Dot Net Pulse

Argotic Syndication Framework

2008-03-27T23:20:00.001+02:00

The Argotic Syndication Framework is a Microsoft .NET class library framework that enables developers to easily consume and/or generate syndicated content from within their own applications. The framework makes the reading and writing syndicated content in common formats such as RSS, Atom, OPML, APML, BlogML, and RSD very easy while still remaining extensible enough to support common/custom extensions to the syndication publishing formats. The framework includes out-of-the-box implementations of the most commonly used syndication extensions, network clients for sending and receiving peer-to-peer notification protocol messages; as well as HTTP handlers, modules, services and controls that provide rich syndication functionality to ASP.NET developers.

Download Argotic Syndication Framework

Technorati Tags: rss,opml,syndication,dotnet

VisualSVN Server 1.1 is available for download

2008-03-25T15:42:00.001+02:00

VisualSVN Server is a package that contains everything you need to easily setup, configure and manage SVN server on Windows.
It contains Subversion, Apache and a management application.

What's new in 1.1 release of VisualSVN Server:

Added support for authentication via Windows domain.
Implemented VisualSVN Server dashboard.
Edit server configuration without reinstallation.
Implemented "Import Existing Repository" command.
New user-defined configuration file named httpd-custom.conf has been added.
URL of the selected node is now displayed in the description bar.
New toolbar for the "VisualSVN Server" node has been added.

Download VisualSVN Server

Technorati Tags: svn, subversion, development

NPlot - freeware .Net charting library

2008-03-24T21:15:00.001+02:00

NPlot is a freeware charting library for .NET. It boasts an elegant and flexible API. NPlot includes controls for Windows Forms, ASP.NET and a class for creating Bitmaps.

Take look at some examples

Download the current version of NPlot here

Technorati Tags: charting,freeware,dotnet

System.Reflection - MethodInfo class (usage)

2008-01-31T23:49:00.001+02:00

A MethodInfo class provides detailed information about a single method of a class or an interface. The reflected method may be a static method or an instance method. The MethodInfoSpy example shows how to obtain the method information of a class including the access modifiers, type or input parameters:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Reflection;

namespace MethodInfoSpy
{
    class Program
    {

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Type type = typeof(Program);
            MethodInfo [] methodInfos = type.GetMethods();
            foreach (MethodInfo methodInfo in methodInfos)
            {
                // retrive method information
                Console.WriteLine("Name: {0}, Public: {1}, Is Static: {2}, Return Type: {3}",
                                    methodInfo.Name,
                                    methodInfo.IsPublic,
                                    methodInfo.IsStatic,
                                    methodInfo.ReturnType.FullName);

                // retrive method parameters information
                ParameterInfo [] paramInfos =  methodInfo.GetParameters();
                foreach (ParameterInfo paramInfo in paramInfos)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Parameter Name: {0}, Parameter Type: {1}",
                        paramInfo.Name, paramInfo.ParameterType.FullName);
                }
            }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }


        public void DoNothing()
        {
        }

        public int Add(int x, int y)
        {
            return x + y;
        }
    }
}

A sample of the output follows:

Name: DoNothing, Public: True, Is Static: False, Return Type: System.Void

Name: Add, Public: True, Is Static: False, Return Type: System.Int32

Parameter Name: x, Parameter Type: System.Int32

Parameter Name: y, Parameter Type: System.Int32

Name: GetType, Public: True, Is Static: False, Return Type: System.Type

Name: ToString, Public: True, Is Static: False, Return Type: System.String

Name: Equals, Public: True, Is Static: False, Return Type: System.Boolean

Parameter Name: obj, Parameter Type: System.Object

Name: GetHashCode, Public: True, Is Static: False, Return Type: System.Int32

Technorati Tags: c#,reflection

How to support != and == operations for C# struct

2008-01-31T22:57:00.001+02:00

Sometimes we prefer to use structs instead classes .The C# is a convenient way to store coordinates ,complex number etc .
In an example below I'm presenting how to support == and != operators in case we want to check if our structs are equal.

// <summary>
/// Circle
/// </summary>
struct Circle
{
    public Point Center;
    public double Radius;

    /// <summary>
    /// Compares two Circle objects. The result specifies whether the values
    /// of the Center or Radius properties of the two Circle objects are equal.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="left">A Circle to compare.</param>
    /// <param name="right">A Circle to compare.</param>
    /// <returns>true if the the Center properties or the Radius properties 
    /// of left and right are equal; otherwise, false.</returns>
    public static bool operator ==(Circle left, Circle right)
    {
        return (left.Center == right.Center) && (left.Radius == right.Radius);
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Compares two Circle objects. The result specifies whether the values
    /// of the Center or Radius properties of the two Circle objects are unequal.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="left">A Circle to compare.</param>
    /// <param name="right">A Circle to compare.</param>
    /// <returns>true if the values of either the Center properties 
    /// or the Radius properties of left and right differ; otherwise, false.</returns>
    public static bool operator !=(Circle left, Circle right)
    {
        return !(left == right);
    }


    /// <summary>
    /// Specifies whether this Circle contains the same Center and Radius as 
    /// the specified Object.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="obj">Another object to compare to.</param>
    /// <returns>
    /// true if obj is a Point and has the same Center and Radius as this Circle.
    /// </returns>
    public override bool Equals(object obj)
    {
        if (!(obj is Circle))
        {
            return false;
        }
        Circle circle = (Circle)obj;
        return (circle.Center == this.Center) && (circle.Radius == this.Radius);
    }

    /// .... You need to overload GetHashCode and ToString methods

}

Testing our struct ...

static void Main(string[] args)


   Circle circle1 = new Circle();
   circle1.Center = new Point(10, 10);
   circle1.Radius = 20;


   Circle circle2 = new Circle();
   circle2.Center = new Point(10, 10);
   circle2.Radius = 20;


   bool result = (circle1==circle2);
   Console.WriteLine("Is circle1 equal to circle2? [{0}]", result );

   circle2.Center = new Point(14, 10);
   result = (circle1 == circle2);
   Console.WriteLine("Is circle1 equal to circle2? [{0}]", result);

   Console.ReadLine();

Technorati Tags: struct,c#,data-structures

How to test your applications using WPF UI automation

2008-01-15T21:39:00.001+02:00

UI Automation Overview

Using UI Automation for Automated Testing

UI Spy (UISpy.exe)

UI Automation Stress

Unit Testing WPF controls with Automation Peers

Instantiating a WPF control from an NUnit test

NumericUpDown Custom Control with Theme and UI Automation Support Sample (UI Automation support to a custom control )

.NET UI Automation Extension for Automation Testing

[Via Lester's WPF blog]

Technorati Tags: UI,Automation,WPF,.Net

SHA1 hash calculation in C#

2007-12-02T23:29:00.001+02:00

The SHA1 algorithm can be used to calculate check sum, that very useful when you want to ensure the string is not broken .Also for simple password verification.The example below show how to calculate SHA1 for given string .

