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Zune player in taskbar
  This is pretty sweet, you can have the Zune player in your taskbar. On previous version of Windows, I had my media player up there. But now the Zune player has this ability in Windows 7 as well. If you have the Zune 4.0 software installed you can...
Posted: Mon, Oct 26 2009 8:20 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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Syntaxhighlighter
I’ve tried a lot of tools and addons to use syntax highlighting on my weblog and BloggingAbout.NET in general. I’ve fallen in love with two of them. CopySourceAsHtml by Colin Coller SyntaxHighlighter by Alex Gorbatchev The first I use to use for my weblog...
Posted: Mon, Oct 12 2009 8:10 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 5 comment(s)
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Twikini, the mobile twitter client
I’ve owned a Windows Mobile for some time, currently the HTC Tytn which sure is up for replacement. But I’m really waiting for the HTC Touch Pro 2 or the HTC Hero or something. With internet on it, it’s great to have the ability to check your email, search...
Posted: Wed, Jul 1 2009 2:01 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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DevDays09 slides : If you build it, you’ll ship it
As Dennis Doomen , I was quite happy with how the session went. Some stuff went by pretty fast, mainly because I did not want to present how the tools I used work, but did want to show the audience how I did it and what the tools are capable of. Here...
Posted: Wed, Jun 3 2009 11:24 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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Best developer tools
Because of the nature of my work, coaching people on-site and training people in classes, I talk to a lot of developers and managers about the way people work. Unfortunately a lot of companies still don’t unit test their software and don’t setup an automated...
Posted: Fri, Mar 13 2009 4:05 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 9 comment(s)
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*chirp
Update : The application was renamed to blu . The previous name was much cooler, but they probably have their reasons! :-) Find it here . Although Twitter hasn’t taken any forms of hysteria yet in The Netherlands, more and more people start using...
Posted: Mon, Feb 2 2009 10:32 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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ZoomIt 3.0
I'm doing a SharePoint training right now and am using a computer for slides and stuff which is not my own. So a few of the first things you do is download Reflector and SysInternals ZoomIt . To my joy I saw that ZoomIt 3.0 was released and that it...
Posted: Wed, Jan 14 2009 3:17 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 3 comment(s)
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Deploying ClickOnce applications automated using FinalBuilder
Remark : If you’re not using FinalBuilder but plain MSBuild, you can most likely benefit from the tutorial below as well. In this tutorial I’ll try to explain what I’ve done to automate the build for a ClickOnce application. I’m using FinalBuilder because...
Posted: Wed, Nov 26 2008 11:16 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 10 comment(s)
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CodeRush Xpress
Mark Miller from DevExpress just announced CodeRush Xpress for C# developers, for free!!! In a partnership with Microsoft, DevExpress is making this tool available for Visual Studio. It’s a selection of CodeRush and Refactor! Pro features. Refactor! Pro...
Posted: Tue, Oct 28 2008 6:57 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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FinalBuilder : Action lists
As I’ve said before, years ago on some project I first got the opportunity to work with FinalBuilder. After years of silence I picked it up again at version 5 and recently switched to the latest version 6. Have you ever had the feeling that some developer...
Posted: Thu, Sep 18 2008 9:13 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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What’s a good library to create PDF documents?
For a customer I’m looking for a PDF library to create thousands of PDF document. I’ve tried two open source libraries, but didn’t quite like them. I’m not sure if it’s me, the library or just PDF because they didn’t feel right. So I tried two commercial...
Posted: Wed, Jul 30 2008 8:50 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 18 comment(s)
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Windows Live Writer and ZoomIt
Two tools I absolutely love! Windows Live Writer A new version was just released, June 2nd. Download it here . Sysinternals ZoomIt Version 2.0 was released on May 28. I just downloaded that version myself and it has some nice features. However, I did...
Posted: Thu, Jun 5 2008 10:17 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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Programmatically creating an IIS7 site
I'm using FinalBuilder to build and deploy websites on our test server. FinalBuilder is a great product, but our client is using Windows Server 2008 and FinalBuilder does not have actions for IIS7. I might add the actions to my weblog, but here's...
Posted: Fri, May 16 2008 3:52 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 4 comment(s)
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CopySourceAsHtml 2008
UPDATE : CopySourceAsHtml can be obtained from CodePlex . I was looking for CopySourceAsHtml for Visual Studio 2008, but for some reason it's not on the 'official' page so I had to search for it. There are multiple versions, but on Guy Burstein's...
Posted: Wed, Apr 2 2008 2:42 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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Refactor! Pro
I just finished the two day Professional Agile Programming course in which I introduced developers to some best practices and such, including a view over some good practices from methodologies (XP/Scrum/MSF). For this course I've been in contact with...
Posted: Mon, Feb 4 2008 9:18 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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