today in israel.

Ilan Ramon , The first israeli Astronaut, was barried today in israel. All israel held hands and hopes as Ilan Ramon flew into space. All Isarel Stood with tears in their eyes as the news came to them. That was a very…
Feb 10, 2003

Source Colorizer Web Service

Scott Watermasyskt released this free web service to colorize your sourcode. He also put a client side test application to show you how to use the web service if you're new to this. [via Daniel B. ] Cool!. Finallya web…
Feb 10, 2003

Cool Bookmarks manager

Iv'e decided to let you know about the most valuable net tool i use - PowerMarks . It stores massive amounts of bookmars, but not in a hirarchical way, but in a list, allowing you to find one very fast by just typing…
Feb 11, 2003

First Unbreakable encryption claimed

This article on SlashDot tells about an israeli company MegaNet that has devloped Unbreakable encryption using somthing calls VME (Virtual Mtrix Encryption) technology. here's the exceprt:…
Feb 12, 2003

Military Duty Calls

I've been called. To the military. It's a call that a small part of israeli men after the age of 21 come to expect 2-3 times a year. I'll be gone for a month or something of the sort, starting the coming sunday. does…
Feb 13, 2003

Implement Enterprise notification apps using MSFT's Reference Architecture

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7f544f57-20e2-4a05-a574-e3a675b5d15e The Reference Architecture code allows developers to implement notification services in an enterprise environment. The…
Feb 15, 2003

Unbreakable Encryption Claims - revisited

Bruce Schneier used Meganet and VME as a leading example of snake oil in a Crypto-Gram article three years back: http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-9902.html His comments include "This makes no sense, even to an…
Feb 15, 2003

Nice XProgramming retort

Reading this Blog entry from CrazyBob brought a mixed feeling. The entry is an answer for a previous entry by Chiara and talks about why XProgramming is not totally stupid. At first, i just read Chieara's quoted Entry,…
Feb 15, 2003

Inside the Windows Deveopment Process

Inside the Windows Deveopment Process A look at how Microsoft develops and maintains the Windows operating system. Fascinating reading for developers! Mike Johnson, Thursday, February 13, 2003 [via Chris Sells ]
Feb 16, 2003

Good news from Sam Gentile

Good news! Heather's Home! [via Sam Gentile] I'm glad to hear it! *sigh of relief*.
Feb 18, 2003

Use VB.NET functionality from within C#

How: 1) Add a reference to Microsoft.VisualBasic Runtime frim the ".NET" references menu 2) Add a Using directive : "using Microsoft.VisualBasic;" Voila! you have access to all of VB.NET's functionality, including…
Feb 18, 2003

Ink-based designer - Now that's cool!

This is so cool, a pen-based forms design tool for Visual Studio.Net. This was demo'ed in VSLive! and Shawn writes that they wowed a late-evening tired crowd. I ask who won't get wowed by such a tool, the dead ones are…
Feb 18, 2003

Why is this missing from C#?

Found out about a cool feature in VB.NET, but i can't seem to find something similar inC#. In VB.NET you can create a Catch block that only catches the execption depending on a boolean statement. the syntax for this is…
Feb 18, 2003

how do you make your .NET application scriptable?

One of the last big projects i have done in VB 6.0 was creating an inhouse system that was also totally scriptable, using MS Script control. the user could react to ecents raised by the aplication, and interact and…
Feb 18, 2003

Code analysis tool for your .NET needs

FxCop version 1.074 FxCop is a code analysis tool that checks your .NET assemblies for conformance to the .NET Framework Design Guidelines . It uses reflection, MSIL parsing, and callgraph analysis to inspect your…
Feb 18, 2003

MCAD / MCSD most Helpful exam study links

Not sure if anyone is looking to get their MCAD / MCSD for Microsoft .NET out there, but a couple of links that I've found treemendously helpful are Tim's Exam Links . What he's basically done is taken Microsoft's list…
Feb 18, 2003

Killer bookmark

I don't use it often - but when I need it - it always saves the day. I am talking about Connectionstrings.com . [via Mike Roselius ] This one's a definite keeper!
Feb 18, 2003

Super Blogger

here is the top of the bloggers list from http://dotnetweblogs.com/ . something seems a bit odd, don't it? ;) ---------SNIP--------------- Bloggers (posts, last update) Sam Gentile ( 1353 , 2/18/2003 12:50 PM ) Drew…
Feb 19, 2003

I got my own domain!

Finally. It seems as though no one had thought of this (IMHO) cool domain name: ISerializable.Com . I have made it forward to this blog URL so now my blog is much more easily accessible. cheers.
Feb 19, 2003

Article: Five Considerations for Writing Large-Scale Systems

A while back, I realized that you can break down the requirements for writing a large-scale system into five areas: scalability, availability, security, managability, and everything else. I often use this breakdown when…
Feb 19, 2003

ASP.NET Utilities

Scott Guthrie has further information about the tools and utilities to diagnose ASP.NET issues, that come with the MSDN article I posted a link to yesterday. [via Sam ]
Feb 19, 2003

Late bound wrapper to MS Word object

Here is a simple wrapper object that shows you how to late bind to Microsoft Word's spell checker from .net. Use it like this: MSWord word = new MSWord(); assert( word.CheckSpelling("antidisestablishmentarianism") );…
Feb 22, 2003

Cool IDE Shortcut

here's something i just found out: Select some text in the ide and press CTRL+SHIFT+U - and the selection becomes UPPERCASE . Use CTRL+U to make it lowercase .. tada!

.Net Original, Tips & Tricks
Feb 22, 2003

App.Config Magic

Here's another tidbit i found: If i want my application to have a config file, i need to create a file named .config in the output directory. but here's a nice touch you can do with VS.NET: click " Add Item " button,…

.Net Original, Tips & Tricks
Feb 22, 2003

HOWTO: Let the user Filter object property values dynamically

I am currently creating a project where a user can see trace messages from older applications written in VB 6.0. we have a trace utility that throws traces using COM . iIdecided i would try to write a client in C#. the…
Feb 22, 2003

AppSettings Coolness

Say you want to store a setting in an XML config file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <appSettings> <add key="WebServiceUrl" value="http://mypublicserver/smartclientservice.asmx?wsdl" />…
Feb 23, 2003

CodeSmart.NET productivity Addin announced

AxTools are coming out with CodeSmart.NET . I have been an avid user of their CodeSmart for VB, which ,in my opinion, is one of the most productive and comprehensve addins on the market for VB (And ive used most if not…
Feb 23, 2003

The big picture

The Code Explorer The CodeSMART Code Explorer is a navigational and management tool that integrates features from both the standard Solution Explorer and the standard Class View . For a solution and its projects, it…
Feb 23, 2003

Code monkeys are people too

"Computer programming is taught in courses. The excellent books: The Pragmatic Programmer[8], Code Complete[3], Rapid Development[2], and Extreme Programming Explained[4] all teach computer programming and the larger…
Feb 23, 2003

More bug tracking software

Chris wrote: Bug Tracking Alex is looking for bug tracking software. I have never used this (use a spreadsheet - the shame!) but fogbugz is supposed to be good.. You can find an exhaustive list of Bug Tracking…
Feb 23, 2003

Nunit Addin bliss

So i decided to take my first steps as a Test-First programmer today. I downloaded NUnit 2.0 , and after that - NUnit Addin , and after 5 minutes of "readme", i was ready to go. I opened up the current project i am…
Feb 24, 2003

.NetWeblog Update -Woohoo!

Hello Everyone, OK, just pushed a new (and I hope improved) version of the Blog Application to the live server. I guess I am going to call this Beta 2.5 since I did not get all of the features I wanted to in this build,…
Feb 24, 2003

About Syndirella

Sadly, I learned that NewsGator now costs money :) On one hand, this is a good thing for the creator, and it's agood product( my favorite aggregator), on the other hand i can't see myself paying 30 bucks for an…
Feb 24, 2003

Blogoholic

very funny post by Russel Beattie, which reminds me of myself pretty much..: "I was just not going to connect all day - having brought my PC across the room from my DSL connection (without WiFi card) and was working…
Feb 24, 2003

Microsoft Download Center RSS feed

Here's the RSS feed of new download from MSFT download center. very insightful, and contantly updated. http://www.thundermain.com/rss/ . Sorry i don't rememeber how i found it, so i can't give the honor, but isn't it…
Feb 24, 2003

The Last Configuration Handler I'll Ever Need - the next generation

I seem to be the last to notice Chris Sells post on types configuration object using serialization. Well, i just add that it's pretty darn cool. But one can take this further : 1) create a full serializable database and…
Feb 24, 2003

A lesson in usability

Delete a bookmark On the Insert menu, click Bookmark . Click the name of the bookmark you want to delete, and then click Delete . Note To delete both the bookmark and the bookmarked item, select the item, and then press…
Feb 24, 2003

Funny Web page

http://www.next-in.com/kickers.html
Feb 24, 2003

Including/excluding files in Visual Studio .NET

Including/excluding files in Visual Studio .NET Date: 2/17/2003 Versions: VS7 Level: Beginner Author: The VB2TheMax Team Say that that you have an existing Visual Studio .NET project, and that you copy a lot of new…
Feb 24, 2003

Open Source Vs. Commercial Aggregators - The NewsGator Dillema

In response to my post about NewsGator , Fleh comments: " Isn't this where open source is going? i.e. how does one make a living if nobody is willing to pay for anything? " That depends a lot on the benefits you get…
Feb 24, 2003

Missing C# feature ? - Totally hiding derived members

So here's my problem. I have class Foo: public class Foo{ public void DoStuff() { ... } } and i have class Bar derived from it. I want class Bar to Hide the "DoStuff" and expose it's own implementation of "DoStuff()".…
Feb 25, 2003

About Roy Osherove

Name : Roy Osherove Date of Birth : 17/08/1975 Family Status : Married to a beautiful wife named Tal . Were married 2 days after the 9-11 at NYC. (Must be a good sign, right ...?). My wife Tal is a SP.NET/Win forms…
Feb 25, 2003

GooglFight

"Hehe I found this very distracting: Imagine you type two words in the search boxes and you'll see which one has the most results in Goolge. Try for yourself ! Googlefight " [via heLP .Net Blog ]
Feb 25, 2003

Attack of the certified

"Oh, this exam makes me an MCAD. So right now I'm an MCT, MCSD for VB6, MCAD for Microsoft .NET. By wednesday I hope to have MCSD for Microsoft .NET, and by friday perhaps I'll be ready for the Win2k Server exam so I…
Feb 25, 2003

3Degrees looks cool

Following up on last week's posting , the ThreeDegrees software is now available in beta form. I just finished the product tour and am dl'ing as we speak. Looks pretty cool/fun, but I don't know if it's going to be…
Feb 25, 2003

Quickly and easily searilize almost any object

" It you want to quickly and easily searilize almost any object, just derive your class from the Selfserializer class here and you will be on your way. " [via ScottW ]
Feb 25, 2003

Unemployment

"started unpacking my box from the office i used to have. funny all of the things you seem to accumulate. cdr's with no labels. folders full of papers you have no idea why you kept them. frequent eater cards to places…
Feb 25, 2003

ADO.NET tips

ADO.NET tips Top 10 ADO.NET tips from Visual Studio.NET magazine. Posted By Ben Richardson at 2/25/2003 3:08 PM
Feb 25, 2003

Snow in Jerusalem - Beautiful pictures

It Has been snowing all night in Jerusalem and up north of israel, and this is an email going around with how jerusalem looks this morning. Pretty big excitment by the media here about this. All the news start with…
Feb 25, 2003

About me

I have decided to put the inevitable "About me" page right here . There was a blog somewhere that posted the ten most hated things about a blogger(Can't find it though, but in involved the word "FontBitch"..), and not…
Feb 25, 2003

More Israeli snow photos

Ynet - internet newspaper in israel published more photos of the snow here: http://www.ynet.co.il/Ext/App/Thumbnails/CdaAlbumPic/0,9790,L-226,00.html
Feb 25, 2003

The predictable history of a programmer

"Chris started his obsession with programming when at around the age of ten he started learning BASIC on his Commodore VIC-20 (3.5kb of raw power!). The addiction has never been kicked and since 1994 has concentrated on…
Feb 25, 2003

XML web services articles galore

" I decided to write up some articles about the XML Web Services capabilities in the .NET Framework (ASP.NET and .NET Remoting). The technical difficulty ranges from beginner-level to in-depth discussion. Time will show…
Feb 25, 2003

Wow!

Wow! Chris is really talented ! You draw absolutely marvelous cartoons , although i didn't quite get the Cat on the computer one.. ;)
Feb 26, 2003

If GOD were a computer programmer

This cool post just passed before me, and i thought i'd share: [via WinTec-OffTopic Mailing list]: "Hi All: I found this and thought I'd share: If God were a computer programmer... The following was stolen from JINX:…
Feb 26, 2003

Welcome, Santo!

" Well, Here I am. Yet another speck of sand on the beaches of the infinite Blogging sea... Who knows, this may one day contain some sort of useful content." [via SantoMania ] Yey! Addy Santo - a friend and a former…
Feb 26, 2003

The mystery that is Russell

Funny post from Russell Beattie. Something about valentine's day and a heating laptop..? ah, just read it. ;)
Feb 27, 2003

What the hell...?

Yikes! What the hell does this mean? The word "BEGIN" is nowhere in my files.. Update: Ok. I don't know how to upload the picture, so heres the error message i got from VS.NET c# compiler last night: "Internal compiler…
Feb 28, 2003

Sample chapter from "Inside Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET 2003 "

Basically : the code modell is the macro writer's programmer heaven. and it looks pretty darn cool! " The Code Model Here's some info about the .net code module. Chapter 12: The Code Model The idea is simple—define a…
Feb 28, 2003

RSS is not mature

First : When i came to name this post, i wanted to come up with a name for the whole technology encompassing RSS, XML RPC and all that other stuff related to blogging and intraction. Is there such a term? Second : Addy…
Feb 28, 2003

Chris Anderson's new thriller

Reading Chirs's post almost made me reach for some popcorn. it reads like a thriller. C'mon. Tell us what your up to!!!!
Mar 1, 2003

From Pingback/Trackback to automatic feed error notifiers

Ziv Caspi's Post got me thinking about how Aggeregators should handle broken feeds. Perhaps a standard needs to be created in which a broken feed's author could be notified automatically whenervr an aggregator or any…
Mar 1, 2003

RSS is not mature - continued

OK. Phil scott wrote back his thoughts on this and i must say i just did not get it. I guess this whole technology is a bit overwhelming, and considering i am only involved in this in the last 2 months or so, i would…
Mar 1, 2003

How do we call this technology?

OK. I'll admit there are more then enough acronyms in the tech world already, but maybe this technology needs one as well.. ? just something that one can refer to when speaking about it. someting that is easy to say and…
Mar 1, 2003

C# Future features

this was a cool read. i can't wait for VS.NET for yukon already... " C# Futures The C# Programming Language Future Features " [via Early&Adopter ]
Mar 3, 2003

NewsAggregator sample code on .NetWire

Building a Desktop News Aggregator The author builds a C# application that retrieves and displays news feeds from various Web sites. The application utilizes XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, the DOM, and XML Serialization in…
Mar 5, 2003

When Unix Ports Attack

I've been pretty busy the last few days. My job has just let me in on a speech project that uses "periphonics" - a a tool that has been around for a while (can you say "COBOL is my friend"?) and ive been immersed in…
Mar 5, 2003

Extensible .NET SQL code generator

One of the cool things about Microsoft is that there's a boatload of smart people in it. More to the point, many of those smart people are building wicked cool pieces of software that are available to you for free (and…
Mar 5, 2003

Intel: Open runtime os for Java/CLI on Win/Linux

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 02, @06:59PM from the ac-dc dept. prostoalex writes "The new issue of Intel Technology Journal has a lengthy article on a new platform, developed in Intel labs. The Open Runtime…
Mar 5, 2003

Explorer Tips and tricks for the keyboard junkie

Windows Trick o' the Day I knew this trick existed, but I couldn't remember it. If you to drill down through your directory structure all the time, this is a real time saver. In Windows Explorer, you can highlight a…

.Net Original, .Net Quotations, Tips & Tricks
Mar 6, 2003

New ".NET show" episode

In this episode of "The .NET Show", we will be talking with Erik Olson and Mike Kass from the .NET Team. They will show us some of the code that was used in Microsoft's entry into the OpenHack competition.…
Mar 9, 2003

Joke

A guy walks into a bar. Guy : I need a stiff drink Bartender : How about a nice stiff shot of taquila? b: No i realy can't do taquila Bartender : Well everyone Has a bad night once in a while. Cmon i'll make you a nice…
Mar 9, 2003

A cool macro to ease your NUnit boilerplate woes

Havn't checked this out myself yet, but it seems like something to write home about. Very nice macro was posted that makes NUnit boilerplate code creation faster, and i've just discovered it: I've created a Visual…

.Net Quotations, Tips & Tricks
Mar 9, 2003

Custom Attributes are goodness

Well, Iv'e been generating some code for a nice little project ive been working on, and one of the features of the product (I hope to talk about this in a future post) is that it allows plugins to generate custom trace…
Mar 10, 2003

Search in RSS feeds - ROOGLE

[ The FuzzyBlog ] What 10 odd Hours of Hacking Can Produce: An RSS Search Engine [via FurryGoat ] most excellent. this goes into my Favorites.
Mar 10, 2003

InfoPath download link (and a lawsuit waiting to happen)

Appearently you can now download InfoPath Here . However, MSFT are yet to release their own version of it ;)
Mar 10, 2003

Word 2003 CodeBehind using VS.NET sample video

Discover Visual Studio Tools for Office behind a Word document http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4146be10-493f-4b2d-b324-084f9ead8164 [MSFT Download center RSS feed ] Damn! me LIKE what me sees :)
Mar 10, 2003

Compact framework resources needed

A friend asked me for reasons why he should consider creating mobile applications using compact framework. since this is not my "thing" for now, I could not give him good reasons or resources. Perhaps you can help me…
Mar 10, 2003

.NET show: "Tell us about yourself, because we Care(TM)"

Watching the .NET Show from MSDN brought mixed feelings. The show was about the .NET compact framework and had a nice little demo of using web services on Pocket PC apps. very nice. i was impressed. That was the good…
Mar 11, 2003

Try this in google :)

open Google, write "French military victories" and press "I'm feeling lucky"
Mar 11, 2003

The VS7 Debugger doesn’t work. What can I do?

Note: This article can also be found in word format here . It was originally published on this site . Also, for you early adopters out there: Known debugger issues with VS8 beta1 The VS7 Debugger doesn’t work. What can…
Mar 12, 2003

Article: Resolving Debugger problems

I've Added the article " Resolving Debugger Problems " to my blog. It is a document that I got from someone a few months ago which helped me a lot with many debugging problems i encountered (Especially ASP.NET…
Mar 12, 2003

System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGrid coolness

OK. maybe I'm a little slow, but has anyone else tried using the System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGrid control ? It needs to be referenced from the "Customize toolbox" menu of the "tools" tool window. I'm impressed.…
Mar 12, 2003

Yey!

100 posts and counting..... Am i chatty or what??
Mar 12, 2003

System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGrid 2

Following my previous post about the PropertyGrid control that comes out of the box with VS.NET, Here's some more. The Grid is very nice, but in order to bend it to your rules you need plenty of work. I found This…
Mar 13, 2003

Serialization articles

Chris Sells is beginning to be ,it seems, one of my favorite .NET gurus. I seem to be checking out his site at least once a day and am tuned to any new stuff he writes there (at least on the RSS feed ). Also, Ive…
Mar 13, 2003

Helpful .Net Common tasks "Howto" page

The Big .Net Common Tasks HowTo page on DotNetJunkies is a very helpful aid to have around
Mar 13, 2003

Is there a big "Escape" button somewhere?

Working at a startup holds many wonderful benefits : 1) You create and edit powerpoint presentations - this of course takes all your day since the boss wants "that line to be a little closer to that line" and "can you…
Mar 13, 2003

Free GUI component for VS .NET users

Developer Express have released a cool GUI component XtraNavBar and it's completely FREE if you use VS.NET (You don't need to prove that you use it though.. :) ) It sure looks nice, don't it? Thanks, Dev Express! Get it…

.Net Original, Cool Tools
Mar 13, 2003

The equivalent of a VB6 ActiveX Exe using .Net would be..?

Does anyone know how to implement a public object that can be shared among different applications? In VB6 you could just implement a public object in a module inside an ActiveX EXE and expose it's instance when needed.…
Mar 13, 2003

.Net Rocks Rocks!

I think i've written about this already, but i would like to stress the coolness and the sheer joy of listening to the insightful interviews that are broadcast on . Net Rocks radio show . Listen to Dan Appleman (My API…
Mar 13, 2003

Drag 'n Drop Performance Counters!

Well, this is just cool. To use a performance counter, simply open the Server Explorer (CTRL+ALT+S) and open up the Performance counters node in the tree. select the counter you would like to use and... guess what? just…
Mar 15, 2003

Remoting Life Saver

Ive run in to trouble with my .Config file exposing types that were written with typos and such. The remoting framework will not tell you it could not load the file, unless you explicitly tell it to: just before closing…
Mar 15, 2003

VB6 Common tasks translated to VB.Net

Found a nice little article that translates a few of the common VB6 tasks to VB.Net. It's right here .
Mar 16, 2003

SQL Injection prevented using OO techniqes

Here's a nice little article about a more OO way of handling SQL injection.
Mar 16, 2003

.Net Resources

Just found this Great .Net Resources link on Robert McLaws Blog . Lots 'o goodies in there!
Mar 16, 2003

Using Memory Errors to Attack a Virtual Machine

Using Memory Errors to Attack a Virtual Machine Posted by michael on Saturday March 15, @03:03AM from the no-one-is-safe dept. gillus writes "A very cool scientific paper from Appel and Govindavajhala that explains how…
Mar 16, 2003

HREF EXEs are cool.

Now, if I build a new version and copy those files to the appropriate web server directory... bang , everyone is running the new version the next time they launch the app. No update, no need to send out a "new version"…
Mar 16, 2003

Coding into the night

You all know these moments. You worked on something really hard for a serious amount of time, hacking away, discovering errors, finxing bugs, implementing pure cool stuff and then, finally, after all this time, you…
Mar 17, 2003

Campus Enterprise Architect

ScottGu's Post on the Redmond campus buildings was intriguing in a weird sort of way, wasn't it?
Mar 18, 2003

Empty your recycle bin to shutdown faster

The incomparable Ian Griffiths wrote on the WinTech Off Topic mailing list today: When I try to shut down, reboot, suspend, or hibernate my laptop, it sits and thrashes, often for minutes, before giving me the "Turn Off…
Mar 18, 2003

Sun Plans VB-Like Tools For Java

Sun Plans VB-Like Tools For Java Posted by timothy on Monday March 17, @03:51PM from the click-move-done dept. CokoBWare writes "Sun apparently is trying to create a more VB-like experience for developer. This article…
Mar 20, 2003

I want to start a .Net user group

I want to start a User group in israel for .Net stuff. There are already several groups in Israel : * IVBUG : Israeli VB User group i regularly go to this one, but it has content mainly for VB programmers, and i use C#…
Mar 20, 2003

NET Compact Framework 1.0 Redistributable

The Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework 1.0 Redistributable includes everything you need to run .NET Compact Framework applications, including the Common Language Runtime and the .NET Compact Framework class library.…
Mar 20, 2003

Free Goodies

The complete code for controls in Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Server Controls and Components can be downloaded from MSDN . Too bad I already wrote the DatePicker about an hour ago... this ListView control might be…
Mar 20, 2003

Are you into YOYOing?

So i got this cool little Yoyo/Something else hybrid thingie, and it totally rocks! It's called AstroJax
Mar 20, 2003

My own user group & INETA - continued

I tried all day to find the link to apply for a new user group . no luck. i finally got a call from one of the community relations liaison folks saying that they too cannot find the link. it was probably due to the site…
Mar 23, 2003

Writing Managed Sinks for SMTP and Transport Events

This technical article and sample event sinks assist developers in creating SMTP and Transport event sinks using Microsoft Visual Stuidio .NET and the .NET Framework.…
Mar 23, 2003

The Kool-Aid FAQ

The Kool-Aid FAQ - totally bizarre
Mar 23, 2003

A letter

OK. I've decided to censor myself for once. And i hate every second of it! but The comments ive recieved sure have a point, which ive taken into consideration.Ive written a little Story that depicts a letter that a lot…
Mar 23, 2003

Russel Beattie Turned down an offer from MSFT

Russel Beattie Turned down an offer from MSFT to attend and influence a microsoft Mobius Conference on the claim that he is usually Anti-MSFT in life and work, but "thanks, i'm flattered". I do believe this is a grave…
Mar 23, 2003

The letter you wanted to write

I know plenty of people who would write something like this: "Hi there boss. You probably don't know me. I work in your company. *Your company* which you have founded .You walk past by me when you enter the company at…
Mar 24, 2003

w00t???!!

Who the hell invented 'w00t' ?? it's the most stupid sounding word i have ever heard!
Mar 24, 2003

Windows CE.NET Device Emulator Samples

These Emulation Kit Projects are for use with the Microsoft® Windows® CE .NET Device Emulator. They are sample platforms, each with a custom skin to showcase some of the capabilities of Windows CE .NET.…
Mar 24, 2003

Free Crystal Reports ebook

Free Crystal Reports ebook The first Crystal Reports .NET book for programmers. * Covers ASP.NET and Windows Forms * Teaches all phases of development * Alerts you to the bugs and how to get around them * Maps out the…
Mar 24, 2003

CommandBuilder Internals and alternatives

I spent last week developing our data management layer. Most of my testing was done with the CommandBuilder. Although it is a handy type, I found some limitations, so I developed our own custom model. I wish Bill's…
Mar 24, 2003

My own user group & INETA - the next generation

INETA finally set the link streight to register a new User Group. Great. But i'm still holding. I keep getting second thoughts. Julia Lerman Posted a nice message about how great things are going for her with the user…
Mar 24, 2003

Yikes! people sure have problems debugging!