/// <summary>
/// Calculates SHA1 hash
/// </summary>
/// <param name="text">input string</param>
/// <param name="enc">Character encoding</param>
/// <returns>SHA1 hash</returns>
public static string CalculateSHA1(string text, Encoding enc)
{
    byte[] buffer = enc.GetBytes(text);
    SHA1CryptoServiceProvider cryptoTransformSHA1 = 
    new SHA1CryptoServiceProvider();
    string hash = BitConverter.ToString(
        cryptoTransformSHA1.ComputeHash(buffer)).Replace("-", "");

    return hash;
}

The result SHA1 hash for the string "first string":

Technorati Tags: hash,security,dotnet,SHA1

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit containing Labs, Demos and Powerpoint Presentations

2007-11-20T13:05:00.000+02:00

The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes powerpoint presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This training kit is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework technologies including: LINQ, C# 3.0, Visual Basic 9, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX, VSTO, CardSpace, SilverLight, Mobile and Application Lifecycle Management.

Download Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit

Free tool that allows administrators to schedule various SQL jobs for SQL Server Express and other versions of SQL Server

2007-08-22T18:50:00.001+03:00

SQLScheduler is a fully functional client/server application written in C# that allows administrators to schedule various SQL jobs for SQL Server Express and other versions of SQL Server.

Features:

Supports all versions of SQL Server 2000 and 2005
Supports unlimited SQL Server instances with an unlimited number of jobs.
Allows to easily schedule SQL Server maintenance tasks: backups, index rebuilds, integrity checks, etc.
Runs as Windows Service
Email notifications on job success and failure

Download SQLScheduler

JavaScript SyntaxHighlighter

2007-07-23T23:04:00.001+03:00

SyntaxHighlighter is here to help a developer/coder to post code snippets online with ease and have it look pretty. It's 100% Java Script based and it doesn't care what you have on your server.The idea behind SyntaxHighlighter is to allow insertion of colored code snippets on a web page without relying on any server side scripts.

Fiddler 2.1 Released

2007-07-02T18:32:00.000+03:00

Fiddler v2 is a new version of the Fiddler Debugging proxy. Fiddler2 is freeware and can debug traffic from virtually any application, including IE, Firefox, Safari.
Fiddler2 supports viewing and tampering with HTTPS traffic.Read a quick summary of getting started with Fiddler.
Download Fiddler2

Manage Subversion servers on Windows.

2007-06-29T19:40:00.001+03:00

PainlessSVN provides you with the ability to completely manage your Subversion Repositories & Server conviently and effectively without the using of command line interface.

PainlessSVN Features

Creates and Deletes Repositories
Creates and Deletes Directories
Creates and Deletes Users
Creates Dump Files
Creates Hot Copies
Manages access to repositories
Uses the Microsoft Management Console.

Download PainlessSVN Professional Preview 3

.NET Framework 3.0 Virtual Labs

2007-06-25T22:34:00.001+03:00

.NET Framework version 3.0 is Microsoft’s managed-code programming model for developing software on the Windows platform. .NET Framework 3.0 includes Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, and Windows CardSpace technologies.Today you can learn these new technologies through a series of guided, hands-on labs which can be completed in 90 minutes or less.

Windows CardSpace Virtual Labs

Core Features of Windows CardSpace

Windows Presentation Foundation Virtual Labs

Building Windows Presentation Foundation Applications C# Part 1
Building Windows Presentation Foundation Applications C# Part 2
Building Windows Presentation Foundation Applications VB Part 1
Building Windows Presentation Foundation Applications VB Part 2

Windows Communication Foundation Virtual Labs

A Server Scenario Lab with Windows Communication Foundation
Understanding Windows Communication Foundation
The Fundamentals of Programming the Windows Communication Foundation
Reliable and Transacted Messaging with the Windows Communication Foundation

Windows Workflow Foundation Virtual Labs

A Server Scenario Lab with Windows Workflow Foundation
Getting Started with Windows Workflow Foundation

You get a downloadable manual and a 90-minute block of time for each module. You can sign up for additional 90-minute blocks at any time.

Building Silverlight Applications using .NET Talk (by ScottGu )

2007-06-20T23:56:00.001+03:00

Scott used a few slides to explain each programming model concept in Silverlight, and then showed a very base sample for each concept that helped present concretely how it worked.

In the talk Scott covered fallowing Silverlight concepts:

XAML
Using Shapes and Text
Using Controls
Layout (Canvas and Layout Managers)
Brushes
Transforms
Handling Events and Writing Code
Building Custom UI Controls
Reaching out and Programming the HTML of a page from a Silverlight control
Handling HTML Events in Managed Code (e.g. html button click handled in C#/VB on the client)
Exposing managed APIs to HTML JavaScript in the browser
Using the File Open Dialog support
Using the HTTP Network APIs
Using the Web Service APIs
Isolated Storage for local data caching

You can download the slides + demos of this talk below:

Included in the .zip download are readme instructions on how to run all of the samples on your own machine.

Technorati tags: silverlight, microsoft, dotnet

Updated utilities from Mark Russinovich

2007-06-14T22:20:00.001+03:00

Updated utilities are ZoomIt, Streams, String, PsExec, SigCheck and DiskExt.

List of changes:

ZoomIt - you can type text while zoomed and you can also create scratch pad by clearing screen.
Streams - Streams now supports printing and deleting streams on volume root directories. There is also new -accepteula switch - hope so it will be included with every single utility :(
String - improving performance by limiting no. of bytes that it is reading
PsExec - Officially this release to PsExec, a utility for running programs on remote systems, corrects a buffer overflow bug caused by long command line arguments. Unofficially as I found out - it also fixes bug with running PsExec against local computer (PsExec \\%ComputerName% cmd is giving you error regarding user name or password). Finally :) This is quite pain when you got automated processing.
SigCheck - new switches -a and -m (more version data and manifests)
DiskExt - now reports the mappings for volume that have not been mounted by a file system.

[Via MartinZugec's blog ]

Technorati tags: microsoft, tools

Developing with Microsoft® ASP.NET AJAX Extensions

2007-05-24T20:49:00.001+03:00

In this 2-hour clinic you will learn about the rich functionality that ASP.NET AJAX Extensions provides for building highly responsive and enhanced web applications. In addition to learning about the different server and client components of ASP.NET AJAX, you will also learn how to build new ASP.NET AJAX applications and how to upgrade existing ASP.NET applications to take advantage of ASP.NET AJAX.

