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[Tools and Addins] : SharpTools, web controls and various utilities - free!
Jon Schwartz of " Morrison Schwartz " sent me an email saying he wished he knew about the (now closed) add-in competition , cause he's got a great add-in to put up there. Nevertheless, he sent me a link to his add-in,…
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MSDN Managed Newsgroups - no answer?
From Raj : From MSDN Managed Newsgroups : ... A commitment to respond to your post within two business days I am an MSDN Universal subscriber and have posted questions on the MSDN manged newsgroups many of which are…
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Unread Gmail messages through an RSS feed? coolness.
Well, not RSS, but Atom. Same difference. I didn't know this ! Cool! (Now they just need to support RSS as well)
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TopXML releases the System.XML reference online
Mark Wilson of TopXML pinged me to say that TopXML have released: The .NET System.XML reference So how's this different that other references? They actually have *useful* examples on the classes, with short, to the…
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TaskSwitchXP - free, cooler task switching
Ooh! TaskSwitchXP looks cool ! and it's free?? (via The Gunderloy )
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Introducing "Project Distributor" - your .Net file and idea sharing ground
Darren Neimke (the person responsible for the beauty that is RegexLib.Com ) has created another cool web project: Project Distributor The idea - You have a cool code snippet, or a cool tool, or a cool anything to do…
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Introducing the Osherove.Interception framework
Following the Nunit Extensibility framework , I did some thinking and made a More generic framework for interception ability. That means that you can create your own interception attributes not only for unit testing but…
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[Rediscovered] Advanced debugging tips and stuff you never knew about the "Find" combo box
I just "re-discovered" an old post of mine relating to some cool debugging tricks. Its amazing I forgot all about these cool tricks and it was fun to rediscover them. I bet some of you could benefit from them (again).…
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Sometimes I'm simply frustrated at the qualification game
and that's all I'm gonna say on this matter. (were you lucky to read this post before I changed my mind on it ? don't tell me..)
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TDD brain teaser - hope I won
Update : Yep - I won :) I always wanted a keychain light thingy gizmo. Thanks Jonathan!! Gosh, I hope I got the answer to this TDD brain teaser from Jonathan Cogley right. What do you think? Got a better answer? Great…
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Twilight-Zone problems
We all had to deal with Twilight-zone problems at one time or another. This one sounds very familiar (as well as the solution). what I like about the heading is that when you get into these problems its like you're in a…
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Introducing: XtUnit . An Unofficial Unit Testing Extensibility Framework - Add new attributes to NUnit or MbUnit easily!
Update : I've uploaded a more complete version of the framework and also changes the file name. please get it from here: http://www.teamagile.com/downloads/TeamAgile.XtUnit.Bin.zip…
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The blogs I read
In case you were wondering - here's the current list of blog subscriptions in my news aggregator, RSS Bandit : /downloads/royo.opml.xml
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The Power of User Groups (and a request to Microsoft Israel)
The Event, The Card, and the amazing disappearing act Almost a year ago, at some random event, (Teched Israel 2004?) Microsoft Israel held a special lunch for user group members and leaders. It was quite nice and all…
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Upcoming talks and webcasts I'm involved with
I'll be doing a webcast about Test Driven Development using Nunit for Microsoft Israel. It's going to take place on the the 23rd of November . I'll give you a heads up with a direct schedule when I know more. It will be…
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No blogger list on weblogs.asp.net?
So why is the blogger list now removed from the main page of weblogs.asp.net? I liked my name up there, with the number of posts near it... :(
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Some news while I was gone
- TestDriven.Net tool suite is on air - and it looks like an integrated solution that combines MbUnit and the NunidAddin into one mixed pile - allowing you to have all the power of MbUnit along with all the power of the…
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DataSet hell - "Failed to enable constraints. One or more rows contain values...."
Important note: Hi folks. This post was written in 2004. Yes, people have been getting this for over 6 years . It’s 2011 now, and here you are, still stuck working on this crap. I highly suggest you read this , as an…
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A new book: Network science, and what SOA has to do with it
I'm almost done with a new book that I got for my birthday - Linked: The New Science of networks By Albert-Laszlo Barabasi This wonderful book actually deals with new facet of science that is just beginning to grow on…
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Back from Croatia but, sadly, not for long
I just got back from Croatia. Croatia is a pretty cool country – lovely beaches as long as the eye can see (no sand though – just rocks and shells) and amazing landscapes on the inside. Think Greece – only less annoying…
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Out of Country - Croatia here we come!
Turns out the Mrs and I are going to Croatia for about a week and a half. Tomorrow. In 5 hours actually. So I'll be out. Meanwhile enjoy our picture at my new (still in building stage) site: www.osherove.com (no content…
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ANN: Optimized automatic control binder is out - and its fast!
Last month I posted about a cool way we came up with to automatically bind all the controls on our application forms to various data sources . That solution was cool, but it was slow . Because it used binding. And…
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MbUnit 2.21.1.0 RC1 released (and some nifty nifty features!)
This very cool framework is getting a facelift with some very very very nifty features. I'm seriously considering doing my next projects with this framework. I just need some real world hands on time with it to make…
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One treeview I'm not going to download
Award for "Most Trustworthy name for a control library" goes to: CrapStuff TreeView . I kid you not.
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A testing framework that does BizTalk
Kevin B Smith came up with a test framework built of XML files and derived classes . I'm not sure I'd jump into such a bandwagon so easily - but one thing seems very interesting: He's actually doing BizTalk unit testing…
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Alik Levin has a blog - with short Hebrew movies on various ASP.Net topics
Alik Levin has a blog . That's good news already - he's a frequent speaker at various conferences and user groups, but there's more. His blog is, other than a list of posts, a list of short movies in which he explains…
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Drag and drop unit testing
Peli is a sick genius unit testing devil that has nothing better to do than generate some of the most awesome things I've seen in the agile field for .Net recently. I have no idea why he's not joining Microsoft's…
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No Fun Intended
I just had to post about this blog because the name is so ironic and funny: " No Fun Intended " (found this on my Technorati profile . You do know what Technorati is, don't you?)
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Finding a Palindrome
[Update: I added a third variation of this which solves all the problems mentioned in the comments. Was really fun - used a single line of regular expressions and it worked like a charm!] It got me intrigued - so here's…