Async/await in Desktop Applications
This is a transcript of a demonstration I gave in our company internally about async/await “challenges” in UI programming. You can find the accompanying repo...
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2019
2018
Generating workflow diagrams for TFS work items
In my current position as the Technical Lead of Product Development I have several responsibilities. One of them is the definition and implementation of our ...
2017
ResourceLib, PE Format, and WiX
Some time ago I reported a bug and provided a pull request to resourcelib, a managed library to read and write Win32 resources in executables or DLL’s. And u...
Cleaning NuGet’s cache
From the beginning NuGet used a per-solution folder packages to store all packages for the projects in a solution. (Does anyone else remember the numerous di...
Pretzel and Kudu on Azure
I’ve published a couple of posts about that I’m using Pretzel to generate the HTML pages of my blog. However, I didn’t talk about the hosting.
Encrypting values when serializing with JSON.NET
In a small inhouse app I wrote recently I store the settings in a json file, using the popular Json.NET library. However, the settings include a password, wh...
Presenting Byte Size Values in WPF
Though it’s not my main job, I still enjoy writing WPF application. Small tools, making my colleagues’ and my own life easier.
Pretzel Plugin: Redirect
A while back I wrote about the migration of my blog from Community Server over Jekyll to Pretzel.
2016
Pretzel Plugin: Sitemap
A couple of month ago I wrote that I switched to Pretzel to drive my site.
Naming Events in .NET
Update 2016/12/29: I’ve complained about the On prefix in the comment section of the documentation (and Jonas Gauffin too). In fact the prefix was a mistake ...
From Jekyll To Pretzel
Some time ago I told that I converted my blog from CommunityServer to Jekyll on Github Pages. However, I was not satisfied with that solution. Running a stat...
Password support in 7Zip4Powershell
A few minutes ago I published the new version 1.3 of 7Zip4PowerShell. Isaac Springer asked for password support when creating or extracting archives, so I a...
7Zip4Powershell in PowerShell Gallery
A few days ago the Preview suffix was removed from PowerShell Gallery. This gallery is a central repository for PowerShell content such as modules and scrip...
Saving bandwidth with Zopfli
Today Jeff Atwood published the article Zopfli Optimization: Literally Free Bandwidth, praising the compression algorithm Zopfli. Zopfli was created by Googl...
2015
My Journey to Pretzel: First Stop Jekyll
As described in my previous post, I decided to replace my CommunityServer setup with a static site generator. Being a vivid GitHub user, the first choice was...
My Journey to Pretzel: Preface
After running my site for more than 12 years, I decided it was time to replace the software behind it with something new.
2013
NuGet package for 7Zip4Powershell
A few days ago I mentioned 7-Zip for Powershell. I’ve now created a NuGet package and published it at NuGet.org.
Fun with RavenDB and ASP.NET MVC: part I
I’m working on a small pet project with ASP.NET MVC, where hierarchical structured documents are stored in RavenDB. These documents can be retrieved by their...
7-Zip for Powershell
At work we deal with different big databases, and by big I mean between 3.5 and 8 GB. Those databases are zipped with 7-Zip and stored on a server. Dependin...
2012
Don’t copy my referenced assemblies
There are cases where you don’t want referenced assemblies to be copied to your output folder.
2010
Creating Dynamic Windows 7 Taskbar Overlay Icons, the MVVM Way
Since Windows 7 the icon of an application can get an overlay bitmap. You can use that to indicate some state of the application, or–like MetroTwit–to show ...
Binding WebBrowser content in WPF
When you’re using a WebBrowser control in your WPF application, you may have noticed that you can’t bind the control’s content. WebBrowser has no property to...
2008
Sharing Extension for Graffiti
Two weeks ago Telligent published the second beta of their upcoming new product Graffiti. It is a simple lightweight content management system. And by simple...
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.
2007
Shot myself in the foot
If you have tried to leave a comment on my site in the last two days, you may have noticed that they weren´t accepted. Here is why:
Honeypot Captcha for Community Server
A few days ago Phil Haack wrote about Honeypot Captcha:
nrw07 Slides
In my nrw07 talk I promised that I would publish my slides. Originally they´re German, so I translated them first (no, it did not take me two weeks to transl...