OMG! The amount of referrer links i get from google on the article i pasted in regarding resolving debugeer problems is quite large! I guess the there are still a few more bugs to sort out for the Everett release... It…
Mar 24, 2003

Job Interviews

<plug> 1st : Yes, I am looking for a new job and we are willing to relocate to the US *hint* ;)<plug> I had 2 job interviews today and one yesterday. Yesterday was for a large corporate type company for a .Net/VB6…
Mar 24, 2003

C# Team Chat - was i blind??

I just found through jesse ezell that chats are happening quite often with MSFT members and teams about very cool stuff. How did i miss that? Find all chat related stuff here . the last chat he mentioned was with the C#…
Mar 24, 2003

DataGrid Girl rules

The DataGrid Girl just stopped by and gave a useful peice of advice about my User Group dilemma . Thanks. I think i'll do just that. By the way - i heard you on the last .Net Rocks show! You sound even cuter then your…
Mar 25, 2003

Kubi client is pretty cool

Just playing around with the Kubi Client beta for Outlook . very nice. Integrates within outlook to manage projects and tasks. kinda like PlanPlus for outlook, but different. I suggest you try it yourself .
Mar 26, 2003

Acceptance Test

A few new blogs I've taken a liking to: ISerializable : Roy Osherove's persistent thoughts Chris Pirillo : Getting Screwed While Everybody Else is Getting Laid SCOTUSblog : All about the Supreme Court of the United…
Mar 26, 2003

Specialization reviewed

OK, Sorry I havn't yet responded to DataGridGirl's Post about focusing on one thing and getting really good at it. I was actually thinking about that quite a lot. She sure makes a good point: "it's a lot easier to be…
Mar 26, 2003

Shared Source CLI Essentials Book is out + more about specialization

According to O'Reilly the book Shared Source CLI Essentials by Stutz, Neward and Shilling is available as of today. Congratulations to David, Ted & Geoff on this major achievement! [ All Things Distributed ] Wow. That…
Mar 26, 2003

SQL injection explained in depth

Two more nice articles posted regarding SQL injection. A bit late, but here they are: Sounds like an explanation on how .NET can mitigate it... For more background, check out Advanced SQL Injection and More Advanced SQL…
Mar 26, 2003

ArrrrgggH!

How the hell do I initialize an XML serializer instance, given an XML string (not a file name) ? ARRGGHH I shouldnt have to Persist the XML string to a file and then read it back using an XMLReader, should I? that would…
Mar 26, 2003

CodeDOM is missing some stuff

Browsing through Managed space blog, Interesting insights into the CodeDOM found here . Mainly, what it can't do.
Mar 26, 2003

HOWTO: Create an XMLSerializer from a given XML string

Well, I got some great replies on my appearently rookie question..;) .I'll post them here for others to learn from. that's what it's all about , isn't it? The Problem : Given an XML string, create an instance of the…
Mar 26, 2003

I'm a Copy Cat

Just wanted to share this : I got the idea for the name of this blog by totally copying the cool idea of using the name of an interface . I got the idea from the naming of IUnknown . But I like the name. It pretty much…
Mar 26, 2003

Outlook bugs me

I find Outlook XP very annoying. Some of the Rules just don't work on arrived messages!! Most do, but some rules, especially ones applied on messages from a mailing list, just don't get moved to the specified folder.…
Mar 27, 2003

MSDN TV: AppSettings in ASP.NET

MSDN TV: AppSettings in ASP.NET ASP.NET provides an easy way to store common, global strings such as database connection strings. Quick Info File Name: 20030213ASPNETRH.EXE Download Size: 17233 KB Date Published:…
Mar 27, 2003

Design Patterns in C#

The data & object factory folks have a pretty cool list of design patterns all in C#. It looks like a comprehensive list drawn from the Gang of Four book . [ StronglyTyped ] Cool! The actual source for each pattern is…
Mar 27, 2003

ASP.NET + good news

Good news and bad news. the good news are that i got another 2 job interviews for next week. One on sunday for a small company for a position of a C# Team Leader on windows applications. The second one is next thursday…
Mar 27, 2003

Hit Count

I do wonder when will we be able to see the hit count for the blog(or for each post fo that matter..) although what we have so far is cool in it's own right ;) god speed, scott!
Mar 27, 2003

A thought

Is XML to applications (or distributed applications) like paper is to people??
Mar 30, 2003

Code Express - Freeware code sharing client

Code-Express released to the public! beta Code-Express has officially been released to the public. Code-Express is a service to help software developers go beyond their limits, and deliver a high-quality product to…
Mar 31, 2003

back

Sorry i havn't written in a while. Had lots to learn. will post shortly..
Mar 31, 2003

ASP.NET is cool + DataGrid Designer Tips

Forget my previous rants about ASP.NET. I was plain wrong. This stuff is cool ! I gave myself a little project : create a food ordering site for my company's intranet. Nothing fancy. but it should put me through all the…

.Net Original, Tips & Tricks
Mar 31, 2003

BlogShares.... rules..??

just found out i'm on BlogShares . and i'm valued at 206$. is that a good thing?
Mar 31, 2003

BlogShares.... rules..??

just found out i'm on BlogShares . and i'm valued at 206$. is that a good thing?
Mar 31, 2003

Err.. Is there a way to put custom HTML in the Blog Header

Just got this email: Dear Roy Osherove, You have laid a claim for ISerializable <http://www.blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=http://dotnetweblogs.com/Rosherove/> To complete your claim you need to display the following…
Mar 31, 2003

Bloody cool: Share Keyboard/Mouse between computers

Synergy -- Share Keyboard/Mouse between computers [Cool Tools] - Posted @ 12:39 pm : PermLink Synergy (GPL) With synergy, all the computers on your desktop form a single virtual screen. You use the mouse and keyboard of…

Cool Tools, Off Topic
Apr 2, 2003

Googlism

bill gates is satan' page bill gates is satan conspiracy theory bill gates is a satanic worshiper who uses microsoft to gain bill gates is richer than bill gates is the anti bill gates is getting bill gates is the anti…
Apr 2, 2003

An amazing Winforms FAQ

I just discovered this site, and plan to use it often! http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/WinForms/default.asp great job! Check out the very thorough DataGrid FAQ here: http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/WinForms/FAQ_c44c.asp
Apr 3, 2003

MSFT to compete with Google

"We do view Google more and more as a competitor. We believe that we can provide consumers with a better product and a better user experience. That's something that we're actively looking at doing," Bob Visse, director…
Apr 3, 2003

Avoiding DB_SEC_E_AUTH_FAILED exception on connection string

Thought I should share, since i could find almost no reference to this on the web... I came accross this weird message when trying to set the connection string on the connection object to point to an MDB file on my…
Apr 5, 2003

BBS, Telix And World Domination

I still remember the good ol' days when i used to sneak in to my step father's study in the middle of the night and use TELIX and connect to BBS's all over Israel. I was about 10 or 13..?. I rememebr the first time i…
Apr 5, 2003

Oops!

.net Weblogs Archive I missed a post for the last time... Ever saw a post about a day ago on the dotnetweblogs.com home page and then it dissapears and you have no idea who posted it? Wish that other bloggers showed on…
Apr 5, 2003

A Star Is Born (Emotional - That's me!)

I did it! My first print article has been published! I go down to B&N today and there is my article listed on the cover of . NET Developer's Journal . Sure enough, I turn to page 26 and after getting past my picture,…
Apr 6, 2003

Common uses for Regex parsing

Got this in my email today... Here are some nice examples of of parsing using Regex for some commonly used cases * IsValidEmail - Validating an E-mail Address http://archive.devx.com/devxpress/gurl.asp?i=1X2694710X75356…
Apr 7, 2003

Config Hell

I really don't see the reason for .config files to be read only at run time. Why should i have to create my own class to persist to the XML file, or worst, have a copy in memory of the values, since any changes I would…
Apr 7, 2003

Joining The BCL Types Wagon + Confession

Hmm. Ive been reading some of the latest posts discussing using BCL type names and not intrinsic language type name (i.e 'System.String' vs. 'string' etc.). I'll admit that up until now i have not used that philosophy…
Apr 7, 2003

Config Hell - continued

OK. I got several comments regarding the reasons for Config Files to be Read-Only. " The main reason for having config files read only, IMHO, is due to permissions issues. Applications are typically installed to Program…
Apr 10, 2003

The Next Best Thing After a User-Group: .Net WebCasts

Ever since i discovered WebCasts I have been a big fan. Microsoft has been doing Webcasts teaching pretty much anything about Microsoft Technology and specifically on .Net related issues for some time now, and they have…
Apr 10, 2003

Suggestion

First - The site is becoming better and better(I didn;t even know until a few minutes ago i can now delete my posts..!) Way to go! Here's something i think would be nice to have: On the DotNetWeblog.com site - For each…
Apr 10, 2003

Hell Shmell

Santo Replied on Config Hell : "My take on this issue is that config files are used by .NET for .NET - they threw us developers a bone with the appsettings, but that's about it. I totally understand the .NET designer's…
Apr 11, 2003

ASP.NET Encoding Tip from Scott Hanselman

Tip from Scott Hanselman If your life sucks so badly that you have to support Netscape 4.x, you might want to remember that Netscape 4 never handled Unicode/UTF-8 very well. Since UTF-8 is ASP.NET's default Response…

.Net Quotations, Tips & Tricks
Apr 11, 2003

Resolving Debugger Problems in VS.NET

The Article I posted about resolving debugger problems in VS.NET seems to be quite popular. Ive been getting hits from all over. Just in case you missed it and are stuck on something - Here's the link to it . Of course,…

.Net Original
Apr 11, 2003

Typed Datasets - Can You Get Much Cooler?

I'm currently developing a small winforms application for my company. It's really nothing fancy - just a data entry system connected to an Access database. In the old days, using VB6 i would have the following options…

.Net Original
Apr 11, 2003

I'm A Mort!

How's that ?

Off Topic
Apr 11, 2003

Developer Dawg

Woohoo ! Can you say "I Ported from VB6 to VB.Net And All I Got Was This Lousy Poster" ? p.s I'm kidding . it's not at all lousy. I'm proud( in a very geeky sort of way)

Off Topic
Apr 11, 2003

The Future of .NetWeblogs

Scott Posts a big dilemma about the future eco-system of .NetWeblogs. Here's what i think. The Editor idea sounds good . I'd register for the feed if it dealt solely with specifit .Net News. In fact, count me in as a…

Off Topic
Apr 11, 2003

.NetWeblogs home page ratings

Scott also wonders why the main RSS feed gets less ratings then some other blogs. I think if you make each blog template have a link to the main .NetWeblogs page (somewhere in the top left..?) it would be a big help.…

Off Topic
Apr 11, 2003

Tech Interview Puzzle Solutions

Ever had technical interview for a job and you were asked to solve a puzzle or write an algorithm? Did you fail? Here's a cool site with answers to the most common tech interview questions - contributed by the public.…

Off Topic
Apr 12, 2003

Introduction to Typed Datasets

Note: This is part 1 of 3 articles on this subject: Part 2 - Typed Datasets Are Not Always The Answer Part 3 - Oops! Typed Datasets ARE scalable! I'm currently developing a small winforms application for my company.…

Typed Datasets
Apr 12, 2003

DNWL future continued

Scott cleared up some stuff about his last post regarding the future of DNWL. I agree with everything he says in there. I still think you should read my worries and considerations in an earlier post here . As before - I…

Off Topic
Apr 12, 2003

Article: Introduction to Typed Datasets

I put my post on Introduction to Typed Datasets as a story . Thought it can be of help.
Apr 14, 2003

Enter the Matrix

Check out the review and the making of the Matrix Reloaded Special effects. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/matrix2_pr.html

Off Topic
Apr 15, 2003

Need a bigger wallet (+stuffing)

Man,I need more money. My wish list is just gettting bigger and bigger! Any more suggestions to it will be welcome!

Off Topic
Apr 15, 2003

Debugging Problem

I got this comment about debugging Web Services: " I am trying to debug a C# application and when I step into a web serivce all of the breakpoints stop working. Can you help? Scott " I can't. can you? I'll post the…

.Net Original
Apr 15, 2003

Categories

OK. I've decided to create categories for my posts. Hopefully this should help out abit in ScottW's Great cause to help bring down the Noise Ratio. I'll probably play around with the categoy names for a while and add…

Off Topic
Apr 16, 2003

File I/O Support In Transactions

I was recently at a lecture concerning .Net and COM+. Wow. COM+ is really powerful. I never got the chance to work with it on any of the projects I have created, but I did play with it here and there. I never knew there…

.Net Original
Apr 16, 2003

CLR tips gold mine detected

I just saw Chris Brumme's blog . Wow! Judging by the timestamps on the entries, he's either got a voice interface for dictating posts into his blog or he was sitting on a gold mine of CLR tips waiting for an outlet. I'm…

.Net Quotations
Apr 17, 2003

Why do I state my accent?

I was having this thought as i was going through some blog. As I was reading it, in my head i kept picturing the guy that was writing this, speaking out the words i was reading. He Had an amarican accent. Actually,…
Apr 17, 2003

Mean Machine

It's been a couple of days without blogging. I got my new machine into the house and was waaay to busy at work to install everything properly and moving stuff from the old machine. It's a beauty : 2.2 AMD Athelon XP…

Off Topic
Apr 17, 2003

Accented Blogging

I was having this thought as i was going through some blog. As I was reading it, in my head i kept picturing the guy that was writing this, speaking out the words i was reading. He Had an amarican accent. Actually,…

Off Topic
Apr 27, 2003

Where was I?

OK. Havn't been here a while due to some pressure at work. Hopefully i'll have more time now.

Off Topic
Apr 27, 2003

I Got It!

Woohoo! Guess what I found in my mailbox today? I'll give you a hint: Thanks Keith :)

Off Topic
Apr 27, 2003

Windows Server 2003 Rocks

I've installed on my new machine Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. It totally rocks. The interface is great and it runs faster then XP! I can't seem to get my Direct3D on the dxdiag console to work though...(so…

Off Topic
Apr 27, 2003

Regular Expressions And Log Parsing

My company needs a small utility to parse log files generated by some of the speech engines we are using in our products. They generate old-style ASCII log files that are easy to read but cumbersome to parse. I started…

.Net Original
Apr 27, 2003

Envy - Cursed be thy name!

Is it okay to envy Chris Sells on his post ? It should be. Would anyone not want to work for a company that cherishes its employees as much as MSFT? Hell - I'd work there as QA just to get started (Although i hear…

Off Topic
Apr 27, 2003

Document: Threats and Countermeasures for Windows Server 2003

Microsoft just release a killer doc on Threats and Countermeasures for Windows Server 2003 . [via Early&Adopter ]

Off Topic
Apr 27, 2003

Windows Server 2003 Editions Compared

This Page contains a very good table of differences between Windows 2003 Server editions. Very nice! I was wondering about some of this stuff.. Thanks to Early&Adopter for the link.

Off Topic
Apr 27, 2003

More Debugger Problems: aspnet_regiis does not work on Windows 2003 Server

I've added the following solution to the Resolving Debugger Problems Article: aspnet_regiis does not work on windows 2003 server: Solution: "you can work around it by setting the identity of the application pool (app…

.Net Original
Apr 27, 2003

Microsoft's Smart Devices Developer Community

Microsoft's Smart Devices Developer Community There hasn't been a lot of information posted about the new Smart Devices Developer Community yet, so I thought I'd see how well the word spreads if I mention it here.…

.Net Quotations
Apr 27, 2003

Not Your Father's Peer Review

Tomorrow we're reviewing our progress with Bill Gates in what's known (and feared/dreaded by some) as a 'BillG Review'. A BillG review usually consists of 2 hours with the top executives from various teams, e.g.…

Off Topic
Apr 27, 2003

How to convert your Windows Server 2003 to a...

This Page has a very complete guide on tweaking Windows Server 2003 into excactly what you want it to be. Very nice! Thanks to Marc LaFleur for this link.

Off Topic
Apr 28, 2003

MetaWebLog API rules

Coolness!! i like blogging from newzcrawler! -- Composed with Newz Crawler 1.4 http://www.newzcrawler.com/

.NetWeblogs Site, Off Topic
Apr 28, 2003

Testing from w.blogger

Hmm - I like w.blogger - it's pretty cool. Can;t seem to get the Category thing working though.. any thoughts?

.NetWeblogs Site, Off Topic
Apr 28, 2003

Kudos for Scott

Kudos for Scott for all the wonderful new additions to the site. The new Post Editor is real slick (no more scrolling for formatting - woohoo!) The new MetaWeblog feature is pretty darn cool (I know, I know - i use way…

.NetWeblogs Site, Off Topic
Apr 28, 2003

ASP.NET Authentication Question + Answer

I can't seem to find an answer to this: Is it possible to use the tag in web.config to allow some of the pages in your site to be non-secure, meaning users can browse them without being redirected to the login page?…

.Net Original
Apr 29, 2003

Build Your Own Research Library with Office 2003 and the Google Web Service API

"An article just popped up on the main msdn page, "Build Your Own Research Library with Office 2003 and the Google Web Service API" . The Office beta gets more interesting every day . Basically, its possible to consume…

.Net Quotations, Off Topic
Apr 29, 2003

Enterprise Instrumentation Framework Released

" With absolutely no fanfare, Enterprise Instrumentation Framework has released. EIF lets you instrument your applications with tracing information that's meant to be left in while the application is in production.…

.Net Quotations
Apr 29, 2003

A Quick VS.NET Tweak

Don points a way to make VS.NET associated files load into the open instance of VS.NET instead of spawning a new instance every time thus saving precious load times. Sweet. Cumbersome, but sweet :) I should figure out a…

.Net Quotations, Tips & Tricks
Apr 30, 2003

Advanced Dataset Helper Classes

While Trying to help my wife find material regarding dynamically creating tables at runtime, I stumbled across a very nice group of articles , All about Dataset helper Classes doinf various cool things with the dataset.…

.Net Original
Apr 30, 2003

A VS.NET 2003 Registry Tweaker Don Could Use

Since Don was writing on how you can tweak the registry in order to be able to ShellExecute VS.NET associated files into an open instance of VS.NET(instead of a new one each time), I decided to take the 'challenge' and…

.Net Original, Tips & Tricks
May 1, 2003

More VS.NET Tips & Tricks

For you keyboard junkies out there: Cut the current line - CTRL+L (Saves you that 'long' HOME,SHIFT+END,CTRL+X) Delete the current line - CTRL+SHIFT+L (Saves you that 'long' HOME,SHIFT+END,DEL) Move to the closing or…

.Net Original, Tips & Tricks
May 1, 2003

How to Pass A Microsoft Interview - SDE/T Edition

I was going through Chris Sell's Posts about Microsoft interviews and was amazed at the amount of interest these have generated. Quite frankly, I was intrigued as well. I do wonder what its like - being there. Those…

Off Topic
May 1, 2003

I Couldn't Help Myself

A 'bit' off topic, but I could not help myself : Here's the SellsBrothers team looking more natural. Beaverton, OR Saturday, April 12, 2003 [via Chris Sells ] I see now why he has been assimilated : You don't let go of…

Off Topic
May 1, 2003

More About Yukon?

Some amazing stuff can be found in this pdf article . I wonder when we'll see them come to life. From what I can tell/heared the Yukon release would integrate some if not all of this stuff in one way or another. I did…

.Net Quotations
May 1, 2003

NUnitASP

Got this also from the win_tech_off_topic list: Here's something that looks really promising: NUnitASP . Since i'm currently not doing ASP.NET development, I can't really test it thoroughly, But if it's half as…

.Net Quotations
May 1, 2003

EchoStream Class

This Very nice EchoStream class that lets you map two stream object in which you read into one stream, and the input to that stream is automatically written to the other. It can also do the same for writing - Writing to…

.Net Original
May 1, 2003

Shared Memory Wrapper

Rich has written a shared memory wrapper for .NET. It looks pretty handy. Here's his description : I've created a wrapper for named shared memory that was part of a larger project. It basically allows serialized types…

.Net Quotations
May 1, 2003

The Mouse I Want(And So Will You)

This looks cool and I want one. [via Craig ] This is one of the coolest things i have ever seen!!! Take a look: [From the site:] The iGesture Pad is an ultra-thin, large-area, superduper touchpad that is both mouse and…

Off Topic
May 1, 2003

What Am I Missing?

Is it just me , or does the Windows Media Player 9 Fun Pack not install on windows server 2003 claiming it "Requires Windows XP" to install??

Off Topic
May 3, 2003

Books I Own

Here are the technology books I currently own: .Net: Design: VB: Ready to tun VB Algorithms Programming: Code Complete
May 4, 2003

Typed Datasets Are Not Always The Answer

I've recently recieved an enail regarding my article about typed-datasets . It posed an interesting question as to when one would use typed datasets and on what types of projects. I'm posting it and my reply. Hi Roy, I…

.Net Original
May 4, 2003

Wow

The New Administration Page looks Great!

.NetWeblogs Site
May 4, 2003

Typed Datasets Are Not Always The Answer

Note: This is part 2 of 3 articles on this subject: Part 1 - Introduction to Typed Datasets Part 3 - Oops! Typed Datasets ARE scalable! I've recently recieved an email regarding my article about typed-datasets . It…

Typed Datasets
May 4, 2003

Blue Bricks

Great Interview with Michael Stuart on .Net Rocks Show . He's the main guy behind the Microsoft Application Blocks (Data Access, Exception Managent) and he talks about the future blocks (named 'blue bricks') that will…

.Net Original
May 4, 2003

Blue Bricks

Great Interview with Michael Stuart on .Net Rocks Show . He's the main guy behind the Microsoft Application Blocks (Data Access, Exception Managent) and he talks about the future blocks (named 'blue bricks') that will…

.Net Original
May 5, 2003

OneNote Is Cool But...

I've been trying out OneNote (And the whole Office 2003 Packge for that matter) for the last couple of days. It's cool. It's Hip. It.... can't share notes with outlook. The only way to do this is by enailing the notes…

Off Topic
May 5, 2003

DataSets, Web Services, DiffGrams, Arrays, and Interoperability

Here's a good article on MSDN : DataSets, Web Services, DiffGrams, Arrays, and Interoperability . "Summary: Matt Powell examines the issues involved in deciding whether to send DataSets to and from Web services, while…

.Net Original
May 5, 2003

MSDN staff

" Matt Powell is the lead Content Strategist for the MSDN XML Web Services Developer Center . Besides writing numerous articles for MSDN, various magazines, and co-authoring Running Microsoft Internet Information Server…

Off Topic
May 5, 2003

Enough with the w.blogger garbage posts already

Ahhrgh! Enough w.Blogger Testing :( Use something meaningful for testing purposes. Write down the post you want to write in notepad or something, and then copy and paste it into w.blogger. This way , if the test works ,…

.NetWeblogs Site
May 5, 2003

VS.Net Tips & Tricks Category Is Up

OK. I just put up a post category for "VS.Net Tips & Tricks" so you keyboard junkies out there can save yourself some time looking. Here's the door . Contributions are more then welcome.

Off Topic
May 5, 2003

Nice [Off Topic] Article

Neo's just an early adopter . I wonder if he's tried out Windows Server 2003 yet. [Posted By Robert McLaws ]

Off Topic
May 5, 2003

Gotta Love BlogShares FAQ

I like the idea of BlogShares . I'm even listed. But you gotta love their FAQ : " 1. Isn't this just a popularity contest where the people with the popular blogs win? No answer has been given to this question. 2. What…

Off Topic
May 5, 2003

Oops! Typed Datasets ARE scalable!

I was wrong about typed datasets. I see the light now, but i was wrong before . The conclusion I came to was that Typed Datasets can be used in an enterprise application. The reason I thought this was a problem had to…

.Net Original
May 5, 2003

Oops! Typed Datasets ARE scalable!