Clinic Content

Clinic Overview
Navigation Overview
Overview of ASP.NET AJAX
Introduction to AJAX and ASP.NET AJAX
Introduction to the Architecture of ASP.NET AJAX
Programming with ASP.NET AJAX
Building a Simple ASP.NET AJAX Application
Using the AJAX Library to Enhance Web User Interfaces
Calling Web Services and Web Methods from the Client
Additional Information

Learn WPF,WCF,WWF for free

2007-05-24T20:44:00.001+03:00

This collection of 3 2-hour premium clinics teaches about the new capabilities provided by the .NET Framework 3.0. These clinics are for experienced(2 years) Developers and SW Architects who are looking to integrate Microsoft's next generation technology within their projects.

Topics covered within the offer include:

Clinic 5135: Introduction to Developing with Windows® Presentation Foundation and Visual Studio® 2005

Clinic 5136: Introduction to Developing with Windows® Workflow Foundation and Visual Studio® 2005

Clinic 5137: Introduction to Developing with Windows® Communication Foundation and Visual Studio® 2005

DataBatcher

2007-03-06T23:36:00.001+02:00

With DataBatcher you can perform the following tasks in a batch-processed manner:

Copy files / folders from one location to another
Create new files / folders
Delete files / folders
Create shortcuts to files / folders
Change the attributes of files / folders
Touch files / folders (i.e. change their modified, created, accessed times)
Execute a batch file (.bat; .cmd) in the Cmd.exe command interpreter (e.g. to rename files)
Convert image files from one format to another
Run a Windows PowerShell 1.0 script that is able to interact with DataBatcher's runtime environment.

Features

Set up and run (and re-run) batch-processed jobs
Configure each step in a job to behave exactly as you wish
Process sets of files on an assembly line basis
Full logging of all activity when a job runs
Pre-prepare collections of files to be processed when a job runs
Minimize the GUI application to the task bar or system tray when a job runs
Run jobs in a hands-free manner using DataBatcher's console application
Set up portable jobs that run correctly on different machines
Full undo / redo for all editable documents
Open, XML-based formats are used for all of DataBatcher's own files (e.g. job files), allowing them to be processed by other programs
An SDK (software development kit) for writing your own plugin modules is included with each installed copy of DataBatcher.

Download DataBatcher for free

How To Print a DataGridView in C# and .NET

2007-02-28T00:55:00.001+02:00

The DataGridView control in .NET 2.0 is an incredible data representation control, and contains many features that you could benefit from. The only thing that is not supported by this control is the printing feature.Salan Al-Ani created the class for this feature and share it with others.

PowerShell Editor and Analyzer

2007-02-28T00:41:00.003+02:00

PowerShell Analyzer is a rich interactive environment for Windows PowerShell. Its goal is to be the PowerShell host of choice for IT professionals and system administrators. It has all the typical editor and IDE functionality that you would expect when working on a modern language, but it focuses on the real time interactive experience as if you were at the console, helping you compose the commands you want to use, and also giving you rich graphical visualization of the results. PowerShell may seem to just return text like the average Unix shell, but in reality, it is returning rich self describing Dotnet objects. PowerShell Analyzer not only helps you with the INPUT, but also with the output. It shows you the properties of the rich objects that the commands return, as well as specific visualizers to help you interact with output such as XML, HTML, charts, tables, and hierarchical data structures.

Download PowerShell Analyzer

Video Demos

Author's Blog

Change font style for specific cell in datagridview

2007-02-18T01:47:00.000+02:00

The way to change font for a single cell in an unbound datagridview.

int columnIndex = 1;
int rowIndex = 2;
// create bold font based on the default font 
Font newFont = new Font(dataGridView1.Font, FontStyle.Bold);
dataGridView1[columnIndex, rowIndex].Style.Font = newFont;

Using this simple technique you can change foreground or background color ( and many more style related properties ) for specific cell .

Propertygrid: How to show and edit "aggregated" property

2007-02-05T23:32:00.000+02:00

Sometimes we need to edit aggregated property - I mean the property that represents object with few properties .The simple way to do this - we can use TypeConverter with ExpandableObjectConverter as shown in the example

[TypeConverter(typeof(ExpandableObjectConverter))]
public class FullName
{
    private string _FirstName;
    private string _LastName;


    public FullName(string _FirstName, string _LastName)
    {
        this._FirstName = _FirstName;
        this._LastName = _LastName;
    }

    [DisplayName("First Name")]
    [Description("First name of the person")]
    public string FirstName
    {
        get
        {
            return _FirstName;
        }
        set
        {
            _FirstName = value;
        }
    }

    [DisplayName("Last Name")]
    [Description("Last name of the person")]
    public string LastName
    {
        get
        {
            return _LastName;
        }
        set
        {
            _LastName = value;
        }
    }


    ///<summary>
    ///Returns a <see cref="T:System.String"></see> 
    /// that represents the current <see cref="T:System.Object"></see>.
    ///</summary>
    ///
    ///<returns>
    ///A <see cref="T:System.String"></see> 
    /// that represents the current <see cref="T:System.Object"></see>.
    ///</returns>
    ///<filterpriority>2</filterpriority>
    public override string ToString()
    {
        return _FirstName + " " + _LastName;
    }
}

[DisplayName("Full Name")]
[Description("Full name of the person")]
public FullName FullName
{
    get
    {
        return _FullName;
    }
    set
    {
        _FullName = value;
    }
}

Result - the editor for aggregated object

Source( russian )

Propertygrid: How to display combo with icons for enum type?

2007-02-05T23:07:00.000+02:00

We need to cretate new type inhereted from UITypeEditor with custom painting( in our case the images located in resource file - where each image name equals to memeber of the enum ) as shown below

public class CountryEditor : UITypeEditor
{
    ///<summary>
    ///Indicates whether the specified context supports 
    /// painting a representation of an object's value within the specified context.
    ///</summary>
    ///
    ///<returns>
    ///true if 
    /// <see cref="M:System.Drawing.Design.UITypeEditor.PaintValue(System.Object,System.Drawing.Graphics,System.Drawing.Rectangle)">
    /// </see> is implemented; otherwise, false.
    ///</returns>
    ///
    ///<param name="context">An <see cref="T:System.ComponentModel.ITypeDescriptorContext">
    /// </see> that can be used to gain additional context information. </param>
    public override bool GetPaintValueSupported(ITypeDescriptorContext context)
    {
        return true;
    }

    ///<summary>
    ///Paints a representation of the value of an 
    /// object using the specified <see cref="T:System.Drawing.Design.PaintValueEventArgs"></see>.
    ///</summary>
    ///
    ///<param name="e">A <see cref="T:System.Drawing.Design.PaintValueEventArgs">
    /// </see> that indicates what to paint and where to paint it. </param>
    public override void PaintValue(PaintValueEventArgs e)
    {
        string resourcename = Enum.GetName(typeof (Country), e.Value);

        // retrive  image from resource file
        Bitmap countryImage =
          (Bitmap)Resources.ResourceManager.GetObject(resourcename);
        Rectangle destRect = e.Bounds;
        countryImage.MakeTransparent();