ReSharper 3.0 Released
JetBrains released ReSharper 3.0:
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 sour...
CommunityServer MVPs CSModules Pack for CS2007 released
Yesterday a new version of the CSMVPs CSModules package was released. Except the new LinkManager (which enables you to add customizable attributes to links i...
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 be...
CAPTCHA for CommunityServer 2007
Brendan Tompkins released CAPTCHA for CommunityServer 2007:
coComment for CS 2007 updated
Every day you can learn something new. Today it was Scott who taught me ControlAdapters after he read my post about coComment with CommunityServer 2007. You ...
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 integrat...
ThomasFreudenberg.com Upgraded to CommunityServer 2007
This site has been upgraded to CommunityServer 2007 (I guess visitors to my site do know CommunityServer, and they already read the announcements.) Of all al...
Kathy Sierra
Generally I limit my posts to programming stuff, but after I read Kathy Sierra’s Death threats against bloggers are NOT “protected speech”? (why I cancelled ...
Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista
It’s finally there, my dear Vista developers:
Separate vs. Seperate
Because I can’t stand it anymore: separate vs. seperate
FeedBurner Site Statistics for CommunityServer
Today Nick Bradbury wrote:
2006
Snap Preview
I just want to announce that I added Snap Preview to my blog. But unlike Scott and J-O, I enabled them only for external links. IMHO it is useless for intern...
Vacation Enforcement
Because of a mayor release in our company and the obligatory deadline pressure, I have a backlog of 30.5 free days, i.e. there’s even half a day left from 20...
Updated to CS2.1 SP1 and fixed an issue
I just upgraded my site to Community Server 2.1 SP1. I wouldn’t post this if I did not encounter an issue, though you may experience this error only if you u...
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.
Another teaser
What’s that stuff every Community Server affiliate is talking about? Only a few hours left until this site is launched.
New Features in CS 3.0
Scott posted his three favorite new features in Community Server 3.0, one of which is
Internet Explorer 7 Installation
I just upgraded Internet Explorer on my third machine. Jayson has something to say about the installation process:
MSDN Blogs and TechNet Blogs updated to CS 2.1
Dave Burke mentioned on CS Daily News last Monday that both MSDN Blogs and TechNet Blogs have been updated to Community Server 2.1. However, in my opinion th...
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 ...
Windows Live Writer 1.0 Beta Update
Today an update for Windows Live Writer 1.0 Beta was published:
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 bre...
Inline Search for Internet Explorer
From Omar Shahine’s blog post entitled InlineSearch for Internet Explorer we learn This is simply a musthave add-in for IE. For those of us that u...
Another release of Akismet spam rule
My Akismet spam rule has a second home. Originally I contributed it to CSMVP’s CSModules package aka Alabaster. A couple of days ago José Lema informed me th...
KDE Mouse Emulator
Jörgen Sigvardsson published his KDE Mouse Emulator at CodeProject:
The Akismet Spam Rule included in Alabaster
Though I spoke about my Akismet spam rule a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t draw that much attention to it. However, now that the first version of CSMVP’s CSMo...
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.
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 C...
Pimp my Community Server
Yesterday I upgraded my site to Community Server 2.1 RTM. I’m astonished how many additional mods I’m already using:
Updated to Community Server 2.1 RC 1
I have just upgraded to Community Server 2.1 RC 1 (2.1.60804.900). Flawless as usual [;)]
Server Outage
As my two readers may already have noticed, my site wasn’t accessible for the last 24hrs. The SQL Server hosting my Community Server database had a hard disk...
Community Server 2.1 Beta 2
I just upgraded my site with Community Server 2.1 Beta 2, which was published yesterday.
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 McPhers...
Upgraded to Community Server 2.1 beta 1
Finally I managed to update my site. I already missed the last major step from 1.1 to 2.1. However, during the last few weeks the number of spams increased d...
NRW06 Community Conference
After the great success of our last year’s .NET Summit, our .NET user group is proud to announce the NRW06 Community Conference:
The shell formerly known as Monad…
…is now called Windows PowerShell and available as RC1.