Note: This is part 3 of 3 articles on this subject: Part 1 - Introduction to Typed Datasets Part 2 - Typed Datasets Are Not Always The Answer Part 3 - Oops! Typed Datasets ARE scalable! I was wrong about typed datasets.…

Typed Datasets
May 5, 2003

More On UIP Blue Bricks

After his interview , Michael Stuart (Senior Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services and responsible for the Microsoft Application Blocks) has released more information about UIP (User Interface Process). A…

.Net Quotations
May 6, 2003

Free Book: Software Testing and Internationalization

"Dear colleague, LISA, in collaboration with Lemoine International has made "Software Testing and Internationalization" by Galileo Computing freely available for download. This book will transform how you view testing…

Off Topic
May 6, 2003

Regular Expression Library

This looks like a very good regular expression repository Update: Darren Neimke Says: " Check out the new CheatSheet that Steve added last night --> get to it via the CheatSheet link on the side menu. " I agree. It's…

.Net Original
May 6, 2003

Hacking My Blog

I just realized that I can put pure HTML inside my link names and story names, meaning I can now decorate my blog with some small icons and IMG stuff. Check it out and tell me what you think

.NetWeblogs Site
May 6, 2003

KlipFolio

This has a high 'cool' potential Even more so when you consider it has its own RSS/RDF Feed plugin available. (Thanks Scoble )

Cool Tools, Off Topic
May 6, 2003

Chris Pirillo Sells His Mind

Chris Pirillo annonced he will now charge you for his tech expertise in answering tech support questions . Since Chris is quite the Tech guru on such a vast number of subjects I can definitely see that happening, but…

Blogging, Off Topic
May 6, 2003

UI Threading *Might* Suck

This article clearly explains the troubles needed to go through in order to interact with a Winforms UI from a background thread. I found it when I started stumbling around with my own UI, having long operations…

.Net Original
May 6, 2003

A Solid Text Editor

After playing with it myself a bit, this text editor seems to have everything I ever wanted in a text editor (And some stuff I didn't think I needed, but did!) including all the keyboard junkie options I dig. Everything…

Cool Tools, Off Topic
May 7, 2003

Another Free Book

Microsoft offers a free book here : Application Architecture for .NET: Designing Applications and Services . [Thanks to Samer Ibrahim for the link] Unfortunately, Only US addresses are allowed, so me being in Israel is…

.Net Quotations, Free book chapters
May 8, 2003

How Access 2003 Helped Me Out

Kudos to MSFT for the latest installation of Office. Overall, Office 2003 beta is one great product. Outlook , being the main attraction for me for office use, is much more usable then it was before, with numerous…

.Net Original, Tips & Tricks
May 8, 2003

3D Cynicism

"(Not that databases aren't interesting of course. Nothing beats violating a FK-constraint at 9:00 AM)" [ Frans Bouma 's post about C# and OpenGL]

.Net Quotations
May 8, 2003

Dan Appleman Has A New EBook (With A Warning)

" Hijacking .NET Vol 1: Role Based Security by Dan Appleman Hijacking .NET is today's equivalent of using undocumented Windows API functions. Except that not only are the functions under discussion undocumented, they…

.Net Quotations
May 8, 2003

Geeky .NET Desktop Wallpapers

Let everyone know what a geek you are. http://www.irritatedvowel.com/Wallpaper/Thumbnails.aspx?Category=57ff92e3-b57d-438a-b3ba-1d9d2fe5ec66 [via James Avery ]

.Net Quotations, Off Topic
May 8, 2003

TechEd Israel Report

Yosi Taguri Was one of the speakers in TechEd Israel that just closed these days. He posted a report about all 3 days of the conference, including an 'intersting' take on the what it takes to calm down before a…

.Net Quotations
May 8, 2003

Serious Hotmail Vulnerability: Easily Reset Anyone's Password

If you havn't heard yet, A 'bug' was discovered in Microsoft's Hotmail service which would basically allow you, using a simple typing of a URL to your explorer bar, to reset the password of any HotMail User you'd like.…

Off Topic
May 8, 2003

More About Using Undocumented API's

Jimski Replied to my Post which discourages the use of undocumented API's. Among other things he mentions that if you test it thoroughly enough , You can get away with it and it will be just like you use regular API's.…

.Net Original
May 8, 2003

Dr. GUI Has A Blog (E-I-E-I-O)

Dr. GUI (From MSDN) now has a Blog . Should be quite a treat. Gotta love a blogger that talks about himself in Third Person... ;) Thanks For the info, Chris.

.Net Quotations
May 8, 2003

.NetWebLogs Forums

Scott Posted that we now have Forums here on .NetWeblogs. That is so cool. This place is really starting to feel like a real community. I personally feel much more "a part of something" and am happy to interact with the…

.NetWeblogs Site
May 8, 2003

System Tweaks & Tricks

Some cool system tweaks and tricks can be found here . Here's the list: (I've highlighted the ones I liked) Unschedule a chkdsk Open Registry Explorer with a folder tree by default Customize shell icons Disable all…

Tips & Tricks
May 8, 2003

A Better RegEdit

Here's a cool freeware that made my life easier: Registry Explorer If the link doeasn't work for ya, Here's the D/L link at download.com Just install it and voila! you get a "registry" root inside windows explorer and…

Cool Tools, Tips & Tricks
May 8, 2003

Mort: Definition

" Mort " is the nickname that C++,C# and MC++ developers at Microsoft gave to Visual Basic 6.0 developers who intend to move into .Net development using VB.NET. See this , and that . Some more info will be posted as…
May 8, 2003

The Unofficial "Mort" Logo Is Available

OK. It might be ugly, but here is my logo for being a "Mort": . I've put it in my "News" category. If you think you can do better at the graphics side, send it to me and I'll change it. It is linked to a story that…

.NetWeblogs Site, Off Topic
May 9, 2003

Something to keep your mind busy on the weekend

Frans posts an interesting observation on the current problems with relational database, and possible futuristic ways of dealing with them. A tough read, but insightful. Some of the things I've always taken for granted…

.Net Quotations
May 9, 2003

Welcome Philip , Interviews, "as" Vs. Casting

Philip Rieck has joined our ranks. Welcome,Philip! I don't know him personally, but his first post here pointed to his previous blog, in which I've found a nice post . It talks about interviewing programmers, and has a…

.Net Quotations, .NetWeblogs Site
May 9, 2003

The (Almost) Official .Net Tools List Gets An Upgrade

If you haven't checked it out yet, Fabrice's list of .Net companion tools is starting to achive its status as the "Download.Com" of .Net developers. Now you can get updates on it via these RSS feeds . Way to go!

.Net Quotations, Cool Tools
May 9, 2003

Production Debugging for .NET Framework Applications

If you'd like to know the "why" as well as the"how" to fix debugging VS.NET debugging problems this MSDN Patterns & Practices book chapter makes for an interesting read: Production Debugging for .NET Framework…

.Net Quotations
May 9, 2003

Windows Server 2003 for Developers

A little slow to catch up, but here's a must-read for any .Net developer: Windows Server 2003 for Developers By Early & Adoper

.Net Quotations
May 9, 2003

Enlightenment

If your blog doesn't have a page piews counter yet, I suggest getting one.At least until we get page view statistics from Scott(hopefully, RSS feed statistics as well). It's a masochistic an addictively enlightening…

.NetWeblogs Site, Blogging
May 9, 2003

What's On My Bookshelf

I always like to see what other people are reading so I'll share my own list. I'm probably missing a few, but I'll update as needed. I'll also put this on my "about" zone as a story. .Net Advanced .Net Remoting ASP.NET…

Off Topic
May 9, 2003

My Bookshelf

Books I want//Book of the month : .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library, 1/e Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET Writing Secure Code,…

Other
May 9, 2003

.Net Coding Conventions

A friend asked me some time ago whether I have any good document regarding coding conventions and guidlines for C# and overall .Net programming. I didn't have an answer then so I handed them the document I compiled from…

.Net Quotations
May 10, 2003

Mort Banner - Revised

OK. Here's the new Mort Banner, courtesy of Dan . (Click on the banner to learn what's a mort) Hey, maybe now people will actally use it! :)

.NetWeblogs Site
May 10, 2003

Weird

I have no idea why this site exists

Off Topic
May 10, 2003

Blog Junkie

How's this for a blog junkie's start page? He also has an interesting blog . Another thing : This guy gives a very good example of how to expose your portfolio to potential employers . Here . Very slick.

Off Topic
May 10, 2003

Writing Articles Is Hard!

I'm currently in the process of trying to write an article to be posted on my blog. Its on a bigger scale than the others I already have posted before, and I must admint it's a bigger task than I imagined. One of the…

Off Topic
May 10, 2003

How To Lose Your Job (Unless you are Don)

Don points to the Microsoft Reaserch Downloads site . Now here's a place to spend a week or two....

Cool Tools, Off Topic
May 10, 2003

How I Learn New Technologies

As the years go by, I seem to understand better and better how my learning process works. When it comes to new technology, I seem to be a “ circle thinker ”. When I try to learn something, I do it in stages. I don’t…

.Net Original, Off Topic
May 10, 2003

Retro Games

Here's a retro: Tech TV's "The Screen Savers" have a list of their f avorite Graphically challenged games . Some good ones there, but i especially liked this [text based] one: " The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The…

Off Topic
May 10, 2003

InnovaSys SmartTasks Beta Download Available

I requested and got permission to post the following beta material. Being a fond user of some of their other products, I'm posting this. You are all welcome to download and try it out. have fun :) From what I've tried…

Cool Tools, Off Topic
May 11, 2003

Mind Rates

Duncan Replies to my post about Chris Pirillo: " I need some work done, whether that is easy or hard for the person I hire isn't relevant... and if they answer my question too quickly that certainly shouldn't be a…

Blogging, Off Topic
May 11, 2003

Why Good Design Comes from Bad Design

Found a very nice piece: Why Good Design Comes from Bad Design By Scott Berkun . Good stuff.

Off Topic
May 11, 2003

Introduction To Regular Expressions

Introduction to regular expressions Note: This is part 1 of a series of articles: Part 2 - Practical Parsing Using Groups in Regular Expressions What will be covered In this article I’ll demonstrate the use of the…

Regular Expressions
May 11, 2003

Introduction To Regular Expressions

I just added a new article: Introduction To Regular Expressions Have fun.

.Net Original
May 11, 2003

Free Book Chapters

Lots of free book chapters here about All things .Net (most are beginner material, but there are some gems)

.Net Original
May 11, 2003

Geek Book

Isn't this the geekiest book cover you have ever seen? :)

Off Topic
May 11, 2003

Expresso Is Coolness

The more I play with it, the more I learn new stuff. Expresso is a really neat Regular Expression tool.

Cool Tools
May 11, 2003

Return of ...

The Iraqi Blogger has started Blogging again...

Off Topic
May 11, 2003

I'm Available

I'm currently available for job offers. The job description may be any of the following: Consulting on projects Teaching Test driven development techniques Lead C# /VB.Net developer Junior C#/VB.Net developer Part/Full…
May 11, 2003

I'm Available

OK. I've decided to make myself available to job offers. Here's your chance to grab me while I'm still young and underpaid... ;)

Off Topic
May 12, 2003

A Spoiler

I wouldn't dream of tuning in to this before seeing the movie, but if you just can't hold yourself.... " Not much going on today so I thought I'd bring you this piece of news that I saw on Warp2search . Countingdown.com…

Off Topic
May 12, 2003

Scoble About MS Interviews

It's always a good idea to read Scoble Once a day. You nenver know what might happen... . In this post he talks about how he relaxed before his own interview , plus some helpful tips. This is just the state of mind I'm…

Off Topic
May 12, 2003

Windows Longhorn 3D UI - short videos

Here are some short media clips (.rm) showing the Windows Longhorn 3D UI in action. Cool stuff, though I don't know why I would still use notepad than... Thanks to Scoble for the link

Off Topic
May 12, 2003

Blindfolded

Here's something I couldn't figure out: Did you know that Regedit has a "Favories" menu? Yes. That good ol' (hateful, conniving) regedit we all "love". I only realized this a few days ago, thanks to a comment from David…

Cool Tools, Off Topic
May 12, 2003

Spammer Tactics

A thought provoking and kinda scary post about Spam and Anti-Spam tactics and the brilliance of SpamBayes Addin for outlook and how its tactics compare with SpamAssassin. Very good stuff. One example of a deceptive spam…

Off Topic
May 12, 2003

About Design Patterns

Christopher posted about " Design Patterns Explained ". Having been down that road myself (and so has any developer that learned this stuff at one time or another) I can only congratulate you on a good decision. Some…

.Net Original
May 12, 2003

Implementing A Data Layer

Ted Posts about ways to implement a Data Layer. I never liked Data Layer generators myself. They never actually did a good job. I fear I've become a sort of "Generator-Bigot" because of my past experiences with them. In…

.Net Original
May 12, 2003

More Books On My Shelf

I forgot to put some books on the “ My Bookshelf ” link. Here they are: VB C++ For VB Programmers Developing COM/ActiveX Controls using Visual Basic Project Management Managing Software Requirements AntiPatterns…

.Net Original
May 12, 2003

Practical Parsing Using Groups in Regular Expressions

Practical Parsing Using Groups in Regular Expressions note: This article is part 2 in a series of articles. Here are the rest: Introduction To Regular Expressions What we’ll cover: The Purpose and syntax of groups in…

Regular Expressions
May 12, 2003

New Article: Practical Parsing Using Groups in Regular Expressions

Hi Folks. here's my latest article: Practical Parsing Using Groups in Regular Expressions Have fun :)

.Net Original
May 12, 2003

June Is Officially here

Need I say more?

.Net Original
May 13, 2003

MSDN Hands-On Labs

Introducing MSDN Online Hands-On Labs MSDN offers you new interactive content on a trial basis from May 19 to June 13. Three free labs are being made available that can help you enhance your skills with Visual Studio…

.Net Quotations
May 13, 2003

Strip HTML tags from a string using regular expressions

Paschal asked me to find a simple solution for stripping HTML tags from a given string using Regular expressions. The solution is quite simple: 1. Retrieve all the HTML tags using this pattern: <(.|\n)*?> 2. Replace…

.Net Original
May 13, 2003

Expression Boy

Following the footsteps of DataGrid Girl, should I call myself " Regex Roy "..? ;) P.S Speaking of Trillian, here's my ICQ - 1782510 (If I seem offline, tell me. I've been having some problems with this lately..)

Off Topic
May 14, 2003

A Long Day!

Arrgh! It's been a hell of a long day! Imagine going 7:45 - 20:15 head to head with something that you thought you could do in an hour! I'll post heavily on it later (And a rant about .Net as well) but for now I'll just…

.Net Original
May 14, 2003

About Design

Alan Cooper says (Among others) that good GUI design is not necessarily referring to software. A good design shows in usability and practicality. For example, Here's an alarm clock similar to the alarm clock we have…

Off Topic
May 15, 2003

On another note...

Finally, a windows release that works

Off Topic
May 15, 2003

System.Text.Encoding.Tip

I learned this the hard way, so you don't have to. This applies to anyone who is going to be using System.IO to read ANSI files that combine Hebrew And English mixed inside. Now, when I attempted to do this, I used the…

.Net Original
May 15, 2003

Shortcuts: Object Search and Toolbox Magic

Some more shortcuts I've learned: ALT+F12 - Open the "Object Search" window CTRL-ALT-X - Open the Toolbox window CTRL-Up/Down - With the toolbox window open, Navigate between the different Toolbox panes (Useful for…

Tips & Tricks
May 15, 2003

One Cool Menu

SharpLibrary rocks. Get it here .

.Net Quotations, Cool Tools
May 15, 2003

Please don't spoil it for us

Guys. Please don't post any spoilers about the new Matrix. It just ruins it for the rest of us who get to see it only on the 22'nd :( Once you post these things, I just can't help but reading them... c'mon. There's…

Off Topic
May 15, 2003

Blog style change

OK. I've changed the CSS style of the blog. Although I liked the layout of the old one, I had a real problem with its lack of seperation between different posts. The current style has HR's between them, so everything…

.NetWeblogs Site
May 17, 2003

UI Threading Helper Classes

UI Threading Helper Classes ( Download the code ) One of the most cumbersome things you will ever have to do with Winforms is updating your User interface while receiving events from another thread. For example, you…
May 17, 2003

UI Threading Helper Classes

Following up on my post about how UI threading sucks , and Julie's post about the subject (Julie or Julia? which is it?), I've decided to create some helper classes for working with UI threads. Meet UIThreadHandler and…

.Net Original
May 18, 2003

FeedDemon

FeedDemon looks like a dream RSS reader. It's from the same guy who created HomeSite and TopStyle Pro, so it should be a real treat! The screenshots are mouth watering... (Thanks to Pirillo for the link)

Cool Tools
May 18, 2003

When Blogs Go Commercial

Hmm.. Reading through Chris Pirillo's Brain-Trust initiative I must say - This is a pretty smart idea! However, one thing I don't understand: Here's one of the testimonials from that page: "Just wanted to let you know…

Blogging, Off Topic
May 19, 2003

Editor's Choice Awards

OK, I give up. UltraEdit is the best Text editor I've used. The only thing missing from it (that exists in most other editors) is the ability to press ALT and then select text using Block mode. No.You have to enter…

Cool Tools
May 19, 2003

About Productivity

Although I've been working for quite some time now as a developer, with several companies and developer teams, I am still amazed at how un-productive some developers can be. As a developer, I always feel I need to know…

Cool Tools, Off Topic, Tips & Tricks
May 19, 2003

The Star Wars - Kid Gets An Upgrade

Guilty about laughing at a geeky teenager whose private video has been downloaded millions of times off the Net, a pair of webloggers is raising money for the young man they call the 'Star Wars Kid.' By Leander Kahney.…

Off Topic
May 19, 2003

Articles, Articles, Articles!

Want something to read? Go here and just press the "Go" button.

.Net Original, Cool Articles
May 19, 2003

I Was Naked

SharpReader rocks! I was running naked for a while(i.e. - No RSS reader - just a browser) and putting my rss-reader back on feels nice and fuzzy.

Cool Tools
May 19, 2003

Ingo Rocks Too

Ooh! Ingo Rammer is on . Net Rocks !

.Net Original
May 20, 2003

UI Threading - A Very Simple Solution

God loves the simple solutions. It turns out that there is a really simple solution to the problem of working with UI threads.Much simpler then mine . I was given this simple pattern by a guy on the win_tech_off_topic…

.Net Original, Tips & Tricks
May 20, 2003

I'm In!

Woohoo! I just got an invitation to see the Matrix-Reloaded on the 27th from Microsoft :) It seems that , for some reason, I'm on their database listings.Cool! I do wonder where from... maybe a conference I attended or…

Off Topic
May 21, 2003

Assorted News

Comparison Tool : Beyond Compare is the comparison tool I've used. Araxis Merge 2001 is light years behind in functionality (Although has better UI) Matrix Invitations : If you still haven’t gotten those Matrix…

Cool Tools, Off Topic
May 21, 2003

The Books I Really Really Want

<Alert>Yes, I am an Amazon affiliate</Alert> How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers .NET Security Essential .NET, Volume I:…

.Net Original
May 23, 2003

CodeSmith goes out to the wild

This is great news! Codesmith is one of the coolest and most time saving tools around.

Cool Tools
May 23, 2003

VB6 is not dead, so you'll need this tool

My guess is there is going to be a LOT of VB6'ers around for a long time. I know I'll be doing maintenance on my old VB6 programs for as long as needed. In case you’re in this category, I recommend using CodeSmart 2001…

Cool Tools
May 23, 2003

The Right People For The Right Job

I recently met with a friend of mine, also a programmer. After sharing the usual “war stories” he mentioned some things about his project manager/Team Leader that made us both go into a long conversation about IT roles…

Off Topic
May 24, 2003

Random Thought

"If the people in the matrix live in the future, and they have all this technology to plug in to the matrix, why do they still have to plug in those cables into the back of their heads? don't they have wireless…

Off Topic
May 25, 2003

Work, work, work....

Sorry I've been out for a few days, but work duties call, and I must finish a small project. Nevertheless, I'm working on an article concerning building applications that support custom plugins. Of course, you'll be the…

Off Topic
May 26, 2003

Strong Vs. Loose Typing/Loose binding

Ted Neward writes about the differences between Loose-Coupling, Loose-Typing, and Loose-Binding. Well, that's just the beginning. He starts off a discussion about which might be better for which tasks, the coding of GUI…

.Net Original
May 26, 2003

Microsoft Internet Controls Life Saver

If you're going to be using the Microsoft Internet Controls (i.e. "ShwDocVw") in your application, this article is a life saver . Lots of hidden treasures that we absolutly needed . Cool. Gotta love Sample book chapters…

.Net Original
May 26, 2003

Dynamic Invocation with Reflection.Emit

Reflection is just one of the areas I'd ilke to explore more of. This article is just one of the reasons I find this area cooler than most : Dynamic Invocation with Reflection.Emit . It shows you howe to create a method…

.Net Quotations
May 26, 2003

Envy

Chris sells writes about his first month at Microsoft and makes me envious all over again.. Among other things, he talks about the role of program managers at MS. The culture there is amazing to me.

Off Topic
May 26, 2003

.Net Debugging Resources

Note: If you think something is missing don't hesitate and drop a comment. Articles: Debugging Articles on MSDN Debugging in Visual Basic .NET Ten Steps to Successful Debugging (in ASP.NET) How to debug script in Visual…

Other
May 26, 2003

.Net Debugging Resources

I've put up a resource link to all things relating to .Net debugging: .Net Debugging Resources Eventually it should grow up to become something usable, but right now I only have a couple of links in there. Please…

.Net Original
May 26, 2003

UML Tutorial

A friend asked for a good UML tutorial for beginners, so I pointed him to this one .

Off Topic
May 26, 2003

LinkedIn

I've discovered LinkedIn. Seems like a cool way to network. Since it's free Currently in Beta and thus - free, I recommend you join it. If you think I'm worthy, you can add me as a connection :) I've already sent a…

Off Topic
May 27, 2003

BlogWear

[Russell Beattie]

Blogging, Off Topic
May 27, 2003

Good Stuff

Good stuff over at Mike Woodring's .Net Samples Page . Here are just the headlines: Remoting and Sockets Reflection Threading and Synchronization Assemblies Security Configuration Context Miscellaneous

.Net Quotations
May 27, 2003

Add run-time functionality to your application by providing a plug-in mechanism

· Download source files - 102 Kb · Download demo project - 10 Kb Issues covered: o Using the Activator Class o Using custom configuration sections by implementing IConfigurationSectionHandler o Designing a simple…

Reflection
May 27, 2003

New Article: Extend Your Application With Custom Plugins

My latest article deals with the design and implementation of a simple architecture to allow creating applications that can be extended via custom plug-ins. Add run-time functionality to your application by providing a…

.Net Original
May 27, 2003

PeopleWare

I've been reading Demarco and Lister's PeopleWare again. It awes me every time I read it, the amount of insight in this book. Reading it 3 years ago totally changed my point of view on a lot of things, and I never…

Off Topic
May 28, 2003

About Dynamic Plug-in Discovery And AppDomains

I've gotten several comments on my Plug-ins article which was published both here and on CodeProject . One of them mentions the obvious missing feature for a plugin architecture - Dynamically discovering plugins without…

.Net Original
May 28, 2003

.Net Developer Journal May Issue PDF download

The May Issue of .Net Developer Journal is here , and you can download the whole paper in PDF (5.x Megs) right here . (Free) Coolness... I don't know how it is in your company, but in mine we have almost no magazine…

.Net Original
May 28, 2003

Create More Readable Code By Interface Prefixes

Here's something that might help write more readable code: When defining a class that implements an interface, instead of just declaring the interface overrides like so: public class MyCustomHandler :…

.Net Original
May 28, 2003

Performance Tuning and Optimizing ASP.NET Application

Just found out this book was recently published: Performance Tuning and Optimizing ASP.NET Application I know my wife, Tal, could use it in her project....

.Net Original
May 28, 2003

SP/Invoke -- Stored Procedure Invocation Code Generator for VB, C# and JScript.NET

" SP/Invoke generates code to allow C#, VB or JScript.NET programmers to invoke SQL Server stored procedures as if they were static methods on CLR classes. Posted on the Code Project. Created by Simon Wilson." [via…

.Net Quotations, Cool Tools
May 28, 2003

Paper Prototyping

Joel On Software rants about prototypes , and recommeds this book: Paper Prototyping

.Net Quotations
May 29, 2003

Lots of shell shortcuts

Lots of Shell shortcuts (definitive guide?) can be found here: http://orbital.encapsule.com/resources/howto/windows-howto/cellitemwrapper0001.htm Keyboard junkie - yes I am.

Tips & Tricks
May 29, 2003

About Blogging Etiquette and Inline Product Promotions

Last night I got a comment on one of my posts . My post basically pointed to a rant by Joel on Software about prototyping habits, and also points out the book he recommends. Here is the comment I got: " Richard Posted @…

Off Topic
May 29, 2003

About Knowledge Blocks

I don't know about you, but whenever I see a technology book lying in front of me, I feel, well, almost like butterflies are playing soccer in my stomach. Really! This may turn out the geekiest post I've written so far,…

Off Topic
May 30, 2003

Congratulations ScottW

Congratulations to ScottW for making this place what it is :). I wake up this morning (and of course, the first thing I do is iopen up the computer - GEEK) and see that .NetWeblogs moved to a different address!?! So,…

.NetWeblogs Site
May 30, 2003

Donny Mack Reveals Hidden Developer Secrets

" Posted By: Donny Mack on 5/29/2003 6:58:00 AM Ok, we just launched (finally) version 3.0 of dotnetjunkies. It is past 5am my time, and I've found lots of buts, but screw it - we're beta testing this baby live. Ok, off…

Off Topic
May 30, 2003

Scott Branches

doh! How did I not notice this before? at the bottom of dotNetJunkies Blogs you'll see this litlle icon: Powered by: Wow Scott. When you said you were branching out, You could have mentioned this little tidbit :) (Again…

.NetWeblogs Site
May 30, 2003

Improving Typed Datasets

Shawn Wildermuth has an article over at OnDotNet which further illuminates some of the problems with Typed Datasets, and some of the solutions to those problems. It focuses mainly on several annotations in the XSD…

.Net Original
May 30, 2003

404 Hall of Fame

Have you ever thought of giving your 404 (Page not Foud) page a different theme? browse the 404 hall of fame for some neat ideas.. I liked this one and this one :)

Off Topic
May 30, 2003

Rent My ... What??

What the hell..?? Am I mistaken or is that Chris Pirillo?? That's the most innovative money making scheme I've see so far (Although a blonde cheer leader could probably do even better..;)

Off Topic
May 30, 2003

About "Personal" Blogging

Scoble writes about repressing his writing urges in the face of corporate assimilation (How's that for a headline?). I must say that, although much differently then Scoble, I feel the same way about writing to my weblog…

Blogging, Off Topic
May 30, 2003

Add Plugins to Your App 2: Search dynamically for plugins without Config Files

This article is an extension to my previous article about plugins . Update: I've made the downloads for both articles available from my server: For this article: http://files.osherove.com/Plugins_Dynamic_src.zip for the…

Reflection
May 30, 2003

[New Article] Support Application Plugins 2 - Dynamic Plugin Search

" Summery : This article is an extension to my previous article about plugins . The last article showed how one can create a plug-in architecture for the application. One of the comments I got on that article mentioned…

.Net Original
May 30, 2003

New Skin, New Host...

