Via Paul Ballard: "Microsoft has just dropped a set of Visual Studio 2005 PowerToys. Here's what you get: Source Code Outliner : The Source Outliner tool is a Visual Studio extension that provides a tree view of your source code's types and members and lets you quickly navigate to them inside the editor.Visual C++ Code Snippets:The Visual C++ Code Snippets tool lets you insert snippets in your code by using a pop-up menu that contains programming keywords. VB.NET and C# languages have this functionality ......
Quote from http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/C... This document specifies Best Practices for delivering Web content to mobile devices. The principal objective is to improve the user experience of the Web when accessed from such devices. The recommendations refer to delivered content and not to the processes by which it is created, nor to the devices or user agents to which it is delivered.It is primarily directed at creators, maintainers and operators of Web sites. Readers of this ......
Back in August I mentioned an article from the MSDN Magazine: "Becoming a Guru". I liked it.Now, the same magazine features an article on The Dark Side of Being a Guru which has a few comments about how real-life guruing (?) can be like: "I receive a ton of e-mail saying, 'I have a software problem. Please help soon, as I have urgent business to conduct.'" - Dino Esposito, columnist Hehe... If you look at this the right (optimistic) way, it must be cool to receive mails like this - knowing that so ......
Via
Andrew Connell...
The newest versions of Visual Studio.NET and SQL Server (2005) are now available for download, if you are an
MSDN subscriber! If you are not, you'll have to wait till the official release on November 7th.
Download size: 2760 MB... Yawn... ;-)
I got waaay behind on reading my "MSDN Just Published" feed. So after browsing through the > 100 articles mentioned (yes, I "filtered" them via headlines first), I found a few that sounded relevant and interesting. I'll throw them at you randomly: Common ASP.NET 2.0 Conversion Issues and Solutions Windows Vista - get the Beta Coding4Fun - Some Assembly Required: Is that you? Writing Better Software for Cool USB Hardware Coding4Fun - In the Box: Giving Computers a Voice MSDN TV: Intelligent Applications ......
Paul Ballard has written an excellent article for the latest MSDN Magazine (August 2005) about custom collections. I am currently in the midst of a project that uses custom collections a lot, so naturally I have a healthy interest in the subject ;-) I have to admit that I haven't read it in full yet, just browsed through it. Pauls suggested implementation of interfaces etc. is great as inspiration - I've done most of it like he does, but I may have missed a few nice details (like implementing IEditableObject ......
ASP.NET Home: On the Way to Mastering ASP.NET: Introducing Custom Entity Classes This article provides a superb "entrance point" for anyone who wishes to know more about really utilizing the OO capabilities of the .NET framework. Learn how to create "wrappers" for your database interaction, thereby creating some kind of Data Access Layer between SQL and GUI. You can even use your own (newly created) classes when binding to standard .NET controls like the DataGrid. Great article ......
Weird. Thought I had already blogged about this genious tool: CodeTranslator: Free Code Translation From VB.NET C# offers a) acceptable translation, b) an option to colorize output - c) as you write!. Only very few bugs remain, including some parenthesis missing at the end for instance .ToString(). That's pretty easy to live with... Can't seem to find the post I may or may not have created on this earlier, so I'm giving it another try. (bump? ;-) ......
Stumbled across this excellent thing:
RegExLib.com Regular Expression Cheat Sheet (.NET Framework)
I've never really felt a 100 per cent "safe" when creating RegExp patterns (maybe 80 per cent, okay?)... This makes life much easier when creating a new pattern from scratch (and saves a s...load of debugging time).