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On October 13, Eric Traut from the Core Virtual Machine Team at Microsoft’s Core OS Division, gave a presentation about the vritualization technology Microsoft currently has to offer. The full presentation can be seen here and takes about an hour. During the presentation, he talks about various...
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In my current project, we have adopted Microsoft StyleCop as a tool to make sure everyone sticks to the same style of coding. One of the things we currently incorporate in our daily work is making sure our existing code conforms to the rules we agreed on. Today however, StyleCop refused to check a class...
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The Sandcastle project, Microsoft's tools to generate documentation from your well-documented code, is now available on CodePlex. That was already the case, but until about 2 month's ago, that was without the source code. You can now download Sandcastle including the source code from CodePlex...
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Because I blog about Crystal Reports occasionally, and created a helper class to assist in integrating it into .Net applications, I get a lot of questions from people that have problems running their reports. Especially in production environments after they deploy the reports. Unfortunately, I'm...
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Just as a small update on the use of StyleCop . I disagreed with some of the rules, like having to use spaces rather than tabs. It's not really an annoying rule, the only thing about it is that you have to agree on using spaces or tabs and then stick to it. But still, I found out you can tune StyleCop...
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Or to be more specific, by Microsoft StyleCop . Now this may not be new to you, and that's very likely since StyleCop was announced in May of this year, but it was new to me. The tool checks your code for coding style and more specific, the Microsoft coding style. It was developed outside the VSTS...
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I never had to do anything with SAP my self, other than interfacing from a .Net application. But since SAP has purchased Business Objects, I find I have to deal with them more and more. Why? Well, since SAP bought Business Objects, who bought Crystal Decisions a while back, they are the owner of Crystal...
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It happens to all of us. You need an icon for a specific subject and you can't seem to find one. Having a new icon designed might take too long. Usually, people simply resort to starting Google Image search . This morning I bumped into Wikimedia Commons . They have a large image base which is categorized...
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I know, for a lot of Microsoft developers Crystal Reports (CR) is a no-go area. But I know that a lot of developers are using it, whether they like it or not. Because of my posts about CR, and more specifically my CrystalHelper class, I'm asked how to deploy applications that use the free version...
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I was pointed to the Sysinternals section on TechNet recently. I've seen some of the tools provided there before, but I always seem to forget where I could find them. So now, as a permanent reminder, a short blog post. From the Sysinternals website: The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by...
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I guess most of us are really happy with the release of Visual Studio 2008. I know I am, although I realise that I won't be able to use it professionally. I have only recently been able to convince my current projectowner to upgrade our suite of applications to .Net 2.0. The reason behind that decision...
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I've been using CopySourceAsHTML for some time now to add source code to my blog posts. Until recently, you could find it on GotDotNet.Com. But that site has now shut-down. Fortunately, the author sent me the new link for a download of this excellent tool. I know a lot of you have trouble setting...
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I've written a few articles on CodeProject (see: My Articles ) and I find a lot of examples for my work there too. I check CodeProject regularly, especially if I'm trying to figure out how to solve a particular problem. I was therefor very happy to be pointed to the Code Project Browser Add-In...
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You should by now be aware that Microsoft is developing a documentation compiler called Sandcastle . Although the project is still very much in CTP mode, I do believe that it gives you all the options you need to generate documentation for your managed code assemblies. To help you achieve that, I have...
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One would think that Microsoft has improved Visual Source Safe a lot with the release of VSS 2005. And until this week I was happy to say that it appeared to be much more stable and reliable than any of the previous versions. But today I tried to view the difference between two checked-in versions of...