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Slides Available for my talks on C# 2.0, LINQ, Agile Methodologies and TDD Best Practices

Here are the slides for the IVCUG Talk I did last week. The slide topics were "What's new and cool in C# 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005" and "Language Integrated Query".…

I'll be speaking at Oracle Week [TDD Intro and Best Practices]

I'll be speaking at OracleWeek in Israel which takes place from the 27th for 5 full days. My talk will be on day 2, on the 28th, from 10.45 to 12.30 and it will be about Test Driven Development Intro and Best Practices.…

November at Agile Israel - The XP Planning Game

The next meeting will be held on the 28th of this Month, Monday. For session and speaker details go the the event page . This month's meeting will be dedicated to "The Planning Game", held by Amir Kolsky. In the first…

Good technology audio I've been listening to

Here's the stuff I've been listening to in my car lately. It's very geeky. Beware. Rick Rashid - From the Labs at Microsoft Research - some very cool stuff. Trent Henry - Enterprise Security Architecture kinda of…

[Larkware Contest Winner] Snapper: Snap your daily computer usage

The Larkware Coding Contest came to an end this week , and boy, were they giving out some grand prizes. As a judge I couldn't participate in it, but I did get to check out all the cool stuff. The first place goes to…

Agile Dilbert

Be an MS Paint MVP

Note: This whole post is under the assumption that this guy is not sarcastic to the point that nobody gets it. Looks like you can get on the MVP program by drawing a nice icon these days. Seriously, this guy just got…

Test Driven .NET's new version supports all versions of VS 2005 including Express

Jamie Cansdale is a a pretty sharp guy. He's released the latest version of TestDriven.NET, one of the most productive addins for testing and debugging your code, and it works with Visual Studio 2005. Not only does it…

The unbearable ease of domain names

It's almost ridiculous how easy it's become to get your own domain name. So easy in fact, that when I found out that the business cards I had ordered had my blog address wrong becuase of my own mistake, "ISeria z…

Cool Error Correction Dialog in VS 2005

I didn't know this, and this is something I could have used ... " For most of the System errors that the compiler is reporting if you place your cursor over the little glyph at the end of the error squiqqle you get an…

Microsoft solves my RTM Bug (By Design..)

Microsoft did a hell of a job following up on the obscure bug that I posted (I'm sure that the fact the post was published on eWeek , The Register and other places helped a bit in speeding things up..) . It involved…

I'll be speaking at IVCUG this month: New stuff in .NET and C# 2.0 + Deep LINQ Preview

I'll be presenting at this month's upcoming C++/C# user's group meeting about new stuff in .NET 2.0 and a deep introduction to the LINQ project. The LINQ presentation will be different than the one I did at the…

The Agile Blog

Check out the Agile Blog for lots of good Agile related content. I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Rally Software are doing something right. Keep it up!

Creating a better BackgroundWorker: CancelImmediately and other goodies

One of the nice new features you get in .NET 2.0 Winforms is the new BackgroundWorker component. It allows safely executing long tasks in a different thread than the GUI, while allowing an easy event-driven interface to…

A better BackgroundWorker : CancelImmediately and other goodies

One of the nice new features you get in .NET 2.0 Winforms is the new BackgroundWorker component. It allows safely executing long tasks in a different thread than the GUI, while allowing an easy event-driven interface to…

A better Safe Cast using Generics

Update : the code has changed a bit in the C# version to reflect *exactly* the same behavior as "as". See the comments. Here's a nice way to make something like the "as" word in C# apply to both value types and…

The Browser Book - cool bunch of cheat sheets

These guys offered to send me a sample of this book, and I like it already just based on the book's site . This looks like a cool book to have if you do any kind of web development work. It's sort of like a bunch of…

Predefined CodeDOM implementations for common .NET usage patterns

Omer Van Kloeten adds some predefined CodeDOM implementations for common .NET usage patterns . Very cool and pretty darn useful for anyone doing some development with the Microsoft .NET Code DOM to generate source code…

Problem creating mail enabled Contact on Exchange 2003

I don't usually do this - use the blog as a public forum post, unless I've searched the answer in all the places I know. This one is a favor for a friend I can't seem to get done on my own.My friend is desperately…

Top 31 weblogs.asp.net blogs to subsrcibe to

In the early days of weblogs.asp.net (when it was still called "DotNetWeblogs") the main page had a list of all the bloggers sorted by number of posts and last date. That made for a good way to find out which blogs are…

Google AdSense Referral Program Open to the public

Looks like Google AdSense just went another mile further. They now have a referral program. So if people sign up for AdSense through me, I actually get some money for it. All I can say is that so far, AdSense has…

My first real frustration with VS 2005 RTM

Update: This bug was reviewed and solved by MS as soon as is humanly possible (probably due to the huge amount of exposure it got). See this post for details . It's completely amazing to me that VS.NET 2005 RTM, after a…

"Ask The Pros" article about favorite .NET addins at VisualStudioHacks.Com

There's a new article series over at www.VisualStudioHacks.com (the book) called "Ask the pros". It asks various personalities in the .NET world about their favorite hacking tools and methods with VS.NET. I'm proud to…

How To: Perform a Security Code Review for Managed Code

Recently I was asked by one of my clients to do a security review of some of their code. I'm no security expert (and stated this to them) but I was still requested to do this. Having gotten this task I decided to look…

FinalBuilder is approaching version 4, and still the coolest build tool out there

If you haven't heard of FinalBuilder yet, there's no better time than now. Especially with Microsoft's new "If you want a build process, you'll wanna get VSTS" way of doing things. In short, it the most usable and…

A little DotNetWebloggers uproar

Update : Alex Lowe of Telligent posts the following in response: "I've created a forum that will make it easy for us (Telligent) to share information and solicit feedback from the bloggers here at weblogs.asp.net.…

My blog is not worthless after all

Just so you know: My blog is worth $88,068.24 . How much is your blog worth?

Automating the reinvention of the wheel

John posts a macro how to automate creating connection strings in visual studio .NET, and demonstrates a few key points (which have nothing to do with him probably being a great guy, good blogger etc..) 1. The blog…

Amazoner 1.0.1 - Larger Images for Books and a dedicated website

A new version of Amazoner is out. Not many changes, but the main thing is that the book images are now bigger, oh and it's compiled using Visual Studio 2005 RTM out 2 days ago (relies on .NET 2.0 final). I Created a…

Strongly Typed Reflection Calls in .NET 2.0

Oren Eini is trying to cheat Reflection , that is, create his own, "strongly typed" version of reflection, and what he's done so far seems like a very cool and nice workaround: " I don't like strings and Reflection. In…