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MSDN could have had me
The upcoming MSDN magazine will feature this article: Plug-Ins : Let Users Add Functionality to Your .NET Applications with Macros and Plug-Ins by Jason Clark Damn. Sounds like my two articles about plug-ins in .Net…
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Cool debugging tool of the day: Developer Playground
My friend Jonas Blunck , author of the most excellent ieHTTPHeaders and ComTrace , dropped me a line a couple of days ago, to let me know he's dropped a new development tool -- Developer Playground . This is yet another…
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Automatic Data-Relations
Greg asks about data relation support in Yukon . Meanwhile, in the present, there are several ways to avoid building those relations manually in code: Return hierachical data from your SQL server procedures (with the…
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Congratulations Lior!
Lior Rozner is getting married today! Woohoo! Congratulations Lior, I wish you everything you'll ever want or need :)
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Debugging shortcuts - Run to cursor, Find next statement
Here are some common debugging tasks that I've found you can do with the keyboard: * sometimes when I debug I go to all sorts of places in my code, while inside a breakpoint or when debugging line by line. In order to…
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Books to buy
Here's the list of books my company is planning to buy in the next few days (suggestions are welcome) : Windows Forms Programming in C# Essential .NET, Volume I: The Common Language Runtime Patterns of Enterprise…
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Israel Visual Basic User Group today - on ADO.Net
Israel Visual Basic User Group this Wednesday - on ADO.Net You don't have to be a VB programmer to learn about .Net. It's about the framework anyway. I recommend you be there. If you think you already know ado.net - go…
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RLRT htpd tscdrb gntst
This is a true matrix fan. And he shows us how to get at the latest hidden matrix trailer.
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Cool utility of the day: Code Snippet Compiler
My blogging buddy Jeff Key (maker of the increasingly useful NetPing ) has posted yet another snazzy util, a Code Snippet Compiler . As .NET folks, we all find ourselves creating junk Console applications with a…
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Windows Forms Programming in C# Sample Chapter
AW has been kind enough to post the preface and a sample chapter (Chapter 9: Design-Time Integration) to the official AW Windows Forms Programming in C# book page. They've also posted Mike Blaszczak's foreword. Enjoy.…
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.NetWeblogs chosen for site of the week on ASPExperts
digging through the links in Shawn's post about ASPExpert's book of the week , I find that weblogs.asp.net has been chosen site of the week as well! Coolness! Way to go Scott :)
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Communication is key
“ ...Also, I've recently started to try to really concentrate on what my friends and family are saying when they start conversations with me while I'm working. (Previously I would continue working, giving a grunt now…
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The Final Release of NUnit V2.1 is now available
This is the third major release of NUnit and the second since it was rewritten to take advantage of .NET custom attributes. Highlights of this release include: * Support for the .NET framework versions 1.0 and 1.1 * The…
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GSM decrypted
Looks like our people in the israel Technion institute found a way to decrypt the GSM network stream , allowing them to listen in on about 850 million people's conversations. How scary is that?
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Israel Visual Basic User Group this wednesday - on ADO.Net
The September meeting of the Israel Visual Basic User Group http://www.renaissance.co.il/ivbug : “This month I hope to fulfill my promise to have a meeting dedicated to data access – let’s just hope the lights stay on…
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A better disposable email
“ I am Jack's single serve email address .” [via HDConsultants ] This disposable email is even better than mailinator , because it actually forwards email to your real address, but you get to say when the fake email…
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Showing the "Browse For Folder" dialog
Another one from Derek Stone . Boy this guy seems to have all the answers for me today. This time it's a simple class that shows the “Browse for folder” dialog in VB.Net. It uses the…
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Make the "Beziers" screen saver look good
Here's a simple way to create a nice looking screen saver from one of the screen savers your machine is already equipped with (Beziers). Open the “screen saver properties” dialog Select “ Beziers “ Click “ Settings “…
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A good introduction to IT blogging and blogs in general
For a while now I've been looking for a way to introduce people(mainly other developers) to weblogging and RSS feeds, but could not find a good intro that “gets” it. Now I think I've come across just that: Blogs:…
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Book: Windows Forms Programming in C#
Chris Sells : “ My WinForms book for C# programmers should be on the shelves today. I've set up the site where you can download the source and report problems. The VB.NET version should be out at the PDC. Enjoy. ”…
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Hosting the CLR - the native approach
A while ago I posted about a user group session which involved explanations about CLR hosting, among others. Hosting can be done either through COM interfaces or through native C or C++. Although the lecturer talked…
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The [Conditional] Attribute
If you want to write methods that are only available with conditional compiler arguments you can use an attribute just for that purpose: < Conditional("DEBUG")> _ Private Sub MyMethod() End Sub [Conditional("DEBUG")]…
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Asynchronous ASP.Net actions suck?
Every once in a while you get to do dev work in an area you know nothing about. That’s me and ASP.Net. Well, I do know some things but it’s all theoretical. I never really got to do asp.net development in a “real”…
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Writing a product review
Mike has more writer's advice. This time about writing a product review . “ Today I want to talk a bit about writing product reviews. Having spent quite a while as the Product Editor for MCP Magazine , this is an area…
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MSDE - The missing piece
Thanks to Mike Gunderloy for pointing out this great article on MSDE. It should have been entitled : Everything you wanted to ask about MSDE
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I've been slacking off
Yeah. I do need to get more serious about wrting to the blog. Lately I feel I've been mostly “hanging on” rather than charging forward with the tech vengeance I had. I've been so tied up with the new job, that I can't…
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A 'softie at a linux show
Josh Ledgard from MS talks about the impressions of a 'softie in a linux show . Some very interesting comments, and at least one surprising anacdote.. Some of the more intersting parts:: “Listening (and Responding) to…
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A .Net weblogger business card?
Would it be too “out there” if I were to create business cards saying : Roy Osherove Catch me at ISerializable.com this way I can hand it over to people I meet in user groups and stuff. I think it makes an impression,…
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Main feed for blogs.gotdotnet.com, please!
Steve strikes a chord when he says “ Main feed for blogs.gotdotnet.com, please! “.
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Ed has left the building
Ed Kaim: “ I've decided to take some time off from blogging ”. This sucks. Ed has been one of my favorites for a long time, with great stories and good inside scoops on what it like “out there”. Too bad.