        // paint
        e.Graphics.DrawImage(countryImage, destRect);

    }
}

Create new EnumTypeConverter

public class EnumTypeConverter : EnumConverter
{
    private Type _enumType;
    public EnumTypeConverter(Type type)
        : base(type)
    {
        _enumType = type;
    }

    public override bool CanConvertTo(ITypeDescriptorContext context,
      Type destType)
    {
        return destType == typeof(string);
    }

    public override object ConvertTo(ITypeDescriptorContext context,
      CultureInfo culture,
      object value, Type destType)
    {
        FieldInfo fi = _enumType.GetField(Enum.GetName(_enumType, value));
        DescriptionAttribute dna =
          (DescriptionAttribute)Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(
            fi, typeof(DescriptionAttribute));

        if (dna != null)
            return dna.Description;
        else
            return value.ToString();
    }

    public override bool CanConvertFrom(ITypeDescriptorContext context,
      Type srcType)
    {
        return srcType == typeof(string);
    }

    public override object ConvertFrom(ITypeDescriptorContext context,
      CultureInfo culture,
      object value)
    {
        foreach (FieldInfo fi in _enumType.GetFields())
        {
            DescriptionAttribute dna =
              (DescriptionAttribute)Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(
                fi, typeof(DescriptionAttribute));

            if ((dna != null) && ((string)value == dna.Description))
                return Enum.Parse(_enumType, fi.Name);
        }

        return Enum.Parse(_enumType, (string)value);
    }


}

Then use attribute Editor

[DisplayName("Country")]
[Description("Country")]
[TypeConverter(typeof(EnumTypeConverter))]
[Editor(typeof(CountryEditor), typeof(UITypeEditor))]
public Country Country
{
    get
    {
        return _Country;
    }
    set
    {
        _Country = value;
    }
}

Now we can see the combo box as editor for our Enum type

Source ( russian )

Open source C# SourceForge implementation

2007-01-12T12:37:00.000+02:00

SharpForge supports collaborative development and management of multiple software projects. Similar to SourceForge or CodePlex but for your own team or organisation. The software is written in C# for .NET 2.0 is integrates with Subversion for source control and is released under the New BSD License.

Features

Multi Portal
Multi Project
Subversion Administration
Work Item Tracking
Project Forums
Release Management
Subversion Wiki
Browse Source Code
News Feed Aggregation

Download SharpForge

[Via Larkware News]

A function to calculate the opposite color of given color

2007-01-09T13:26:00.000+02:00

/// <summary>
/// Calculates the opposite color
/// </summary>
/// <param name="clr">Given color</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static Color CalculateOppositeColor(Color clr)
{
    return  Color.FromArgb(255 - clr.R, 255 - clr.G, 255 - clr.B);
}

Html Agility Pack

2006-12-13T01:48:00.000+02:00

This is an agile HTML parser that builds a read/write DOM and supports plain XPATH or XSLT (you actually don't HAVE to understand XPATH nor XSLT to use it, don't worry...). It is a .NET code library that allows you to parse "out of the web" HTML files. The parser is very tolerant with "real world" malformed HTML. The object model is very similar to what proposes System.Xml, but for HTML documents (or streams).
Sample applications:

Page fixing or generation. You can fix a page the way you want, modify the DOM, add nodes, copy nodes, well... you name it.
Web scanners. You can easily get to img/src or a/hrefs with a bunch XPATH queries.
Web scrapers. You can easily scrap any existing web page into an RSS feed for example, with just an XSLT file serving as the binding. An example of this is provided.

Download Html Agility Pack

[Via Roy Osherove's Blog]

How to capture the form and save it to a bitmap

2006-12-12T16:13:00.000+02:00

The following example source code shows how to capture the form and save it to a bitmap. Hope you find it useful.

Point point = new Point();
Rectangle rectangle = new Rectangle(point, this.Size);
Bitmap bitmap = 
    new Bitmap(rectangle.Width, rectangle.Height, PixelFormat.Format32bppRgb);
// render the form to the bitmap 
this.DrawToBitmap(bitmap, rectangle);
bitmap.Save(@"d:\MyForm.bmp");

ReSharper 2.5

2006-12-12T15:54:00.000+02:00

ReSharper 2.5 is an add-in to Visual Studio 2005. Besides further improvement of ReSharper 2.0 stability and performance in all areas, the new version provides a number of new features:

Navigate from here - You can view the possible navigation destinations from the place where the caret currently rests
Enabling and disabling context actions
New context actions and quick fixes
Value analysis - Use these options to define the means of code inspections: lists of assertion and terminating methods, and code annotations.
Code preview in the Find Results window - Results of usages search display in the Find Results window that enables you to perform a number of actions.

HnD - Customer Support Server

2006-12-04T22:39:00.000+02:00

HnD is a Customer Support system, integrating helpdesk features and a forum system, and was built as an example of what you can do with LLBLGen Pro.

It's been released as open source software (using the GPL v2 license) and you can download and use it for free.

Requirements

To successfully install HnD, you need to have the following installed / available to you on the webserver:

.NET 2.0
IIS 5 or higher with ASP.NET 2.0 installed
Access to an SMTP server

HnD stores its data in a database, and you can use Microsoft SqlServer 7 / 2000/ 2005 / Express or MSDE.

Features

Unlimited forums can be organised into as many sections as you like.
Both public and private forums using role-based security
Queueing facility for support teams, enabling claiming questions and moving threads between queues. Threads can be auto-queued through forum settings.
Role-based security system for easy right management
Flexible attachment system for messages which is configurable per forum and user role.
Attachment approval system for moderators.
Editing all messages, editing thread properties and closing and moving threads for moderators.
Powerful search facility utilizing SqlServer's full-text search.
Native ASP.NET 2.0 code written in C#
Using LLBLGen Pro v2.0 for all data-access functionality.
Standard UBB message formatting with various font styles and sizes as well as allowing quoting, code display, attachments and automatic URL linking.
Email notification of replies to your topics.
Allows fine grained control over access to viewing, posting, replying, marking threads as 'done', thread memos and many other options.
Personal profile creation and management.
Administration centre with forum and section setup, complete group and member management, extensive ban management, support queue management, role management, mass emailing of groups and users by the administrator and many other options.
Complete control of fonts and colors by ASP.NET 2.0 theme support.
Open source, so changes and additions can be easily implemented.
And many more...

[Via Roy Osherove's Blog]

Paint.NET v3.0 Beta 1 is now available!

2006-12-04T22:28:00.000+02:00

Change log:

New effect: Clouds

New menu command: Edit->Fill Selection (shortcut key: Backspace). This will fill any selected area with the primary color.

