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  • About Roy Osherove

    Name : Roy Osherove Date of Birth : 17/08/1975 Family Status : Married to a beautiful wife named Tal . Were married 2 days after the 9-11 at NYC. (Must be a good sign, right ...?). My wife Tal is a SP.NET/Win forms…

  • Missing C# feature ? - Totally hiding derived members

    So here's my problem. I have class Foo: public class Foo{ public void DoStuff() { ... } } and i have class Bar derived from it. I want class Bar to Hide the "DoStuff" and expose it's own implementation of "DoStuff()".…

  • Open Source Vs. Commercial Aggregators - The NewsGator Dillema

    In response to my post about NewsGator , Fleh comments: " Isn't this where open source is going? i.e. how does one make a living if nobody is willing to pay for anything? " That depends a lot on the benefits you get…

  • Including/excluding files in Visual Studio .NET

    Including/excluding files in Visual Studio .NET Date: 2/17/2003 Versions: VS7 Level: Beginner Author: The VB2TheMax Team Say that that you have an existing Visual Studio .NET project, and that you copy a lot of new…

  • Funny Web page

    http://www.next-in.com/kickers.html

  • A lesson in usability

    Delete a bookmark On the Insert menu, click Bookmark . Click the name of the bookmark you want to delete, and then click Delete . Note To delete both the bookmark and the bookmarked item, select the item, and then press…

  • The Last Configuration Handler I'll Ever Need - the next generation

    I seem to be the last to notice Chris Sells post on types configuration object using serialization. Well, i just add that it's pretty darn cool. But one can take this further : 1) create a full serializable database and…

  • Microsoft Download Center RSS feed

    Here's the RSS feed of new download from MSFT download center. very insightful, and contantly updated. http://www.thundermain.com/rss/ . Sorry i don't rememeber how i found it, so i can't give the honor, but isn't it…

  • Blogoholic

    very funny post by Russel Beattie, which reminds me of myself pretty much..: "I was just not going to connect all day - having brought my PC across the room from my DSL connection (without WiFi card) and was working…

  • About Syndirella

    Sadly, I learned that NewsGator now costs money :) On one hand, this is a good thing for the creator, and it's agood product( my favorite aggregator), on the other hand i can't see myself paying 30 bucks for an…

  • .NetWeblog Update -Woohoo!

    Hello Everyone, OK, just pushed a new (and I hope improved) version of the Blog Application to the live server. I guess I am going to call this Beta 2.5 since I did not get all of the features I wanted to in this build,…

  • Nunit Addin bliss

    So i decided to take my first steps as a Test-First programmer today. I downloaded NUnit 2.0 , and after that - NUnit Addin , and after 5 minutes of "readme", i was ready to go. I opened up the current project i am…

  • More bug tracking software

    Chris wrote: Bug Tracking Alex is looking for bug tracking software. I have never used this (use a spreadsheet - the shame!) but fogbugz is supposed to be good.. You can find an exhaustive list of Bug Tracking…

  • Code monkeys are people too

    "Computer programming is taught in courses. The excellent books: The Pragmatic Programmer[8], Code Complete[3], Rapid Development[2], and Extreme Programming Explained[4] all teach computer programming and the larger…

  • The big picture

    The Code Explorer The CodeSMART Code Explorer is a navigational and management tool that integrates features from both the standard Solution Explorer and the standard Class View . For a solution and its projects, it…

  • CodeSmart.NET productivity Addin announced

    AxTools are coming out with CodeSmart.NET . I have been an avid user of their CodeSmart for VB, which ,in my opinion, is one of the most productive and comprehensve addins on the market for VB (And ive used most if not…

  • AppSettings Coolness

    Say you want to store a setting in an XML config file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <appSettings> <add key="WebServiceUrl" value="http://mypublicserver/smartclientservice.asmx?wsdl" />…

  • HOWTO: Let the user Filter object property values dynamically

    I am currently creating a project where a user can see trace messages from older applications written in VB 6.0. we have a trace utility that throws traces using COM . iIdecided i would try to write a client in C#. the…

  • App.Config Magic

    Here's another tidbit i found: If i want my application to have a config file, i need to create a file named .config in the output directory. but here's a nice touch you can do with VS.NET: click " Add Item " button,…

    .Net Original, Tips & Tricks

  • Cool IDE Shortcut

    here's something i just found out: Select some text in the ide and press CTRL+SHIFT+U - and the selection becomes UPPERCASE . Use CTRL+U to make it lowercase .. tada!

    .Net Original, Tips & Tricks

  • Late bound wrapper to MS Word object

    Here is a simple wrapper object that shows you how to late bind to Microsoft Word's spell checker from .net. Use it like this: MSWord word = new MSWord(); assert( word.CheckSpelling("antidisestablishmentarianism") );…

  • ASP.NET Utilities

    Scott Guthrie has further information about the tools and utilities to diagnose ASP.NET issues, that come with the MSDN article I posted a link to yesterday. [via Sam ]

  • Article: Five Considerations for Writing Large-Scale Systems

    A while back, I realized that you can break down the requirements for writing a large-scale system into five areas: scalability, availability, security, managability, and everything else. I often use this breakdown when…

  • I got my own domain!

    Finally. It seems as though no one had thought of this (IMHO) cool domain name: ISerializable.Com . I have made it forward to this blog URL so now my blog is much more easily accessible. cheers.

  • Super Blogger

    here is the top of the bloggers list from http://dotnetweblogs.com/ . something seems a bit odd, don't it? ;) ---------SNIP--------------- Bloggers (posts, last update) Sam Gentile ( 1353 , 2/18/2003 12:50 PM ) Drew…

  • Killer bookmark

    I don't use it often - but when I need it - it always saves the day. I am talking about Connectionstrings.com . [via Mike Roselius ] This one's a definite keeper!

  • MCAD / MCSD most Helpful exam study links

    Not sure if anyone is looking to get their MCAD / MCSD for Microsoft .NET out there, but a couple of links that I've found treemendously helpful are Tim's Exam Links . What he's basically done is taken Microsoft's list…

  • Code analysis tool for your .NET needs

    FxCop version 1.074 FxCop is a code analysis tool that checks your .NET assemblies for conformance to the .NET Framework Design Guidelines . It uses reflection, MSIL parsing, and callgraph analysis to inspect your…

  • how do you make your .NET application scriptable?

    One of the last big projects i have done in VB 6.0 was creating an inhouse system that was also totally scriptable, using MS Script control. the user could react to ecents raised by the aplication, and interact and…

  • Why is this missing from C#?

    Found out about a cool feature in VB.NET, but i can't seem to find something similar inC#. In VB.NET you can create a Catch block that only catches the execption depending on a boolean statement. the syntax for this is…