Paul Welter's Weblog

I'd like to announce the release of a little project I've been working on.  I call it Calculator.NET.  I started this project for a couple reasons.  First, I was annoyed that Windows Vista doesn't come with a better calculator.  Windows XP has Power Calculator, but that doesn't work on Vista.  Next, I was reading a blog about DynCalc by Bart De Smet on how to do mathematical calculations. That gave me the starting point on how to create Calculator.NET. 

For some reason, the generic Dictionary in .net 2.0 is not XML serializable.  The following code snippet is a xml serializable generic dictionary.  The dictionary is serialzable by implementing the IXmlSerializable interface. 

The MSBuild Community Tasks Project releases version v1.1.0.145. There are many new tasks in this release.  Special thanks to all the contributors to the project.

Here is a code snippet that is equivalent to the windows API PathRelativePathTo as native c#. The function creates a relative path from one file or folder to another.

 I’ve update and released a new version of Draco.NET.  This release is mainly to make it compatible with Visual Studio 2005 and MSBuild.  The following is a list of changes …

The MSBuild Community Tasks Project has released the first version of tasks.  The following is a sample build project that uses the SvnVersion, AssemblyInfo, NDoc and Zip tasks to create a release.

The MSBuild Community Tasks Project releases version v1.0.0.29. The following is a list of tasks.