Scott Guthrie posted about a cool new ASP.NET server control: Chart. It can be used for free with ASP.NET 3.5 to enable rich browser-based charting scenarios. Read more over here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/24/new-asp-net-charting-control-lt-asp-chart-runat-quot-server-quot-gt.aspx
StyleCop version 4.3 was released last tuesday. A short summary of what version 4.3 brings us: Various bugfixes, including fixes for VS integration issues Rules documentation is included and integrated into VS "Show Error Help" New rules, see blogpost for the rules Branding change from Source...
Some of my (Dutch!) Avanade colleagues recently released 'Entlib Extensions To WSSF' to CodePlex. Quite a cool addition to the already rich Enterprise Library. Entlib Extensions to WSSF (Web Service Software Factory) is an extension that enables WSSF to easily integrate with Enterprise Library...
Getting the ModalPopupExtender from the Ajax Control Toolkit to work (decently) in SharePoint was not exactly a walk in the park. With a default SharePoint installation, the modal popup is partly positioned 'outside' of the page (you only see the bottom right part of the popup in the top left...
One of my colleagues pointed out the new Fine-grained password policy feature in Windows Server 2008. As you can see in this post at The Sean Blog, some values have to be entered in the I8 format, which isn't very user friendly. Because of that, he asked me if I could whip up a tool that converts...
As a reaction to this article at Peter Ritchie's MVP Blog , I thought I'd give my two cents on having a single exit point for methods. Here we go... When writing code, I always create only one exit point except for the occasional throwing of an exception. Most important for me is to always know...
One of the most annoying things in Visual Studio (to me) was the fact that complete solutions (solution folders, projects, regulare folder) would be expanded upon opening. And with big solutions, that isn't too much fun. There are macros available online, but the ones i found were pretty slow. This...
There are several steps to creating a custom web service to be hosted in SharePoint. The MSDN library has a walkthrough on creating a custom web service . After having followed this walkthrough thoroughly, I though my web service was good to go. Unfortunately all I saw was an error: "Could not load...
As stated on ScottGu's blog in his latest post , the .NET Framework Library Source Code is now available. A detailed blog post about the steps to follow to enable .NET Framework source access in Visual Studio 2008 can be found at Shawn Burke's blog in this post . Taken from Scott's post:...