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Get the physical path of a path that uses a subst drive
Published Thu, Apr 5 2007 7:21 PM | Ramon Smits
My previous employer used a tool to attach databases that were located on a substituted path. I needed this conversion logic in another kind of environment and used the almighty google. So I hit an article on Avner Kashtan 's blog titled Query SUBST information...
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Codeplex and SVN
Published Mon, Feb 5 2007 10:38 AM | Ramon Smits
Ayende blogged about the missing the SVN support at codeplex and that there is a vote for SVN support at codeplex . If codeplex had SVN support then I probably would start using codeplex too. So vote for it if you think that it would be a usefull addition...
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VS2005: Solution to 'Where is that damn exception dialog?'
Published Mon, Nov 27 2006 2:28 PM | Ramon Smits
Today I had a very annoying issue. I was debugging an application on an VS2005 instance of a computer that I did not prepare / installed myself. I wanted the "break on all exceptions" behaviour in the debugger. Normally you just go to the menu and select...
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Tool : Add string as resource
Published Thu, Oct 19 2006 4:31 PM | Ramon Smits
I found this really nice little to add a string as a resource . You just select a string in the editor, right click to get the context menu and select to add it as a resource. You then get a dialog in which you can specify the key value and the resourcefile...
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Browsrcamp helps testing your design with Safari
Published Mon, Oct 2 2006 4:39 PM | Ramon Smits
Today I was reading the website statistics with Google Analytics . It shows that about 2,5% of our visits come from Safari . I only tested our design with Internet Explorer and Firefox and it looks great on those browsers. I remembered a website which...
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Change mssql isolation level to read uncommitted data
Published Fri, Sep 29 2006 2:43 PM | Ramon Smits
Sometimes you are debugging an application and want to query the database while the database connection still has not committed (or rollbacked) the transaction. So you fire up the query analyzer just to find out that you cannot see the modifications yet...
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Subversion troubles "PROPFIND request failed on '***' '***' path not found"
Published Tue, Sep 26 2006 11:11 PM | Ramon Smits
I created a repository at opensvn.csie.org today for the website I created with a friend for the volleybal club. We really needed version control because we are both working on the project at the moment plus that I really don't like all those *.old *...
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Website design not my favorite hobby
Published Mon, Sep 11 2006 3:50 PM | Ramon Smits
Although I am an ict nerd and resulting affection for bitfucking and neverending refactoring I also do some sports. I play volleyball and the current website of my volleybal club yum lacks some general design that works correct on both firefox and internet...
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Don't use viewstate compression! Use http compression instead!
Published Fri, Sep 1 2006 12:19 AM | Ramon Smits
Just google a bit with the keywords compression plus viewstate and lots of articles are to be found about this subject like this one . The problem is that in most situations programmers are doing something that the webserver already can do for you. Not...
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The && and the & operators
Published Tue, Aug 29 2006 2:27 PM | Ramon Smits
Today a collegue had me flabbergasted by using the & operator in a boolean comparison like the following example. return x & y; Both x and y were booleans and I said "Hey you just forgot an &! A single & is a bitwise operator.". And he...
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Failed for 70-300 exam
Published Fri, Aug 18 2006 4:28 PM | Ramon Smits
I failed for the Microsoft 70-300 examen this afternoon. I am disappointed in the result because I expected to pass. When I saw the score it felt very weird to see I had failed. I really don't have a clue which questions I did wrong.... so it is almost...
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Game studio express and XNA
Published Tue, Aug 15 2006 1:03 PM | Ramon Smits
Yesterday I posted about a news scoop at Ars-Technica referring Game studio express . Microsoft already posted a press bulletin about this at their site ( here ). But I wasn't aware of this. Rob Tillie mentioned in the comments that he doesn't think that...
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What kind of programmer are you?
Published Sat, Jul 15 2006 12:06 PM | Ramon Smits
Jeff Atwood just posted a very interesting item titled Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats in other words about how to find out if a person has enough potential to become a good developer. Its a very interesting read but after reading...
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NDepend 2.0 beta
Published Mon, Apr 3 2006 7:32 PM | Ramon Smits
I just received a notification that NDepend 2.0 beta is released by Patrick Smacchie. NDepend analyzes your dotnet 1.x assemblies and outputs a huge set of code metrics based on the IL. It can also create a nice dependancy chart of your assemblies where...
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WS-Addressing and routing is a pain in the ass
Published Fri, Mar 10 2006 2:21 PM | Ramon Smits
The problems I am having with the WS-Addressing specs....
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