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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. ;)

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.

So Much for the Optimization

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:16:02 GMT

Don't optimize prematurely your code, here's why.

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.

.NET Framework Library Source Code now available

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:46:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie announces that the .NET framework source code can now accessed in Visual Studio

Increase Your Productivity With Query Analyzer

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:31:02 GMT

Did you know that you can have CTRL + Number key combinations/shortcuts in Query Analyzer? You can set it up so that CTRL + 5 executes sp_who2 for example. I thought everyone already knew this but apparently not; I showed this to 3 coworkers yesterday and they didn't know about it. So how do you set this up? It is pretty easy, select Tools -->Customize from the toolbar.

Test-Driven Development in .NET - Introduction & Unit Tests

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:01:00 GMT

Introduction to Test-Driven Development in .NET.