I don't know how this one escaped my attention. In Whidbey, there is a new window that you can dock in your IDE. It is called “System Window” and you can find it under View -> Other Windows -> Comm…

“ Buy stamps to send e-mail “ says Bill Gates, to decrease and put hold on spammers now a new idea arises where we might have to pay to send out email messages!! Well can see some benefits i.e. it …

Table Data Gateway vs. Data Access Object

Along the same theme as my last post....

When building any game, you always start out writing the “Game Loop”. If all the game data was the blood of our game, the game loop would be the pumping of the heart that keeps us running. In Win32…

Well, VSStyler is now ready for download. It is an add-in into Visual Studio .NET 2003 that allows you to save font and color settings into “styles”. This way, you can switch settings at the drop o…

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I ran across a nice little Com Interop “gotcha” when I was working with Excel automation from C# today. I'm sure that a lot of you with more COM Interop experience than me already know about this b…

Implementing the Front Controller Pattern (1.0)

Does anyone know of any good open source UML tools? I've only used 4 UML tools: IBM Rational Rose, IBM Rational XDE, Microsoft Visio, and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect. I despise Visio, XDE is…

Now that SOA is taking the world by storm, this is the time to define the format that will be used to exchange data in this new architecture ruled by messages. Welcome to the world of SODA.

After some testing (thanks DonXML), I feel the syndication compression for .Text is ready. However, if you have any issues, please email me at jjulian2@mac.com. I have included the source, binaries…

Weird. Tonight I went to the store to buy the requisite 6 pounds of M&Ms (it's a Microsoft tradition to treat your team to a pound per year on your anniversary\) and all they had was black and whit…

Disposable email, for a single usage

Summary:Automated test tools are powerful aids to improving the return on the testing investment when used wisely. Some tests inherently require an automated approach to be effective, but others mu…

In a review , a work product is examined for defects by individuals other than the person who produced it. A Work Product is any important deliverable created during the requirements, design, codin…

Learn how to write a Regular Expression: \--------------------------------------------------------------- What Regular Expression? A regular expression is a pattern that can match various text stri…

For a while now I've been toying with the idea of writing a C# editor (almost an IDE, but with only the features that I need). Clearly the hardest part of this task would be getting some form of ed…

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