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Stopping Custom Controls from being added to Visual Studio Toolbox

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:00:24 GMT

Useful attribute for adding to custom controls

How to migrate dasBlog to BlogEngine.NET

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:46:04 GMT

Reasons and migration steps from dasBlog (old and handy) to BlogEngine.NET (new and shiny)

Lambdas

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:31:03 GMT

Lambdas are a simple technology with an intimidating name. They sound like they are going to be difficult to understand, but in practice prove to be relatively trivial. Read this post to get an easy to understand overview of a topic is not really so terribly difficult to understand.

Use Visual Studio's Post-Build Events to Automate Unit Testing Running

Fri, 16 May 2008 09:16:02 GMT

Use Visual Studio's post-build events to make unit testing automation awesome!

Custom Settings Providers and Portable applications/U3 Drives

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:37:35 GMT

Article describing how to create custom settings providers for vb.net

SQL Command Visualizer for Visual Studio 2005

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:31:02 GMT

A visualizer for SQL Command objects. Displays a more useful representation of a SQL Command object when debugging. Show details of the command, it's connection and lists all parameters, their properties and current values.

New Ternary code snippet for those learning C#

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:51:58 GMT

A code snippet to insert a Ternary operator template

Debug Visualizer Template for C# and VB.net

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:41:06 GMT

New C# and VB Visual Studio Projects Templates for creating your own debug visualizers.

With Contempt

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:08:05 GMT

A macro to remove With blocks from VB.net code.

NUnit Templates and Snippets for Visual Studio 2005 - Now support C#

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:31:02 GMT

This handy VSI Package has been updated to now include C# variants of the existing VB items. It includes project and item templates as well as code snippets to easily create NUnit test projects, fixtures and methods.

15+ Free Visual Studio Add-Ins

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:16:02 GMT

After some extensive researching (Googling), I've compiled this list of 15+ FREE Add-ins for Visual Studio 2005. Some of these add-ins will help improve the quality of your code, while others will help you code faster, however, none are guaranteed to help you get with the ladies.

.Net: Passing user data with Exception back to the caller method

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:31:01 GMT

A simple way of passing any user data in the Exception back to the caller method.

Large Text Properties and Reflector

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:39:48 GMT

Describes how to mark your control properties as a large text (elipses appears next to it for more data entry). Also details the process of discovering how to do this using Reflector.

Seamless inline text editing with ASP.NET AJAX

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:31:02 GMT

A demonstration of how to use ASP.NET AJAX to implement a Label that swaps to a TextBox for editing when clicked and then saves its value when editing is completed.

Speed up your development day

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 07:57:40 GMT

Learn how to speed up opening code edit windows in visual studio.

FileHelpers 2.0 Released

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:01:01 GMT

A big step in the library roadmap. A lot of performance enhaces (more than 65% in .NET 2.0) and new features, with a pulished API. The FileHelpers are and open source library with this simple idea: "Strong type your flat file (fixed or delimited) simply describing a class that maps to each record and later read/write your file as an strong typed .NET array"

Securing Web Services With a Custom SoapExtension

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:16:01 GMT

One way to secure a web service is with username and password. The problem with this approach is you have to add custom validation code to each web method. Is there a better way? Yes. With a custom SoapExtension you can simply attribute your web method and have it authenticated so you don't have to add custom code to each method. This article outlines this in detail.

Creating a simple, reusable Windows Service (template code) - Part II

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:31:02 GMT

In part I, we examined how we can extend the Service Control methods by adding methods for all states of the Windows service in addition to the two methods provided by the designer. As you may remember, each of those methods called our own private Service Control method. Our private Service Control methods are implemented below:

Creating a simple, reusable Windows Service (template code) - Part I

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:01:02 GMT

In this article, we'll see a way to create a simple Windows Service that can be reusable in that it can be used as the basis for any repeated operation that we would like to transform to a Windows Service.In other words, we can create our own assembly and then have the Windows Service call its entry point repeatedly over a period of time. By extending the code provided, you can even have multiple threads running at the same time.

WaitCursor Snippets for Visual Studio 2005

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:33:38 GMT

Two code snippets for providing wait cursor blocks for win forms applications, one going back to default, the other remembering the previous cursor.

GUID Visualizer for Visual Studio 2005

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:41:50 GMT

A simple GUID Visualizer, it just displays a text box displaying the value in string format of the current guid. If you've ever tried debugging guids before you'll know that it's not easy, always giving you a misleading empty, which is actually a property of the guid type rather than its actual value.

Visual Basic NUnit templates for Visual Studio 2005

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:01:02 GMT

Free Project and Item templates as well as code snippets for creating boiler plate code for NUnit test projects.