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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…
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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
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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…
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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?
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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…
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[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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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!…
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.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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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)
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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…
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A list of regular expression tools
http://www.larkware.com/RegexTools.html Need I say more? Do you know any other good ones?
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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…
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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 :)
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 !