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Remark : If you’re not using FinalBuilder but plain MSBuild, you can most likely benefit from the tutorial below as well. In this tutorial I’ll try to explain what I’ve done to automate the build for a ClickOnce application. I’m using FinalBuilder because this is the best tool I know to automate your...
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So Foxit Reader is a replacement for Acrobat Reader, it’s light, can be stand alone, and has a super fast launching time and FREE. since i tried Foxit Reader i had no single Acrobat Reader installation. Today i discovered a neat feature, if you closed Foxit Reader while you viewing PDF document, when...
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Mark Miller from DevExpress just announced CodeRush Xpress for C# developers, for free!!! In a partnership with Microsoft, DevExpress is making this tool available for Visual Studio. It’s a selection of CodeRush and Refactor! Pro features. Refactor! Pro is one of my favorite tools available for Visual...
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As I’ve said before, years ago on some project I first got the opportunity to work with FinalBuilder. After years of silence I picked it up again at version 5 and recently switched to the latest version 6. Have you ever had the feeling that some developer around you suffered from the NIH syndrome ? Like...
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For a customer I’m looking for a PDF library to create thousands of PDF document. I’ve tried two open source libraries, but didn’t quite like them. I’m not sure if it’s me, the library or just PDF because they didn’t feel right. So I tried two commercial libraries. One just didn’t allow me to do what...
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Two tools I absolutely love! Windows Live Writer A new version was just released, June 2nd. Download it here . Sysinternals ZoomIt Version 2.0 was released on May 28. I just downloaded that version myself and it has some nice features. However, I did not know about all 1.x existing features myself. I...
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I'm using FinalBuilder to build and deploy websites on our test server. FinalBuilder is a great product, but our client is using Windows Server 2008 and FinalBuilder does not have actions for IIS7. I might add the actions to my weblog, but here's some code to create a new IIS7 website using C#...
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I was looking for CopySourceAsHtml for Visual Studio 2008, but for some reason it's not on the 'official' page so I had to search for it. There are multiple versions, but on Guy Burstein's blog there's more information and the only RTM version I could find. I always search on Jan...
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I just finished the two day Professional Agile Programming course in which I introduced developers to some best practices and such, including a view over some good practices from methodologies (XP/Scrum/MSF). For this course I've been in contact with DevExpress about a tool I wanted to show; Refactor...
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Those are a subset of Hanselman's tool list , those are very helpful during my daily job... so i thought i share with you.. to boost your productivity as well. Query Express - A light weight Query analyzer like application .NET Reflector - Amazing utility reflect over .NET Assemblies you can use...
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I've experienced editing Team Foundation Server builds by hand and I didn't like it. Maybe I'm missing something here, but it's very complex and troublesome. I want some more 'advanced' stuff in my build process, like preparing a build for our test environment but also for our...
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As most Team Foundation Server (TFS) users will know by now, upon checkout of a file from source control, the latest version isn't retrieved. For a lot of users very odd, while this was the cast in Visual Source Safe. This is actually by design. And this time "by design" doesn't mean...
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During his 'Applied Linq' presentation at the Developer Days 2007, Alex Thisse n tried to zoom-in on some variable. I have no idea how this popup is called, but it's kind of a watch in a popup, therefor a 'watch popup' ? Anyhow, Alex tried to zoom-in on it as you can't (easily...
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I had the privilege to see Steve Maine do some coding in a Microsoft SDR session after MIX07. While coding, he showed this cool tool that's in the BizTalk Services SDK. He was showing something he had build and copied a bit of XML into the clipboard and used this tool inside Visual Studio 2005 to paste...
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If you run TortoiseSVN you may come across this issue when you find that some folders are obstructed - usually Debug/Release folders - i did came cross this today and when i tried to commit my changes i got message saying that i should perform a clean up command, so i did then i recived a message saying...