New toolbar item / hotkey: The brush size may be manipulated with +/- buttons in the toolbar. Hotkeys for this are [ and ], and you may hold Ctrl to increment or decrement by 5.

New translations: They are not complete yet, and in fact some have just been started. They are mostly in place right now in order to get the code correct: Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portugese, and Spanish. You will have the ability to choose one of these languages during installation, and from the Help->Language menu, but the text will still be either mostly or completely English. Complete translations will be finished by February.

Added left-handed shortcut keys for Cut (Shift+Del), Copy (Ctrl+Ins), Paste (Shift+Ins)

Upper-left coordinate of selection is now displayed in the status bar

When moving text with the Text tool, the anchor point coordinate is now displayed in the status bar

Fixed: In high-DPI mode (120dpi), the color swatch would translate the mouse location to the wrong color palette entry

Fixed: Alpha-channel handling for bicubic and super-sampling image resampling methods

Fixed: Very slow download speeds for updates in Vista

Fixed: In Vista, the updater would relaunch Paint.NET with the same administrator privileges that the installer executed in. Now it will relaunch Paint.NET with the pre-elevation user and privilege level. Note that this fix will not be apparent until the next update to Paint.NET.

Fixed some layout and rendering issues with the floating tool windows in Vista

Fixed a rendering issue with the font selection dropdown list

Fixed a performance issue with the font selection dropdown list in Vista

Right-clicking on a color in the palette will now set the secondary color

Palette files now allow comments to be placed after color values

Fixed: If Edit->Paste in to New Image was pasting a bitmap with transparency (from Paint.NET), it would have a white background instead of a transparent background.

Fixed: Right-clicking on a .PDN file in Explorer and then selecting "Print" would not work if Paint.NET was already open

Fixed over 10 user-reported crash bugs

Fixed several out-of-memory crashes

Fixes for many other miscellaneous, mostly minor, bugs

You can download it at http://www.getpaint.net/files/PaintDotNet_3_0_Beta1.exe

[Via Rick Brewster's blog]

XML Notepad 2007

2006-11-27T17:23:00.000+02:00

XML Notepad 2007 provides a simple intuitive user interface for browsing and editing XML documents.

Features:

Tree View synchronized with Node Text View for quick editing of node names and values.
Incremental search (Ctrl+I) in both tree and text views, so as you type it navigates to matching nodes.
Cut/copy/paste with full namespace support.
Drag/drop support for easy manipulation of the tree, even across different instances of XML Notepad and from the file system.
Infinite undo/redo for all edit operations.
In place popup multi-line editing of large text node values.
Configurable fonts and colors via the options dialog.
Full find/replace dialog with support for regex and XPath.
Good performance on large XML documents, loading a 3mb document in about one second.
Instant XML schema validation while you edit with errors and warnings shown in the task list window.
Intellisense based on expected elements and attributes and enumerated simple type values.
Support for custom editors for date, dateTime and time datatypes and other types like color.
Handy nudge tool bar buttons for quick movement of nodes up and down the tree.
Inplace HTML viewer for processing xml-stylesheet processing instructions.
Built-in XML Diff tool.

New features included in this version:

Added keyboard accelerators for find again (F3) and reverse find (SHIFT+F3).
Added support for loading IXmlBuilder and IXmlEditor implementations from different assemblies using new vs:assembly attribute.
Made source code localizable by moving all error messages and dialog strings to .resx files.
Added a default XSL transform.
New icons, a play on the Vista "Notepad" icons.

Download XML Notepad 2007

[Via Larkware News]

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System.Data: Export table to a CSV file

2006-11-27T13:35:00.000+02:00

In this post I will present a function that can be used to export a data table to a CSV file. The function first loops through the columns of the data table to export the names of all the data columns. And then in next loop the code iterates over each data row to export all the values in the table.

/// <summary>
/// Exports the table to CSV string.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="table">The table.</param>
/// <param name="printHeaders">
/// if set to <c>true</c> print headers.</param>
/// <returns>CSV formated string</returns>
private static string ExportTableToCsvString(
    DataTable table,  bool printHeaders
)
{
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

    if (printHeaders)
    {
        //write the headers.
        for (int colCount = 0; 
             colCount < table.Columns.Count; colCount++)
        {
            sb.Append(table.Columns[colCount].ColumnName);
            if (colCount != table.Columns.Count - 1)
            {
                sb.Append(",");
            }
            else
            {
                sb.AppendLine();
            }
        }
    }

    // Write all the rows.
    for (int rowCount = 0; 
         rowCount < table.Rows.Count; rowCount++)
    {
        for (int colCount = 0; 
             colCount < table.Columns.Count; colCount++)
        {
            sb.Append(table.Rows[rowCount][colCount]);
            if (colCount != table.Columns.Count - 1)
            {
                sb.Append(",");
            }
        }
        if (rowCount != table.Rows.Count - 1)
        {
            sb.AppendLine();
        }
    }
    
    return sb.ToString();
}

Technorati tags: dotnet, c#, datatable, csv

Free open-source e-mail server

2006-11-26T12:53:00.000+02:00

hMailServer is a free, open source, GPL-licensed e-mail server for Microsoft Windows. It supports all the common e-mail protocols (IMAP, SMTP and POP3) and comes with an easy-to-use COM library that can be used for integration with other software.

Download hMailServer

[Via LarkWare News]

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Powershell Analyzer

2006-11-20T16:59:00.000+02:00

Powershell Analyzer is a rich interactive environment for Windows Powershell. Its goal is to be the powershell host of choice for IT professionals and system administrators. It has all the typical editor and IDE functionality that you would expect when working on a modern language, but it focuses on the real time interactive experience as if you were at the console, helping you compose the commands you want to use, and also giving you rich graphical visualization of the results. Powershell may seem to just return text like the average Unix shell, but in reality, it is returning rich self describing Dotnet objects. Powershell Analyzer not only helps you with the INPUT, but also with the output. It shows you the properties of the rich objects that the commands return, as well as specific visualizers to help you interact with output such as XML, HTML, charts, tables, and hierarchical data structures.

Get the Latest build here: http://www.powershellanalyzer.com/downloads/PowerShellAnalyzer-1-0-1-4.zip

ReSharper 2.5

2006-11-17T23:47:00.000+02:00

ReSharper 2.5 is a minor release dedicated to improving performance and stability of ReSharper 2.0. It will work for Visual Studio 2005 only. The following list of performance improvements and features will be available as part of the relase.

