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Now after Windows Vista is released to the public I felt it was time to share my own personal experiences. After the release of vista on MSDN back in November I was very eager to try I out. So I installed it on my main machine. After I was done installing I directly had a two huge of problems: First...
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Last week on 18th of october 2 great things happend. The first thing is that a letter I sent to DotNetRocks was read on the show. My 3 minutes of fame start on minute 5.25 of this show. You must hear it, people seem to find it really funny :) . Actually you always should listen to Carl and Richard who...
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The current project I’m working on had some performance issues I wanted to look at. So I downloaded the dotTrace 2.0 beta . I’ve used dotTrace 1.1 before but I always had problems with stability, so I was a bit preoccupied. But I must say that the dotTrace 2.0 beta is much better than its predecessor...
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The XNA framework beta is now publicly available. You can read the download procedure here . I’ll give it a try as soon as possible but first I have to install my new monitor . Too bad that there is no integration with VS2005, but it uses VS 2005 C# express edition. And it will only work on Win XP with...
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I see that the beta of one of my favorite tools Paint.NET is released. Check it out here (dutch)
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James Newkirk (Creator of NUnit) released a early version of his tool to convert your NUnit test to visual studio team system. It only has C# support at the moment.
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Today i tried to implement an eventhandler on the UIPManager . NavigateEvent from the UIPAB. So i looked up some example code in MSDN. There i found the following: [C#] private void UIPManager_NavigateEvent(object sender, EventNavigateArgs e) { // Some logic that is performed on the navigate event /...
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I’d like to address an unpopular topic Test Driven Development. For some reason most developers don’t like Test Driven Development. One of the main pillars of TDD is the fact that a developer has to develop the test before he even begins to code. I see that many programmers still use a nice...
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Rene showed me the existence of the ResourceClassGenerator. This custom tool generates a typed class of your resources. That way you don't have to look in the Resource files to get the name of the resource, because you use intellisense from your code. Because of that there is no risk of looking up a...
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I lately looked into the User Interface Process Application Block. I read the documentation (as always :)) and discovered the possibility of the layout manager. The layout manager lets you abstract the layout from your form to a separate class. This can be useful for project where the layout is not yet...
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For a personal hobby project I wanted to try-out some new stuff and some O/R mappers. So I installed VS2005 and SQL2005 Express. I used VS2005 to create a database in SQL2005 this all worked fine. Then I wanted to tried LLBL Gen Pro and Entity Broker. But I could not connect to the database I created...
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Another simple but useful tool I use is these days is Ditto . It actually doesn't do much more then keep track of all your copy paste actions. And because a programming is not much more then copy pasting :p it is useful. Besides that you can also send copied items to someone else who uses ditto. Special...
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There are a couple of guys on my project who keep pushing Resharper . I at first glance didn't think it was useful, but they kept pushing and I finally tried it. And I actually like it. It's a plug in for visual studio and has some nice features. The most important thing is that your intellisense always...
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I haven't blogged for a long time. Now I finally have the ultimate excuse for not blogging. It seems that blogging is bad for your health. A group of British psychologists conclude this after researching this topic. Read the Dutch article here . I’m feeling quite good lately so I might keep up...
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If you think these weblogs are only about BizTalk, think again :). Mathew Nolton wrote an article about a validation framework he developed. If you are intrested in his ideas it is recomendable. I read his article and it looks like it more complex too use, then the validation framework which is developed...