#utilities

Zune player in taskbar

This is pretty sweet, you can have the Zune player in your taskbar. On previous versi...

Syntaxhighlighter

I’ve tried a lot of tools and addons to use syntax highlighting on my weblog and Blog...

Twikini, the mobile twitter client

I’ve owned a Windows Mobile for some time, currently the HTC Tytn which sure is up fo...

DevDays09 slides If you build it, you’ll ship it

As Dennis Doomen, I was quite happy with how the session went. Some stuff went by pre...

Best developer tools

Because of the nature of my work, coaching people onsite and training people in clas...

*chirp

Update The application was renamed to blu. The previous name was much cooler, but t...

ZoomIt 3.0

I’m doing a SharePoint training right now and am using a computer for slides and stuf...

Deploying ClickOnce applications automated using FinalBuilder

Remark If you’re not using FinalBuilder but plain MSBuild, you can most likely bene...

CodeRush Xpress

Mark Miller from DevExpress just announced CodeRush Xpress for C# developers, for fre...

FinalBuilder Action lists

As I’ve said before, years ago on some project I first got the opportunity to work wi...

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’v...

Windows Live Writer and ZoomIt

Two tools I absolutely love! Windows Live Writer A new version was just released, Jun...

Programmatically creating an IIS7 site

I’m using FinalBuilder to build and deploy websites on our test server. FinalBuilder ...

CopySourceAsHtml 2008

UPDATE CopySourceAsHtml can be obtained from CodePlex. I was looking for CopySource...

Refactor! Pro

I just finished the two day Professional Agile Programming course in which I introduc...

MSBuild tasks for Team Foundation Server

I’ve experienced editing Team Foundation Server builds by hand and I didn’t like it. ...

TFS Get latest version on checkout

As most Team Foundation Server (TFS) users will know by now, upon checkout of a file ...

Zoomin on ‘watch popup’

During his ‘Applied Linq’ presentation at the Developer Days 2007, Alex Thissen tried...

Paste XML as serializable type

I had the privilege to see Steve Maine do some coding in a Microsoft SDR session afte...

TeamPlain freely downloadable

On march 26, 2007 it was announced that TeamPlain is now freely downloadable for Team...

Orcas March CTP EntLib 3.0 Feb CTP

What a week! Both the new Visual Studio “Orcas” and Enterprise Library 3.0 CTPs are r...

FileMon saved my career!

Okay, maybe I should be more careful with titles, but it is a catchy one! 😉 On my fr...

Reflector 5.0 released!

This is great news! Reflector 5 is out! And the best .NET Developer tool around has s...

Visual Studio 2005 Update for Windows Vista Beta

Just recently Service Pack 1 was released (Beta!) for Visual Studio 2005. Back then, ...

Mozy

I was reading Steve Eichert’s weblog when he mentioned Mozy, an online backup service...

Display WCF host details; code snippet

Because I’m doing presentations, demos and the WCF article series, I host a lot of WC...

Secure databases SQL Server vs. Oracle

Via Steve Eichert I came across an article about database security. It’s based on sec...

Refactor it!

Now this is a great initiative! Billy McCafferty is doing a weekly contest where he u...

Bitslapping contest LX vs Compile on Test integration in VS2005, part 2 response

Well, it seems Alex took things seriously and is slapping his bitstick around. Think...

TestDriven.NET 2.0 RTM

Some time ago I had a discussion with my colleague Alex Thissen about the differences...

Vista RC1 keys available

Last time, only 1000 keys were available. So everyone had to wait until the program o...

LLBLGen Pro 2 article

Although I’ve written articles for magazines before, it had never crossed my mind to ...

Handy utilities

In dit artikel vind je allerlei utilities die het leven van Windows gebruikers enof ...