OK. I've put in Jesse's Skin into my blog. Hope this works out OK, I like the way it looks. If anyone has a problem reading my blog because of this, please tell me. Until I hear otherwise, I'm keeping it. Thanks, Jesse…

.NetWeblogs Site
May 30, 2003

Remoting Events May Break in V1.1

Russ Nemhauser over at DotNetJunkies wrote a solid piece about working with events through remoting (Hmm, I should write something about my experiences with that ..). Worth a read if you never done it before, since it…

.Net Quotations
May 31, 2003

Another Cool Dynamic Loading Article

Following my two plug-in articles( this , that ) , I found another interesting article that deals with the subject of dynamically loading stuff from unreferenced assemblies: Loading Classes On The Fly It shows some more…

.Net Quotations, Cool Articles
May 31, 2003

SxS War Story

Dan posts a useful SxS story, involving Stored Procedures, ApplicationBlocks.Data and a totally obscure error. I'll need to pay attention to this stuff when the time comes *shiver*

.Net Quotations
Jun 1, 2003

I'm a Configuration Manager... I Think.

My company is now trying to employ a major shift in our working process. One of the new roles that were introduced in this process is " The person who makes sure that no double-coding takes place among separate projects…

Off Topic
Jun 2, 2003

Medieval Times

Is it just me, or does every developer sometimes feel like life is passing by and you aren’t doing a damn thing to do something useful about it Is it just me, or does every developer sometimes feel like life is passing…

Blogging, Off Topic
Jun 2, 2003

In-Your-Face

" I'm sitting here in a basement room in the Hyatt Recency right now listening to the inimitable Don Box talk about _______ and ________ (can't tell you about them yet...wait about 6 months. In a nutshell, we're making…

Off Topic
Jun 3, 2003

Overworked

If you're wondering why I'm being so skimpy on the posts lately(all 3 of you), its because I'm going through a pretty rough week - A tight schedule, some very long Job interviews and coding challenges , and lack of…

Off Topic
Jun 4, 2003

A Big Mistake

wew. Have a few spare minutes. So I started reading Chris Brumme's Latest post about AppDomains. It was a mistake. It was a hell of an interesting post, but the mistake was reading it on the job. It contains 5299 words…

.Net Quotations
Jun 4, 2003

About Blogging Patterns

When I drive back home from work, I'm usually pretty beat. It feels good to sit back, relax, crack open the radio on some smooth jazz, and cruise on home, letting the whole day drain out. Sometimes, though, I'll tune in…

Blogging
Jun 4, 2003

IVBUG meeting went well

Went to my user group meeting today. Was kinda funny. We had no electricity for some reason, so the group leader decided to take us all out and have a “Help” session, in which everyone with a problem raises it to the…

Off Topic
Jun 6, 2003

Phew... Free Time, At Last.

Just a couple of quick words: * My mom told me she's reading my blog now(Hi Mom!). isn't that cool? She claims its the only way she knows when I go to sleep at night... you know you've made it when your mom reads you…

Off Topic
Jun 8, 2003

Amazon .Net books Feed

Want to know of all the cool .Net books that arrive at Amazon's door? Inside your favorite RSS reader? http://www.yaywastaken.com/amazon/amazon-rss.asp?keywords=.Net

.Net Original
Jun 8, 2003

.Net Thread Pool Article

Jeffrey Richter has an interesting article about the .Net Thread Pool.

.Net Quotations, Cool Articles
Jun 9, 2003

Free Chapter From ADO.NET- Core Reference

Here's a free chapter I found from ADO.NET - Core Reference,Microsoft : Chapter 10: Submitting Updates to Your Database coolness. UPDATE: boy, this chapter rocks ! it's more advanced than I first thought. here's an…

.Net Original, Free book chapters
Jun 10, 2003

[New Article] Using Regex and The XML Classes To Parse Your Log Files

Phew. My new article is up. It's my first one for the O'Reilly network, and my first "real" article ever. You could say I'm a bit excited :) " Summery : Most systems these days can generate log files to store data about…

.Net Original, Cool Articles
Jun 10, 2003

.Net Rocks Show Do's And Don't's

cool. Chris Sells is on .Net Rocks : " Chris talks with Carl and Mark about Longhorn, Working at Microsoft, his book with Don Box, his new Windows Forms book, dealing with Printer Margins, passing command-line arguments…

.Net Original
Jun 10, 2003

Here I Am

Me Playing Stupid Me at my desktop OK. You asked for it (no you didn't, but I went ahead anyway...) so I found a place to upload my images to. This is me at the office. making an ass of myself, as usual :) Can you see…

Off Topic
Jun 10, 2003

Cool Photo Hosting

Just discovered pnavy.com . They let you host your own photo gallery(or weblog, or even a full community website) for free. Its all based on open-source too. Coolness. Here's mine . Nothing much there yet, but I'll up…

Off Topic
Jun 10, 2003

Article Source now Online

I've just put the source code that goes along with my Regex, XML and Log Parsing Article online. It shows a very simple, yet pretty cool example of loading a log file, and searching through it using a small GUI. Grab it…

.Net Original
Jun 10, 2003

Nice DataBinding In Winforms Article

A nice article about Data-Binding in Winforms: http://www.akadia.com/services/dotnet_databinding.html Among other things, it explains about the Currency Manager, BindingContext,Master-Detail displays - all the stuff…

.Net Original, Cool Articles
Jun 10, 2003

The Google King

Heh. You know you've made it when you come up first in google for searching DB_SEC_E_AUTH_FAILED Yey!

Off Topic
Jun 10, 2003

Announcing: .Net Desktops Contest

OK. Here's a cool idea. A " Coolest Desktop " contest. Whoever wants, sends me a screenshot of their desktop ,either at home or at work, in a zip file, to Royo At PolyInformation Dot Com - make sure its a jpg or gif,…

Off Topic
Jun 11, 2003

Disappointment

OK. I'm totally disappointed . I've recieved almost no screenshots of desktops.How busy are you guys? So, I'll urge again, and if in the next 24 hours I don't get a meaningful amount, this won't really be a contest…

Off Topic
Jun 11, 2003

Joseph Has a Point

OK, I think Joseph Cooney has a point on my last post.. Everyone should be able to participate, so from now on, everyone can send me their desktop screenshot. See this post for details.

Off Topic
Jun 11, 2003

Announcing: .Net Desktops Contest

OK. Here's a cool idea. A " Coolest Desktop " gallery. Whoever wants, sends me a screenshot of their desktop ,either at home or at work, in a zip file, to GuiMan@bigfoot.com - make sure its a jpg or gif, not a bmp -put…

Other
Jun 11, 2003

Women Rule

In Respose to Julie's post about women in tech, I must say that in Israel, I think the situation is better, although not by much. I think about 30% or a bit more of the software developers I know are women. I (again!)…

Off Topic
Jun 11, 2003

Living in a Bubble

Sometimes, I can see myself living in a sort of bubble. Not just me, actually, but all the other programmers around me, at my job. It’s like we’re living in a cocoon. Nothing can touch us. The day’s events usually all…

Blogging
Jun 11, 2003

Geek News

If you've put your screenshot up on the gallery , I'll let you in on a little secret - people can comment on your screenshot.You can tell by the little "*" at the end of the picture caption. Some of you already have a…

Off Topic
Jun 12, 2003

.Net Debugging Resources Grows

Thanks to Julia's latest post , my .Net Debugging Resources page is now a little bit bigger. If you know of something missing in there, contribute!

.Net Original
Jun 12, 2003

101 Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Applications

Oh man. I've got to get me Early & Adopter's new book. Even though it's in VB.NET, it's all about the framework, remember? Once you know the framework classes and how to use them , all the rest is just syntax... This…

.Net Quotations
Jun 12, 2003

BillG Joke

Here's a good one I heared: Bill Gates goes fishing. Suddently he notices he catches somehting. When he rolls in his catch, he sees a gold fish on the hook. The fish suddenly opens its mouth and says " Hey bill, how…

Off Topic
Jun 12, 2003

Google Is Blog-Crazed

You know google has gone crazy over weblogs when: Searching for ' ISerializable ' ,the first result is not related to the Iserializable Interface, but to a weblog Searching for 'IUnknown ' ,the first result is not…

Blogging
Jun 12, 2003

Coolest Birthday Ever

" To celebrate the night before your birthday I re-installed my windows box, played with Norton Ghost to keep my pristine and newly installed system safe, and discovered the joy of a system that has a hard drive that…

Off Topic
Jun 12, 2003

Free ADO.NET book chapter

FTPOnline.com has a link to a free chapter download from the book Murach's VB.NET Database Programming with ADO.NET download the PDF file here . About the chapter: " How to use Data Views You'll learn how to create and…

.Net Quotations, Free book chapters
Jun 12, 2003

AppDomains Reloaded

Oh man . Reading Chris Brumme’s Post/Book Chapter about AppDomains was a bit like the first Matrix Movie. I figured I was in for a ride, but I never knew just how in-depth it was going to be. After the beginning, I kept…

.Net Original, Cool Articles
Jun 12, 2003

Some Good Book Recommendations From the Experts

When in need of a good book, it's always best to ask the experts which book is best. I just saw on GotDotNet that the Wintellect folks posted a whole section of recommended reading , both about .Net development and on…

.Net Quotations
Jun 13, 2003

Yet Another Book Chapter

Since I'm currently in the process of learning/revisiting a bunch of .Net subjects, I keep fininding free book chapters all over the place. The latest chapter I've (just) found, is called " Windows Forms Data Binding "…

.Net Quotations, Free book chapters
Jun 13, 2003

About Reflector, Encoding, And an Article Error

Yes. Lutz Roeder's Reflector is one cool tool. I just found out using it that my latest article has some bad code in it because of reflector. The article mentions that in order to write to a memory buffer instead f a…

.Net Original
Jun 13, 2003

Ouch!

Ouch ! I wouldn't want Scott Bellware to be annoyed with me!

Off Topic
Jun 14, 2003

Winforms Data Binding Woes

I recently needed to get into Data Binding in win forms. I’ve read several articles( 1 , 2 , 3 ) and came up with several conclusions/questions: 1. Win forms Data Binding is very cool and powerful Using The…

.Net Original
Jun 14, 2003

Family Vs. Technology

Scoble writes about the daily struggle between family and technology. I totally understand and share a lot of what he's going through. Sometimes we all need to face the mirror and say to ourselves " OK. Just turn off…

Off Topic
Jun 15, 2003

Late In The Evening

It's all quiet now. Everyone has left work and went home. When all the busy sounds of the day disappear, this is when I feel most comfortable. I find I get the most work done after 5PM. We're at the 11 th floor,…

Off Topic
Jun 15, 2003

Data Binding Woes - A Simple Solution

Wooho! Found the solution to the Data Binding problem I was having . I got it from this free book chapter: How to use Data Views from this book . I'll explain the problem and then the solution. Problem : How do you get…

.Net Original, Cool Articles
Jun 16, 2003

Funny Behaviour

Tamar, a friend of mine, alerted me to this funny behaviour. can anyone tell me why the following code: static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine(21 - 5.45); Console.WriteLine(21 - 20.45); Console.Read(); }…

.Net Original
Jun 16, 2003

My Baby Hits The Road Tomorrow

Just wanted to brag a little - Tommorow I'm releasing an alpha version of our companie's latest tracing software.I built this thing entrely myself. It's mostly built using VB6, with the the remoting extentions built…

Off Topic
Jun 17, 2003

Oy Vey

" Tomorrow really is just a few webloggers and a lawyer talking about life on the Internet " [ Scoble ] That's one scary sentence! It's like in those gangster movies: the mafia guys just want to take you to the corner…

Blogging
Jun 17, 2003

"How Do I Get There From Here?"

In a comment to one of my posts I got this: " I'm a poor college student living in the middle of nowhere... I know a bit of Java, a lot of HTML, and I've got the gist of XML... I was wondering, what should I focus on if…

Off Topic
Jun 17, 2003

More About Desktops

We're starting to get some real content into the desktops gallery . If you'd like to add your own desktop, see the guide . I really like how it's turning out. Looking at all these really gives you a feel for the…

Off Topic
Jun 17, 2003

.Net Shortcuts + Automate GAC and COM operations using this Cool Add-in

Date: 6/2/2003 Author: Enrico Sabbadin Versions: VS.NET Level: Advanced File Size: 315K download Summary: This add-in for VS.NET 2003 automatically: 1) Registers the assembly in the GAC right after it has been built. 2)…

.Net Quotations, Cool Tools, Tips & Tricks
Jun 17, 2003

ABEK

Hehe. I've got to get me that ABEK certification.

Off Topic
Jun 17, 2003

Scoble, Come Back!

Heh. Now that scoble is spending some more time away from his blog, I almost *miss* him, in a weird, egotistical sort of way... Hey scoble ! Leave all that "family" stuff behind and write something :) Boy, I'm a rebel.

Blogging
Jun 18, 2003

About Interfaces

Duncan writes about punitive UI, and I totally agree. I've always been a big fan of Design and interaction. Tha's why some things just toally annoy me that other people don't even notice: Why should I have to press a…

Off Topic
Jun 18, 2003

Free Full Tech Books

A friend just let me know about this very cool site: [Content removed] Sorry guys, but until I'm sure this site holds legal content, I won't publish it. A big "Sorry " goes out to all the authors who are losing their…

Free book chapters
Jun 18, 2003

SQL Server is Missing NextVal Functionality

I really like working with SQL server, but there is one feature that's missing that I can;t understand why: Sequences. In ORACLE, I could do a "Table.NextVal" to get the value of the next insert unique ID. In SQL Server…

Off Topic
Jun 18, 2003

Very Good Winforms FAQ

You probably know this one, but here goes anyway... I've been playing a lot with the winforms DataGrid and binding stuff. One of the best FAQ's i've found on the subject was George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ . Apart…

.Net Quotations
Jun 19, 2003

Winforms DataBinding Bliss

Played around with the Winforms DataGrid some more yesterday. Boy, it's nice. real nice. DataBinding Rocks . In VB6 I almost never used DataBinding, since I was mainly into N-Tier development, thus DataBinding would…

.Net Original
Jun 19, 2003

How To Know When An External Application Exits

I was asked how one can launch an external application and know when it is finished. Her'es the code (Console Application): using System . Diagnostics ; static void Main ( string [] args ) { Process p = new Process ();…

.Net Original
Jun 19, 2003

Kudos to MSFT

This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to work at microsoft and is the main reason they keep "winning".
Jun 19, 2003

Book Gripes, Safari Bookshelf, And a .Net Desktops Prize

One of the biggest(and most common) mistakes a tech book publisher can make is not knowing to quit while your ahead. Much like bad movie sequels, You'll often see a good book followed by a bunch of totally redundant…

Off Topic
Jun 20, 2003

Typed Dataset Q&A

Q: I need to get the best possible performance out of my middle-tier components, so I'm using untyped DataSet objects on the server. But strongly typed DataSet objects are so handy when I build the client portion of the…

.Net Quotations
Jun 21, 2003

More Free Chapters

Silly me. I never noticed that CodeProject has a whole section devoted to free book chapters online . Cool! Update: Steven points to even more free chapters on ASPAlliance . yey! SBC points to free Regex chapters ...

Free book chapters
Jun 21, 2003

Winforms Data Binding Lessons Learned

I’ve been dabbling with Winforms Data Biding and the DataGrid control for the past week, and here are some lessons I’ve Found (The code is in VB.NET): Lesson 1: Displaying Many-To-Many Relationships Using DataBinding…

ADO.Net
Jun 21, 2003

Winforms Data Binding Lessons Learned

Over the past week or so, I've been learning quite a lot about Data Binding in WinForms. I've decided to put the most important lessons I've learned in a short article . Her'e are its headlines: Lesson 1 : Displaying…

.Net Original
Jun 22, 2003

More About Processes

I wouldn't delude myself into thinking that this is because of my earlier post about Processes , but Early & Adopter posted a small and helpful post about Debugging Process.Start by redirecting the Standard Output…

.Net Quotations
Jun 22, 2003

A Little Macro To Automate Creating Connection Strings

I've created a little macro that automatically creates a connection string and inserts it in your code. It pops up the infamous " Data Links " dialog for you, saving you, the poor programmer, from having to remember all…

.Net Original, Tips & Tricks
Jun 22, 2003

Disabling Connection Pooling

ADO.NET Data Providers automatically use connection pooling turned on. If you want to turn this functionality off: In an SQLConnection object, Add this to the connection string: Pooling=False; In An OLEDBConnection…

.Net Original, Tips & Tricks
Jun 23, 2003

Stop The Silliness

Sure, I could write a long post regarding Eric's post about the future. I could even make it really deep and insightful , so Scoble will link to me. But I won't. I find it very hard to get real interested in this issue,…

Off Topic
Jun 24, 2003

.Net Rocks Rocks, INETA, and Starting A User Group

> Boy. I have to say, the last .Net Rocks show totally rocked . Julie - you were great There was so much talk going on about all the user groups around the world, and all the cool speakers, it re-sparked my old flame -…

Off Topic
Jun 27, 2003

Still Alive

Just wanted to say that I'm still alive, but I am in the middle of so much "stuff" right now, I can hardly find any time to blog about stuff. Hopefully in a few days the situation will settle down a bit and I can…

Off Topic
Jun 27, 2003

Quick & Easy ADO.NET Speed Improvements

OK, I coudn't resist... 1) It’s about 20 times faster to create DataTables in your dataset using code, than letting your DataAdapter create them. 2) A very good potential for speed improvement lies when filling a…

.Net Original
Jun 28, 2003

Nice page of ADO.NET notes & tips

http://kristopherjohnson.net/cgi-bin/twiki/view/KJ/AdoDotNet Update: Oh, and also: ADO.NET Best Practices (via Chris Kinsman )

.Net Quotations
Jun 29, 2003

FeedDemon Likes And Dislikes

I have to admit it. FeedDemon totally rocked my RSS reading world. I like it even better than NewsGator. The interface(I'm a GUI guy) is very very slick and intuitive, and I really like the browser oane being positioned…

Blogging, Cool Tools
Jun 29, 2003

FillSchema and AddWithKey Don't Operate As Promised?

uuugh! I've been struggling with this one for a few days now, so after hitting all the relevant newg groups, let's see if anyone has a good answer: Given a DataTable, I need to know all the Other DataTables that have a…

.Net Original
Jun 29, 2003

Me Too!

I want a weblogger dinner too! Unfortunately, it seems as though most of the bloggers in these parts don't come to Israel that often, and it also appears that It won't be anytime soon until I get over there. So. I'd…

Blogging
Jun 29, 2003

Scripting News Is Down. I'm Sad.

Dave took down scripting news . I really feel for what he writes there. I have nothing to say to make him feel any better. I can only offer my sympathy as someone who "tries" to undestand what he's going through. In the…

Blogging
Jun 30, 2003

.Net Deep Dive Recap

Today was a long and cool day (Although it was hot outside). The “.Net Deep Dive” full day event at the Hilton (a.k.a ‘Teched for the financially challenged”) took place today, and I got to attend four lectures. 3 of…

.Net Original
Jul 1, 2003

More about .Net Deep Dive

Just wanted to add the following items about yesterday's event: People: · I got to meet some of my old work colleagues · I got to meet the head of the ASP.NET user group , Nimrod, which is a cool guy. The idea came up…

.Net Original
Jul 1, 2003

User Groups

If you're in Israel, there's the IVBUG meeting tommorow. Also, on the 9th, the Web developers .Net group meets and there's supposed to be some real interesting stuff going on there. Yosi wrote about that as well. Ever…

Off Topic
Jul 1, 2003

Automatically Create DataRelations Based On OleDB Schema

I was frustrated about the lack of automatic support for DataRelation creation via the DataAdapters , and the less-than-friendly OleDBConnection.GetOleDbSchemaTable() method, so I've decided to create a small class,…

.Net Original
Jul 1, 2003

Wasted Years

Oh boy. This funny article brought back a lot of memories. I remember once receiving some legacy VB code, and trying to figure out what the hell was happening. It was a nightmare. 3 or four modules containing huge…

Off Topic
Jul 1, 2003

Chris Sells talks about Learning to Learn

Chris Sells talks about Learning to Learn [via scoble ] Totally interesting.

Off Topic
Jul 1, 2003

Yey!

Here's me boasting with my new T-Shirt at the .Net deep dive event! To my right you can see Oren and Anat, two old colleagues.

Off Topic
Jul 1, 2003

.Net Rocks with Tim Huckaby

Cool! new .Net Rocks show is up online, and this week its Tim Huckaby

.Net Quotations
Jul 1, 2003

Why I write in Both C# and VB.NET

I keep getting this question: Why do I write some posts in VB.NET and some in C#. Short answer: · Future employers like to see that I’m fluent in both · I want to be able to move between them seamlessly, as I believe…

.Net Original
Jul 1, 2003

User Interface Design For Programmers

Just discovered this gem on Joel's site: User Interface Design For Programmers It's a full book, and its very very good an entertaining. Recommended!

Cool Articles, Off Topic
Jul 2, 2003

What's Up With That?

What's up with people mass mailing recipes of salad dressings and coockies to all their internet lists? I swear that the next time I get a salad recipe from 3 different sources I'll... I'll... What's up with windows…

Off Topic
Jul 2, 2003

VB User Group meeting Tonight, Hope to See You There

IVBUG moved to a new location Microsoft Israel 2 Hapnina St, Raanana (09) 7625-100 Floor 0 , Dekel Room It is the new building across from Amdocs. After the first traffic circle, there is an area for parking on the…

Off Topic
Jul 2, 2003

Cool Lecture!

Wow. Today's User Group meeting was one of the best I've ever attended. The session was about UI design guidlines and how people percieve things. I'll write more about it tomorrow, but for now I'll just say that if you…

Off Topic
Jul 3, 2003

Copy MsgBox Text

when you get a message box with lots of text (mainly on error messages) and you need to copy the text of the message, simply press ctrl+c , you'll hear a beep from windows, then you can paste it every where and you'll…

Tips & Tricks
Jul 3, 2003

About maintainable code

I'm currently into documenting my source code and creating infrastructure documents. It's amazing how important these things are, I'd say it's inversely related to how boring they are to do J . One of the most important…

Off Topic
Jul 3, 2003

6 months and counting

I've just realized that I've been blogging here for almost 6 months. Should I light half a candle? Yey! Halfppy Blogthday :)

Blogging
Jul 3, 2003

Nice MS Word shortcut

Say you have a document with multiple lines(duh!). Go to the middle of the document and select a couple of lines that have text above them or below them.. Press LEFT SHIFT+LEFT ALT + Up Or Down arrow several times...

Tips & Tricks
Jul 3, 2003

A much needed SchemaHelper class

Phew. I've made a fixed version of my SchemaHelper class (this time in C#). This class solves the problem of not being able to automatically find Data Relations while filling a Dataset object with tables. Although…

ADO.Net
Jul 3, 2003

A much needed SchemaHelper class

Phew . I've made a fixed version of my SchemaHelper class (this time in C#). This class solves the problem of not being able to automatically find Data Relations while filling a Dataset object with tables. Although…

.Net Original
Jul 4, 2003

I’ve just learned that a friend of mine is looking for a job.

I’ve just learned that a very good friend of mine is looking for a job. If you’re looking for a Graphics artist/Web designer / Flash wizard and you’re based in the London area, you should seriously consider checking him…

Off Topic
Jul 4, 2003

How's this for less eye strain

I was fiddling with the color settings for visual studio, and was trying to get a less eye-straining environment for coding in. Turns out I made the perfect settings.. if I were a black ops agent or something...

Off Topic
Jul 4, 2003

Export and import VS.NET's text editor's color and font settings

I like customizing the way my VS.NET text editor looks and feels. I like dabbling with the colors and settings of the editor until everything is just as I like it. One caveat – If I move to a different computer – all…

.Net Original
Jul 5, 2003

What's missing in today's hottest languages?

Some of these changes refeer to stuff that is simply missing as an IDE feature rather than a language construct, but you get the drift.. Things VB.NET should have had out of the box: Multiple lines code (i.e. no "_"…

.Net Original
Jul 5, 2003

Settings Add-in ver. 1.0 released on GotDotNet

OK. I've released version 1.0 of my VS.NET Settings add-in on GotDotNet. Here's the project's URL. You can download the full setup there ( Currently tested on vs.net 2002 only ). After installation you'll get a new menu…

.Net Original, Cool Tools
Jul 6, 2003

Visual Studio .NET and C# Tips and Tricks

Visual Studio .NET and C# Tips and Tricks Software legend Juval Lowy shares his tips, tricks and best practices. Juval demonstrates how to deal with common hurdles and how to effectively apply .NET, by presenting…

.Net Quotations
Jul 6, 2003

There goes an hour or two

So much for a productive day. My work machine's hard disk failed, appearently during the weekend, so I get to work, and I find a nice black screen with nothing but a "Disk Read Error" message. Ugh. Why does that even…

Off Topic
Jul 7, 2003

Silly quote of the day

"Keyboard Error. Hit F1 to continue."

Off Topic
Jul 7, 2003

Passport identity change

I had to change my Passport ID today, because it was an iname.com ID, and that is manages by Mail.com , which totally sucks. Their server is slower than my grandmother's turtle(and he's cripple). Speaking of slow - the…

Off Topic
Jul 7, 2003

Advanced debugging tips and stuff you never knew about the "Find" combo box

1) You can set breakpoints on the callstack window as well - just select the call and hit F9 or right click. great for recursive functions. 2 ) You can set individual breakpoints on different expressions on the same…

.Net Original
Jul 7, 2003

FeedDemon fixes abound!

Boy. It seems like FeedDemon's new beta release fixed and added a lot of the things that I complained about (I don't attribute this to me, I'm not that much of a self-centered guy!). Great!

Blogging, Cool Tools
Jul 8, 2003

Am I the stereotypical VB programmer?

Oisin responds to my requests regarding VS.Net IDE enhancements : "Roy, if there ever was a stereotypical VB programmer to be singled out as an example, it would be you. Absolutely no understanding of why things aren't…

Off Topic
Jul 8, 2003

IDE enhancements - conclusion?

