What’s a good library to create PDF documents?
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...
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Windows Live Writer and ZoomIt
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...
Programmatically creating an IIS7 site
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...
CopySourceAsHtml 2008
UPDATE : CopySourceAsHtml can be obtained from CodePlex. 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....
Refactor! Pro
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...
MSBuild tasks for Team Foundation Server
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...
TFS Get latest version on checkout
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...
Zoom-in on ‘watch popup’
During his ‘Applied Linq’ presentation at the Developer Days 2007, Alex Thissen 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...
Paste XML as serializable type
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...
TeamPlain freely downloadable
On march 26, 2007 it was announced that TeamPlain is now freely downloadable for Team Foundation Server customers as a result of Microsoft’s acquisition of devBiz, creators of this excellent product. This is great...
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