Goodbye Stanislav Lem
Stanislav Lem, September 12, 1921 - March 27, 2006 R.I.P.
coComment Logo for my blog
Jayson Knight requested a logo for coComment to put on his blog. Though I think he refered to the comment form, I created two different “blog buttons” (or ho...
More coComment
Dave Burke entered the coComment zone and said:
Revised coComment support
Yesterday Jayson Knight described how to add coComment support to CommunityServer. I’m a user of coComment too, therefore I added Jayson’s hack to my blog.
Firefox + IE Tab
Why I recommend the IE Tab extension for Firefox:
My Tool List
At the last meeting of our UserGroup I’ve presented a list of tools I’m using frequently. Because of strong demand I promised to publish it here on my blog:
Windows Live Messenger FAQ
Thanks to Rich Mercer for inviting me to the Windows Messenger Live Beta program. Today Scobleizer points to LiveSide, which on its parts links to the Window...
2005
Cyber Squatters - Part 2
I wrote two weeks ago that a cyber squatter registered my domain thomasfreudenberg.com. I’ve contacted her, and I want to share the exchanged mails with you:
Community Launch 2005
Today’s the Community Launch 2005 of my .NET UserGroup Vfl-NiederRhein and netug Düsseldorf.
Cyber squatters suck!
Cyber squatters suck! Yes, they really suck!
Update Rollup 2 brings MCE to the next level
Many announcements and blog posts regarding UR2 for MCE have been published during the last few days. But for me as a developer the most interesting change I...
Using Hyphens In Post Names
There was a discussion regarding naming of posts in a CommunityServer forum (a surprisingly unknown feature of CS::Blogs, though even dotText .96 supported i...
Save Bandwidth and Compress Your CommunityServer Feeds
Now that my vacation and the PDC are over, I can continue with all the stuff which I left unfinished on my desk. One of these is a mod for CommunityServer wh...
1,000 phones for 10,000 buyers
BizTalk Visionary wrote:
The Return of the Sidebar
The sidebar’s back. Microsoft presented it to us two years ago, but in succeeding CTPs it was gone. Now it’s back and you can add so-called gadgets. To speak...
Windows Vista UX Guidelines Released
Steve Sinchak points to a post by Brad Wardell, that Microsoft has released a preliminary version of the Vista User Experience guidelines:
Let the party start
The journey was a mess. My flight from Düsseldorf on Saturday was scheduled for 7:15am. Unfortunately, it was cancelled, and the next flight was at 2:05pm, s...
Four Days Left
I’m cleaning up my desk at the moment and preparing my laptop as I did the last time before I’ll leave tomorrow.
Adding new pages to CommunityServer administration
In an addin I’m writing for CommunityServer I’m using a job. A job in the CommunityServer perspective is a task which is executed periodically. Since I have ...
Back from vacation
Two days ago my girl friend and I returned from our vacation on Fuerteventura. Most of the time we were hanging around at the beach or the hotel’s pool, but ...
Finally switched to CommunityServer
Finally, several month after the initial release of CommunityServer I’ve managed to migrate from dotText. With the help from Kevin Harder’s DotText-CS-Conver...
Comments disabled, preparing for CS migration
I’ve disabled comments, since comment spam gets out of hands. As you see in the header of this site, there are currently 8374 comments counted. However, forg...
Camera Raw viewer for XP
Microsoft released a new power toy for viewing RAW images (currently Canon and Nikon only supported).
Shawn Burke requests feedback: Shipping Windows Forms Source for .NET Framework 2.0
Feedback requested: Shipping Windows Forms Source for .NET Framework 2.0:
Follow-up to ".Text is not dead"
Dennis van der Stelt reviewed Community Server Beta 3. He also links to screenshots of the web setup procedure.
Scott says ".Text Still Lives"
Finally, Scott answered to my previous series of posts, via mail as well as on his blog. I’m happy that Scott seems to understand my point. Sometimes I get s...
Where’s .Text going to?
I was told that DonXMl has mailed Scott about my previous post. Well, I think the main point of my posts was: where’s .Text going? To be more specific: Will ...
