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I was doing what I typically do in my very small amount of down time I was reading my blog feeds from some of my favorite bloggers. One blog that I read religiously is Brian Button. I've had the pleasure to take part (a small one) in a C# design patterns group in NYC where on occasion Brian chimes in with some great advise and knowledge. I particularly liked this article about 'Eating Toast' and thought it was a great post. Read here. ...
So here's the application I built to download the torrents for my favorite podcasts. Get it here
What would you like to see? Seems the team is ramping up again to tackle the next version of the Ent Lib libraries. Great stuff. I love enterprise libraryand use it in almost every project I do. Keep it up. -B
Here's a post from Somasegar about WinFX being renamed to .NET Framework 3.0. Seems to make sense to keep the same naming going forward, since WCF and WWF are getting confusing enough, I liked Avalon, Longhorn, and Indigo myself. -B
Have you ever wanted to upgrade a version of an assembly and not have to recomplie code? One way to accomplish this is using assembly binding in your configuration file. First make sure that both the old assembly and the new one use the same strong key file and are both in the GAC. Then add the following to your application configuration file: <configuration> <runtime> <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsof... > <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity name="DevelopMentor.Mandelb...
If you are like me (and who isn't?) then you want everything in one place. You don't want to have to use 30 different tools that generally performs the same set of functions (MS is notorious for doing this). So when I heard about getting the Enterprise Library console tool integrated with VS2005 I was excited. Here it is to download. I've only been playing around with it for a week or so and I like it alot. I also wanted to let you know that my buddy Hisham Baz recently finished his update for the...
At its simpliest form a code snippet is nothing more than an xml file. Here's a sample of the schema: <CodeSnippets xmlns="http://schemas.micro... <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0"> <Header> <Title> My Snippet </Title> </Header> <Snippet> <References> <Reference> <Assembly>System.Wind... </Reference> </References> <Code Language="VB"> <![CDATA[MessageBox.Show...
Here's a great list of the code snippets that come out of the box for VS2005. After typing in the shortcut then hit tab to let the snippet execute. #if Creates a #if directive and a #endif directive. Anywhere. #region Creates a #region directive and a #endregion directive. Anywhere. ~ Creates a destructor for the containing class. Inside a class. attribute Creates a declaration for a class that derives from Attribute. Inside a namespace (including the global namespace), a class, or a struct. checked...
A good friend on mine actually got me interested in this type of software recently so I've been keeping a pulse on it from time to time and it was announced today that the Microsoft Expression Designer January CTP was released. This is the first release build for the product team, and here's a video explaining the product a little more. This is very kewl stuff that I can watch forever and cannot wait to have on my PC. Enjoy. -B...
This just in. The patterns and practices team just released Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0. Get it here. There are some significant changes to the overall architecture, you can reading about them here. Download and enjoy. -B...
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