In my last post, I named a few enhancements I’d like to see added to C#’s IDE. I then asked, for each of these, why was it not sensible to add them, or why do they not exist in the first place. I’ve gotten plenty of…

Off Topic
Jul 9, 2003

Speed up Internet Explorer

I just have to re-post this amazingliy powerful tweak , as I've just installed my new machine, and had to do it again. boy, it helps! Speed up Internet Explorer

Tips & Tricks
Jul 9, 2003

Israel .net web developers group meeting

Hope to see you all this evening at the Israel .net web developers group meeting . It looks like its gonna be a very fun lecture about Enterprise services. All I know is that they'll have XBox machines there as well. I…

.Net Original
Jul 9, 2003

Tonight's user group meeting went great (or - What does the matrix, X-Box's "Halo" and COM+ have in common?)

Just got back from tonight's Israel web developers group meeting . The lecture was made by Yosi Taguri & Lior Rozner and was about the basics of COM+. Now, I never got the chance to work on an application that used…

.Net Original
Jul 9, 2003

Smile! You're on candid camera!

By the way, tonight's lecture was taken in Microsoft's offices in Kfar-Saba. Did you know that they tape all the lectures there on video ? ut not in a mounted - middle of the room camera. nope. It's like the ones used…

Off Topic
Jul 9, 2003

Microsoft does, but can do even more

I was glad to see that Paul Vick read what I wrote (but answered on a different subject). It feels good to know that the right people are reading what you are saying. Paul - if youre reading this - I love what you did…

Blogging, Off Topic
Jul 9, 2003

Patterns

You want to read those ... yes you do want to read them even if you alread went through the GoF patterns for C# . [ Benjamin J. J. Voigt ]

.Net Quotations
Jul 10, 2003

Downloadable MSDN magazine

Whoa! I didn't realize this, but Stephen Toub points out that the monthly issues of MSDN Magazine are available in downloadable CHM format . [ The Furrygoat Experience ] Cool! I read MSDN regularly, but havn't noticed…

.Net Quotations
Jul 10, 2003

DirectCast

For us VB.Net programmers. You should know about DirectCast . (via Paul Vick )

.Net Quotations
Jul 11, 2003

Quake II .Net

Now this is cool: Quake II in managed C++. (via Clemens )

.Net Quotations
Jul 11, 2003

Geek encounters

Yesterday, after work, I got the chance to meet up with Yosi & Lior and see where they work(at SPL ). Later we grabbed our cars and headed out for a small dinner(I still can’t eat anything even now, and its already noon…

Off Topic
Jul 11, 2003

The blogger chain letter?

Hmm. Could this be the start of the blogger chain-letter of the future? I wonder if implementing such an idea here on .NetWeblogs might be viable. I know I'd like to see the "celebrity" bloggers answer 5 interview…

Blogging
Jul 12, 2003

Command line life saver - LinkD

Craig explains and points to a wonderful tool that makes working with long directory names from the command line a breeze - LinkD . This and other useful tools can be found here .

Cool Tools
Jul 14, 2003

Hero [ot]

" Hero " is my new favorite movie. It has everything Matrix Reloaded wanted to have - great martial arts scenes, good actors, and a story. I had the same experience as I did watching "Crouching tiger,hidden dragon" for…

Off Topic
Jul 14, 2003

Another brain killer from Chris Brumme

Oh dear. It looks like Chris Brumme posted another "post". This time it is regarding TransparentProxy and measures in at about 6,300 words. Oh well, there goes my evening....

.Net Quotations
Jul 14, 2003

A C# programmer's VB.Net starter kit

If you're a C# programmer wanting to learn how to speak VB.Net, Darrel Norton has some useful links to get started on that task, having started this quest on his own.

.Net Quotations
Jul 14, 2003

More maintainable code(and others) lessons

In the past week or so I’ve been going over all my code with the new guy who’s going to replace my in my current job(Yeah, I’m about to leave, but that’s a whole different post). It's strange. I have done code reviews…

.Net Original
Jul 14, 2003

Vote for your favorite desktop at the .Net Desktops Contest

the .Net desktops contest is now closed for new submissions (you can add your desktop to the gallery once the contest is finished if you like). You can all go there now and vote for the best three desktops . The contest…

Blogging
Jul 15, 2003

The PDC is missing its target audience

Can anyone please enlighten me as to why the PDC costs so much(2000$ and upwards)? Let's take a look at their website and try to understand: ---------------------SNIP--------------------- Be one of the first to look…

Off Topic
Jul 15, 2003

Third prize found!

Patrick Steele just donated the third prize for the . Net desktops contest : The book Applied XML Programming for Microsoft .NET Thanks Patrick!
Jul 15, 2003

New job

I'm happy to annouce that today I've signed on for my new Job. yey! My new company is Identify . Some of the folks I talked to know about them. They (Or rather "we") make a product called " AppSight Black Box " which I…

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Jul 15, 2003

Cheer up Jeff. You can get the job you want

Sometimes life just throws one surprise at you after another, and sometimes these are not good surprises either. While I celebrated my new job, Jeff Julian discovered today that he'd been sacked , along with 15 other…

Off Topic
Jul 15, 2003

.Net articles on MSDNAA

Lots of great .Net articles over at MSDNAA (Hopefully one of mine will be published there real soon..)

.Net Original
Jul 15, 2003

Death to the double-click (a lesson in design)

Why do today's mice still have "Double Click" functionality? In terms of interaction design - its one of the worst forms of design ever created; You have one button which does different things at different…

Off Topic
Jul 16, 2003

We will not ship s#!*t

" We will not ship shit : words by Robert C. Martin." - posted by Lawrence @ 7/15/2003 11:55:25 AM

.Net Quotations
Jul 16, 2003

See you at the user group tonight (topic - CLR plumbing)

Hope to see you all tonight and the Israel Visual C++ user group meeting( note - anyone can go, you don't have to know C++ . the topic is great for anyone involved in .Net!) here's the info from the site: " Date:…

.Net Quotations
Jul 16, 2003

PDC pricing continued

Scoble explains why the PDC costs so much, and adds to the reasons that make the PDC a cool event. I’ll just comment on the pricing, as I admit I totally wanna be there myself. And meet all the cool people. The pricing.…

Off Topic
Jul 16, 2003

Managed C++ performence vs. native C++

The user group meeting today went great. Very interesting stuff. We actually got to see all the stuff that the .Net framework installation installs on the target machine. Lot’s of goodies in there right out of the box.…

.Net Original
Jul 16, 2003

Vs.Net for presentations

Scott Hanselman points to a macro that should be useful for code presenters that allows chaning the font size in VS.NET to the appropriate presentation size. Cool. Another way to do this is by calling your VS.Net…

Off Topic
Jul 17, 2003

Your favorite add-in?

Have you voted for the best Visual Studio.Net add-in contest? Cast you vote here . What did I vote for? The Reflector Add-in of course. definitely the coolest tool and most useful I've seen yet. And it just got released…

.Net Original
Jul 17, 2003

Touch typing hell

I'm starting to try and learn touch typing again, and it's pretty damn hard. I'm actually doing it right now and it's horrible! and the teaching program is sooo boring! I'm a pretty fast typist, when I look at the…

Off Topic
Jul 18, 2003

Make your desktop show active RSS content

Doug Thews sent me this regarding the .net desktop contest: " After looking at some of your entries, I decided that I had to write my own ActiveDesktop in ASP.NET to consume RSS feeds and provide other information. I…

Blogging, Cool Tools, Tips & Tricks
Jul 18, 2003

Yet another new tabbed browser? This one has some new features

Mark Brown sends word of a new breed of browser - using a visual tabbed interface. Some very cool stuff there. Perhps this could be the next buzz? It's called iRider . They have a nice flash demo on their site that is…

Cool Tools
Jul 18, 2003

Weblogs@DotNetJunkies

I just subscribed to the DotNetJunkies Weblogs combined RSS feed, and you should too. Some interesting posts going on there. (via LarkWare )

Blogging
Jul 18, 2003

Nice performance counters article

I was going to write an article about performance counters and their use in .Net, but then I found this very nice article on the subject.

Cool Articles
Jul 18, 2003

BitVector32 in the real world

A little known(and little documented) class in the framework is the System.Collections.Specialized.BitVector32 . It allows working easily with 32 bit integers, which are used extensively in optimized environments as a…

Cool Articles
Jul 18, 2003

A chat with scoble

Robert Scoble tried to IM me the other day. I wasn’t at my computer, so all I saw when I returned to the machine a few hours later was “ If you’re around, ping me ”. My gut feeling told me that this had something to do…

Blogging, Off Topic
Jul 18, 2003

Must-have books for my new job

My new job asked me to give a list of books that I think would be needed, so I made this one: (note: some books are not here because they already have them) Essential .NET, Volume I: The Common Language Runtime…

Off Topic
Jul 18, 2003

Mr. Bunny

Ok. These are two of the funniest books I've seen in a while, and they both deal with programming. I'm not sure how well known they are, but I just found out about them. Click the "Look inside" links. Mr. Bunny's Guide…

Off Topic
Jul 19, 2003

Cool product of the day: Mathematica.Net

.Net/Link ". NET/Link is a toolkit that integrates Mathematica and the Microsoft .NET Framework . It lets you call code written in any .NET-compatible language from Mathematica in a completely transparent way, and it…

Cool Tools
Jul 19, 2003

Log4net How-To

If you want to start instrumenting your application for tracing and debugging, log4net is a good tool. This article explains how to take your first steps to implement it inyour applications. Very nice.

Cool Articles
Jul 20, 2003

More active desktop

Doug Thews about his active desktop: "I thought you might be interested in knowing I posted some cool feature updates at: http://www.ddconsult.com/blogs/illuminati/archives/000085.html "

.Net Quotations
Jul 21, 2003

Kit George on BitVector32 bug

Kit George, of Microsoft, responds to the BitVector32 bug that was posted about by Mattias Sjögren : " Just a note all: we are tracking this issue at Microsoft, and we do appreciate you taking the time to let us know…

.Net Original
Jul 22, 2003

My article on MSDNAA

One of my articles just made the MSDNAA site. Using Regular Expressions and XML Classes to Parse Your Log Files I'm totally flattered.

Cool Articles
Jul 22, 2003

Israel .NET Software Architects User Group Meeting - July 2003

Thanks, Dana, for making me aware of this :) .NET Software Architects User Group Meeting - July 2003 ( 27/07/2003 ) " You are welcome to attend the July meeting to be held on July 27 th . The meeting will focus on the…

.Net Quotations
Jul 22, 2003

Do what you love

" In 1960, a researcher interviewed 1500 business-school students and classified them in two categories: those who were in it for the money (1245 of them ) and those who were going to use the degree to do something they…

Off Topic
Jul 23, 2003

Another VB.Net team member blog in the wild

Very cool! Another member of the VB.Net team has started a blog: Cameron Beccario

Blogging
Jul 23, 2003

Skill Evaluation

I was listening to the .Net Rocks show a few days ago, and heard a very interesting idea: Mark and Carl offered their services as "Skills evaluators". Basically if you're a company that wants to hire someone as a .Net…

.Net Original
Jul 23, 2003

.Net Desktop contest winners announced

Ok. The .Net desktops contest is over and we have our winners! You can check out the statistics at the desktops site . 1st Place : Tony Pino (no real surprise there...) Tony gets the book Applied XML Programming for…

Blogging
Jul 23, 2003

Scripting .Net

Chris Sells points to this article about implemeting scripting in .Net . Very interesting stuff. In one of my past jobs, I've implemented a full blown exstensible VB6 application, which used the COM Scripting engine…

.Net Original
Jul 23, 2003

Faster typing achieved slowly

My touch typing abilities have been improving for the past few days. The hardest part seems to be typing out actual code. typing all those exclamation points and semicolons is pretty rough to place your fingers on, but…

Off Topic
Jul 24, 2003

Cool idea of the day

Andres Aguiar sends word that Joel on Software sends word about Mailinator . Need a disposable email address so you can sign up for some web site, quick? You've already got one, at Paul Tyma's clever Mailinator . Just…

Cool Tools
Jul 24, 2003

Rewrite MSIL Code on the Fly

"Lately i've been spending my extra cycles on understanding the deep, dark secrets of the CLR . Between using cordbg as my primary debugger instead of Visual Studio , and writing a mini-profiler w/ the Allocation…

.Net Quotations
Jul 27, 2003

MSDN VB blog section

" Duncan points out the new blogs section he's setup and what do you know...there I am! :) Thanks, Duncan! " [ Erik Porter ] Wow. I'm there too! Totally flattered :) Thanks!

Off Topic
Jul 27, 2003

C++ for programmers

The past week has been quite interesting. As part of my new job I’m supposed to learn C++. When I heard that someone is actually gonna make me learn that language I was totally excited. I’ve been trying to learn C++ on…

.Net Original
Jul 27, 2003

Expand the desktops gallery

Hey, now that the .Net Desktops contest is over, you can now continue to submit your desktop to the . Net gallery .

Off Topic
Jul 27, 2003

More on Modifying IL at runtime

In the comments for my earlier post about IL modification, Dumky points to 3 articles on his site: Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3 . Definately worth the read if you have any interest in the subject. Also subscribed to his…

.Net Quotations
Jul 27, 2003

Using XPath to find objects in your object model

Sean Gerety points to an MSDN article on how to query over object models using ObjectXPathNavigator . very interesting. I'll just point out to this fine article by Dino Esposito, regarding implementation of the exact…

.Net Quotations
Jul 27, 2003

Moving Crystal reports from 1.0 to 1.1

Peter Van Ooijen of .NetJunkies provides some great hard earned tips for moving Crystal Reports from .Net ver. 1.0 to ver. 1.1. Thanks Peter. Great tips!

.Net Quotations
Jul 27, 2003

The Imposter Syndrome: Feeling Like A Fraud

I can't say these words any better: "My shameful secret is out: I cannot write. I have been sitting for two hours now, my pen idling over my page. My mind is barren of fresh ideas, my thoughts are cranky and resistant.…

Off Topic
Jul 27, 2003

Asynchronous Execution in Visual Basic .NET

Nice MSDN article: Asynchronous Execution in Visual Basic .NET besides the obvious "How can my secondary thread talk to the GUI without hanging the application", there is a wide discussion on threads, ProcessThread,…

Cool Articles
Jul 28, 2003

Registration-free COM interop

Registration-free COM interop activates a component without using the Windows registry to store assembly information. Instead of registering a component on a computer during deployment, you create Win32-style manifest…

.Net Quotations
Jul 28, 2003

Checking for NULL values

I was recently asked how to check if a DB value you have in your hands is NULL . For one, you can use the System.DBNull class's ' Value ' property to check this like so: if (myVar==DBNull.Value) Another way, is when you…

.Net Original
Jul 28, 2003

Geekier than thou

My wife and I are going on vacation in a few days. We still have not decided where, but it will probably be either Greece or Turkey. We'll be there at least 5 nights, during which, somewhat like Joi , I will forbid…

Off Topic
Jul 28, 2003

Beta chapters of OReilly books

" OReilly has released beta chapters from their forthcoming books including - ASP.NET , Regular Expressions & .NET Framework ." [ S.B. Chatterjee ]

Free book chapters
Jul 28, 2003

What's up with BlogShares?

What's up with BlogShares ? My status has not been updated since March 13th, and I fear that this is just a symptom of a dying site. Anyone know anything about that?

Blogging, Off Topic
Jul 28, 2003

Filling typed datasets using Data Access Application Block v.2.0

The new Microsoft Data Access Application Block is out, and it contains some nice changes. One of the nicest (and simplest) is the ability to fill a dataset (that may or may not be strongly typed) using the SQLHelper…

.Net Original
Jul 28, 2003

DataReader.HasRows

One of the annoying things in version 1.0 of the .net framework was regarding the DataReader (Ole DB or SQL) class. You had no way of knowing whether the reader you got was pointing to any data or has no rows. You had…

.Net Original
Jul 28, 2003

Nasty bug in Data Access Block Ver. 2.0

Thanks to Mark Brown for discovering this bug in the Data Access Block Ver. 2.0. Short answer: Here's how to fix the data access bug: Open the SQLHelper.cs file look for the line that contains this line of code: C#:…

.Net Original
Jul 28, 2003

Framework Compatibility Graphics initiative

Looks like Robert is on the right track with his Framework Compatibility Graphics initiative . I think we'll all need this in the near future. I know I'd love to go to a download site and see, by the download link, an…

Off Topic
Jul 28, 2003

Nice quote

"They say that money is the root of all evil. No it's not. Lack of money is the root of all evil." -- Gene Simmons, KISS

Off Topic
Jul 28, 2003

About coding standards

" Here is the IDesign C# Coding Standard for development guidelines and best practices." [ Mark Brown ] This is written by Juval Lowy , which is a sort of hero of mine. A first look shows some really deep and thoughtful…

.Net Original
Jul 28, 2003

Debugging in Visual Basic .NET

If you're a VB 6.0 developer who recently moved(or is planning to move) to VB.Net, the IDE and debugger are a much stroger and meaner beast than ever before. Debugging in Visual Basic .NET is a nice intro to all the…

Cool Articles
Jul 28, 2003

Broken window theory

Everyone should know about the Broken window theory . "Researchers studying urban decay wanted to find out why some neighborhoods escape the ravages of the inner city, and others right next door—with the same…

Cool Articles
Jul 28, 2003

Resolving DataSet Conflicts

One last one before I go to sleep. Resolving DataSet Conflicts Discusses working with data in a disconnected state and provides one possible solution for correcting DataSet conflicts. [ MSDN- Visual Basic .NET ]

Cool Articles
Jul 29, 2003

.NetWeblogs coolness achieved

Oh.My.God. Great job Scott!! I love it! Let's try a different skin for a while. see what happens... One thing though - I can't seem to download the spell checker - “Bandwidth limit exceeded” :(

.NetWeblogs Site
Jul 29, 2003

Amazon light

Oh goodie! Looks like my days of browsing Amazon, opening multiple pages at a time, clicking back and forward like crazy are gone, thanks to this cool site: Amazon Light which allows me to do exactly that, only from…

Cool Tools
Jul 29, 2003

Juval Löwy on .NET Rocks, talks about C# 2.0

“ Well, if you've been wondering what the next version of C# will bring to the table, you have to check out this interview with Juval Lowy. He got permission from Microsoft to spill the beans about the new features in…

.Net Quotations
Jul 29, 2003

As years go by

Now, this is amazing: http://zonezero.com/magazine/essays/diegotime/time.html “[Starting from 1976] On June 17th, every year, the family goes through a private ritual: we photograph ourselves to stop a fleeting moment,…

Off Topic
Jul 29, 2003

A directory of Israeli weblogs

I just discovered a directory of Israeli weblogs . I never imagined there were so much (but still so little) of them. Most of them are in hebrew, and are hands down b-o-r-i-n-g. Still, it's good to know our country is…

Blogging
Jul 30, 2003

Visual Studio .Net tips page on MSDN

Just found this cool Visual Studio .Net tips page on MSDN, thanks to Sudhakar Sadasivuni .

.Net Quotations, Tips & Tricks
Jul 30, 2003

Out on vacation

I'll be on vacation in Greece, starting tomorrow(the 31st) up until august 7th. Me and the Mrs. are out for a full week of sea and sun, and I'll even make an effort of doing all this without a computer * shudder *. I'll…

Off Topic
Jul 30, 2003

Count anything in your open Word document

I'm using the Word 2003 beta, so I'm not sure if this applies to older versions. Ever wanted to know how many words, lines, paragraphs or even characters you have in your open Word document? Easy. Select…

Off Topic, Tips & Tricks
Aug 7, 2003

Short and sweet - I'm back

Got back from Crete, Greece a couple of hours ago It was a-m-a-z-i-n-g My skin is peeling and itchy from sun burn As folks were saying, it was a much needed time away from the computer It's a real downer coming back :(…

Off Topic
Aug 8, 2003

Can I please have my keyboard and mouse talking to my Win2k3 server?

Well, this certainly is not what I expected. For my coming birthday, my wife bought me two cool gadgets: the Logitech Cordless MouseMan Optical mouse, and the MS Natural multimedia keyboard . Very cool. One little…

Off Topic
Aug 10, 2003

OurNotepad

Marc fest recently contacted me to respond to one of my past posts regarding Chris Pirillo . After that he mentioned the new project he's working on: Our Notepad.com . “ If you want to you can also mention my latest…

Cool Tools, Off Topic
Aug 11, 2003

Server.Transfer vs. Response.Redirect

I was recently faced with this question: What is the difference between Server.Transfer() and Response.Redirect()? I didn't really know the answer, because I'm more of a winforms kinda guy. However, my wife pointed me…

.Net Original, Cool Articles
Aug 11, 2003

A new Data Access Application Block release

“ This is a new version for the DAAB supporting a common base code which uses only ADO.NET interfaces in an abstract base class. Then simple providers sets the correct instances for each ADO.NET provider. If somebody…

.Net Quotations
Aug 12, 2003

AppSight on eWeek

Our company just made eWeek . It's all about the .NET features that our main product - AppSight BlackBox will support. Less on the technical side, but still very cool stuff and I'm very proud to be a part of it.

Off Topic
Aug 12, 2003

Caching in WinForms

Just out of curiosity I decided to try out some caching experiments in winforms. I wasn’t out to do any performance counting or anything, but I was playing around with the caching application block. After messing with…

.Net Original
Aug 12, 2003

My new favorite book

It's pretty darn late now, so before I go to sleep - this is my new favorite book: Debugging Applications for Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows

.Net Original
Aug 12, 2003

Catch ex As Exception When...

I too would like to add a cool little thingie in VB.Net after reading Rachel's post . One of the coolest exception handling features (which I could not find in C# BTW) is catching exceptions only on certain conditions.…

.Net Original
Aug 13, 2003

Catch ex As Exception (sometimes)

Mattias Sjögren quickly replied to my last post about the exceptions not being caught in VB.NET : “You don't get a DivideByZeroException because you're using the floating point division operator (/) and not the integer…

.Net Quotations
Aug 13, 2003

.Net Rocks with Brent Rector

Mark and Carl talk with Brent Rector about intellectual property , namely assembly and application obfuscation: techniques used, and the resultant binaries. They also talk about Remoting and get Brent's take on the…

.Net Quotations
Aug 13, 2003

Google Calc

Yeah, the Google toolbar is out and final , BUT . Did you know that you can use google as your calculator as well? Just search google for “ 4 * 5 ” :)

Cool Tools, Off Topic
Aug 13, 2003

Hard disk Space Managers

Oh, and John Tobler points out some very cool Hard disk space managers . What can I say - I'm a gadget freak!

Cool Tools, Off Topic
Aug 14, 2003

PDC: Show me the bits

Brad tells us what the PDC attendees will get: Longhorn! You have seen screen shots from leaked versions, now get your own copy! Not only will you get to see * some * of the new look and feel stuff we are doing, but you…

.Net Quotations
Aug 14, 2003

Idiomatic domains

Marc Fest has a list of a thousand domain names that no one has taken yet. some of them seem pretty cool. Apparently he did it using a small program he wrote. What's missing? The program code itself would be cool to…

Off Topic
Aug 15, 2003

A nice blackout story

Chris Hollander tells a wonderful story about the blackout of 2003.

Off Topic
Aug 17, 2003

Happy birthday to me!

I'm 28 today. I totally feel 18 though.

Off Topic
Aug 17, 2003

WMI mind blower

If you have ever played around with WMI, specifically in .Net - this will blow your mind: Management (WMI) Extensions for Visual Studio .NET 2003 Server Explorer

.Net Original, Cool Tools
Aug 17, 2003

Nemo bedroom

This is how I want our kids bedroom to look like (scroll down to “The four walls” header).

Off Topic
Aug 17, 2003

Google binding

Addy sent me this: "Hey dude, do a search on google for " winforms data binding "...

Off Topic
Aug 17, 2003

CodeSmart.Net

Is it just me or does CodeSmart.Net seem like one of the coolest VS.Net add-ins around the block? I've been a loyal Axtools customer in my VB6 days and thought the move to VS.Net would leave them little to enhance - but…

.Net Original, Cool Tools
Aug 18, 2003

Coding tips and tricks by Eric Gunnerson

Here is a nice article by Eric Gunnerson with various tips and tricks. I really liked the first one : “What is the difference between a Windows Forms project and a Console Application project? The somewhat surprising…

Cool Articles, Tips & Tricks
Aug 18, 2003

Google minus weblogs

“ Wonder what Google will be like with blogs filtered? Have a look . You'll need an API Key (details within). Let me know what you think! “ [ BlogWise ]

Off Topic
Aug 20, 2003

New book and blog from Ingo

Looks like Ingo Rammer , the Remoting machine, is gonna write a new book and blog about the writing process .

.Net Quotations
Aug 20, 2003

It's so hardcore you could say it's CLR Porn

Chris brumme managed to create yet another brain killer “post” (at 9,000+ words it's hardly that). Go drench your thirst for knowledge . Highly recommended.

.Net Quotations, Cool Articles
Aug 20, 2003

Make your app support plugins

Another one of mine made MSDNAA - Make your app support plugins .

.Net Original, Cool Articles
Aug 20, 2003

Commandments for a publishable article

I was having a chat with Lauri Travis, one of the editors of MSDNAA . Lauri has been reading some of the blogs here, and was glad to find lots of great .Net content in this little community. In our chat, I suggested…

Off Topic
Aug 20, 2003

I give up - Career Calculus

OK! I'll link to it too. It's too damn good to be passed over (even if half the world had already blogged about it). Career Calculus - Ever wonder why you haven't gotten that promotion you wanted? Why you aren't doing…

Off Topic
Aug 20, 2003

User Group notes: WMI, CLR hosting and AppDomains

If you missed it. Today was the monthly group meeting of the Israel visual C++ users group (I’ve been meaning to add a list of Israel’s .Net user groups to my blog links but somehow I always end up doing something…

.Net Original
Aug 20, 2003

MSDN has launched the Mobility & Embedded Developer Center

“ MSDN has launched the Mobility & Embedded Developer Center at http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility . Hooray! ” [ Ed Kaim ]

.Net Quotations
Aug 21, 2003

Free WMI book chapter

SBC Adds that there's a free book chapter on WMI over at APress: .NET Framework and Windows Management Instrumentation

.Net Quotations, Free book chapters
Aug 21, 2003

Make your app support plugins - Part II

Make your app support plugins - Part II , including the source code for it (which was not available before), can now be found on MSDNAA . Thanks Lauri :)

.Net Original
Aug 22, 2003

Good example of asynchronous delegates at work

Grant Killian shows a very simple and informative example of asynchronous delegates using VB.Net. A good read if you never really “got” why they're so useful.