Making things clearer
Hell, I’ve got lots of feedback about my previous post. Some commented in the blog, others send me private mails. Many questions arised. Therefore, I think I...
Bringing .Text v.96 further
Almost one year ago I upgraded my .Text blog to .96. I blogged about it several times, my last post was about adding the rel=”nofollow” attribute to links in...
Add rel="nofollow" to .Text comments
Today Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, and other search operators announced their support of the rel="nofollow" attribute for <a href="..." /> tags. Adding t...
Blog citation search engines
Jeff Sandquist (yes, the nice guy who sent me a t-shirt) compares blog citation search engines, i.e. Bloglines Citations, Feedster Links and Technorati. He a...
2004
First Ars Technica, now AnandTech
What do have Ars Technica and AnandTech in common? They both switch to ASP.NET.
Deprecated, reprecated, and prepcreatedcated
Sounds good to me. Let’s see: Features that are in the standard, and have never been deprecated, are precated. Features that have been dep...
DateTime.ParseExact
If you’re using DateTime.ParseExact with a custom format string including slashes, don’t forget to escape them.
Free font site
Paschal Leloup has found a site with free fonts:
VC Build included in Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1
Several month ago, Peter Huene introduced VC Build, a command line tool to build C++ projects and solutions. For building our product, we have a huge batch f...
Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 and Internet File Select and Upload Dialog
*Sigh* You may have already read that today (06/29/2004) Visual Studio Beta 1 should be available to MSDN subscribers. I’m checking the Subscriber Downloads ...
Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2005
Peter Provost wrote
Microsoft’s Giving Away Its Most Prized Tools
While downloading Whidbey CTP May 04, I’m just reading Wesner Moise’s Microsoft’s Giving Away Its Most Prized Tools:
Visual Studio 2005 Community Technology Preview May 2004
Ooops. I didn’t notice the release of Visual Studio 2005 Community Technology Preview May 2004 until I read Sam Gentile’s posting:
Half-Life² case mod
For all the Half-Live fans out there:
Hatteras
Korby Parnell, Wesner Moise, and Eric Sink talk about Hatteras, a new source code control system part of Visual Studio Team System.
UserGroup VFL NiederRhein
Today is our formation meeting for a new INETA usergroup. It already has a homepage. Daniel Fisher did a good job with the longhorn ;-)
.NET Reflector 4.0.1.0
Anti-Brumme wrote:
What’s new in Whidbey for VC++ IDE
Peter Huene has compiled a list of new features in Whidbey related to C++.
Lutz Roeder releases Reflector 4.0
Chris Sells wrote:
Hot to make APIs obsolete
Brad Abrams points to a document at GotDotNet explaining Micosoft’s process to make API’s obsolete.
Grammer God
Damn, I’d have never expected that (well, is this statement syntactically correct?)
Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability
Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices group has released its “Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability” guide on MSDN. I also recommend reading Ri...
What’s New in Windows Forms 2.0
Mike Weinhardt and Chris Sells published What’s new and cool in Windows Forms 2.0 in this month’s MSDN Magazine.
FxCop 1.30 released
Maybe I’, a little late, since it is more than two weeks ago.
c:\utils: TortoiseCVS 1.6.8
With this post I’m starting a new category on my blog, c:\utils. Its name is derived from Scott Hanselman’s Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tools List. Ho...
Application Domain FAQ
Yves Dolce wrote:
Enable shutdown button in Windows 2003’s login dialog
After I got rid of this annoying shutdown dialog, I have another tip for you. There’s a shutdown button on the Windows 2003’s login dialog, which is diabled ...
Shut down Windows 2003 without being hassled
Jeff Key describes, how to disable this annoying dialog when shutting down a Windows 2003 server:
Comment Problem Solved
As I posted, no postbacks on my site were possible. Though I’m running the same application at home and on my site, the onsubmit tag was rendered differently...
No comments possible
Currently it’s not possible to post comments on my blog. I’m still investigating this issue. I have a copy of all files and the database running at home, but...
New CodeProject’s Web Farm running on 1.000 clustered iPaqs
Happy April Fool’s Day
Test post
Comments aren’t working using IE, are they?