Performance Improvements

Installation time
Typing
Code completion autopopup on typing identifier
Updating completion list on typing
Typing when parameter information is shown
Showing parameter information with large number of signatures
Visual Studio startup
Opening solution
Opening single file in Visual Studio
Navigation inside a file which isn't currently open in Visual Studio
Live templates expansion
Typing with "Change All" or "Inline Rename" active
"Change All" quickfix
Creating new files
Format code
Stepping in debugger

Features
1. Improved find results view (^screenshot)
2. "Navigate From Here" – single shortcut for all navigational actions available at this point (^screenshot)
3. Go to File Member — Control+F12 now allows navigation to symbols declared in the current file similar to Go To Type (Control+N) (^screenshot)
4. Option page for disabling individual context actions
5. NullReferenceException analysis (^screenshot)
6. More context actions and quickfixes
Experimental Read Only Visual Basic .NET support (note that this is experimental functionality and it might not be included in 2.5 release if we are not able to make it production quality by the time of release)
1. Navigation & search features (go to declaration, base, inheritor(s); find usages; go to type/file; etc.)
2. Matching brace highlighting
3. Extend selection (Control+W)
4. Quick documentation popup (Control+Q)
5. Parameter info (doesn't pop up automatically)
6. Identifier highlighting
7. Error highlighting

In addition this release offers better user interface design (see screenshots) and significant stability improvements.

From this page you can download the EAP builds for ReSharper 2.5.

[Via Larkware News]

A full set of professionally designed icons for ASP.NET applications.

2006-11-17T23:40:00.000+02:00

There are more than 300 awsome designed icons for your ASP.NET applications in this package. And, they all are completely free!You can use them in your web applications, both personal and commercial.

Download ASP.NET Icons

Windows PowerShell 1.0

2006-11-17T23:36:00.000+02:00

Windows PowerShell 1.0 is finally released.

Download Windows PowerShell 1.0

Don't forget to check out related resources like:

Windows PowerShell FAQ

Windows PowerShell Blog

Remember to download the Windows PowerShell Documentation Pack that includes a Getting Started Guide, Quick Reference chart and a 100+ page Windows PowerShell primer.

Multithreading for .Net 2.0

2006-11-06T13:37:00.000+02:00

Well these are must read articles if you’re new to the threading world or if you’re not but want to get updated with the new Net 2.0 BackgroundWorker component.

Technorati tags: BackgroundWorker, network, winforms, c#

Windows Live Writer 1.0 (Beta) Update with Windows Live Gallery

2006-09-28T01:41:00.000+03:00

Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easier to compose compelling blog posts using Windows Live Spaces or your current blog service.

The following is a summary of the changes in the Writer 1.0 (Beta) Update:

Tagging support
Support for Blogger Beta
Categories are sorted by name and support scrolling, plus improved support for reading categories from your blog
Improved startup performance
Paste is enabled for Title region and TAB/SHIFT+TAB navigation between title and body supported
Insert hyperlink added to context menu when text is selected
Title attribute in Insert Link dialog
Custom date support for Community Server
Improved keyboard shortcuts for switching views
Change spell-check shortcut key to F7
Add ‘png’ to insert image dialog file type filter
More robust image posting to Live Spaces
Improved style detection for blogs
Fixed issues with pasting URLs and links
Remember last window size and position when opening a new post
Open post dialog retrieves more than 25 old posts

Download Windows Live Writer 1.0 (Beta) Update

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visionapp Remote Desktop (vRD 1.4)

2006-09-22T15:02:00.000+03:00

vRD is a tool which allows the management of RDP connections to servers. vRD is ideal for administrators who need to maintain simultaneous connections to multiple servers. Connection-specific settings and login credentials can be organized in folders and subfolders for quick access.

The new version 1.4 further extends the ease of use. Coming, amongst others, with a dynamic overview tab page over all established connections, the ability to choose the session window size through a drop down field and providing the option to set the RDP port, vRD offers many new features for hassle-free handling of multiple RDP connections.

Download visionapp Remote Desktop 1.4

Memory Management

2006-09-03T00:43:00.000+03:00

Automatic memory management is one of the services during Managed Execution that makes a developer's life a bit easier. Developers do not have to worry about freeing objects when they are no longer used, since the garbage collector takes care of that. The garbage collector determines which objects have no references and can therefore be released from memory. This prevents many problems such as forgetting to free objects from memory, causing memory leaks or attempting to access memory that has already been released.
The problem with automatic memory management
The automatic memory management technique is not perfect. As explained above, an object can be collected by the garbage collector when the object has no more references. It's logical that a button will not be collected when a form still knows it's there, but there are other references that a programmer might not expect, that also keep an object alive.
An eventhandler can be such a reference that it will prevent the object from being collected. Another example is using a static collection object to register certain object instances. These instances will never be collected since the collection always has a reference to them. An IMessageFilter to handle window messages also has the same collection problem.
The solution
To prevent this kind of problems, qios has created a system that uses WeakReferences to attach to events, collection members, and IMessageFilters. A WeakReference is a reference to an object that will allow it to be garbage collected.

SyntaxColor4Writer

2006-08-28T17:17:00.000+03:00

SyntaxColor4Writer is a plugin for Windows Live Writer that enables you to embed syntax highlighting in your blog posts. This plugin uses an excellent component called Code Highlighter . The following syntax languages are included and can be customized and extended:

C#
CSS
HTML
INI File
Java
JScript
Perl
PHP
Python
SQL
VB.NET
VBScript
XML

Download & Installation

Plugin: SyntaxColor4Writer v0.1 (197KB)
Installation : Unpack the file into the plugins folder of Windows Live Writer (default: C:\Program Files\Windows Live Writer\Plugins)
Note : This plugin requires Microsoft .NET 2.0 Redistributable

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Monopix-Live CD Linux distribution

2006-08-21T10:14:00.000+03:00

Monoppix is a Live CD Linux distribution (based on Knoppix), which means you pop it in your CD drive, reboot, and you're running Linux. It works without installing a thing on your hard drive - it runs completely off the CD and RAM.

What's on the CD?

- Mono runtime environment, complier and class libraries
- Monodevelop - Mono enabled IDE
- XSP - ASP.NET web server
- GTK# - for desktop applications (sample included)
- MySQL database server
- Quickstarts and Mono walkthroughs and tutorials,

How to get started?

- Download the latest ISO.
- Burn the ISO to a bootable CD.
- Reboot your computer with the mono CD and CDRom boot enabled in your bios.

How can I make the SplitContainer continuously update its contents while the splitter is moving?