.Net Quotations
Aug 23, 2003

Screensaver from hell

You might want to think twice before installing this screensaver on a friends computer.

Off Topic
Aug 23, 2003

Was that a shout out?

Is it just me, or did Israel's very own Yosi Taguri manage to sneak in his name into the shoutouts of this week's .Net Rocks show ? Coolness. Israel is definitely on the map now ;)

Blogging, Off Topic
Aug 23, 2003

MSN Messenger upgrade blocks Trillian

This totally sucks . Instead of doing that, why don't MS do what Trillian did ,and allow us all to use the same client for multiple networks?

Blogging, Off Topic
Aug 23, 2003

Finally some helpful code!

I don't know any german, but it looks like Ralf Westphal posted some seriously cool code that deletes email messages from your POP3 mail account that are sent by the worm. What's so cool is just how simple the code is.…

.Net Quotations
Aug 24, 2003

Some debugging tips

I was pretty sick last night and only got 1 or 2 hours of sleep. I had to stay in a little to sleep it off but now I feel better. I thought I'd put out a quick post before I get off to work. A lot of people don't know…

.Net Original
Aug 25, 2003

Mike is handing out free advice. Grab it.

As someone who is just beginning as an article writer I'm not going to miss the chance and read some tips from people with much much more experience .

Off Topic
Aug 25, 2003

Combobox binding trouble - with a solution

I recently had a very annoying “thing”. On my winfom app, I wanted to bind a combobox to a dataset. For some reason the combo would not show anything. The Dataset was perfect, I even bound it to a grid to see that it…

.Net Original
Aug 25, 2003

NUnit v2.1 RC1 released

NUnit v2.1 RC1 was released last night on SourceForge. From the release documentation: * Support for the .NET framework versions 1.0 and 1.1 * The ability to run test suites across multiple assemblies * New…

.Net Quotations, Cool Tools
Aug 25, 2003

The ultimate connection string reference

This is the most complete reference of any connection string you'll ever need: http://www.connectionstrings.com/

.Net Original, Cool sites
Aug 25, 2003

Developing Software in Visual Studio .NET with Non-Administrative Privileges

There was a big discussion not long ago in the .Net community whether it is feasible to actually do Dev work as a non-admin. While the benefits are very big for the end user, a lot of people insisted that it is just too…

.Net Quotations, Cool Articles
Aug 25, 2003

A meeting with Udi, and a talk about performance Do's and Don'ts

The last time I went to a user group meeting I got to meet a very interesting fellow named Udi Dahan . I've seen him a couple of times before in previous meetings, but I didn't know him. Apparently he's been reading my…

Blogging
Aug 25, 2003

Loading Winform UI controls from a different AppDomain is problematic

I recently got a question regarding a problem loading dynamic UI controls at runtime. Part of the solution that person tried to do was to try and load the controls in a separate AppDomain , so that they can later unload…

.Net Original
Aug 26, 2003

MSFT.Opml

“It's been an 8h task, but it's done, a nice, clean OPML file of all MSFT bloggers for your RSS aggregator to read. I've only excluded those, who don't have RSS feeds, which is a pitty, but there is sure somebody who…

Blogging, Off Topic
Aug 26, 2003

Advice for article writers - part II

Mike Gunderloy has put together part II of his advice for newbie article writers . A must read if you have ever wanted to publish an article and didn't know where to start.

Cool Articles, Off Topic
Aug 26, 2003

ASP.Net dialog hell - a little easier..?

Jesse helps ASP.Net developers save themselves from dialog hell by posting some base classes that can be used to more easily create web-based dialogs. That's worth like a medal or something.

.Net Quotations, Cool Articles
Aug 27, 2003

No smiling! We're Canadian

I just had to post this . Sorry :) “ The new measure took effect on Aug. 15, but there is a smile amnesty for the next two months to accommodate those who have already filed happy-looking photos or have not heard of the…

Off Topic
Aug 28, 2003

"Could not open in Design view. Quote values differently..." solved!

Ever get this message when working in the Vs.Net webform designer? “Could not open in Design view. Quote values differently inside a '<%...” etc This problem is easily solved by replacing nesting double quotes with…

.Net Quotations, Tips & Tricks
Aug 28, 2003

Ed has left the building

Ed Kaim: “ I've decided to take some time off from blogging ”. This sucks. Ed has been one of my favorites for a long time, with great stories and good inside scoops on what it like “out there”. Too bad.

Blogging, Off Topic
Aug 28, 2003

Main feed for blogs.gotdotnet.com, please!

Steve strikes a chord when he says “ Main feed for blogs.gotdotnet.com, please! “.

Blogging, Off Topic
Aug 29, 2003

A .Net weblogger business card?

Would it be too “out there” if I were to create business cards saying : Roy Osherove Catch me at ISerializable.com this way I can hand it over to people I meet in user groups and stuff. I think it makes an impression,…

Blogging, Off Topic
Aug 29, 2003

A 'softie at a linux show

Josh Ledgard from MS talks about the impressions of a 'softie in a linux show . Some very interesting comments, and at least one surprising anacdote.. Some of the more intersting parts:: “Listening (and Responding) to…

Off Topic
Aug 29, 2003

I've been slacking off

Yeah. I do need to get more serious about wrting to the blog. Lately I feel I've been mostly “hanging on” rather than charging forward with the tech vengeance I had. I've been so tied up with the new job, that I can't…

Blogging, Off Topic
Aug 29, 2003

MSDE - The missing piece

Thanks to Mike Gunderloy for pointing out this great article on MSDE. It should have been entitled : Everything you wanted to ask about MSDE

Cool Articles
Sep 1, 2003

Writing a product review

Mike has more writer's advice. This time about writing a product review . “ Today I want to talk a bit about writing product reviews. Having spent quite a while as the Product Editor for MCP Magazine , this is an area…

Cool Articles, Off Topic
Sep 1, 2003

Asynchronous ASP.Net actions suck?

Every once in a while you get to do dev work in an area you know nothing about. That’s me and ASP.Net. Well, I do know some things but it’s all theoretical. I never really got to do asp.net development in a “real”…

.Net Original
Sep 1, 2003

The [Conditional] Attribute

If you want to write methods that are only available with conditional compiler arguments you can use an attribute just for that purpose: < Conditional("DEBUG")> _ Private Sub MyMethod() End Sub [Conditional("DEBUG")]…

.Net Original
Sep 1, 2003

Hosting the CLR - the native approach

A while ago I posted about a user group session which involved explanations about CLR hosting, among others. Hosting can be done either through COM interfaces or through native C or C++. Although the lecturer talked…

.Net Original, Cool Articles
Sep 1, 2003

Book: Windows Forms Programming in C#

Chris Sells : “ My WinForms book for C# programmers should be on the shelves today. I've set up the site where you can download the source and report problems. The VB.NET version should be out at the PDC. Enjoy. ”…

.Net Quotations, Off Topic
Sep 1, 2003

A good introduction to IT blogging and blogs in general

For a while now I've been looking for a way to introduce people(mainly other developers) to weblogging and RSS feeds, but could not find a good intro that “gets” it. Now I think I've come across just that: Blogs:…

Blogging, Cool Articles, Off Topic
Sep 1, 2003

Make the "Beziers" screen saver look good

Here's a simple way to create a nice looking screen saver from one of the screen savers your machine is already equipped with (Beziers). Open the “screen saver properties” dialog Select “ Beziers “ Click “ Settings “…

Off Topic
Sep 1, 2003

Showing the "Browse For Folder" dialog

Another one from Derek Stone . Boy this guy seems to have all the answers for me today. This time it's a simple class that shows the “Browse for folder” dialog in VB.Net. It uses the…

.Net Quotations, Cool Articles
Sep 1, 2003

A better disposable email

“ I am Jack's single serve email address .” [via HDConsultants ] This disposable email is even better than mailinator , because it actually forwards email to your real address, but you get to say when the fake email…

Cool Tools, Off Topic
Sep 2, 2003

Israel Visual Basic User Group this wednesday - on ADO.Net

The September meeting of the Israel Visual Basic User Group http://www.renaissance.co.il/ivbug : “This month I hope to fulfill my promise to have a meeting dedicated to data access – let’s just hope the lights stay on…

.Net Quotations
Sep 2, 2003

GSM decrypted

Looks like our people in the israel Technion institute found a way to decrypt the GSM network stream , allowing them to listen in on about 850 million people's conversations. How scary is that?

Off Topic
Sep 2, 2003

The Final Release of NUnit V2.1 is now available

This is the third major release of NUnit and the second since it was rewritten to take advantage of .NET custom attributes. Highlights of this release include: * Support for the .NET framework versions 1.0 and 1.1 * The…

.Net Quotations, Cool Tools
Sep 2, 2003

Communication is key

“ ...Also, I've recently started to try to really concentrate on what my friends and family are saying when they start conversations with me while I'm working. (Previously I would continue working, giving a grunt now…

Off Topic
Sep 2, 2003

.NetWeblogs chosen for site of the week on ASPExperts

digging through the links in Shawn's post about ASPExpert's book of the week , I find that weblogs.asp.net has been chosen site of the week as well! Coolness! Way to go Scott :)

.NetWeblogs Site
Sep 2, 2003

Windows Forms Programming in C# Sample Chapter

AW has been kind enough to post the preface and a sample chapter (Chapter 9: Design-Time Integration) to the official AW Windows Forms Programming in C# book page. They've also posted Mike Blaszczak's foreword. Enjoy.…

.Net Quotations, Free book chapters
Sep 3, 2003

Cool utility of the day: Code Snippet Compiler

My blogging buddy Jeff Key (maker of the increasingly useful NetPing ) has posted yet another snazzy util, a Code Snippet Compiler . As .NET folks, we all find ourselves creating junk Console applications with a…

.Net Quotations, Cool Tools
Sep 3, 2003

RLRT htpd tscdrb gntst

This is a true matrix fan. And he shows us how to get at the latest hidden matrix trailer.

Off Topic
Sep 3, 2003

Israel Visual Basic User Group today - on ADO.Net

Israel Visual Basic User Group this Wednesday - on ADO.Net You don't have to be a VB programmer to learn about .Net. It's about the framework anyway. I recommend you be there. If you think you already know ado.net - go…

.Net Original
Sep 4, 2003

Books to buy

Here's the list of books my company is planning to buy in the next few days (suggestions are welcome) : Windows Forms Programming in C# Essential .NET, Volume I: The Common Language Runtime Patterns of Enterprise…

.Net Original
Sep 4, 2003

Debugging shortcuts - Run to cursor, Find next statement

Here are some common debugging tasks that I've found you can do with the keyboard: * sometimes when I debug I go to all sorts of places in my code, while inside a breakpoint or when debugging line by line. In order to…

.Net Original
Sep 4, 2003

Congratulations Lior!

Lior Rozner is getting married today! Woohoo! Congratulations Lior, I wish you everything you'll ever want or need :)

Off Topic
Sep 4, 2003

Automatic Data-Relations

Greg asks about data relation support in Yukon . Meanwhile, in the present, there are several ways to avoid building those relations manually in code: Return hierachical data from your SQL server procedures (with the…

.Net Original
Sep 4, 2003

Cool debugging tool of the day: Developer Playground

My friend Jonas Blunck , author of the most excellent ieHTTPHeaders and ComTrace , dropped me a line a couple of days ago, to let me know he's dropped a new development tool -- Developer Playground . This is yet another…

.Net Quotations, Cool sites
Sep 4, 2003

MSDN could have had me

The upcoming MSDN magazine will feature this article: Plug-Ins : Let Users Add Functionality to Your .NET Applications with Macros and Plug-Ins by Jason Clark Damn. Sounds like my two articles about plug-ins in .Net…

Cool Articles
Sep 4, 2003

Unit testing links, and NUnit Add-in rocks

While browsing around Jamie's weblog , I noticed two very interesting links concerning Unit testing: Test-Driven Development In .NET Unit Testing and Test-First Development Next week I'm planning on opening the first of…

Cool Articles
Sep 5, 2003

Service-Oriented Architecture and Programming

Just finished watching these two MSDN TV shows: SOAP: Service-Oriented Architecture and Programming, Pt. 1 SOAP: Service-Oriented Architecture and Programming, Pt. 2 which are just the same lecture by Don box split in…

Cool Articles
Sep 5, 2003

Full-featured Automatic Argument Parser

Full-featured Automatic Argument Parser - Another command-line parsing class for .NET. This one makes good use of attributes to set things up in a natural way. [ Larkware ] It looks totally cool. Can't wait for my next…

.Net Quotations
Sep 5, 2003

The Hyperlinked Organization

A post on the Xtreme Programming mailing list pointed to this article: The Hyperlinked Organization (David Weinberger) It's a wonderful read. Here's a quote: .. Increasingly, a useful expert is not someone with…

Cool Articles, Off Topic
Sep 5, 2003

Pics from the new office

Although I recently switched jobs, I never really blogged about it. I'll make up for it a little now with a few pics from the new digs. These are *really* new digs mind you. In fact, I came in two weeks before the whole…

Off Topic
Sep 5, 2003

[Book] Managed DirectX 9 Kick Start : Graphics and Game Programming

Brad Abrams reports of a new book by one of the dev leades on the Managed DirectX : Managed DirectX 9 Kick Start : Graphics and Game Programming

.Net Quotations
Sep 6, 2003

Usability vs. Beauty

Mickey Williams takes me to task on Usability vs. Beauty . I disagree, but understand his point. I think more beautiful designs are simply more usable. Why? Because they are more pleasing to use. [ Robert Scoble ]…

Off Topic
Sep 6, 2003

Can we have this for the PDC as well?

I am all-over- this . Yes folks, you can see and hear all the Teched 2003 sessions. Yes. see and hear! Notice that every session on that page has two links. The lower one is to merely download the PPT file, but the…

.Net Quotations, Cool sites
Sep 7, 2003

SQL Server Professional: System-Supplied Trace UDFs

Most of you have probably created your own SQL Server user-defined functions (UDFs), but did you know that Microsoft ships a fair number of its own UDFs, especially in the most recent SP3? In this article, Baya…

Cool Articles
Sep 7, 2003

Israel .NET web User Group meeting at September 10th - Performance & Caching

Hi All, This month meeting will take place on Wednesday, Sep 10th, at 17:45 (Registration and "Kibud-Kal" from 17:00). The meeting will take place at Microsoft meeting room at the "hapnina" 2 Raanana. Lecture Topic:…

.Net Quotations
Sep 8, 2003

The OLE syndrom

So wrote the Inside OLE guru: “.. I considered all of this utter nonsense. [†] I had no use for adoration, admiration, and obeisance. Flattery was useless, and I certainly didn’t want to shoulder the responsibility of…

Free book chapters, Off Topic
Sep 8, 2003

Why people are not into RSS readers

Don Browning Answers to a post by Robert Scoble about the amount of bloggers at MS: “Well Robert, over here at Turner (BTW, don't know if I've ever said it publicly but I work for Turner Broadcasting ), we have 3…

Blogging, Off Topic
Sep 8, 2003

BuildIt

I haven't really looked in to automatic build managers using .Net. I really should. But where do I start? Where do I look for good builders? Is there a page out there that lists them all?

.Net Quotations
Sep 8, 2003

Issues and solutions with Process and Request Identity in ASP.NET

Just found a great KB article that explains how deal with all kinds of permission and identity issues when doing stuff from ASP.NET. I've highlighted the sections so you can see all the tasks that could use…

.Net Original, Cool Articles
Sep 9, 2003

.Net security blogs

Darrell Norton posts about two very good .net security related blogs he found: Ivan , and Greg . Subscribed!

.Net Quotations, Blogging
Sep 9, 2003

NerdTV

There's nothing like a good techie streamed presentation to get me going in the late hours of the night. Yes.My name is Roy and I'm a geek. And this looks to be one of my favorite sites in the near future: University of…

Cool Articles, Off Topic
Sep 9, 2003

X1 is cool

X1 is the coolest searcher ever. But it should have a " developer mode " configured. It can't find any of the files in my C:\intpub\adminScripts. :(
Sep 9, 2003

Pair Programming Q&A

Jonathan links to a good Q&A about pair programming, which I have always wanted to try and implement “for real”. Never got the chance though. ps. Is it just me or is the main feed broken?

Off Topic
Sep 9, 2003

IntelliJ IDEA Aurora Easter Egg

Luke finds the IntelliJ IDEA Aurora Easter Egg amd it's pretty cool, in a haxorz sort of way :)

.Net Quotations
Sep 9, 2003

Google likes me

Heh. I rule Google :) http://www.google.com/search?hl=&cat=&meta=&q=ISerializable (And Matt Berther is on my tracks...)

Blogging, Off Topic
Sep 9, 2003

My favorites in OPML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <opml xmlns:xsd=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema " xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance "> <head> <title>Generated by SharpReader -…

Other
Sep 9, 2003

What do I subscribe to? Get the OPML

I've decided to post my blog favorites as an OPML file for your subscription pleasure. it is exported from SharpReader, so you have some categories in there. Hopefully I'll be updating it as time goes by and I come…

Blogging
Sep 10, 2003

Scott Hanselman's C:\Utils

Here are most of the contents of my C:/UTILS folder. These are all well loved and used. I wouldn't recommend them if I didn't use them constantly. Perhaps Roy didn't realize what he was asking for. [ Scott Hanselman ]…

Cool Tools
Sep 10, 2003

So, you have to live with 1.0?

Some of us still use the 1.0 framework (for pretty weird reasons, some people still believe that moving to 1.1 would be a bad thing.. and it's not - if you take the necessary precautions and know what breaks between…

.Net Original
Sep 10, 2003

More geeky streaming lectures

After I posted about the NerdTV , another gem occurred on my path. In a comment to that post, Michael Favro wrote: “Then you'll love the Multi-University/Research Laboratory Seminar Series at…

Cool Articles, Cool sites, Off Topic
Sep 10, 2003

Issue and solution: Web custom control not showing in designer with "Security Error" tooltip

Tal, my wife ran into a weird situation today: She created a web custom control with very simple text output(”Hello world”), After compiling it, she created a new web application and added the compiled control to the…

.Net Original
Sep 10, 2003

Israeli .Net web casts - finally!

If you're a Israeli .Net developer, MS israel has finally started taking baby steps towards providing webcasts in hebrew about .Net. Just got the email (Thanks dana). So - wer'e gonna have 3 webcasts: 22.9.03 - .Net…

.Net Original
Sep 11, 2003

Document outline

For the past few weeks I've been deep diving into ASP.Net land. One of the things I wasn't prepared for was the amount of time I would have to spend tweaking and changing HTML and Java Scripts. A lot. Lots of times I…

.Net Original, Tips & Tricks
Sep 11, 2003

Geeky lectures - part III

In the ongoing geeky lectures saga, Dumky says: I have aggregated a bunch of similar links a couple of weeks back. http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000099.html

Cool sites, Off Topic
Sep 11, 2003

Happy Anniversary, honey. I love you.

This weekend my wife Tal and I are celebrating our 2 year anniversary. Honey , I love you with all my heart. I want to live with you for the rest of my life. Keep that amazing smile you always have, and may all our…

Off Topic
Sep 13, 2003

Pure simplicity

How's this for pure simplicity? In VS.Net - CTRL-X when nothing is selected - Cuts the current line CTRL-C when nothing is selected - Copies the current line I never knew and never tried. Huh. Thanks d0m1 !

.Net Quotations, Tips & Tricks
Sep 14, 2003

Interesting research

aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses…

Off Topic
Sep 14, 2003

IsNumeric() hell

As an old VB'er I have to ask - what's up with the lack of IsNumeric() in the base class library? Why is there a Char.IsNumber() but no string.IsNumeric()? Why should I have to reference Microsoft.VisualBasic.Dll for…

.Net Original
Sep 14, 2003

IsNumeric() hell

As an old VB'er I have to ask - what's up with the lack of IsNumeric() in the base class library? Why is there a Char.IsNumber() but no string.IsNumeric()? Why should I have to reference Microsoft.VisualBasic.Dll for…

.Net Original
Sep 15, 2003

I'm in the "contributor spotlight" on MSDNAA

Looks like one of my articles on MSDN-AA just made the contributor spotlight section on the front page! Check it out, it's down there on the right lower corner. I'm am honored :)

.Net Original, Cool Articles
Sep 16, 2003

VB.Net Whidbey Nuggets

Ah. Some great VB.Net Whidbey Nuggets from David McNamee's blog. Looks like Good ol' VB is gonna be just as important to master as is C#, if not more. Productivity, remember? It's the one thing that will save your job…

.Net Quotations
Sep 16, 2003

A list of regular expression tools

http://www.larkware.com/RegexTools.html Need I say more? Do you know any other good ones?

Cool Tools
Sep 16, 2003

Real world test driven development

Peter gives an excellent example of doing real-world Test-Driven development using NUnit 2.1. It's all about simplicity. This example is good because it's not really an example. It's something he actually had to do, and…

.Net Quotations
Sep 17, 2003

A glimpse into the future

Jesse Ezell points to a book preview that tells a lot about what's coming next for ADO.NET . The same is available for ASP.NET . [ Fabrice MARGUERIE ] (Insert happy remark here)

.Net Quotations
Sep 17, 2003

More useful tools (and these are all free)

following in the footsteps of Scott Hanselman who posted his list of Power Tools that he uses, I decided to post a partial list of the ones I use. How mine probably will differ is that mine will be all *free* utilities.…

Cool Tools
Sep 17, 2003

XP is still widely unknown black magic

XP always interested me. I always wanted to try out real-world live XP style development but never really got the chance. The problem is, at least in Israel, most people don't even know what this acronym means, let…

Off Topic
Sep 17, 2003

Feeds of interest

MSDN magazine - recent articles: Feed MSDN - just published: Feed 4GuysFromRolla headlines: Feed The Google weblog: Feed (always cool know leanr of the latest new features in Google..) Dilbert: Feed Garfield: Feed…

Cool sites
Sep 17, 2003

.Net resources abound at ARK 3.0

Benjamin J. J. Voigt posts what seems to be a very valuable .net resource: ARK 3.0 . Lots of cool and interesting articles in there, including presentations and other goodies. In first glance I really liked these…

Cool Articles
Sep 18, 2003

XmlUnit

This is a good idea: XmlUnit ofr .net and Java [via XProgramming via Robert ]

Cool Tools
Sep 18, 2003

Ed has returned to the building

I went to a casual dinner tonight with some bloggers in the area, including Chris Chris Sells and Robert Robert Scoble . As a result, I feel inspired to make an honest effort to get back to blogging. [ Ed Kaim ] Woohoo!…

Blogging
Sep 18, 2003

RegexLib RSS now even cooler

Darren just informed me that the RegexLib RSS feed now shows the description of the regex in the “subject” instead of the full regex text, which is a real blessing. Now I can sit back and watch for new and cool regexs…

.Net Original, Blogging
Sep 19, 2003

Passed MCP 70-316

Today was a good day. Got up at 7am(on a Friday - that's a Saturday for you US folks) and drove Tal to her university course, and I myself headed over to “John Brice” IT schools HQ and took my first MCP exam related to…

.Net Original
Sep 19, 2003

Data Access application block v3.0 has some good stuff

Ugh. We just found out that our car's window has been smashed and the radio-disc has been taken. This happens in the same week that my wife has a small accident with a city bus smashing into her car(she's alrught!), and…

.Net Quotations
Sep 19, 2003

Cool site: Software Reality

An innocent link in Benjamin's blog lead me to this very nice site about software development. It contains a lot of articles about lots of stuff, most with a touch of satire in them, but it all seems like its a very…

Cool sites
Sep 20, 2003

Making a decision in 4 seconds (or: How to know what you *really* want to do)

Need to decide between two things and it's really hard to make the decision? Here's a quick way to understand what you really really want to choose: Take a coin to flip Decide in advance which side represents each…

Off Topic
Sep 21, 2003

Looking for a reporting solution for .Net

We're currently looking for a good Reports generator for .Net. Crystal sucks payment wise, and I know ActiveReports is good, but does anyone know another one? Support for hebrew is NOT a requirement in this case. Just…

Off Topic
Sep 21, 2003

Asp.Net error handling

Here' are two ways to incorporate global error handling in ASP.NET: Implement IHttpHandler Use the HttpApplication.Error event And here's a more in-depth article about this subject (also points to…

Cool Articles
Sep 21, 2003

Introduction to Test-driven development with NUnit and the NUnit-Add-in

Every once in a while in my development career I realize just how much I’ve been missing out on some technique that I’ve just discovered. Such was the case with learning about Design patterns , as was the case with…

Unit Testing
Sep 21, 2003

[Article] Introduction to Test-driven development with NUnit and the NUnit-Add-in

It's been a while since my last article, but this one has been lurking inside me for the past month or so. It's the first of a series I plan to write about Unit-Testing in .Net (well, maybe just another one down the…

.Net Original, Cool Articles
Sep 21, 2003

A macro to automatically attach to aspnet_wp.exe

This was on the win-tech-off-topic mailing list: A macro to automatically attach to aspnet_wp.exe, written by Kevin Dente can save lots of clicking around time: <quote> Sub AttachAspNet() Dim process As EnvDTE.Process…

.Net Quotations, Tips & Tricks
Sep 21, 2003

Where did the desktops disappear?