Need a new development machine?
Then you should consider the Athlon64 FX 53.
CRN: Microsoft To Unveil Preview 2 Of Visual Studio 2005 Next Week
CRN reports Microsoft will release Preview 2 of VS.NET 2005 a.k.a. Whidbey at VSLive next week. Furthermore, the first beta can be expected in May at Tech E...
“Read This First”
Congratulations! You have purchased an extremely fine device that would give you thousands of years of trouble-free service, except that you undoubtably w...
HDN_TRACK and HDS_FULLDRAG
I’m posting this, because it took me two hours to find the issue.
Yukon and Whidbey delayed to 2005
Microsoft has delayed the release of SQL Server 2005 (formerly known as Yukon) and Whidbey (VS.NET 2005?) to H1/2005. I hope we get same betas till then.
Stupidity
Remember: if you patch your blogging engine, make sure everything works properly before publishing it! And backup everything!
Updated to .Text pre .96
Scott has published the pre .96 sources of .Text. It includes lots of exciting new features including the long-awaited search.
Techie dubs first son Version 2.0
Techie dubs first son Version 2.0. Poor world.
The Third Place
Finally I know what The Third Place means. Several month ago Sony started it advertising compaign for its Playstation 2 here in Germany. Everytime the TV ads...
Feature Request for RSS Bandit
Earlier today I mentioned the new Eyefinder control by Tim Dawson. I said I would like to see it in RSS Bandit. Here’s a screenshot of what I have in mind:
WinFX 247
Christian Nagel points to Matthew Reynolds’ announcement of WinFX 247:
I’m compressed…
Well, at least my RSS feed is.
Don’t be proud of your goodness…
…since you may take a plunge.
This site is 25% evil, 75% good
That’s what The Gematriculator says.
How to add GeoTags to your blog
Someone asked in the .Text forum how to add GeoTags to your blog. Well, since version .95 .Text uses a masterpage, which is declared in DottextWeb/DTP.aspx. ...
Longhorn demo application video
Brad Abrams points to an application demo video using Longhorn technology. Pretty cool. I envy Carter Maslan having the time to “play” around with Longhorn.
Job Ad of the Day
That’s what I call an adequate job advertisment for programmers:
Updated to .Text .95
Today I managed to update my site to .Text .95 by following this guide. It turned out all right, however, here’s an advice for you: if you’re using a custom ...
2003
A Happy New Year
I wish you all a good 2004. Take care everyone.
RSS Bandit with Outlook 2003 look
RSS Bandit is getting better and better. I’m really thinking about switching from SharpReader, but it doesn’t feel right at the moment.
What if Dr. Seuss wrote technical manuals?
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk ab...
Can I get a copy?
Walter Smith:
Looking for the PDC Wallpaper?
Well, here it is:
Virtual PC 2004 on MSDN available
Microsoft has released Virtual PC 2004 for MSDN subscribers. (According to the MSDN page, already one week ago )
VB.NET Refactoring With Whidbey
Refactoring in VB.NET is somewhat different from C#…
"Neues aus L.A."
The “Neues aus L.A.” was a nice event. Though I attended PDC myself, Clemens did a good job summarizing the PDC’s three pillars Avalon, WinFS, and Indigo. I ...
Whidbey is soooo cool…
… but I have to switch back to .NET 1.1 because of this bug issue:
PDC Retrospection
Today’s the PDC retrospection “Neues aus L.A.” organized by newtelligence AG. You don’t know newtelligence? Well, you may know Clemens Vasters, writer of das...
Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 RTM
Microsoft released Virtual PC 2004 to manufacturing.
C# 2.0 generics
I’m playing around with C# 2.0 templates a.k.a. generics. I was really missing them in the past, but finally, they’re there.
SharpReader 0.9.3 published
Luke Hutteman has released a new version of SharpReader:
David McNamee on Indigo and Don Box
David McNamee on Indigo and Don Box
Process Explorer 8.02 released
SysInternals have released Process Explorer 8.02 a few days ago.
