Luciano Evaristo Guerche : .net

Everytime I see a lambda expression, ...

Luciano Evaristo Guerche — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:24:00 GMT

I remembered those times, in 1993, when I graduated and started programming in CA Clipper Summer 87. Clipper had "code blocks", which for me, conceptually are quite similar to lambdas. Old concepts/technologies recycled, I guess.

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Microsoft Outlook OLE automation to bulk adjust email display name

Luciano Evaristo Guerche — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:24:00 GMT

I've just written code bellow to adjust email display name from my contacts on Personal Folders > Contacts > Plaxo

Option Explicit

Private Sub cmdExecute_Click()
    Dim blnDirty As Boolean
    Dim objOutlookApplication As Outlook.Application
    Dim objOutlookMAPIFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
    Dim objOutlookContactItem As Outlook.ContactItem

    Set objOutlookApplication = New Outlook.Application
    Set objOutlookMAPIFolder = objOutlookApplication.GetNamespace("MAPI").Folders("Personal Folders").Folders("Contacts").Folders("Plaxo")

    For Each objOutlookContactItem In objOutlookMAPIFolder.Items
        blnDirty = False
        Debug.Print "Verifying " & objOutlookContactItem.FullName
        DoEvents
        If RTrim$(objOutlookContactItem.Email1Address) & vbNullString <> vbNullString Then
            objOutlookContactItem.Email1DisplayName = objOutlookContactItem.FullName & " (" & objOutlookContactItem.Email1Address & ")"
            blnDirty = True
        End If
        If RTrim$(objOutlookContactItem.Email2Address) & vbNullString <> vbNullString Then
            objOutlookContactItem.Email2DisplayName = objOutlookContactItem.FullName & " (" & objOutlookContactItem.Email2Address & ")"
            blnDirty = True
        End If
        If RTrim$(objOutlookContactItem.Email3Address) & vbNullString <> vbNullString Then
            objOutlookContactItem.Email3DisplayName = objOutlookContactItem.FullName & " (" & objOutlookContactItem.Email3Address & ")"
            blnDirty = True
        End If
        If blnDirty Then
            objOutlookContactItem.Save
        End If
    Next

    Set objOutlookContactItem = Nothing
    Set objOutlookMAPIFolder = Nothing
    Set objOutlookApplication = Nothing
End Sub

What do you think about this code? Any comment is welcome.

Microsoft Patterns & Practices Enterprise Library 1.0 - Where to download from?

Luciano Evaristo Guerche — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:29:00 GMT

It can be downloaded here: Microsoft Patterns & Practices Enterprise Library 1.0

Are blogs killing traditional ASP.NET sites?

Luciano Evaristo Guerche — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:24:00 GMT

While in my 'getting back into coding' frame of mind I've been surfing around looking at various sources of information - I've come to realise something that I missed before - there's a lot less 'high quality' information avaialble today that say 3 years ago.
Back in the days of classic ASP there were a bunch of excellent sites when you could reliably find awesome articles on all the latest toys and techniques...now though it ain't so good! So sites like ASPToday, DotNetJunkies and 4GuysFromRolla just don't seem to publish that regularly anymore and what is there seems kind of 'old-fashioned', even 15Seconds (which was always a totally awesome site) feels a little tired! I guess a lot of people now just read a very few blogs and visit the ASP.NET main site for all their information. This is a real pity, I can't really imagine trying to learn ASP.NET from scratch using just the 'calssic' sources of information. Oh, there is one exception, EggHeadCafe - very cool stuff there!
Hopefully it's just something I'm missing and there's some other sites which do fill this niche - so what sites do you use most, where's the best non-blog source for great ASP.NET information?
Oh, and I just bought a mini-Mac yay!

[Via Scott Galloway]

Body art with a VB flavour

Luciano Evaristo Guerche — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:31:00 GMT

[Via Bill McCarthy]

Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop

Luciano Evaristo Guerche — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:14:00 GMT

Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop:

Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop is free at Apress

[Via Eric Gunnerson]

How to subscribe to MSN Spaces RSS feeds

Luciano Evaristo Guerche — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:45:00 GMT

Probably somebody else has already posted about it, but I'll write about it here anyway, so the word spreads faster.

To subscribe to MSN Spaces RSS feeds, just enter the the HTML URL, plus "/feed.rss". As an example, suppose you want to add Shiju Varghese MSN space to your blogroll in your RSS aggregator. To accomplish this, you'll have to subscribe to Shiju Varghese RSS feed

Keeping Secrets Secret: Steganography with .NET

Luciano Evaristo Guerche — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:56:00 GMT

Just read Keeping Secrets Secret: Steganography with .NET, an interesting article from DevX

{New versions = bugs = errors;}

Luciano Evaristo Guerche — Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:30:00 GMT

I have a VB6 program, which uses Microsoft XML 4 and which was raising a GPF error every time I run it. Changed the program to use Microsoft XML 3 and it stopped raising the error. Lesson learnt: New versions = bugs = errors;

An attention-getting resume

Luciano Evaristo Guerche — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:46:00 GMT

JY found the most original resume I've ever seen. I immediately forwarded it around the company. If he ends up getting hired, I'll let you know. But it sure did get attention!
Hint: try something original and do it on your blog.

[Via Robert Scoble]