I can't bloody believe it. For some reason, all the desktop screenshots on the desktop gallery are gone! Now why the hell did that happen?

Off Topic
Sep 22, 2003

Sharing ASP.NET user controls accross projects

We recently published a How-To on support.microsoft.com for how to share user controls across projects. In talking with customers, one of the things they would like to do is have a common set of reusable web UI, say a…

Cool Articles
Sep 22, 2003

HOW TO: Encrypt the settings in your web.config

We're currently looking into this subject matter, and this article was a big leap forward in our efforts: HOW TO: Use the ASP.NET Utility to Encrypt Credentials and Session State Connection Strings

Cool Articles
Sep 22, 2003

Checklist: Securing ASP.NET

Wow! Checklist: Securing ASP.NET

Cool Articles
Sep 22, 2003

NAnt-addin: another coolness in the making?

Jamie Cansdale , proud parent of the coolness that is NUnit-Addin , is at it again. This time he's making an add-in for the NAnt build framework. If you hurry, he's looking for early alpha testers to help out with the…

.Net Quotations, Cool Tools
Sep 22, 2003

Nice blog

Yeah. It's not earth shattering or anything, and I'm sure not everyone will run out and subscribe, but I've found a nice quiet blog to read, and I really like it. When browsing through some of the PDC bloggers (I'm not…

Blogging
Sep 22, 2003

Cool cases

Huh. And you though your machine looked somewhat cool? Take a look at some of these .

Off Topic
Sep 22, 2003

Free chapter from "Essential .Net" by Don Box

Found this out through the DOTNET-CLR mailing list: You can read a free chapter from Don Box 's latest book Essential .Net, Volume 1 , over at Amazon . Looks very promising. it's chapter 3 and it's called “ Type Basics…

Free book chapters
Sep 23, 2003

Google search by location

Google Labs has released Search by Location . Enter some search terms and an address, city, or zip code and Google will return a bunch of results which contain nearby addresses and plot them on a map. You may recall…

Off Topic
Sep 23, 2003

Installation woes and SqlJunkies

Nothing beats waiting 2 hours for you vs.Net installation to complete just to discover there was an “Insert disc 1” prompt hidden behind all the other windows that you didn't notice! BTW, I just subscribed to SqlJunkies…

Off Topic
Sep 23, 2003

For a good time, call 1-800-FAULT-INJECTION-TESTING

Bruce E. Williams , of the MS testing team blogs about what fault injection really is, and how to utilizie it for good evil . Gotta love that.

.Net Quotations
Sep 23, 2003

I'm available

Perhaps it was in honor of my new MCP , or just because it is two days before the Hebrew new year's, I find myself looking for a job again . The tale is short and not that complicated. suffice to say that my current…

.Net Original
Sep 23, 2003

New Server Controls Provided by the ASP.NET Web Matrix

Quickly and easily build your ASP.NET Web applications with ASP.NET Web Matrix. Learn about this free development tool and new server controls that you can use in Web Matrix or Visual Studio .NET. [ MSDN just published ]

.Net Quotations
Sep 23, 2003

PDC hype and real actions

With all the PDC hype going about, instead of just cheerleading, why havn't we seen some contest or giveaway of free tickets to the PDC? wouldn't that be cool, Scoble ?

Off Topic
Sep 23, 2003

Getting the list of installed programs on the local machine

Here's a snippet from the win-tech-off-topic list: Getting the list of installed programs on the local machine: static void GetInstalled() { string uninstallKey = @"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall";…

.Net Quotations
Sep 24, 2003

The perfect birthday gift

Can I have this for my birthday? it's a P4 3,8 Ghz and it's only 7,800$. (link via Chris )

Off Topic
Sep 24, 2003

Some stuff

Joel spolsky tells us how he designed his dream office . I'm not crazy about the colors, but he details some very important points to look out for when designing office space, especially if you want people to be able to…

Off Topic
Sep 24, 2003

Fun with Unit Tests – Testing abstract classes

Download the source for this article: Direct link Summary In this article I’ll be looking into a trickier part of unit testing– testing the functionality of classes who cannot be instantiated on their own, abstract…

Unit Testing
Sep 24, 2003

[Article] Fun with Unit Tests – Testing abstract classes

Just posted my latest article: Fun with Unit Tests – Testing abstract classes Summary In this article I’ll be looking into a trickier part of unit testing– testing the functionality of classes who cannot be instantiated…

.Net Original
Sep 25, 2003

Nothing like the smell of new books!

Just ordered 3 books from Amazon : How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers COM+ and the Battle for the Middle Tier Test Driven…

Off Topic
Sep 25, 2003

AmazReplacer - Convert Amazon's URL into your referrer URL automatically

I've created a small utility app that does that automatically takes whatever URL is in the clipboard , reformats it to be an Amazon referral URL and puts the result in the clipboard. Very easy and fast. You can download…

.Net Original, Cool sites
Sep 25, 2003

Expresso up to version 1.2 already

Looks like Expresso , my tool of choice for working with regular expressions, is already on version 1.2 and I missed it! Hurry up and download it . From what I can see they added : Saving your own library of regular…

Cool Tools
Sep 26, 2003

Testing nirvana

Josh Ledgard Has been writing some very interesting posts. He's a testing team at MS and as such, writes posts about testing with an understating and knowledge that only someone who did testing on products such as…

.Net Quotations
Sep 26, 2003

Pay for my PDC?

“ D ave Bettin , one of the best developers I've ever worked with really wants to go to the PDC - he's asking for some help ...” “...If you can, please donate a few bucks to his PDC fund [via paypal]...” [ Philip Rieck…

Blogging, Off Topic
Sep 26, 2003

Google Code Jam 2003

Google, which previously sponsored the 2002 Google Programming Contest , 2003 Google US Puzzle Championship , CodeCon 2003 is now sponsoring something new: Google Code Jam 2003 Do you have exceptional programming…

Off Topic
Sep 26, 2003

Excellent ASP.NET Identity Matrix reference

I remember reading about this somewhere, and came across this great reference! Hurray for the MS patterns and practices team! Summary: This document provides tables that illustrate, for a range of IIS authentication…

.Net Quotations
Sep 27, 2003

nsh - A tool to run .NET source files like script files.

nsh - A tool to run .NET source files like script files. [ Larkware ] From the site: .NET currently lacks a freely-available scripting language (like WSH VBScript / JScript). nsh allows you to compile and run a .NET…

.Net Quotations, Cool Tools
Sep 28, 2003

Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool

Download the source files . Index: Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool 1 What you’ll need . 1 Summary . 1 Introduction . 2 Planning a site scrape . 2 Regex – a powerful scraping tool 2 Creating our scraping regular…

Regular Expressions
Sep 28, 2003

[New article]: Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool (site scraping)

It's been a long and very interesting week for me. I know it's weird hearing that the week I start looking for a new job, but it's true. I've been getting lots of interesting offers from people, especially from the…

.Net Original, Cool Articles, Cool Tools
Sep 29, 2003

Engineering Notebook: An Extreme Programming Episode

In order to demonstrate XP (eXtreme Programming) practices, Bob Koss (RSK) and Bob Martin (RCM) will pair program a simple application while you watch like a fly on the wall. We will use test first design and a lot of…

Cool Articles
Sep 29, 2003

Appsettings can Reference an External Config File

I did not know this! “I recently discovered that the app/web.config file can reference an external config file to get some or all of its appsettings. .. “ [ Paul Wilson ] (follow the link to learn how) Excellent tip!

.Net Quotations, Tips & Tricks
Sep 29, 2003

Creating Doc-Centric Apps in WinForms, part 1 of 3

Chris Chris Sells wrote a 3 -part series titled “ Creating Doc-Centric Apps in WinForms “: This 3-part series really belonged as a chapter in my WinForms book, but after doubling the estimated size of the book (not to…

.Net Quotations, Cool Articles
Sep 29, 2003

PDC hype is really really really annoying!

“I am very excited about the upcoming PDC, but I can't reveal to you a lot that I already know until PDC actually starts. “ [ .NET Undocumented ] Well, G-wiz, Thanks for sharing that! You know, I'm getting sick and…

Off Topic
Sep 30, 2003

Unit Test Your .NET Data Access Layer: Where are the Mocks?

I was real excited to see an article up on MSDN that discusses Test Driven development (via Ashutosh Nilkanth ). Not only that, it discusses the issue of testing database related code inside your unit tests - a messy…

.Net Original, Cool Articles
Sep 30, 2003

Responses to agile concerns

Our very own Steve Eichert recently posted on the skeptics' view of agile . It has taken a while, but I have compiled responses to each of the original concerns, in order. [ Darrell Norton ] Darrell approaches most of…

.Net Quotations
Sep 30, 2003

See you at the Israel .Net user group tomorrow!

Next Meeting: October 1, 2003 (Wednesday) 17:30 - 18:00 Assembly 18:00 - 18:05 Introduction and miscellaneous 18:05 - 19:15 “Life Without Enterprise Services” Yosi Taguri and Lior Rozner , SPL Software 19:15 - 19:30…

.Net Original
Sep 30, 2003

Google Frequent Searchers tool

“ Do you search with Google a hundred times a day? Do you reach for Google before the phonebook, the dictionary or the newspaper? Do you think, just maybe, you're a Google frequent searcher? Now you can know for sure.…

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Sep 30, 2003

[Cool Tool]: Code Library for .Net

If you are looking for a way to manage your sample code, snippets, articles, etc. get Code Library . It is available in SQL Server and access versions. Very high quality software and FREE. You can even drag links right…

.Net Quotations, Cool Tools
Oct 1, 2003

Win A Free pass to the PDC!

Yup - Wintellect is giving away a free pass. You'll have to pay all other associated costs of the trip. But this is huge! You guys rock. (hooray Sara!!!!!) http://www.wintellect.com/special/pdc.aspx [ Julie Lerman ] Oh…

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Oct 1, 2003

The Exception Model

Without even skimming through it first I'm letting you know that Chris brumme posted another “post”: The Exception Model Just a little something to read in bed. Oh, I forgot to mention. It's 11,200 words, by the way.…

.Net Quotations, Cool Articles
Oct 1, 2003

Congratulations Robert!

Every once in while we all get to have our “Special Day” where everything is just handy dandy, and all our hard work comes back to haunt us in a good way. Such is today for Robert McLaws . He's full of announcements:…

Blogging, Off Topic
Oct 1, 2003

Visual Basic Resource Kit (C# developers are not banned!)

The download isn't up yet, it takes some time to sign and virus scan an entire CD packaged up as a zip, but the site that details what is included is there! Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit for all the…

.Net Quotations, Cool Tools
Oct 2, 2003

Visual Studio .NET Shortcut Key Guide

Keyboard shortcuts can save hours of programming time. Appendix A of Mastering Visual Studio .NET lists the command, shortcut, and description of each in a convenient table format. [via safari.oreilly.com ] Heaven. I'm…

Free book chapters, Tips & Tricks
Oct 2, 2003

Two good blogs: Hiring Technical People, Managing Product Development

I just found out about these two magnificent blogs, and I highly recommend both of them to everyone. Both are from the same source: Managing Product Development Blog Hiring Technical People Blog (recommended for job…

Blogging, Off Topic
Oct 2, 2003

Real Progress Bars in Web Application

I was fighting with this a while ago and I think I found at article right to the point on the subject: Real Progress Bars in Web Application “The key thing for creating Progress Bar in a web application, is the…

.Net Quotations, Cool Articles
Oct 2, 2003

Web GUI unit testing techniques

Continuing my Unit testing theme in recent weeks, I've found a very interesting post in reply to a question posted on the XP mailing list . What was so interesting is that the question, and thus the answer, deal with a…

.Net Quotations
Oct 3, 2003

Skype Rocks!

I just realized something - Skype totally and utterly rocks! It would be really cool to get to talk with some of the people I've been IM'ing with for the past few months. So if you'd like to voice me, feel free. My User…

Cool Articles, Off Topic
Oct 4, 2003

Another day, another bombing

Nothing like waking up from a Saturday noon nap and finding out there's been another terrorist bombing. But don't worry ,this is Israel. We're used to it. The suicide bomber went into a restaurant in Haifa city - one of…

Off Topic
Oct 4, 2003

AmazReplacer- revamped

Got this email from ScottW regarding my AmazReplacer tool: Hi Roy, If you are interested, I made a couple of quick tweaks to your Amazon replacer. 1. Allowed AssociateID to be configurable (sorry :) 2. Added handling…

Cool Tools
Oct 5, 2003

Fun with NUnit - clarification

I just got a comment on my Unit Testing article. The comment was by Manfred Land - the Project Manager for csUnit, and it clarifies some errors and some things I didn't write(or know) about csUnit when I wrote the…

.Net Original
Oct 5, 2003

Funny [ot] post

Although waaay of topic, this is truly one of the funniest posts I've ever read. :)

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Oct 5, 2003

Scoble on .Net Rocks? Give me a break..

OK. Is it just me or does it sound really ridiculous that Scoble is being interviewed for the NET Rocks show ? I mean, How is Scoble related to .Net development, other that the fact that he knows people who do it? Oh,…

Blogging, Off Topic
Oct 5, 2003

More on .Net Rocks

Speaking of .Net Rocks , Mark Dunn, one of the anchors, commented on the last show they made (in the tavern): Hi Roy, We've had several folks comment on the sound quality. In response, Carl has reworked that file.…

Off Topic
Oct 5, 2003

Good JavaScript reference and help

This site looks like a very promising resource for learning the basics (and no so basics) of JavaScript. It's something I'm just getting the hang of, and already I've found it very useful with a discussion about the…

Cool sites
Oct 5, 2003

Geek marriage - Episode I

Oh yeah. My wife and I are real geeks(even though she won't admit it for a loong time). The other day we had a discussion about washing the dishes. I found out that she had a totally different way of washing the dishes…

Off Topic
Oct 6, 2003

When running 'aspnet_regiis -c' still doesn't fix it...

If you ever find yourself with this error: “ Unable to find script library '/aspnet_client/system_web/1_1_4322/WebUIValidation.js'. Try placing this file manually, or reinstall by running 'aspnet_regiis -c'.” and you've…

.Net Original
Oct 6, 2003

The "Don box" of windows installer?

Rob Mensching has been working at MS, primarily on the Office Setup/Deployment team, for the past 4 years or so; It figures that when he has something to say about Installer Merge Modules , it's wise to sit down and…

.Net Quotations, Cool Articles
Oct 6, 2003

.Net Blogging MVP - a myth?

So here's a tough question. despite the fear of sounding too full of myself (which I notably am), is it remotely possible to receive an MVP award on blogging? Is there any chance that if I do this long enough and hard…

Off Topic
Oct 6, 2003

Getting a focus on performance - some new pages

Brad Adams's performance team just posted their own page on GotDotNet . Very cool. That page also points to the MSDN performance center , which currently has lots more information. It's great to see performance focused…

.Net Quotations, Cool Articles, Cool sites
Oct 6, 2003

More than 500 sample chapters

Srinivasa Sivakumar has listed more than 500 sample chapters (in HTML/PDF format) on his resource site , from various books related to .NET. A great resource! [ Ashutosh Nilkanth's .NET Blog ] Awsome! Some serious gold…

.Net Quotations, Free book chapters
Oct 6, 2003

[Cool tool] : Visustin - Visually graph your code

I'm currently in the process of reviewing and understanding a bunch of legacy VB 6.0 code. One of the trickiest parts of reviewing such things is getting the “gist” of what's going on on a specific method, or…

Cool Tools
Oct 6, 2003

.Net Rocks closure, suggestion, and discovering Salamander. Oh my!

Carl Franklin stopped by for another comment on my pseudo-flaming post about Scoble . What he wrote made me very happy. I'll cite this here because I think those guys deserve a big round of respect from the community…

Blogging, Cool Tools
Oct 6, 2003

Excellent TDD articles, and a Code Kata

"TANSTAAFL! - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch." I liked this acronym so much I had to post it. I ran across it in one of a group of amazing articles that depict working in test driven development: Test Driven…

Cool Articles
Oct 7, 2003

[Tip]:MemoryStream.GetBuffer() vs. MemoryStream.ToArray()

One of my readers posted a comment on my Site-To-RSS article that just solved me a bunch of trouble! In the article, I was using a memory stream to write the XML into memory. I was using the MemoryStream.GetBuffer()…

.Net Original
Oct 7, 2003

A big bug in Google

Seth Finkelstein has made a startling discovery, backed with lots of evidence : when a spam result comes up in a search, Google not only blocks the spam, but every result after it. This means that for searches where…

Off Topic
Oct 8, 2003

Why I like SharpReader better

if there are only two things that are missing from SharpReader , they would be: an “author“ column a “Flag for later“ column That's it. Really. Today, SharpReader is , to me, much more useful that, say, NewsGator or…

Blogging, Cool Tools
Oct 8, 2003

Describing and evaluating API usability at Microsoft

BradA (wouldn't it be cool to just write “Brabrams“?:) posts about Describing and evaluating API usability at Microsoft . It's a power point presentation that describes just what you should be thinking about when…

Cool Articles, Off Topic
Oct 8, 2003

Introducing SiteFeeder

Now you can have an RSS feed for almost any site you want. Introducing SiteFeeder . 'nuff said.

.Net Original, Cool sites
Oct 9, 2003

Another one bites the dust (XP magazine RSS feed anyone?)

Just added another RSS feed to SiteFeeder : XP Magazine - list of articles RSS feed How cool is this?

Blogging
Oct 9, 2003

New feed for Tech Guru

Ali (“Tech Guru”) , the Iranian Blogger, just got his brand new RSS feed . I'm liking this!

Blogging
Oct 9, 2003

The feed of all feeds (literally!)

Feedable - latest new feeds 'nuff said.

Blogging
Oct 9, 2003

.Net Rocks be bloggin'!

Oh cool! Carl Franklin, of . Net Rocks , just opened a blog here ! subscribed! Welcome aboard Carl :)

Blogging
Oct 10, 2003

Phew.. art coming your way

For the heck of it I added some “art” to the new site , and a small banner to it on the blog. If you have an RSS feed from Feedable , It would be great if you put this small banner to the site with a link to it: Also,…

Blogging
Oct 10, 2003

RSS feed for SysInternals

If you'd have registered for the Feedable RSS feed , you would have known by now that, among others, I've added an RSS feed for SysInternals . Yep. Now we'll know in real time when new or updated tools come to life.…

Blogging
Oct 13, 2003

Feedable will be offline a bit

Making some updates...

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Oct 13, 2003

More Feedable updates

Yeah I know. It's starting to look like the Feedable blog here, but I promise i'll stop soon. This site has been a great learning experience for me. I couldn't have asked for a better way to start learning web…

Blogging
Oct 13, 2003

Better times ahead?

One of the first feeds that I generated using Feedable, was Ali's Blog(Tech Guru). . He's a math student in Tehran. We never really got to talk until I made that RSS feed for him yet Somehow we got to chatting on MSN.…

Blogging
Oct 14, 2003

Cool trick of the day - VSS keyword expansion

Well, I certainly didn't know about this cool VSS feature! turn this: '$History: Form1.vb $ ' into this: '***************** Version 24 ***************** 'User: Guest Date: 10/13/03 Time: 12:49p 'Updated in…

.Net Quotations, Tips & Tricks
Oct 14, 2003

Microsoft PDC 2003 Sessions RSS feed? Oh yeah!

I'm gonna be really really subscribed to this feed . Hopefully, they'll have the sense to put in ppt links inside the posts as well.

Off Topic
Oct 15, 2003

FDML? Here's a different direction

I’m not much in the way of thinking about various RSS standards, XML schemas and so on, so usually all the stuff that Sam Ruby writes about those matters gets blurred to me real fast. Maybe it’s because I’ve been so…

Blogging
Oct 15, 2003

[Article] on MSDNAA: Creating a Generic Site-To-Rss Tool

My Site-To-Rss article was just published on MSDNAA : Creating a Generic Site-To-Rss Tool

.Net Original, Cool Articles
Oct 16, 2003

[Rant] Horrible two weeks

Well, I can safely say that these past 2 weeks sucked BIG time. Our only car broke down, requiring about 1,500$ worth of repairs and 3 days in the shop - leaving me no option but to cancel two important job interviews.…

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Oct 23, 2003

[Tool] Introducing The Regulator - advanced regex tool

Yeah, I've been away too long, but here's how I'm making up for it: Introducing The Regulator : An advanced regular expression tool with expert features such as: Syntax highlighting and folding Multi threaded operations…

.Net Original, Cool Tools
Oct 24, 2003

The Regulator won't be available while I sort this GPL thing out.

Following the recent discussions about the legal status of The Regulator in terms of the GPL, I've decided to take down the public release of the program from GDN until: I can make it fully GPL compatible (i.e,…

.Net Original
Oct 25, 2003

The Regulator is BACK!

Thanks to a donation by SyncFusion , we've got ourselves a brand new, non GPL edit control, thus allowing me to re-distribute The Regulator without worries. Thanks, Syncfusion . You made my day :) This is how it looks,…

Cool Tools
Oct 26, 2003

A few lessons from IntelliJ IDEA

My wife is currently taking Java classes as part of her curriculum at the university. I've played with Java a couple of times in the past, but because I never got a real chance of “working” with it, it never really grew…

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Oct 26, 2003

And a few lessons from JBuilder

A few more features besides these come to mind when I think of other IDE’s I’ve used in the past that gave me the “ooh” factor. One of the more prominent ones is JBuilder 7.0 (That’s the version I played with). Several…

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Oct 26, 2003

.NET development - Extra tools?

Arthur Warren asked a simple question on the win_tech_off_topic mailing list: “ While I'm annoying people with questions / polls, I'd be curious to know what extra tools people tend to use. We're not fully buying into…

Cool Tools
Oct 26, 2003

Leaving for PDC post hailstorm

Looks like we're in the midst of a “Leaving for PDC” posts hailstorm. I suspect this will get worse as time goes by, as we'll start getting a “Just saw X, and it's cool”, and “Meet me by building 101B at 12:00” posts.…

Blogging, Off Topic
Oct 26, 2003

Calling webservices asynchronously - 2 possible ways

Calling a web service inside your win forms application is almost trivial. Making the user happy while you do it, is just a little less trivial, but very doable. Say I have this webservice call (and suppose I have an…

.Net Original
Oct 26, 2003

Peter and Douglas do it right (PDC Blogging the way I like it) and the list grows

Somehow, of all the “PDC Bloggers” out there in the wild, I heard almost nothing but fires, planes, wireless connections and “This is how I look” posts... except for Peter and Douglas (I'm talking only about PDC content…

Blogging
Oct 27, 2003

Nice GC tip

Doug Reilly posts about the big difference that happens in the GC between debug and release modes. I did not know that! Good one.

.Net Quotations
Oct 27, 2003

Winforms menu shortcuts not working sometimes? Use ProcessDialogKey()

One of the one of the usability standards I always try to live up to in my win forms apps is letting the user choose how to perform any specific action, Mouse or keyboard. What I mean is that for every action that the…

.Net Original
Oct 27, 2003

New skin and new book recommendation

Just thought I'd see how my blog looks with a different skin. I like it. I'll keep it. Also thought it's about time I update my favorite/most wanted book recommendation. So, I put the new link up on the blog. This time…

Off Topic
Oct 27, 2003

Got Proxy? Help me test The Regulator

One of the requests for The Regulator was that the web search will be able to use Proxy settings. While I've added the feature, I have no way to test it. So.. if you're not in the PDC and are behind a proxy and would…

Off Topic
Oct 27, 2003

KeyNote feed - live from the PDC (RSS feed, that is)

Scott Hanselman has been moblogging the whole PDC keynote ,and still going:

Blogging
Oct 27, 2003

WinSupersite RSS feed

I bet This will come in real handy during PDC week :) Consider WinSuperSite officially Feedable .

Blogging
Oct 27, 2003

Refactoring, FINALLY!

If there's one thing that stood out for me from the Whidbey screenshots, it's this: FINALLY, some refactoring support! Hopefully, this is just the beginning. The Whidbey team should take notice of the amount of…

.Net Original
Oct 27, 2003

Regulator Coming along nicely

Regulator is about to pass the 1,200 downloads mark (in 5 days). How cool is that? I've got an update coming. It will now support web searching through a Proxy, which , as I understand, was a small headache for some…

Cool Tools, Off Topic
Oct 28, 2003

Waiting for the Next RSS Bandit

Dare Says that all the features people want from SharpReader are already present in RSS Bandit . I agree. RSS Bandit , feature wise, is a much richer application. It's pretty weird to say this, but I really want to use…

Off Topic
Oct 29, 2003

New VB.Net features from the trenches, and the PDCBloggers feed is your friend

Tom Mertens writes about some of the cool new features in VB.Net in the next version of Visual Studio .Net (”Whidbey”). Lots of cool stuff in there. If you're interested in hearing all the latest cool news from the PDC…

.Net Quotations
Oct 29, 2003

Israel .Net web user group meets today - Design time programming in Vs.Net

The user group meets today, 29.10.03 registration starts at 17:00, groups starts at 17:45 at the MS HQ near ra'anana (Amdocs building) topics: What is it Design Time programming and what is it good for? Various…

.Net Original
Oct 29, 2003

RSS Bandit revamped - your comments appreciated

Dare has updated RSS Bandit again . I really appreciate how he's handling the comments on this software. This time RSS Bandit runs out much more responsive, but still not enough IMHO. although this time it is usable , I…

Blogging
Oct 30, 2003

Avalon automated UI Testing framework

This is great news! The Avalon UI Testing Framework appears to expose the UI components as an Object Model, that they are calling “Control Patterns” that expose the behavior of the controls. He's brought a Command…

.Net Quotations
Oct 30, 2003

Funny and informative "Lap Around Longhorn" video from MSDN TV

Yeah, I'm trying not to be too excited about something that we'll see in only a couple of years, but you really have to take a look at Don and Chris's MSDN TV show, where they recreate the presentation they made at the…

.Net Quotations
Oct 30, 2003

Easy Proxy handling through the ProxyFactory and ProxyInfo classes

Here’s a simple and easy class that will ease the pain of configuring a Proxy Connection in your applications. The way you’d use it is like so: ProxyInfo pi = new ProxyInfo(); pi . OverrideDefaultProxy =…

Other
Oct 31, 2003

A dream come true.. almost

I always knew my blog will get to places. Now it's gotten me into the USA. Well, sort of. People have been dreaming about me , you see. I'm so flattered that I think I'll start to dream about them back. My only wish is…

Off Topic
Oct 31, 2003

Nice Blog.

