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A first look at Duck Typing in C# 4.0

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:31:03 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 15:49:29 GMT

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

Seperations of concerns

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:31:03 GMT

This is the 5th and last part in a series on hoow to make a bad application better. Wonderfully explained. There is a lot to learn from this.

Getting started with custom SharePoint Event Receivers

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:16:03 GMT

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

Writing your own rules for Microsoft Source Analysis for C#

Mon, 26 May 2008 16:01:02 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

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:31:02 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.

Howto savely move a file using C#

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:31:02 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. ;)

Windows Vista Controls for .NET version 1.3 released

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:31:02 GMT

The Windows Vista Controls for .NET 2.0 library is an open-source project which was started in January 2007 and has been released on CodePlex, undergoing several updates and changes. Its latest 1.3 release includes several native Vista common controls which can be included in any WinForms application and includes other features like DWM thumbnails, DWM glass and Task Dialogs.

Creating a Simple Site Wide User Notification Pattern

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:46:02 GMT

When creating websites, it seems that one problem I always run into is how to gracefully notify the user of errors or display messages to them. In most of my sites I use master pages, so I thought it would be pretty sweet to integrate a messaging pattern into my master pages.

Immediate Window - A forgotten tool

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:16:02 GMT

A little bit about the Immediate Window tool available in Visual Studio.

MSDN Reader!! A Must Have Application!

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:16:02 GMT

he MSDN Reader allows you to browse through MSDN Magazine articles like never before. Read through articles, view figures and code snippets in an intuitive and easy-to-use experience.

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

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:46:02 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 22:01:02 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.

Redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS with ISAPI Rewrite

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:20:30 GMT

To redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS with ISAPI Rewrite you can use the following rewriting rules in your httpd.ini file ...

Howto: Detect if IIS7 is installed on a Vista Machine

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:40:13 GMT

Howto: Detect if IIS7 is installed on a Vista Machine

Create Windows Live Writer plugin using Visual Basic.NET

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:38:49 GMT

Create Windows Live Writer plugin using Visual Basic.NET

Writing a simple Windows Process Logger in C#

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:46:13 GMT

Here is a quick C# script to log the start and end times of running processes on your machine. The idea is query the currently running processes every x number of seconds utilizing the Process.GetProcesses function in .NET, while maintaining a book for currently running processes each cycle, then if a new process appears (or disappears), you log the result as start and end respectively.

How to find a string between two begin and end strings in C#

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:01:36 GMT

One common requirements especially when doing screen scrapping is to find strings contained between html tags, or other strings. Regular Expressions provide a powerfull way to do so, but are initially intimidating for a beginner programmer.

Click on a tab to close a document window

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:31:02 GMT

How to close a document window in Visual Studio with one click of the mouse.