Busy days and Longhorn connectivity
I haven’t blogged since a few days. That’s because stayed another two days after the PDC in Los Angeles, but I didn’t have any web access. By the way, these ...
The Return of the Console
I’ve never stopped using the console since the good old DOS. In fact, each developer at our company is using the console, i.e. 4NT. Our development environme...
Meeting CPians at PDC
As announced, CPians attending the PDC met this afternoon at the Starbucks coffee stand. It was my first time I met any CPian in real life. I was a little bi...
[TLS321] Visual C# "Whidbey": IDE Enhancement for the C# Developer
Nice new features in the IDE: Expansion, configurable via XML schema (e.g. automatic getter and setter for properties) Code formatting (customizable) ...
[CLIL01] The Windows "Longhorn" SDK: Powering the Creation of Next Generation Applications
Today I got an email from a coworker about the meaning of WinFX: “Is WinFX a new marketing name for .NET”?
[TLS342] Visual Studio "Whidbey": New IDE Features for Building Windows Forms Applications
In this session Steve Lasker presented the mainly the form designed in Whidbey. E.g. the alignment of control will be much easier, it will create guidelines ...
[CLI200] "Avalon": Introducing the Next Generation of Windows Presentation Services
Awesome. Michael Wallent and Pablo Fernicola showed some impressive demos with Avalon. They coded a simple application containing several controls, which you...
[ARCL02] .NET Framework: Tips and Tricks for Building Managed Components
Interesting session… for someone who hasn’t heard of FxCop before. Ok, they have added some new rules targeting Whidbey. Besides that, it was the least inter...
Keynote with Bill Gates and Jim Allchin
The first time I’ve seen Bill Gates in real live. He spoke much about the past development of the IT industry and presented the Microsoft’s vision for the ne...
[TLS347] Introducing MSBuild: The Universal Build Engine for Visual Studio "Whidbey" and "Longhorn"
Several weeks ago I played around with NAnt, since we need a decent build environment for our new software. I’ve read about MSBuild a.k.a. XBuild before, but...
Melting Pot PDC
This morning I meet Tom, a nice guy from North Carolina. We took our breakfast together. Afterwards, while waiting for a taxi in front of the hotel, a Austri...
Arriving in L.A. Yesterday
After 12 hours of flying I arrived yesterday in Los Angeles. Though I heared about the current fires around L.A. in German news, I was surprised by the dark ...
Moved Permanently
I just finished the relocation of my site.
How am I going to tackle the PDC?
Jim Blizzard asks: How are you going to tackle the PDC?
Longhorn pre-Beta 1 For All!
WinNetMag is reporting that Microsoft will make Longhorn pre-Beta 1 available for a small fee and also ship it for free to MSDN subscribers.
Official C# 2.0 Spec Unveiled
Today, the C# team published the most up-to-date specification of the C# language, which includes many improvements over the original proposal unveiled a ...
this.MoveTo(“ThomasFreudenberg.com”)
As announced I’ve managed to move my site from my home system to webhost4life. I have had some trouble importing my SQL database to the host’s server, but th...
Thanks, Jeff
Such a T-Shirt arrived yesterday. Thanks, Jeff.
No NDA on PDC bits
Robert Scoble says:
ToDo’s before PDC
Reminder to myself: Install following two applications on your laptop before flying to L.A. next week:
Where are const parameters?
I’m programming in C# for about 18 month by now, and I really like it. However, what I’m missing about C# are constant parameters.
Moving this site
I know I’m a geek. These pages are hosted on my server at home. It’s a recycled Athlon XP 1800+ running Windows Server 2003 incl IIS 6.0, MS SQL 2000 and MS ...
No Longhorn Until 2006
According to Mary Jo Foley, Longhorn will not ship until 2006.
Self-Installing .NET Windows Service
Did you ever write a .NET Windows service? What I really dislike about it is that though the framework provides the System.ServiceProcess.ServiceInstaller cl...
Did you ever right-click the Explorer’s caption icon?
Well, I didn’t until Raymond Chen posted following top today:
Users are too busy
Raymond Chen mentions Jason Moore’s Usability on the cheap, Part 1. It’s a great reading, especially for GUI guys like me.
