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A first look at Duck Typing in C# 4.0

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:31:03 GMT

A complete end-to-end C# 4.0 example with source code using IDynamicObject and MetaObject in order to generate a fully dynamic type using a Dictionary as storage. It also shows how a dynamic type can enter the static typed world and act just like a typed class - dynamically. :)

WpfSimpleChart - A WPF Chart Control library - released

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:49:29 GMT

A simple to use WPF Chart library. With demo application.

Getting started with custom SharePoint Event Receivers

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:16:03 GMT

In this post I describe how to create a custom SharePoint Event Receiver using the Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Services.

Battling some of the errors generated by Microsoft Source Analysis for

Sat, 24 May 2008 16:48:52 GMT

Getting rid of errors related to generated files and SA1633 "valid header XML"

Writing your own rules for Microsoft Source Analysis for C#

Mon, 26 May 2008 08:01:02 GMT

How to look at the baked in rules or how to write your own set of rules for the newly released Microsoft Source Analysis for C#.

Build visual studio documentation from code comments using Sandcastle

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:31:02 GMT

This article describes how to build help files using Sandcastle and code comment tags and how to integrate the help files into the visual studio help system.

SharePoint 2007 Project Template for Timer Jobs in Visual Studio 2005

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:46:04 GMT

What are SharePoint Timer Jobs? SharePoint timer jobs are tasks executed on a scheduled basis by the SharePoint Timer service. Nobody wants to do all the steps necessary to create such a job for each new timer job. So in order to make it simpler to start a new timer job project, I created a visual studio template containing all the neccessary stuff you need.

Howto savely move a file using C#

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:31:02 GMT

If possible this version uses the special File.Replace on NTFS and gracially falls back on Delete+Move on any other filesystem. Nothing else to comment about here. I am just amazed that this kind of save moving is not supported by the framework itself. Instead the framework's move routine throws an exception if there is an file existing at the target location. Weird. ;)

Downgrade a VS 2008 .sln or .csproj to VS 2005

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:46:02 GMT

I just had to convert a Visual Studio 2008 Solution and Project to Visual Studio 2005. It is actually pretty straight forward. At least in my case...

Creating a transparent Panel in .NET

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:01:02 GMT

Today I wanted to create a transparent Panel-Control in .NET in order to superimpose it on the WebBrowser Control in order to record click events. The goal was to code a simple macro recorder for websites. Unfortunatelly the .NET framework does not allow (in an easy way) to make a control fully transparent. So it was back to the good ol' winuser.h and the extended window styles. Namely 0x00000020L or as it is better known WS_EX_TRANSPARENT.

Measure memory consumption of creating object in C#

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:16:02 GMT

Measure memory consumption of creating object or executing functions in C# A detailed look at benchmarking the memory footprint and the execution speed of functions.