Contents tagged with Software
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Just released: WHS YouTube Downloader beta
I just released to Codeplex the first beta of my Windows Home Server 2011 web add-in called WHS YouTube Downloader. Log in to WHS web interface, add YouTube videos to download queue, do something useful while home server downloads videos and watch them later when downloads are done. Sounds easy? Well, okay, it is easy!
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Making CopySourceAsHtml add-on work with VS2010
As there are still bloggers who use CopySourceAsHtml add-on for Visual Studio to get syntax highlighted code to their blog posts and there is no guidance in CSAH site how to make it work with Visual Studio 2010 I will give my guidance here. Almost all code in this blog is syntax highlighted by this add-on (read more from my post Visual Studio add-in: CopySourceAsHTML).
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Solution to Jira web service getWorklogs method error: Object of type System.Xml.XmlNode[] cannot be stored in an array of this type
When using Jira web service methods that operate on work logs you may get the following error when running your .NET application: Object of type System.Xml.XmlNode[] cannot be stored in an array of this type. In this posting I will show you solution to this problem.
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CodePlex supports Windows Live Writer!
I am documenting local community portal that is hosted in CodePlex. Wikis have always been annoying for me when it comes to creating a good content. So, I was preparing for boring evening full of wiki mark-up and messing with good format, manual image uploads etc. But CodePlex surprised me today – it’s wiki supports Windows Live Writer!
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NuPack, ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta and WebMatrix Beta 2 are here!
Some great news from Microsoft dudes – NuPack, ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta and WebMatrix Beta 2 are here! Seems like busy weekend is coming. Here you can find download links to new versions of products.
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Visual Studio Extension: Save UML diagram as image
I am auditing one big legacy application. I use Visual Studio 2010 modeling projects to visualize the design of this legacy application. When I wanted to get my UML diagrams to image files so I can insert them to documents I found no option for it. As it turned out we have to write extension for modeling projects and deploy it as Visual Studio 2010 extension. Here is the installer and source package of my UML.SaveAsImage extension.
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WebMatrix Beta in pictures
Long time ago there was simple ASP.NET editor called Web Matrix that was replaced by Visual Web Developer Express when Express versions came for Visual Studio. Now is time again for some small and easy tool and here it is – Microsoft WebMatrix Beta. In this posting I will introduce you Microsoft WebMatrix and show how it works.
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Code Metrics: Number of IL Instructions
In my previous posting about code metrics I introduced how to measure LoC (Lines of Code) in .NET applications. Now let’s take a step further and let’s take a look how to measure compiled code. This way we can somehow have a picture about what compiler produces. In this posting I will introduce you code metric called number of IL instructions.
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My object to object mapper source released
Some readers asked me for Visual Studio project of my simple object to object mapper. I am glad to announce that the source code of my mapper is now available for download. It is Visual Studio 2008 project written on C# and besides mapper implementation it contains primitive sample application that shows you how to use my mapper.
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Links 2009-08-19
JQuery and web development
- Limit Number of Characters in a TextArea using jQuery
- Find out which Key was pressed using jQuery
- jQuery Superfish Menus Plug-in
- Make website images look like a video with this CSS effect
- CSS2 – opacity
Mobile
- 55 per cent of subscribers think content is too expensive
- RIM Files Patent for Merged Capacitive and Resistive Touchscreen
- HTC patents magnetic stylus for capacitive screens
Sharepoint
- Programmatically creating Wiki Pages
- Presenting MOSS Support Explorer (Not even Beta Yet)
- "This week in Pictures" web part in Sharepoint 2007 and Time Interval
- #SharePoint Site Collections and 100Gb Content Database guidance
Social Networks
- Facebook spam
- Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williamsā€™ Wife Tweets to the World While in Labor
- Twitter-Written Opera Will Debut at Royal Opera House
- Stop the Presses! 40% of Tweets Are 'Pointless Babble'
- Twitter Used to Manage Botnet, Says Security Expert
Software
- DB Schema Viewer
- Game program for kids less than 2 years :)
- Using TCP Analyzer to Debug TCP Performance
- O3D:- Google Releases 3D support open api for web browsers
- Community Clips
- Remote Server Administration Tools RSAT for Windows 7 Released
Programming
- Multimethods in C# 4.0 with 'dynamic'
- Implementing Parallel While with Parallel.ForEach
- Instantiating interfaces
- Using Linq with Microsoft Word and Excel
- 20 tips to write a good stored procedure (is really just 12)
- Using the innerText Property in Firefox
Other stuff
- How to reset regional language to English in Windows Live Writer (Live Writer)
- Nhibernate and the Null object pattern (programming)
- Preparing Today for SharePoint 2010 Q&A (SharePoint 2010)
- What is a Smart Client anyway? (varia)
- WER Services : The Three Cs of Response Satisfaction (Windows)
- Download details: Virtual Hard Disk Getting Started Guide (virtual-pc)
- Creating Visual Guidelines inside Visual Studio (Visual Studio)
- Google’s Decision to Launch the Chrome Operating System Reflects the Growing Importance of Web Applications (Google)
- Google Services for Websites Adds New Tools (Google)