Archives
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Splitting Camel Case with RegEx
Phil posted some code to Split Pascal/Camel Cased Strings a few days ago. We had an offline discussion on doing this via RegEx.
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[Fix] View Style Information disabled on Firefox Web Developer Toolbar
Some of the tools in the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar extension require that you install Firefox with the Developer's Tools option. If the "View Style Information" menu option is disabled this means the Dom Inspector is not installed.
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From/Select and Select/From in LINQ
I'd been wondering about the FROM/WHERE/SELECT syntax in DLINQ. I'm used to the SQL SELECT/FROM/WHERE approach. Turns out that I'm late to this party - this was (of course) discussed at the PDC, and has been under some discussion since then.
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[link] TransferBigFiles.com
TransferBigFiles.com makes it easy to send files that are way to big for e-mail - up to 1GB. You upload the file(s) via their website and enter the recipient's e-mail (and some optional things, like a password). The recipient gets an e-mail with a download link and has five days to pick it up. It's a free service from the good folks at Axosoft.
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[fix] IIS Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred - Skype on Port 80
"Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred" is not a particularly helpful error message. It just means IIS can't start a website because port 80 is already in use.
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[Fun] SomePreparedRemarks.com
Eric Lawrence (the evil genius behind Microsoft Fiddler) links to SomePreparedRemarks. These are pretty durn funny.
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[tool] Make Property / Refactoring Plug-in for VS.NET
DPack's "Surround With" feature is great, but the "property" function just writes out a template. Since VS2005 will include this feature, it probably won't make it into DPack (http://www.usysware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36).
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[tool] GIF Plug-in for Cropper 1.6
Cropper is one of the my most used utilities. It's a lightweight screenshot application that's easy to use, unobtrusive, and free. It's never supported GIF output, though. I actually hacked together a working but ugly GIF output option about a year ago, but it never made the official release.
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Avoiding DataBinder.Eval in ASP.NET
I've used this tip at least thrice, so following Phil's "Rule of Three" it's time to do something with it. Link to it now, I shall.
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LINQ looks good, but DLINQ scares me
One of Microsoft's announcements at the PDC this week has been LINQ (Language INtegrated Query). Here's the elevator speech version: "LINQ enables developers to query objects, databases and XML using a unified programming model because LINQ makes data transforms and queries first class NET citizens."
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Fun with Generics - Currying
Sriram writes about aninteresting use of C# 2.0 Generics to implement "Currying," a technique which is normally reserved for functional programming languages.
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[OT] Going independent
Tomorrow's my last day in a big corporate IT shop. I'm going independent to join forces with Phil Haack (Haacked) and Micah Dylan of Veloc-IT.
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PDC Wanna-be 2005
Not going to PDC, but San Diego is close enough that I can drive up for some evening events once or twice. I'm planning to go to two events Tuesday (9/13) - a secret "underground" event and the Mono meeting.
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IE Toolbar that's kind of like the Firefox Web Developer Extension
If you're a diehard Internet Explorer user, you might not know how great the Firefox Web Developer Extension is. This IE Toolbar isn't as good, but it's still pretty cool.
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High-Resolution Image Printing
A cool solution to a common web design problem - how to make an web images print well.
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A Google Maps .Net Control
Bill Pierce created an ASP.NET Server Control wrapper for the Google Maps API. He's posted the first of three articles on Code Project: Lat Lays Flat - Part 1 : A Google Maps .Net Control
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GroupBar Prototype from Microsoft Research
A recent post about Microsoft Scalable Fabric prompted me to browse through the MS Research Download page, where I ran across GroupBar [download]:
"GroupBar is a prototype for demonstrating the use of window-grouping features in an XP TaskBar-like interface. The window tiles in the GroupBar can be rearranged in any order or dragged and dropped into lightweight "groups" that allow one-click task-switching and convenient group operations."