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Monday, January 05, 2009 5:30 PM

Creating Compilable User Files in Visual Studio 2008

Back in my c++ days when working on projects with other people in source control etc… I would do all kinds of weird things, things like include files for coding only for me. Example: #ifdef (TOM) include “Tom.h”; #endif This allowed me to call code that
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Monday, December 22, 2008 5:34 PM

Proper Thread Work with WF

Most inexperienced developers tend to put workload heavy operations on the same thread that the UI runs on. While you can call ‘Application.DoEvents()’ to keep the windows messages flowing, this is not the proper way to keep your UI painted. In this article
Posted by Dave Anderson | 1 Comments

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Thursday, December 04, 2008 3:38 PM

New code snippet plugin for Live Writer

I am trying out a new code snippet plug-in for Live Writer . Public Class CommitDB Public Function GetCommitStatusAll() As DataSet ' Create Instance of Connection and Command Object Dim myConnection As New SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings(
Posted by Tom Anderson | 0 Comments
Thursday, December 04, 2008 3:35 PM

Sharing configuration files

Derik Whittaker has posted a blog post that I found recently via stackoverflow.com that demonstrates a very unknown feature in the Add Existing Dialog in visual studio. Adding as a link. This is… super useful.
Posted by Tom Anderson | 2 Comments
Monday, September 29, 2008 1:56 AM

CAB – Part 5 Simple Module

In the previous articles on CAB , we have gone over some of the basics of getting our shell application ready to load up some modules. In this article, we will actually create a simplistic Module to display a “SmartPart” in our primary workspace. The
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 1:44 PM

SQL Server 2008 Express Now Available

SQL Server Express 2008, which released on Monday, is now available from Microsoft . New Features: Support for LINQ, Entity Data Model and ADO.NET Entity Framework make it easy to create next generation data-enabled applications New Date and Time data
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Friday, August 08, 2008 5:15 PM

CAB - Part 4 Adding a WorkSpace

In the previous articles on CAB we have gone over creating the basics with a CAB, right now our application really has no "Composite" to it, just "Application Block".  In this article we will go over creating our first WorkSpace
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Friday, August 08, 2008 3:38 PM

CAB - Part 3 Splash Screen

In the previous articles for CAB we have gone over creating our base form, as well as implementing a new way to load our modules (once we create some), in this article we are going to go over another simple implementation (that is specifically not covered
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Friday, August 08, 2008 3:22 PM

CAB - Part 2 Loading Modules from a directory

In the first part of the CAB articles , I explained a bit about getting the CAB working in a generic shell, and simply initiating the framework, in this article I will explain a little known ability with the CAB to dynamically load all modules in a directory,
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 4:08 PM

Combo Box Enumerations with Titles

Have you ever just wanted to populate a combo box with values from an enumeration, but hated the fact that it dealt with the name of the item in the enumeration, instead of some snazzy string? Take the following Enum as an example: 1: Public Enum TitledValues
Posted by Tom Anderson | 1 Comments
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:01 PM

Correction for Vertigo Software post about debugging

Recently I read the article by Chris Idzerda over at Vertigo software that described how to Detect Visual Studio Debugging . While the method he used was a bit of a "hacky workaround", below is a more sound way to detect it using built in .Net libraries,
Posted by Tom Anderson | 0 Comments
Thursday, May 29, 2008 7:08 PM

SWGEmu - .Net Stuffz

So a while back some of you may know that I was writing a pure .Net emulator.  That went "ok" and I had made zone in both pre-cu and nge based clients.  But after a while, the time constraints just couldn't be dealt with, and the project
Posted by Tom Anderson | 1 Comments
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:07 PM

Renamed Web Blog - .Net Articles

I just renamed this web blog from vb.net articles to .net articles.  I have decided to start blogging all .net now, instead of just vb.net. More to come later!   * Edit : I have just realised that in the RSS the images are borked, this will
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Thursday, January 31, 2008 4:33 PM

Loading Config Files from non-Default Locations

I have spent a good deal of my time trying to figure out how to load a *.config file that is compatable with the System.Configuration.Configuration object. Over the years I have done several "fake" .config files, which where nothing more then glorified
Posted by Tom Anderson | 0 Comments
Thursday, January 17, 2008 7:52 PM

Update to the Build Automation

Well, after a few months working on this off and on, I thought I would share the current status of our operations. First and foremost, we got Cruise Control up and running, this made a huge step forward with the process, and it is open source, so that
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