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We all have those, I'm sure of it. Today it was my time to walk away from my computer and hide my face. So what happenend? I built a windows service for my current assigment. I tested it and it worked so it was time to deploy it to the test server. The solution included a setup project, so I simply compiled...
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It's been quiet for a long time, but I hope that I can find time to blog again. So here's one to get me started again. I bumped into an article on MSDN , written by Chris Lovett in August 2006, which describes the creation of XML Notepad 2007. Chris Lovett has been working on System.XML in C# since 1999...
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I have IE7 installed on the machine I use to develop at my current assignment. I noticed something strange this morning and I'm not sure if I should be happy, or extremely worried. I was reading my company email using the Outlook web client and I accidentally closed the tab that contained the Outlook...
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So it's not related to software development. But once in while you bump into the coolest gadgets. This time I bumped into the Numark TTUSB turntable . A regular turntable for those that still own vinyl audio and want to convert that to CD. Why didn't I see this sooner. Have a look at the specs: Anti...
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We have all been in that situation where you want to use a specific class or object, but you just can't remember which namespace to use. Visual Studio can help you find that namespace. Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 Both versions of Visual Studio support the key-combination Alt+Shift+ F12 . For example...
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If you're living in the Netherlands and you have to travel to get to work, be it by train or your car, then you're used by now to delays (train) or traffic jams (car). I used to check-out the website of ANWB, but I bumped into a really cool one this morning, Traphic.nl , which accidentally is written...
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This morning, when I searched for information about a .Net object in the MSDN library , I noticed the message "Got IE7? - get our search" on the right-hand side of the window. Clicking that link will open up the following window: When you click "Add Provider", a new entry is added to the search provider...
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Microsoft have released a small collection of E-Learning clinics that teach you the basics of the new functionality offered by Microsoft .Net framework 3.0. Clinic 5135 : Introduction to Developing with Windows® Presentation Foundation. This clinic covers the basics of WPF. You will learn about XAML...
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The IE 7 team sent a cake to the Mozilla team to congratulate them with the release of Firefox 2.0 . Here's a picture of that cake:
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I got my usual mail from CodeProject.com this morning. That mail contained an interesting excerpt from the Vista EULA (PDF download): "8. SCOPE OF LICENSE... You may not work around any technical limitations in the software;" So Vista has technical limitations, or are we out of a job like the CodeProject...
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An article by Steve Yegge who I actually didn't know until he was included in a question session with some of the big names in the software industry a while back. A very good writer, anyway the article: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile_27.html It makes me want to work at google...
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About three weeks ago, David Chappell finished his last high level white paper on the technology that will be in .Net Framework 3.0. These documents can be found on MSDN. I found them on Paul Andrew's web log . We've all put a lot of effort into ensuring that these papers answer a software architects...
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I'm back at work, writing VB.Net code again. As I blogged before , I'm currently assigned to a project where I need to develop software in VB.Net. And with a background in C#, it can be pretty annoying at times. I could write the code blindfolded in C#, but in VB.Net I still have to look for examples...
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Yep, like many other's it's time for me, the wife and my daughter to go on a well deserved vacation. So don't expect to see any blog posts (or comments on posts by others) from this developer. I'll be enjoying beers and bratwurst and the german country side near Medebach, Hochsauerland, Germany. CU in...
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I built a very small application which only shows information from a table in a standard DataGrid. Nothing special, other than I had to do it in VB.Net 1.1. I have just finished testing it, and am now running FxCop on the code to see what problems I still have to fix before checking it into source safe...