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String.IsNullOrEmpty as Extension Method
Most you will probably know about Extension Method introduced with C# 3.0. If not, I strongly recommend to read ScottGu's explanation . Anyway, a couple of days ago Brad Wilson posted an experiment : What I wasn't sure was whether or not you could...
Honeypot Captcha for Community Server
A few days ago Phil Haack wrote about Honeypot Captcha : At the same time, spam bots tend to ignore CSS. For example, if you use CSS to hide a form field (especially via CSS in a separate file), they have a really hard time knowing that the field is not...
ReSharper 3.0 Released
JetBrains released ReSharper 3.0 : ReSharper 3.0 is finally out and it’s better than ever. C#, VB.NET, XML, XAML or ASP.NET - we got it all for you right here! You simply owe it to yourself to test-drive this baby and learn a whole new way to code in...
Twitter Publisher for CruiseControl.NET
Some weeks ago I posted a CC.NET task which pushes build results to a blog using the MetaWeblogAPI. This might be a feasable solution for projects which sources aren’t updated that often. Otherwise that blog would be really cluttered, and you wonâ€...
Blog Publisher for CruiseControl.NET
Some time ago I wrote a blog publisher for CruiseControl.NET , but didn't manage to blog about it. In fact, it totally slipped my mind. However, my machine behaves more and more weird lately, so I started to clean up the hard disks and back up all...
coComment support for CS 2007
If you are one of my two regular readers, you may have noticed that I published many posts regarding coComment . In fact, I published instructions to integrate coComment in original CommunityServer and CS2.1SP1 (for CS2.0 and CS2.1 Keyvan was faster than...
Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista
It's finally there, my dear Vista developers: Download Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Release Notes
Auto-attaching to aspnet_wp.exe
Dennis van der Stelt asked me how to debug CSModules without using the Community Server SDK. Ok, so here's how I debug my modules. First I set the output directory of my projects to CS' bin folder. To debug the module, I attach the debugger manually...
Remote Access to SQL Server Express
Today I tried to access a SQL Express server remotely for the first time. Because I'm writing this you may already guess that I had some trouble. In fact, I got several different error messages while playing around with configuration of the SQL server...
Updated coComment support for Community Server 2.1
Yesterday the guys at coComment updated their scripts . They also refreshed the example for Community Server, but that's targetting CS 2.0. There are some breaking changes in the API of CS 2.1, so that code won't work with Telligent's latest...
Windows Live Writer and WLWPlugins
I just want to note that my last post was brought to you by Windows Live Writer and Code Syntax Highlighter . Till now I always used Community Server's editing facilities, but often enough I lost my drafts for several reasons. WLW provides an auto...
Mixing C# and VB.NET in one assembly
A couple of weeks ago Jayson Knight invited me to join the CSMVP's ' CSModules package . This project was created to incorporate several CSModules written by CS MVP's. So I bought into that project by bringing along my Akismet spam rule. At...
What's next
As mentioned in my last post , I'm working on several extensions for Community Server 2.1. I used to use the Intensive.CodeHighlighter library by Gary McPherson , but I could not find any updated version. Therefore I "re-engineered" a .NET...
The shell formerly known as Monad...
...is now called Windows PowerShell and available as RC1 . Heath Stewart says in his comment: I find this tedious. Typing "cmd" is so much better than "command" as we had to in Windows 9x, just as "msh" is so much better...
Beyond Compare 2.4
Two days ago Scooter Software released Beyond Compare 2.4 ( change log ). If you don't know it: it's my favourite diff 'n' merge tool, which compares files, (FTP) folders, archives, even pictures, file versions and lots more thanks to...
No WPF support in Vista's Sidebar
Two days ago I've installed the new Windows Vista CTP February 2006. I'm excited that the sidebar found its way back, though it took it me some time to find it : Click the Start button, then click on All Programs. The Windows Sidebar can be found...
Community Launch 2005
Today's the Community Launch 2005 of my .NET UserGroup Vfl-NiederRhein and netug Düsseldorf . Here's the German announcement: Die INETA (International .NET Association) User Groups VfL-NiederRhein und NET UG Düsseldorf feiern die Veröffentlichung...
Save Bandwidth and Compress Your CommunityServer Feeds
Currently CommunityServer does not compress its exposed feeds, so to save some bandwidth I've written a add-on myself. I've written it some weeks ago already and deployed it on my web server. Since it seems to work properly, I now want to announce it publicly. Though my bandwidth at WebHost4Life isn't limited, for some of you it may save real money....
Shawn Burke requests feedback: Shipping Windows Forms Source for .NET Framework 2.0
Feedback requested: Shipping Windows Forms Source for .NET Framework 2.0: I want to deliver Windows Forms source code to you. I've wanted to do it for years and I'm putting together a plan to make it happen. There are a set of issues here, and let me...
Setting up exception handling in Visual Studio
Event though Visual Studio 2003 has been released almost two years ago, there are still some features I haven't seen before. Today, Tim Schwallie has posted an article at CodeProject , how to set up exception handling in Visual Studio. Just type Ctrl...
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