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Israeli .Net Architects meeting - Refactoring, Class designer and other cool stuff in VS.Net 2005
See you there!!! Greetings .NE T architect! You are welcome to attend our next meeting to be held on Thursday, September 23rd . The next presentation shall focus on Visual Studio 2005 – code name Whidbey. Our presented…
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Book library management system - know a good one?
Our company is looking to create a book library for employees to borrow and read books. In the process I'm looking for a book/library management system which is free and is web or windows based with a shared database.…
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Formatting Hebrew dates
Based on the amount of articles out there relating to hebrew dating (and I don't mean a singles bar!) there's always confusion on how exactly to translate a date into its full hebrew representation. Here's a simple…
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VPC SP1 problems - and one bad solution
if you've encountered this: "I upgrade my install of Virtual PC to Service Pack 1 and now all of my Virtual Machines momentarily hang at times. It is like the machine will freeze for a few seconds. Has anyone else seen…
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Do I like the change to weblogs.asp.net? No I don't.
In case someone is asking me (and no one did, or none of you obviously), I don't like the changes made to weblogs.asp.net main page/feed. It sucks in many ways and it won't even make things better for the folks who…
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Israel Nerd Dinner - coming soon
I've just sent an email to Jim Blizzard, who's opened a new site called Nerd Dinner.com where you can have a blog dedicated to organizing geek dinners in your country/area. Say tuned for the Israel Nerd Dinner site!
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Organization Patterns of Agile Software Development
" I just found an excellent wiki web by Coplien and and Harrison on Organization Patterns of Agile Software Development . It’s high quality writing, in fact there is even a dead-trees version on Amazon. You can also…
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How Test Driven Development proved itself in a big way!
Over the past year or so I've been going around trying to tell people how and why test-driven development will help their development process. Its hard to convince people. It's actually still hard sometimes, even after…
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See you at the .Net on the beach convention
I was there last week for the "Technet" on the beach" conference and it was a lot of fun! see you there?
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Implementing CollectionBase the right way
Matt Berther (The "other" ISerializable...) writes a nice little tidbit about correctly deriving from CollectionBase and adds something I was not aware of: you really really want to override the OnValidate() event of…
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Yukon "Query Notification": a life saver
At the Israeli SQL user group today we had a special visit: Roger Woter - PM at Microsoft. he talked about the Service broker in Yukon. very cool stuff. However I learned a little thing that I think is absolutely…
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GMane: read mailing lists via news readers
this is a great find via the win-tech off topic mailing list: subscribe to mailing lists - from your newsreader! how? www.gmane.org allows subscribing to a mailing list but instead of getting it by email - you get it…
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Great coders == open source? Hardly
I was reading this article on " Great Hackers " Some of the things he says about hackers ("coders") is true, but a lot of them are skewed toward open source in a way that is not fair and not real world on any way. I was…
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Weird Google-like toy - Toogle!
Oh, this is a fun little toy: Toogle ! "Toogle is a Text version of Googles Image Search. Currently it creates images out of the very term that was used to fetch those images". [via Kenneth ]
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Review - Resharper
I've written a review of Resharper by JetBrains. Read it here . Note that the review is about version 1.02 of the product. version 1.03 has just been released and may contain bug fixes to some of the problems listed in…
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Review - JetBrains Resharper
Product : Resharper Version 1.02 (note: version 1.03 has just been released) Company : JetBrains Price : 99$ per license A while ago I my wife was taking Java lessons as part of her Bsc degree. I was helping her out…
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.Net Blogger geek meets Eric Rudder, asks questions, gets answers, is happy
I attended a meeting between Eric Rudder - Senior VP of Servers and tools at MSFT, and several Microsoft employees and external Microsoft technology leaders in Israel. I was sort of a Q & A meeting where people could…
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Solving System.TypeInitializationException when running the Regulator
I've recently started to get emails from people who had The Regulator break on their system after installing SP2 (or some other hotfix...). I'm not sure exactly how it broke, but I know how to fix it. Here's a typical…
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Programs I can't live without
ScottOnWriting asked his blog readers what programs they can't live without. Some great suggestions in there (and i'm not just saying that because The Regulator was mentioned 3 times in the comments ;) ) Here's a…
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WilsonORMapper at version 3.0, and what's an OR mapper anyway?
it's free 50$, it sounds wonderful, and its at a version 3.0(via Mike ) - so its mature enough. I should really give the WilsonORMapper a try. I wonder why COM+ transactions are not supported though. What's an OR…
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Adding pre and post build events for VB.Net projects
Avner told me the other day that he found a way to add pre and post build events supports to VB.Net projects (which is a shame that they don't have them as default like C#). His way was to use the Macro capability of…
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attach a debugger to a service automatically at startup
Just a small link to remind me later - how to attach a debugger to a service automatically at startup (via Peter Provost )
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Great Coders Deserve Great Managers
I totally agree with Johanna on this one : Great coders do need great managers. I know I've often wanted demended of my workplace to invest in me just as much as I invest in my work. There are several points:…
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Testing GUIs and customer tests using FIT
One of the things I have still not talked about in any of my talks is about testing GUIs. The reason is pretty simple: I don't really do that. I find that the amount of effort it takes to test a gui with NunitASP…
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A better user group experience is possible, and even expected
This and this is what I'm talking about when I say I want today's Israeli user groups to be better than what they are today. If/When I have my own group I promise to do that and more. Amen.
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Services without components on a pre-SP2 XP machine?
Saar has a nice post detailing how you could hack your way in and out of a transaction using SWC Services without components) even if you don't have SP2 installed on your XP machine. The funny thing is that SWC *did*…
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Wanna win a free Visual Assist License?
I've noticed that Natty Gur is not only speaking at the users group this Sunday, he's also handing out a free license to Visual Assist on his blog to whoever sends him the most FxCop rules. That's pretty cool!
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Sunday at the VB.Net users group: Software Architecture: Techniques, Methods, and Issues
I hope to see you this sunday at the VB.Net users group meeting. should be really fun! here's the invitation letter: Once again, in BIG BOLD LETTERS – PLEASE NOTE THE 1-TIME DAY CHANGE !!! This month we will be meeting…
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Simple data binding simplified using [BindToField] and [BindToValueList]
In one of the projects I'm on we're doing lots and lots of Winforms data binding. One of the forms is composed of 12 different tabs each with about 2 dozen controls and grids and what not (don't kill the messenger!…
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Agile MSF methodology framework
Looks very veeery interesting: "Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) Agile is a scenario-driven, context-based, agile software development process for building and improving .NET and other object-oriented applications.…