2006-08-12T09:49:00.000+03:00

Note: Continuously updating a SplitContainer's contents can lead to poor performance, and should be used sparingly.
By default, when moving a SplitContainer's splitter a preview is shown of the splitter's future location. Then when the splitter is released, the SplitContainer resizes to that position. If you want the SplitContainer to be constantly resizing as the splitter is moving, you can do one of two things:

Insert the following code in your project, and attach these events to all of the SplitContainers that you want to continuously update.

private void splitContainer_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
// This disables the normal move behavior
((SplitContainer)sender).IsSplitterFixed = true;
}

private void splitContainer_MouseUp(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
// This allows the splitter to be moved normally again
((SplitContainer)sender).IsSplitterFixed = false;
}

private void splitContainer_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
// Check to make sure the splitter won't be updated by the
// normal move behavior also
if (((SplitContainer)sender).IsSplitterFixed)
{
// Make sure that the button used to move the splitter
// is the left mouse button
if (e.Button.Equals(MouseButtons.Left))
{
// Checks to see if the splitter is aligned Vertically
if (((SplitContainer)sender).Orientation.Equals(Orientation.Vertical))
{
// Only move the splitter if the mouse is within
// the appropriate bounds
if (e.X > 0 && e.X < ((SplitContainer)sender).Width)
{
// Move the splitter
((SplitContainer)sender).SplitterDistance = e.X;
}
}
// If it isn't aligned vertically then it must be
// horizontal
else
{
// Only move the splitter if the mouse is within
// the appropriate bounds
if (e.Y > 0 && e.Y < ((SplitContainer)sender).Height)
{
// Move the splitter
((SplitContainer)sender).SplitterDistance = e.Y;
}
}
}
// If a button other than left is pressed or no button
// at all
else
{
// This allows the splitter to be moved normally again
((SplitContainer)sender).IsSplitterFixed = false;
}
}
}

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Why are user scoped settings present in the app.config?

2006-08-11T14:14:00.000+03:00

The configuration system is hierarchical and has the following ordering:

Machine à Application à Roaming User à Local User

When you query a configuration section at any level, you get a merged view of the sections declared in that level and those below it (with machine being the lowest level and local user the highest). The section handler defines how the merge happens and for settings, a setting value specified in, say, local user config trumps the one specified in application config.

So for user scoped settings, you can think of the values specified in app.config to be install time defaults. When the settings are saved into user.config, those values will override these defaults. This way admins have the option of changing the defaults. Note that the defaults can also be specified by means of a DefaultSettingValueAttribute. The provider will use this value if no value is specified for a setting in any level of config.

Technorati : dotnet, faq

How are my strongly typed properties serialized as settings?

2006-08-11T13:14:00.000+03:00

There are two primary mechanisms that ApplicationSettingsBase uses to serialize settings:

If a TypeConverter exists that can convert to and from string, it is used.

Otherwise, the XmlSerializer is used.

Are there multiple config files for an application or just one?

2006-08-11T13:12:00.000+03:00

The default SettingsProvider for client applications (called the LocalFileSettingsProvider) stores settings in the application configuration files. In .NET v1 and v1.1, there were two levels of config files - machine.config and app.exe.config (where 'app.exe' is the name of the application). In v2.0, we have added two more levels of configuration to store user specific data - one that goes in the roaming user profile path and another in the local user profile path. On XP, the profile directories would be something like 'c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data' and 'c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data' respectively. These directories are the recommended location (per Windows Logo requirements) for storing user specific information, and most applications (like Outlook and Visual Studio) put user data somewhere under here.

Technorati : dotnet, faq, microsoft

How do I know when to call Upgrade in a non-Clickonce app?

2006-08-11T13:10:00.000+03:00

In non-Clickonce cases, there is no automatic upgrade - you have to call Upgrade yourself. Here is one idea for determining when to call Upgrade:
Have a boolean setting called CallUpgrade with a default value of true. When your app starts up, do the following:

if (Properties.Settings.Value.CallUpgrade)
{
Properties.Settings.Value.Upgrade();
Properties.Settings.Value.CallUpgrade = false;
}
This will ensure that Upgrade( ) is called only the first time the application runs after a new version is deployed.

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How do I know when to call Upgrade in a Clickonce app?

2006-08-11T13:09:00.000+03:00

In Clickonce, when you install a new version of your application, ApplicationSettingsBase will detect it and automatically upgrade settings for you at the point settings are loaded.

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If I deploy a new version of my application, will the user lose all the settings saved by the previous version?

2006-08-11T13:08:00.000+03:00

It is easy to upgrade settings from a previous version of the application to the latest. Simply call ApplicationSettingsBase.Upgrade() and it will retrieve settings from the previous version that match the current version of the class and store them out in the current version's user.config file. You also have the option of overriding this behavior either in your settings class or in your provider implementation.

Technorati : dotnet, faq, windows

Where is the user.config file located if I deployed my application using Clickonce?

2006-08-11T13:07:00.000+03:00

The path algorithm mentioned above is not used in the Clickonce case. Instead, the local user.config file goes in the Clickonce Data directory (the <Version> part of the path will still be included). There is no roaming user.config file for Clickonce applications.

Technorati : dotnet, faq, windows

Why doesn’t the debugger catch exceptions in webBrowser events?

2006-07-19T12:21:00.000+03:00

Since the core of the managed WebBrowser is an unmanaged ActiveX control, it captures all exceptions thrown in its methods before they can be passed to the debugger. This can lead to unusual behavior if you are not catching the exceptions before they leave the method. For this reason it is highly recommended that try catch blocks should be placed around the contents of all WebBrowser methods during the development and test phases, with special attention paid to procedures that could potentially throw exceptions.

Technorati : c#, dotnet.faq, webbrowser

Does the WebBrowser control work in Partial Trust?

2006-07-19T12:20:00.000+03:00

The WebBrowser control does not work in partial trust. This class makes security demands at the class level, therefore a SecurityException is thrown when a derived class or any caller in the call stack does not have full trust permission. For details about security demands, see Link Demands and Inheritance Demands.

Technorati : c#, dotnet, faq, webbrowser

WebBrowser FAQ:How do I get the site of a new window?

2006-07-19T12:15:00.000+03:00

To get the Url that the WebBrowser is navigating to in a new window, use DWebBrowserEvents2::NewWindow3. This method is not exposed by IntelliSense. For information on how to use it, see: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=7228 for an implementation.

Technorati : c#, faq, webbrowser

How do I navigate to a Url that contains escape characters?

2006-07-19T12:14:00.000+03:00

To navigate to an addresses that contains escaped characters (such as %20) be sure to use the webBrowser.Navigate(String) method instead of the webBrowser.Navigate(Uri) method. The Uri method escapes these characters by default, while the String method does not.

Technorati : c#, faq, webbrwser

How do I block popups?

2006-07-19T12:13:00.000+03:00

To block pop-ups, use the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (or HKEY_CURRENT_USER)
SOFTWARE
Microsoft
Internet Explorer
Main
FeatureControl
FEATURE_WEBOC_POPUPMANAGEMENT
For more information on this topic, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/browser/hosting/wbcustomization.asp

Technorati : c#, dotnet, webrowser

Why won’t the WebBrowser navigate?

2006-07-19T12:11:00.000+03:00

Be sure that AllowNavigation is set to true. This property not only prevents users from making the WebBrowser navigate, but also prevents the WebBrowser from programmatically being given a new Url.

WebBrowser FAQ:How can a control in the browser access the DOM of the page that is hosting it?

