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Visual Studio Theme Generator

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:16:02 GMT

A fun little ASP.NET MVC Application I wrote to generate Visual Studio themes based off of 3 given colors. I have always felt that selecting every color to make a decent theme is way too repetitive. This web application automatically chooses complements / contrasts based off your initial color selections (and uses jQuery to let you preview your theme before creating). Check it out and let me know what you think.

When are we going to see Glasnost?

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:01:01 GMT

The Java and .NET community largely oppose each other...

Random (and fake) surname generator

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 06:01:01 GMT

Answering a code challenge by Jon Galloway (also here in DotNetKicks) to generate random surnames, here's my solution. Feel free to use it for your grid or database needs !

Compressing and uncompressing ZIP files

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:31:05 GMT

A simple tutorial about how to compress and uncompress ZIP files using SharpZipLib.

Free PowerShell IDE

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:17:01 GMT

PowerShellIDE is a graphical user interface that helps explore and exploit the vast power available with PowerShell. It contains a debugger, lets you step through PowerShell scripts, explore variables as you run your scripts and also supports many Intellisense-like functions. Currently, PowerShellIDE is absolutely free. It is an experimental editor we programmed to learn more about PowerShell.

Unlock files/folders with ease

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:45:02 GMT

Ever been developing a web app, and you wanted to delete a folder but you couldn't because some process had a lock on it. Instead of hunting down and manually trying to determine what process is maintaining the lock; you can utilize Unlocker to remove the lock for you without any guessing required!!

Extending HttpApplication with session counts and uptime in C#

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 13:45:03 GMT

It's sometimes useful to know or display how many people are currently using your web application and how long it's been up for. As web applications normally inherit from System.Web.HttpApplication we can extend this class with a common re-usable class to add the required functionality.

Code Smells

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:57:01 GMT

Jeff Atwood outlines the list of classic "Code Smells". These are indicators that your code is not clean and could be difficult to maintain.

HOWTO: AJAX.NET and C#

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:01:01 GMT

Doing something useful with Ajax and C#.

Poor Man's TFS

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 13:45:02 GMT

Last weekend, I sat down and decided to install one of my crappy computer as a Source Control and Continues Integration machine. What I need is Subversion source control and other bits and pieces to have a fully functional Source Control System.