Yes, I agree . Rory runs a great Blog ! Wish I could write like that. It makes me feel like I haven't written anything really personal in a while. I think I was: Too consumed by projects and other stuff I was afraid…

Off Topic
Nov 2, 2003

PDC eye for the cynical guy

Mike Gunderloy sets off on a no-thrill ride through PDC land, letting us know just what he thinks about each and every “big statement” made there. It's not always pretty, but the truth hurts sometimes I guess.

.Net Quotations
Nov 2, 2003

New CLR Profiler version available

I forgot to mention the other day that a new version of the CLR Profiler is available for download . Here's a link to an earlier entry where I wrote about using it to dissect SharpReader 's memory usage. [ Furrygoat ]…

.Net Quotations
Nov 4, 2003

[Article/Code]: Easy Proxy handling through the ProxyFactory and ProxyInfo classes

I had to make The Regulator support Proxy servers, so I dug in to how the WebProxy class works, and with a little help from Darren , I managed to get it up and running. In the process, I wrote a little helper class that…

.Net Original, Cool Articles
Nov 4, 2003

[Article X 2] 2 more of mine published on MSDNAA

Two more articles posted on MSDNAA : Introduction to Test-driven Development with NUnit and the NUnit Add-in This article explores Test-Driven development (TDD) techniques. Fun with Unit Tests–Testing Abstract Classes…

.Net Original, Cool Articles
Nov 4, 2003

A horrible discovery

I made a horrible discovery today. SharpReader takes nearly 100MB of RAM when it's open (i have 250-300 feeds). No wonder my machine crawls when I try to friggin' compile something in VS.Net! So, I made a tough…

Off Topic
Nov 4, 2003

RSS feeds for your pleasure

Just in case you are NOT subscribed to the Feedable RSS feed , I've added some cool feeds the past weeks: The .Net rocks show is now hosted on MSDN , alas, there's no RSS feed to tell me when a new download is…

Blogging
Nov 4, 2003

Single user source code control - a must!

Eric explains why it's a good idea to use source control even when working all alone on a project. I completely agree. If you are NOT using any kind of source control (and you should at least be using SourceSafe on a…

Off Topic
Nov 5, 2003

12 hours or so to go

and you'll get to see the wonder that is the new version of The Regulator ! BUAHahaha...(evil genius is just not right for me, is it?)

Off Topic
Nov 5, 2003

See you at the Israel VB user group today

Microsoft Israel 2 Hapnina St, Raanana (09) 7625-100 Floor 0 , Dekel Room It is the new building across from Amdocs. After the first traffic circle, there is an area for parking on the right. 17:30 - 18:00 Assembly…

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Nov 5, 2003

[Tool] The Regulator 1.02a is out

Version 1.02a released! Features: Regexlib.com integration Search and import expressions and examples from RegexLib.com ’s database Post your own regular expressions into regexlib's database, direct from The regulator…

.Net Original, Cool Tools
Nov 6, 2003

Please, NO SPOILERS

Um.. can everyone PLEASE not post Matrix revolutions spoilers on the main .net weblogs feed? Thanks.

Off Topic
Nov 6, 2003

Feedable is Scriptable

Did Feedable just make ScriptingNews ? Coolness :)

Cool sites, Off Topic
Nov 6, 2003

C# Programmable Calculator

How cool is a calculator that you can actually program what each button does using C#? Look for yourself: “ C# Programmable Calculator is a Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) calculator with custom buttons programmable in…

Cool Tools
Nov 8, 2003

Blog: The Software Simplist

My friend, Udi Dahan, whom I've met at one of the user group meetings, just started his own blog: The Software Simplist ( RSS ) From what I already know about Udi, this should prove to be pretty interesting. Udi has…

Blogging
Nov 8, 2003

Hijacking .NET Volume 2: Protecting your Code

Hijacking .NET Volume 2 “ Dan Appleman's latest eBook covers the security implications of using reflection to access private members in an assembly, and about the design patterns and specific methods you can use to…

.Net Quotations
Nov 9, 2003

[Tool] - cool (free) news reader

I think I just found my dream news reader: 40tude Dialog It's everything I've wanted in a reader, and the Price is right too! (Free for non commercial use). If you've been using that old reader of yours that looks like…

Cool Tools
Nov 9, 2003

Jumping into newsgroups

I've decided to try and get in on the newsgroup bandwagon. Mostly, I'll be lurking and throwing my 0.02$ around these groups: (all start with “Microsoft.Public.Dotnet“) Framework Framework.adonet Framework.windowsforms…

Off Topic
Nov 10, 2003

You can subscribe to this weblog - here's how

It occurred to me that some of the folks who read this weblog have no idea that they don't have to remember to open a browser in order to check if I've added new content. You can actually subscribe to this weblog by…

Blogging, Off Topic
Nov 11, 2003

Brumme is alive again, and a small question

Chris Brumme , one of my favorite hardcore tech bloggers is writing again. I can't believe I have 2 actual posts from him in sharpreader on the same day. How weird! On a different note - how the heck do I turn off the…

.Net Quotations
Nov 11, 2003

My new RegexBlog

I just twisted Darren's arm into making me a part of the new RegexBlogs community he's building. How cool is that? Here's his post about it, and here's my new Regex Blog . I call it “IRegex” .Fitting, don't you think?…

Blogging
Nov 11, 2003

Multiple==Good

Darrel Norton decided he wants to test for himself (and his team) whether doing multiple monitor setups was better for productivity. He came out with a whopping “yes”. God I wish I could be in a position to do the same…

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Nov 11, 2003

[Document] Port Requirements for Microsoft Windows Server System

This looks like it could come in real handy come time to configure your firewalls for repaved servers. Microsoft released an Excel sheet that lists all the ports that MS products use with this data: port,protocol,System…

Cool Tools
Nov 12, 2003

Creative writing technique

Johanna Rothman keeps two blogs that I know of: Managing Product Development and Hiring Technical People . Both are excellent blogs that talk about totally different facets of our technology world. Today I read a post…

Off Topic
Nov 12, 2003

Israel .Net user group meeting today - Advanced debugging techniques

Where: Microsoft offices, ra'anana (near amdocs) Gathering at 17:00 Starting at 17:45 Topic: Advanced debugging techniques Debug symbols Production Debugging Opening up Microsoft’s source code Known Problems Tips and…

Off Topic
Nov 12, 2003

Writing help is... challenging

God I hate writing help files. I'll never be able to be a technical writer. How do those people do it? There are actually technical writing sites that are devoted to the love of the profession. I seriously admire these…

Off Topic
Nov 12, 2003

BitVector32 has a bug. Here's a good replacement

Sebastian Lambla has created a replacement for the BitVector32 class in the framework. The original has a nasty bug in it : the indexer always returns false for bit #31 . Sebastian decided he needed more flexibility…

.Net Quotations
Nov 12, 2003

Longhorn PDC bits download available for MSDN subscribers

That's right - the same bits of Longhorn preview available at the PDC are now available to download (MSDN subscribers only). I guessing slowly, as everyone in the world hits the servers at the same time. [via Philip…

.Net Quotations
Nov 12, 2003

Web Designer/Graphic Artist/Receptionist

It really hurts when you're reading the paper and find a job listing such as this: Web Designer/Graphic Artist/Receptionist [Name removed to protect the idiotic] has an exciting opportunity in the south Charlotte, NC…

Off Topic
Nov 12, 2003

Great SQL tip: @@IDENTITY==bad, scope_identity()==good

And another tip discovered by Sirsha . This time it's from SQLTeam . A very good SQL Server tip that I really must cling to! The gist: Use scope_identity() rather than @@IDENTITY or you might not get what you're looking…

.Net Quotations
Nov 12, 2003

The predictable history of a programmer (reloaded)

How many of us can say these things on their own "about" page? Probably most , with minor modification. I suggest a global "About me" page, something like the following: The history of : _________________ _______…

Off Topic
Nov 12, 2003

Technical writing - The complete idiot's guide

Leon Bambrick was probably in a really good mood, because he read my previous rant about how hard it is to write technical help docs and decided he would write a short guide in the comments to that post. It turned out…

Cool Articles, Off Topic
Nov 12, 2003

Using NAnt? Download NAntPad - for visual NAnt build configuration

If you're using NAnt and editing your NAnt files by hand, stop right there. Go and download NAntPad - a GUI app that lets you visually configure your build and then spits out the XML file. Simple and easy. [via James…

.Net Quotations
Nov 14, 2003

The Regulator 1.02b is out

Download from GDN workspace, or get there from the Regulator Homepage I'd like to thank Mike Gunderloy and SBC for giving me lots of feedback on needed features and broken things. I'd appreciate more feedback from…

.Net Original, Cool Tools
Nov 14, 2003

Making the F-lock key on your MS keyboard ON by default

The Furrygoat points to a reg file that allows to to change you F-Lock key (found on the new MS keyboards) to be set to “normal” by default (right now when you boot you have to manually remember and flip it to “on” , if…

Cool Tools
Nov 14, 2003

MSDN chats RSS feed? you got it.

Duncan posted about the MSDN chats homepage and how badly it needs an RSS feed so... MSDN chats RSS feed courtesy of Feedable Also of interest might be the new RSS feed I created for Usability News Update : Oh, and Andy…

Cool sites
Nov 15, 2003

Help me rename The Regulator

I'm thinking that “ The regulator ” is not catchy enough. I'm looking to rename it. Got any suggestions? I really like: Regexor Regex Commander but so far these are the best I could come up with. Care to help me and win…

Off Topic
Nov 17, 2003

Why are typed data tables columns declared "internal"?

Here's a question that Oskar Austegard left in response to what I wrote ,oh such a long time ago(6 months?), about typed datasets being scalable : How exactly does one go about using a TDS effectively in a different…

.Net Original
Nov 17, 2003

Thanks for your help

Thanks for all the great feedback on my “Renaming The Regulator” dilemma. It seems that most of you actually like the current name, so who am I to argue with success? Thanks. And please post comments suggestions of…

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Nov 17, 2003

VS.Net refactoring Lessons from IntelliJ IDEA (redux)

I've posted about this here and here before but now Mike Gunderloy writes about refactoring support (or lack thereof) in Whidbey. Some hard hitting points such as the fact that only C# has “refactoring” and not very…

.Net Original
Nov 18, 2003

2 possible gems in MS downloads

1. Application Signature Builder 1.0 “The Application Signature Builder (ASB) tool is used by software vendors and IT professionals to generate a Signature File containing file attribute information that allows…

Cool Tools
Nov 18, 2003

New Regulator version (last one on this blog)

From now on I'll be announcing anything that has to do with The Regulator over on my Regex Blog . So, you'll have to go here to read my announcement and what's new in the newly released version 1.02 beta 2. Also, If…

Cool Tools
Nov 18, 2003

The dynamic SQL discussion is a must read

There's one of those “holy wars” going on in the blogsphere. This time it is about the using Dynamic SQL vs. Stored procedures. But this holy war is an important one. It's one that I have learned a lot from, and I'll…

.Net Quotations
Nov 19, 2003

[tool] Total Commander 6.0 is out

My favorite tool on the planet just got an upgrade: Total Commander 6.0 is out . Biggest changes: Directory tabs (more than 2 directories active at the same time - thank god) Config window is now list based and not tab…

Cool Tools
Nov 19, 2003

SQLTeam rules: Cool tip + cool RSS feed= goodness in the blogsphere

SQLTeam is getting more and more credit from me for being so helpful: Cool tip on using ConnectionString settings in your web.config file so that you don't have to remember when to switch to your dev/liv webserver…

.Net Quotations, Cool sites
Nov 19, 2003

Get ready for obsolete stuff in Whidbey today

Brad Adams gives us a non-official preview of what classes/members will be obsolete when Whidbey comes along. It's good to know these things as soon as possible so you can start moving your code away from them now…

.Net Quotations
Nov 20, 2003

[online book] A .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security

Peter Provost sends word of a new book that's being written: A .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security , by Keith Brown The great thing is the author is making what he's written available to read. Not only that, you…

.Net Quotations, Free book chapters
Nov 20, 2003

DotNetNuke Rocks!

I've been wanting to make my Regulator site into a “real” site, so I checked out doing in using .Text. it was nice but it wasn't the “feel” i was looking for. Then I stumbled upon DotNetNuke and boy am I impressed! I…

.Net Original
Nov 21, 2003

The Regulator gets its first "real" review

The Regulator just got a great review over at ADTMag.com by Mike Gunderloy . How cool is this? I'm totally flattered.

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Nov 21, 2003

The Letter I should have written back

Now, why didn't I ever write such a letter in my quest for a new job? (link via Hhiring Technical People )

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Nov 24, 2003

I'm going on a two month gig to Norway

I finally have some good news to show for all the crap I've been through: In about a week I'll be taking off from Israel and landing in this beautiful place in Norway where I'll be doing a 1-2 months consulting gig on a…

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Nov 24, 2003

Introducing: Extensibility Application Block

This has been burning inside me for quite a while. Now y'all get to see what I was up to. Download EAP 1.0 Extensibility Application Block overview: One of the demands from a successful application is the abilityto…

.Net Original, Cool Tools
Nov 25, 2003

Nevertheless

I applied for this open position at Microsoft. You might want to try yourself. [via Wine Thirty ]

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Nov 25, 2003

GDN Release download stats

I do wish it would be possible to see how many downloads a gotdotnet workspace release has gotten. Any chance of that? hm? Microsoft?

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Nov 25, 2003

What is Proximity inter-communication

I find “ Paper prototyping “ a good technique. For some odd reason, it also bugs me that people sell a book that talks about how to draw dialogs on paper and move them around. Therefore, I've created an introduction to…

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Nov 25, 2003

Plugin frameworks in .Net links

It looks like making applications that can have plugins starting to catch on. But I really didn't get much feedback on my Extensibility Application Block - which enables exactly this . Perhaps I should have renamed it…

.Net Original, Cool Tools
Nov 26, 2003

[Review] CodeSmart.Net

AXTools has been on my “favorite tool makers” list for a couple of years now, if not more (disclaimer: I got a free copy of this product so that I can review it). When I did VB6 development, they came out with one of…

.Net Original, Cool Tools
Nov 26, 2003

[OT] make them sing it!

Oh this is very very cool. http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/p1/src/sing/default.asp

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Nov 27, 2003

[Tool] Scripter allows you to configure a linked Javascript or VBScript file.

Scripter allows you to configure a linked Javascript or VBScript file. Select a script file and Scripter will tell you which files in your Web are currently linking to that script. You can then add and remove files very…

.Net Original, Cool Tools
Nov 27, 2003

Step by step:an asynchronous sockets terminal client Vb.Net

Carl Franklin (of .Net Rocks fame) has made available a Sockets with .Net training video. “ This is a step-by-step how-to video that shows you how to create an asynchronous sockets terminal client program in VB.NET 2003…

.Net Quotations, Cool Articles
Nov 27, 2003

I need to learn how to write a review

This is the funniest game review I have ever read . Rory should really be doing something else with his life instead of wasting his writing on on us geeks, although I'm not sure how I would react to his disappearing…

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Nov 27, 2003

New .Net Rocks show - Pat Hynds

OK. I'm gonna go listen to the new .Net Rocks show : “ Carl talks with pat about Security, from the general concepts to the practical tips and in between. Pat draws on his millitary background to render a keen…

.Net Quotations
Nov 27, 2003

Another one bites the pill

My friend and .Net guru Yosi Taguri decided it has been long enough and took the red pill . No, he's not going to Redmond (yet) but he's going to be a .Net evangelist/expert here in Microsoft Israel. How cool is that?…

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Nov 27, 2003

Good advice for presentations, scholarly and otherwise

A helpful essay by William Germano, "The Scholarly Lecture: How to Stand and Deliver," from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i14/14b01501.htm -- Edward Tufte , November 27, 2003

Cool Articles, Off Topic
Nov 27, 2003

[Tool] Object Model Generator

Omer has released a preview version of a tool called “ Object Model Generator ”. His words: “The tool is currently in Preview Version (which is sort of a beta version), and features the following: Typed Elements (incl.…

Cool Tools, Off Topic
Nov 28, 2003

Cool Site: divil.co.uk

This site has a wealth of cool winforms controls, cool articles and generally is one of the *coolest* personal .Net sites I've seen in a while. I can totally get why he's a Code Hero . Recommended. (link via Joseph…

.Net Quotations, Cool sites
Nov 28, 2003

Welcome Dino, and a word about MSDN articles

Dino Esposito Has started a blog here on .Net weblogs ( rss ). If you don't know who he is, I suggest you get acquainted with his work real soon as he is one of the finest authors I've ever read with cool solutions and…

.Net Original, Blogging
Dec 16, 2003

Service announcement:Still alive, but server is down

Sorry I've been "weak" on the updating. I'm in Norway for the past two weeks or so and it's an amazing experience. However, I am left with little time to blog. Hopefully that will change soon. ttyl, Roy. P.S: My Home…

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Dec 18, 2003

My first MSDN article is out: Creating a plugin framework

Update : If you can't find the source code in the article to download, you can also get it from here . It took a looong time and some pretty heavy paperwork, but my first ever MSDN article is up and about on the ASP.Net…

.Net Original, Cool Articles
Dec 18, 2003

Homesick, EIF and a session state FAQ

I dropped of the Mrs. this morning at the airport going back home to Israel. Will see her in a month and a half. Boy was that hard. Luckily it was a pretty swift goodbye since we were almost late for the plane. While…

.Net Original, Cool Articles, Cool sites
Dec 19, 2003

Service announcement: Feedable and Regulator live again, and Norway tips

Ah. My home machine is back up meaning Feedable is live again and so is The Regulator site. For some odd reason, the only person in the world who can not access these sites is little ol' me from Norway. Ah well, as long…

.Net Original, Cool Tools, Cool sites, Off Topic
Dec 20, 2003

A New Source Control system

Mike Gunderloy sends word of the Accurev Source control system . Looks pretty spiffy , and I must say they seem very innovative. A couple of points: No VS.Net integration. This is more like the CVS model…

.Net Quotations, Cool Tools
Dec 20, 2003

Problem and solution: Renaming htm file to aspx may cause javascript trouble

We ran across this when moving some old files to a new project. One of the tasks was to turn a very simple htm file into the same file with an aspx extension. The original htm file had a reference to a javascript file.…

.Net Original, Tips & Tricks
Dec 20, 2003

The idiot's guide to O/R mappers

Steve Eichert has been doing me a big favor. He has been explaining the whole deal with O/R mappers from the ground up and is doing a great job at it. Why is it a big favor for me? because I can now pretend like I…

.Net Quotations
Dec 20, 2003

Promising Outlook

Scott Hanselman sends word of a cool new research into email conversations

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Dec 22, 2003

A developer's nightmare

If you think you are screwed over with the job you are currently doing, think again. Now thank the sweet lord that you don't have to reverse engineer 300 pages of bad C++ code into... COBOL .

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Dec 23, 2003

About the new .Netweblogs features

I'd like to thank Scott for the new features in .Text, some very cool things in there. Thanks. I can understand the grouping thing of MS/Non-Ms employees, but I don't necessarily agree with it. This feature allows…

.NetWeblogs Site, Blogging, Off Topic
Dec 23, 2003

Resources: how to move data between application tiers

I'm faced with this question, and was also asked about it. Here are three articles from Ms that show different sides of the same story: Recommendations for Data Access Strategies This one explains in detail how to store…

Cool Articles
Dec 23, 2003

Tool: The complete idiot's add-in for signing your assemblies with a strong name

It is a shame that this ability has not been created sooner (shame on me, that is) but better late than never. Robert Mclaws has just introduced an add-in that allows you to easily manage the fuss that using a strong…

.Net Quotations, Cool Tools
Dec 24, 2003

Good Article: Strong Names and Security in the .NET Framework

Sam gentile has recommended all those who feel a bit "lacking" when it comes to assembly security and strong names (me included) to read this fine article on the subject: Security Briefs: Strong Names and Security in…

.Net Quotations, Cool Articles
Dec 24, 2003

Holiday greetings, Gunderloy style

In light of the coming holidays, I'd like to grit you all with my favorite holiday greeting yet, courtesy of Mike Gunderloy : " Happy whatever to those of you who celebrate something . " and in that cheerful holiday…

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Dec 24, 2003

Visualizing blogs

Question: What on earth is this ?

Blogging, Off Topic
Dec 24, 2003

New year's resolution: lowering the noise on the main feed (excluding this post :) )

Now that Scott has implemented a feature in .Text that allows one to decide whether a particular post will be aggregated to the main feed or not, I'll be trying to take advantage of this and "filter" my off topic…

Blogging, Off Topic
Dec 24, 2003

Good stuff: New book, Remoting for imbeciles,CodeSmith 2.5 RC1, and OMG 0.2

Julia Lerman points to a hearty recommendation for this book: Code Generation in .Net and I agree. It seems pretty cool. I'll add it to my "really wish we celebrated Xmas" list :) Leon Bambrick writes the Quick and…

.Net Quotations, Cool Articles, Cool Tools
Dec 25, 2003

An optimizing experience

We recently encountered the task of optimizing a stored procedure that was taking very long to perform its business. It wasn’t that complicated but it was operating on a large table (350,000 records). The table has…

Other
Dec 25, 2003

My First *real* SQL optimization (and some good resources)

Yeah, I know how to design a database and normalize tables, but this is some optimization stuff I never had to do. It was fun! We recently encountered the task of optimizing a stored procedure that was taking very long…

.Net Original, Cool Articles
Dec 27, 2003

Cool handy site: DropLoad

This is another very handy site. Not everyone has an FTP site to upload files for their friends and sometimes hotmail's 1MB size limit just doesn't cut it. The site below will hold the file for 48 hours (and 48 hours…

Cool Tools, Cool sites
Dec 27, 2003

New year's Nant, pathetic geek style

It's no wonder that I'm sitting here right now, in front of the computer, about to write about the new release of Nant( 0.84 final ), while on the outside, the "party of parties" is going on a block from the office, to…

.Net Quotations, Cool Tools
Dec 27, 2003

Code: CRUD base classes for unit testing

I never felt comfortable with doing unit tests against live database, alas, I feel it is a necessary evil to contend with, because the feedback you get is much more helpful than using Mock objects for such a task, I…

.Net Original, Cool Tools
Dec 28, 2003

This coffin has performed an illegal action and will be terminated

That's just what I need: a coffin powered by a PC to change the epitaph dynamically. Can there be more jokes running in my head at the same time?

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Dec 28, 2003

Help the Iran Quake victims

I can't explain why I have not blogged about this before, but if you can help in any way to the Iran quake victims, please do . In the link you will find ways to send donations.

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Dec 28, 2003

MyRss.com is to Feedable as...

Well, I'm totally impressed. MyRSS.com (link via Cameron ) are offering the same service as Feedable , only they have an advantage: They automatically create the RSS feed on the fly from the site you give them, whereas…

Cool Tools, Cool sites
Dec 28, 2003

The Internet explorer security bug everyone should know about

Luke Hutterman shows just how easy and evil it is to exploit this bug in Internet Explorer and take details from unsuspecting users with a click of a mouse. This scam makes you "update your paypal account details" but…

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Dec 28, 2003

more SQL optimization resources and a bonus tip

Michal suggests a few more SQL optimization links in return for my optimization experience : sql-server-performance.com SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning Tools Performance Category on SQLTeam.com Performance Tuning…

.Net Quotations, Cool Articles
Dec 29, 2003

Risk Management

Darrel points to the MSF Risk Management Discipline . Indeed, this is something I believe to be very important, however, I did not put my money where my mouth is, and although I've read about it , I never got the chance…

.Net Quotations, Cool Articles
Dec 29, 2003

How low can you go? Iran rejects Israel's help with earthquake

Gotta love the Iranian goverment: "Jahanbakhsh Khanjani, a spokesman for Iran's Interior Ministry, said Saturday that Iran would accept aid from all countries of the world, aside from Israel . The announcement followed…

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Dec 29, 2003

Another article of mine published on MSDN: Search Dynamically for Plug-Ins

Search Dynamically for Plug-Ins Summery: "This article is an extension to my previous article about plug-ins . I encourage you to take a look at that before diving into this article. That said, my main goal in this…

.Net Original, Cool Articles
Dec 30, 2003

Losing a customer

It's always interesting (as in watching a car crash) to see how a company easily loses a customer. This time it's Numega.

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Dec 30, 2003

[OT] cool ad

Now this is a cool funny and true ad for a men's magazine: (and here are 9 more ads you won't see in the USA ) (via eclecticism )

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Dec 31, 2003

[OT] This year in pictures

Wow. This is the most beautiful set of pictures I've seen in quite a while: The Year in pictures (via my darling wife who I miss so much it hurts as the year comes to a close here in Norway)

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Dec 31, 2003

Jan does cool stuff: nice article and cool extension to the winform data grid

Jan is on a role. First, his Object Spaces article got published on MSDN, then he releases the Extended Winforms DataGrid . Great work.

.Net Quotations, Cool Articles
Dec 31, 2003

Another one bites the bullet: Santo has left the building

My good friend Addy Santo just blogged about himself taking the red pill . " Finally " is all I can really say. This guy has " Redmond " tattooed on his butt, figuratively speaking, and It's about time MS faced up to…

Blogging, Off Topic