No Aero in PDC’s Longhorn Pre-Beta
WinInformant says, that the PDC’s Pre-Beta Longhorn supplied to the attendees will have the new GUI component Aero removed:
Remaining Office Components are released on MSDN
One and half week ago, Microsoft released Office 2003 for MSDN subscribers. Only Office 2003. When I went to subscriber downloads to get MapPoint 2004 today,...
Why does Windows Messenger not reflect buddy’s state?
When I have to phone a colleague at work, I first look in Windows Messenger, whether he is at his place, i.e. online. I expect that the Messenger changes hi...
ScottW on Service Based Aggregator
ScottW talks about a Service Based Aggregator:
Awesome: Snippet Compiler 1.9
Twice again Snippet Compiler has been updated since my last post, no it’s v1.9. I’m getting the impression, that in several weeks it will be v17.3 and displa...
Another .Text enhancement
I’m using the .Text web administrator for writing my postings. Unfortunately, there’s no link provided to get from the administrator section to the public vi...
Emoticons within .Text
Some days back I’ve started to implement support for emoticons in .Text. It was expected to replace any textual emoticons such as :) into the graphical repre...
Windows Server 2003 Password Manager and XP
Are you working with Windows Server 2003? Maybe you have noticed that Stored User Names and Passwords control panel applet:
FeedValidator does not like me
It seemed as Feed Validator didn’t like me. When I checked it said it can’t validate my RSS feed. However, loading my feed within a web browser looked ok. Th...
First (Legit) Office 2003 Users to Get Code Monday
Forget that Office 2003 already leaked onto the Web this week. Microsoft says it plans to make its next-gen desktop suite officially available to its volu...
Snippet Compiler 1.7
While two days ago I told you about Snippet Compiler 1.6, today 1.7 has been released. Gosh, I’m glad we don’t release our software at this speed.
Blogger free for everyone
What’s up at bloggers:
Snippet Compiler 1.6 released
Peter Provost says:
Web Page Analyzer 0.80
Andy King has updated his web page analyzer.
Issues and solutions with Process and Request Identity in ASP.NET
Just found a great KB article that explains how deal with all kinds of permission and identity issues when doing stuff from ASP.NET. I’ve highlighted the ...
Attending PDC2003 in LA
Chaka! I’m attending the PDC in L.A.!
Images: relative vs. absolute
I’ve updated the img tags in my previous posts. I’ve used relativ links (i.e. \<src img="/images/..." /\>). It looked ok in SharpReader, but, unfortuna...
TechEd 2003 Presentations Online
In case you didn’t get a chance to go to TechEd this year, I just found that most (all?) of the presentations are available online. I don’t mean just the ...
SpamBayes Outlook Addin 0.8 released
Yesterday the Outlook addin by the SpamBayes project has been released in 0.8. I’ve been using 0.7 for several weeks. I’m impressed, no false positives by no...
Testing emoticons…
Testing automatic emoticon substitution:
.Text User Administration
.Text is a great product. However, currently there’s no comfortable way to administrate the users, but you have to edit and execute a SQL script. I don’t kno...
Compression for ASP.NET in IIS 6.0…
It is REALLY worth doing this, dialup users will love you long time for doing this! (Oh, and you’ll effectively quadruple your bandwidth :-)) This is an e...
DLL Search Order Changed in Latest Windows
I found the following breaking change in the MSDN article “Development Impacts of Security Changes in Windows Server 2003” by Michael Howard:
Windows caches file dates
There’s has been an informative discussion in CodeProject’s Lounge regarding cached file dates.
Some more issues with .94
I’ve updated my site to .Text .94, but unfortunately I have had some issues, though I followed Scott’s instructions. Maybe I did something wrong during the s...
It’s working again
After I updated my .Text sources two day ago from the official workspace, I wasn’t able to post anymore, because some essential stored procedures were missin...
.Text and Image quality
I don’t know what others think, but IMHO the quality of the preview images generated by .Text isn’t as good as it could be. Currently it just resizes the ima...
Starting signal
Just started blogging. Well, sort of. In fact, I’m already blogging for two month by now, but restricted to the intranet in our company Cycos.