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A new version of StyleCop was made available only a few days ago, so I downloaded it and installed it. One thing I had to correct after installation was the Settings.SourceAnalysis file. Because of the name change to StyleCop, the extension of the settings file was also changed. But after that, I was...
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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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If there's one thing that developers usually just cannot (or will not) agree to, then it's Coding standards/rules/guidelines or whatever name you want to give it. I posted a short item about a new tool from Microsoft that checks if your code matches the Microsoft guidelines and sure enough, I'm...
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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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Some of you brought another solution for importing text files to my attention. Thank you for that! For my current imports my previous solution works just fine. But if you are processing more complex files, then FileHelpers is an excellent library to use. (And very likely more flexible and robust then...
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Introduction I have been browsing the web for a good and simple class to handle delimited file imports. My current assignment has an import option that needs to deal with that. However, the current implementation (using StreamReader) is not good enough. It doesn't handle all the exceptions you encounter...
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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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I've posted about Sandcastle on several occasions and wrote about some of the tools that make the use of Sandcastle somewhat easier. But recently I've been getting emails asking me how one should choose between the various options available. In this post, I will briefly explain which third-party...
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First of all what is Enso ? Enso is an application launcher and utility tool that uses the selected text as input and replaces it with its output (if necessary). Its a bit of a descriptive one liner and I think its better to navigate to the humanized website and look-up what it is about. I am now using...
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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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Some time ago I wrote an article (in Dutch) about Sandcastle and some of the available third-party tools. About one month ago, it was published in the Dutch .Net magazine. Kind of proud now it's in print. I didn't post about it before, because the article wasn't available on the internet...
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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...