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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 libraries. One just didn’t allow me to do what...
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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 some code to create a new IIS7 website using C#...
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What a week! Both the new Visual Studio "Orcas" and Enterprise Library 3.0 CTPs are released. Enterprise Library got some fixes and the new Policy Injection Application Block is now included. I'm very much interested in it as it'll give a lot of new possibilities in future software products. I'm currently...
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This is great news! Reflector 5 is out! And the best .NET Developer tool around has some new cool functions! Reflector 5.0 Reflector 5.0 Add-Ins @ CodePlex Reflector 5.0 New Features (PPT) You can now use uri's to let Reflector navigate to a method or property. For example : code://nunit.framework/NUnit...
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Just recently Service Pack 1 was released ( Beta! ) for Visual Studio 2005. Back then, the Vista update had a link, but it was removed. Miguel blogged that the beta version is online! This update is required because of the security enhancements to Windows Vista. One of the biggest problems was the debugger...
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Because I'm doing presentations, demos and the WCF article series , I host a lot of WCF services inside a console application. Console applications are great for demonstrating something really quickly. When hosting a WCF service in a console application, you require a pause so that your client applications...
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Via Steve Eichert I came across an article about database security . It's based on security flaws that have been reported over the years by external security researchers. Only flaws affecting the database servers itself have been considered, so Oracle Application Server has not been included for example...
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Now this is a great initiative! Billy McCafferty is doing a weekly contest where he uploads a Visual Studio 2005 solution of a C# project with a specific code smell . You must refactor the solution so that the code smell is removed and so it still passes the supplied unit tests. Winners are randomly...
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Well, it seems Alex took things seriously and is slapping his bit-stick around. Thinks he can just slap me around and walk away with a smile, huh? Well, I'm not done with round 1 Alex. Round 1 Reflector integration Thank you for the point, Alex. +1 Dennis Code coverage Alex should've checked out the...
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Some time ago I had a discussion with my colleague Alex Thissen about the differences between Visual Studio 2005 (unit) testing, and NUnit and TestDriven.NET. I'm very pro NUnit, but Alex says he can do everything I do with VS2005. I disagreed and we talked about bitchslapping, or perhaps some bitslapping...
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Although I've written articles for magazines before, it had never crossed my mind to create an article about a technological subject. Because of the RAD Race held this year , the general editor of Software Release Magazine knew we had used LLBLGen Pro to help in our solution. So when version 2.0 was...