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Generate An Assembly Source Code Using The Reflector

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:16:17 GMT

If you are a .NET developer, you should probably know the .NET Reflector which is a great tool for viewing, navigating and searching through the class hierarchies of .NET assemblies (even if you don't have the code for them). I am using this tool a lot but here is something I only recently discovered: one can export an assembly and let the Reflector generate its source code. The output of this process is a directory with a project file and all of the source files.

Measure String Size In Pixels (C#)

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:16:03 GMT

Sometimes we need to know the width of a given string in pixels, do you know how to compute it? Before writing some long code, please notice that the .NET framework class library provides such a method...

Inversion of control and Dependency injection

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:54:54 GMT

When we see around, architectures mainly discuss about loose coupling , scalability , performance etc etc. Many architecture forget one of the important aspects in software is making application globalized. Depending on project some application would not really want to have multi-language based websites , but i am sure many will. So in this article we will go through a series of FAQ which will give you a quick start on making application multi-language based.

How To Use The SVN Client and Start Working With Your SubVersion Versi

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:31:03 GMT

how to use the Tortoise SVN client and work with your svn version control server

How to Install Your Own Subversion Version Control Server Using Visual

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:46:02 GMT

This article will have 2 sections One will discuss the SVN Server installation and configuration and the second part will be about how to use the SVN client.

A Web Based Sequence Diagram Editor

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:16:13 GMT

After I published a post about SDEdit which is a free desktop sequence diagram editor, I received a mail from Steve Hanov who wanted to introduce me with a very impressive alternative to SDEdit. Steve has created a web service that creates renditions of sequence diagrams, it is completely online and...

Development Tools I Use & Recommend

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:16:03 GMT

Eventually I will get to some technical code Posts. But for now, I'm a bit delayed with some other things at work lately. I will be blogging about Code Generation, OOP, and other topics very soon though. In the meantime, I wanted to share a list of tools I regularly use now or have used in the past as a C# / ASP.NET Engineer listed below:

WPF Binding Converter Best Practices Continued

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:31:14 GMT

A sequel to the lates article about WPF Binding Converters

Measuring Programmers By Extra Hours

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:01:04 GMT

I am writing this article as a sequel to the Measuring Programming Progress By Lines Of Code article. Let me please talk about another common metric - measuring the amount of extra hours a software developer has done.

EventArgs.Empty - Do You Use It?

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:31:08 GMT

Anyway, we can define EventArgs as a private member and use it instead of allocating an EventArgs object every time the event is raised. Fortunately, there is no need for that, C# introduce us the EventArgs.Empty...

A Better WPF Custom Context Menu

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:01:02 GMT

A new and improved context menu style that is more extensible and allows submenus

Developing PHP On Your Visual Studio 2008/2005

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:16:03 GMT

check out this great add on for visual studio which will allow you to develop PHP websites.

SDEdit - Free Sequence Diagram Editor

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:31:02 GMT

As software developers, all of us used at least one UML design tool such as Rational Rose, Enterprise Architect or even Microsoft VISIO. Those tools have one thing in common - they are commercial and thus cost money. I want to introduce you a nice free sequence diagram editor called SDEdit...

Getting started with Managed Extensibility Framework

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:01:44 GMT

Last Friday Managed Extensibility Framework Preview 2 (MEF) was published on CodePlex. MEF is a new library in .NET that will simplify adding extension points to your applications. It enables discovery, loading and composition of the extensible components.

Measuring Programming Progress By Lines Of Code

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:46:02 GMT

Software Managers all around the globe, need to have some metric to estimate their workers. Sometimes the management event wants to create a precise and measurable way to know the programming progress and the developers productivity and performance. One of those methods is called SLOC - Source Lines Of Code. This metric is used measure the size of the software by counting...

How To Solve: "No Files Were Found To Look In. Find Was Stopped In Progress"

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:44:03 GMT

...she tried to use the "find in files" option in Visual Studio 2005 and even though the searched expression was out there in one of the files, she got the following result: "No files were found to look in. Find was stopped in progress."

Visual Studio - See Your TODO Comments In One List

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:58:08 GMT

How many timed did you write a TODO comment in your code? How many time did you forget about this comment and met it again only some months later?

Creating a 3D Border Style in WPF

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:41:45 GMT

Many times I want to make my WPF Controls have a 3D effect. For examples Headers of lists and such. Saddly there is no built in way to do it so we have to come up with a custom solution. I don't want to use Bitmap effects due to performance reasons...

jQuery and the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:46:02 GMT

With WebForms, integrating with Ajax libraries other than ASP.NET AJAX was slightly painful. With the new ASP.NET MVC Framework, however, you can use jQuery without these additional headaches.

Add Configuration Files To Your Visual Studio Project

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:27:14 GMT

Wouldn't it be nice if for each project, our resources and configuration files could be seen form visual studio? We would never need to find them using the windows explorer anymore and we will always have them right there even when coming back to a code which was written 2-3 years ago.

Three Free Tools Any Web Developer Must Use

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:33:38 GMT

Here are some great tools that will help you diagnose problems and errors on your applications. Don't leave home without them!

A Programming Job Interview Challenge - The End

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:27:34 GMT

I think that this is the end of our series. I have no questions left in the bank. if you have any ideas for new questions and you want them to be published here at www.Dev102.com, don't hesitate to contact us.

A Programming Job Interview Challenge #14 - 2D Geometry

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:46:09 GMT

The fourteenth post of the series of programming job interview challenge is out, 83 readers provided an answer to job interview challenge #13. Your input is a list of points in a 2D space. If you draw lines between one point to the next one, a closed polygon is created (can be either concave or convex)...

Using The "Using" Statement On a Method Rather Than a Class

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:01:04 GMT

Have you ever tried using the "Using" statement with a method and not a class? Why not take the "Using" statement and make it more useful. The Dispose method we want to be called does not have to Dispose of stuff, it can do anything we want!

Visual Studio Item Templates

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:46:03 GMT

Sometimes we are using the same patterns of code over and over again. Those of us who are lazy (but smart) will create their own code snippets, if you are not familiar with this subject, read about how to create code snippets easily. But what if we need to create lots of classes with the same pattern? Code snippets may not be enough because they lack of some functionality which is needed to achieve our goal.