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Another book added to Add-in contest prizes
Just added another book to the add-in contest prize bunch: Build Your Own ASP.NET Website Using C# & VB.NET . Thanks Matt! Reminder : you have until the end of this month to submit an add-in and win prizes worth up to…
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Code readability and communication
Memi writes about a simple case in which VB.Net's “wordiness” adds to the clarity of the code.: “Inherits vs Implemets in C# I guess the difference is obvious - you inherit a class and implement an interface. If you…
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Got new books!
Just got these books: Coder To Developer by Mike Gunderloy - which I have a strong feeling is going to be next month's Book of the month Designing highly usable software Effective software test automation The last two I…
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My favorite Tech-Ed quote, and what you need to know about FABRIQ
Ido has a favorite quote from Tech-Ed Israel. I also have a favorite one, by Clemens , paraphrasing Don Box about why SOAP was designed over HTTP: “If, with all the efforts, sysadmins cannot really stop porn, they…
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Back from Tech-Ed, and another Israeli .Net blogger found.
Tech-ed was fun . I had a blast. I've already started posting some of the pics I took on my photo blog . Lots to write about but I'm really tired so I'll be writing the information in multiple posts over some length of…
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Going to Tech-Ed. See you there?
Tomorrow morning I'm leaving for Tech-Ed Israel in Eilat. Will be there for 3 days. I hope I get the chance to blog from there, but if I don't you should know why - I don't own a laptop. Go figure. If you're looking for…
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Another Israeli .Net blogger joins the bunch
Another Israeli blogger joins the bunch: Ido Samuelson . DotNetJunkies is starting to look like .NetWeblogs at the beginning. Lots of good people writing about new stuff and excited about blogging about it. Coolness :)…
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New version for NUnit Add-in
New version of NUNit Addin : Looks like lots of new stuff has been added. Coolness. Thanks Jamie!
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Book of the month: May
I've updated my current book of the month and the list of book recommendations. I've also added a “recommended books“ category to my blog, for future reference. I'd love to hear your book recommendations. Book of the…
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[Cool component suite] NetXP
Mike points to a (free for personal and freeware use) cool components and controls suite: NetXP. Some cool stuff there including: Components and extender providers Command bars, list bar, and status bar Various Windows…
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Convert a Dataset to an ADO Recordset/Excel XML and more...
Brendan Tompkins has written a handy utility that can transform an ADO.NET DataSet into different formats, including ADO Recordset XML, Comma Delimited, Tab Delimited and Excel XML. He writes about it in his post…
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Beware of Vs.Net plugins and wizards bearing gifts
This might be a good idea to know if you're a judge on the Add-in contest: --------------------- I installed some Visual Studio.Net 2003 plug-ins a while back. Didn't find them very useful so I decided to uninstall. Oh…
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TrimEnd() Vs. SubString()
Many developers have had to write a loop that writes out a comma separated value list . There's always the trick of how you make that last comma get removed from the end of that string. Usually, at the end of the loop,…
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A new low in television reached
eek! American Television is reaching new amazing lows . (via Bill ) ” In a unique television event, Barbara Walters documents a young birth mother's journey as she selects who, among five anxious couples vying for a…
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The blogsphere generosity wave - Viral Marketing
Mike Schnikel is handing out free XDN subscriptions to .Net bloggers. He also donated some for my Add-in contest so that makes him a pretty cool guy, and a pretty good marketer too. The cool thing for me is that his…
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Tech-Ed Israel Blogger/Nerd Dinner anyone?
I'll be at Tech-Ed Israel in Eilat next week and was thinking, assuming there are enough of you there, to arrange for a special blogger/nerd dinner along with Dino Esposito on one of the evenings. Leave a comment if you…
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[Cool Tip] Speed up Outlook email switching
Ah! great Outlook tip: “Note to self: Next time it takes up to 15 seconds to switch between emails, be sure to disable the instant messaging feature. Tools->Options->Other->uncheck "Enable Instant Messaging in Outlook".…
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Early & Adopter relocated
If you haven't noticed, Early & Adopter's blog has moved over to here . Apprently Radio is being a bitch so they ditched it and moved over. They have a excellent .Net blog. Highly recommended.
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IT User groups in Israel (not just .Net)
I was recently introduced to the fact that there are a lot more technology centered user groups in Israel that I thought. The good news is that they span many technologies - from Java to Interex (which is a totally new…
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How to: Open Word doc links inside Word, NOT inside the browser
I hate it when a word document link opens inside my browser instead of inside Word. The same for excel, powerpoint and visio. Enter the blogsphere Matrix . Gus figures out how to disable the damn thing And then Omar…
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Why is VS.Net Add-in architecture so overly complicated?
One of the weirdest things for me is trying to understand the motives behind some of the technical decisions that went into designing the VS.Net Add-in/Plugin architecture. It's an amazing and powerful scheme that…
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Problem and Solution: Weird MSMQ memory leak when calling Peek()
I was recently faced with the task of trying to figure out why, sporadically, when Calling an MSMQ's Peek() function, an application would loose memory for no apparent reason. It was pretty weird and hard to even…
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How to: Creating project groups under a single solution
One of the features that I seem to miss most about working with VS.Net and working on an enterprise level application (10+ projects in the same solution) is having no folders inside the solution with which to group…
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Bill Vaughn blogs, and I ask an ADO.Net question
Bill Vaughn started a blog over at DotNetJunkies . Coolness! I've been reading an hearing some of Bill's thoughts on Data Access in the recent past and all I can say is that I wish I knew all the stuff he's already…
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Unblocking an attachment blocked by outlook
[Update: Jose pointed me to the outlook Add-In I was talking about. Thanks!] So what do you do whaen you recieve a file attachement that oulook so cleverly blocked? Simply click “forward” on the mesage and the…
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Personal reminder
This is a reminder for me: What's missing in VS.Net pluggability? Enterprise Templates MSMQ Memory leak
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[Cool Tool] NotePad2
[Update: Steve Eichert shows how to make notepad2 replace good ol' Notepad without windows file protection interfering in the process. Thanks!] Just found out this cool little util through the win-tech-off-topic list:…
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Less is more, but more is more
Here's a cool sentence I heard on “Frasier”, which, ironically, applies to the software industry as well: “If less is more, just think mow much more “more” will be”
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Smalltalk glasses
I read James Robertson's SmallTalk blog . I don't know why really (except that he has sometimes funny and interesting off topic posts). I don't write in SmallTalk (although I've tried it acouple of times). Maybe it's…
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Superstar!
Julia Lerman is a Rock Star . You go girl! :) (via Mike )