2006-07-19T12:10:00.000+03:00

For an example of this, see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.webbrowser.objectforscripting

Technorati : dotnet, faq, webbrowser

WebBrowser FAQ:How do I get XP SP2 Security features?

2006-07-19T12:09:00.000+03:00

To control XP SP2 security features, you can set various registry keys. For detailed information, see: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2brows.mspx

Technorati : dotnet, faq, webrowser

HitTestInfo Overview

2006-05-17T16:45:00.000+03:00

Sometimes in applications you may need to recognize which element is located at the specified screen coordinates. For instance, you may have to determine which part of a DataGridView the user has clicked or double-clicked. For this purpose, DataGridView implements the HitTest method.

For demonstrative purposes on how to process data provided by a HitTestInfo object, you can make use of the following example. It handles the DataGridView.MouseMove event and shows information about a part under the mouse cursor.

private void dataGridView1_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView.HitTestInfo hitInfo = dataGridView1.HitTest(e.X, e.Y);
this.listBox1.Items.Clear();

// displaying dataGridView related information defined a point under the mouse cursor
listBox1.Items.Add("Point: " + new Point(e.X, e.Y) );
listBox1.Items.Add("Type: " + hitInfo.Type.ToString());
listBox1.Items.Add("ColumnIndex: " + hitInfo.ColumnIndex);
listBox1.Items.Add("RowIndex: " + hitInfo.RowIndex);

if (hitInfo.ColumnIndex != -1)
{
DataGridViewColumn column = dataGridView1.Columns[hitInfo.ColumnIndex];
listBox1.Items.Add("Column Caption: " + column.DataPropertyName );
}
else
{
listBox1.Items.Add("No Column");
}

}

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Sample of Using HitTestInfo Object

2006-05-17T16:41:00.000+03:00

The following sample demonstrates how to implement the grid row's popup menu. This menu has only one item, which deletes the row that the menu has been called for. The HitTest method is called to obtain the row position. Selection is then moved to this row and the custom context menu called.

private void dataGridView1_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView.HitTestInfo hitInfo = dataGridView1.HitTest(e.X, e.Y);

if ( (hitInfo.Type == DataGridViewHitTestType.Cell) &&
((e.Button & MouseButtons.Right) != 0) )
{
// switch selection
DataGridViewRow selectedRow = dataGridView1.Rows[hitInfo.RowIndex];
selectedRow.Selected = true;



//show the context menu
ContextMenuStrip contextMenu = new ContextMenuStrip();
contextMenu.Items.Add("Delete Row", null, new EventHandler(DeleteSelectedRow) );
contextMenu.Items[0].Tag = selectedRow;
contextMenu.Show(this.dataGridView1, e.X, e.Y);
}
}



private void DeleteSelectedRow(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
ToolStripItem menuItem = sender as ToolStripItem;
if (menuItem != null)
{
dataGridView1.Rows.Remove(
(DataGridViewRow)menuItem.Tag
);
}
}

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UML Resource List

2006-05-17T13:03:00.000+03:00

Collection of UML links

O'Reilly - Learning UML v2.0 Apr 2006
Understanding UML Wiki
Understanding UML Blog

Technorati : architecture, design, framework, patterns, uml
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IDE for your thoughts - wikidPad

2006-05-17T10:31:00.000+03:00

"wikidPad is a wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas,
todo lists, contacts or anything else you can think of that's
important. What makes wikidPad different from other notepad or
outliner applications is the ease with which you can cross-link your
information."

WikidPad Features

On the fly WikiWord linking, as you type
WikiWord auto-completion
Easy WikiWord navigation
Wiki text styling
WikiWord History
Wiki document attributes
Dynamic views
Tree/Outline view with over 100 icons
Todo lists
Incremental search
Search and Replace
Autosave
Export to HTML
All your data is stored in plain text
URL and file linking
Intuitive keybindings
Help Wiki included

Visit the project homepage

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Microsoft's new open source hosting solution - CodePlex.

2006-05-16T16:09:00.000+03:00

CodePlex is an online software development environment for open and shared source developers to create, host and manage projects throughout the project lifecycle. It has been written from the ground up in C# using .NET 2.0 technology with Team Foundation Server on the back end.

Features:

Release Management
Work Item Tracking
Source Code Dissemination
Wiki-based Project Team Communications
Project Forums
News Feed Aggregation

Visit CodePlex

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Universal Debugger Visualizer in Visual Studio 2005.

2006-05-16T14:31:00.000+03:00

Visual Studio 2005 shipped with a very helpful feature called debugger visualizers.Debugger visualizers allow you to view useful information about objects during debug.This visualizer is helpful for anyone writing an application and want to view or change objects properties during runtime.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Drawing;


namespace Devintelligence.Debug
{

/// <summary>
/// Visual Studio visualizer for viewing objects
/// in PropertyGrid during debug.
/// </summary>
public class UniversalVisualizer : DialogDebuggerVisualizer
{
protected override void Show(IDialogVisualizerService windowService,
IVisualizerObjectProvider objectProvider)
{

object data = objectProvider.GetObject();
using (Form form = new Form())
{
form.Text = data.GetType().FullName;
form.ClientSize = new Size(230, 300);
form.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.FixedToolWindow;

PropertyGrid propGrid = new PropertyGrid();
propGrid.SelectedObject = data;
propGrid.Parent = form;
propGrid.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;

windowService.ShowDialog(form);
objectProvider.ReplaceObject( propGrid.SelectedObject );
}
}

// TODO: Add the following to your testing code to test the visualizer:
//
// UniversalVisualizer.TestShowVisualizer(new SomeType());
//
/// <summary>
/// Tests the visualizer by hosting it outside of the debugger.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="objectToVisualize">
/// The object to display in the visualizer.</param>
public static void TestShowVisualizer(object objectToVisualize)
{
VisualizerDevelopmentHost visualizerHost =
new VisualizerDevelopmentHost(objectToVisualize,
typeof(UniversalVisualizer));
visualizerHost.ShowVisualizer();
}
}
}

I overrode the method Show. This method gets two parameters: objectProvider holds a serialized copy of the debugged object we want to view or change properties, windowService allows us to show a dialog form under the context of the Visual Studio IDE. In this method, I created a form with a property grid and loaded the object into it.

Here's screenshot of the Universal Visualizer in action.

Technorati : Visualizer, addin, c#, debug, dotnet, utils, vs2005
Ice Rocket : Visualizer, addin, c#, debug, dotnet, utils, vs2005

PS Hot Launch

2006-05-16T10:38:00.000+03:00

PS Hot Launch lets you open multiple programs, documents, folders, and web sites with the click of your mouse or by defining keyboard shortcuts.

This type of program is perfect if you find that you always need to launch multiple applications when you are getting started with different tasks.

Features:

Quick launch of programs from the menu in the system tray.
Quick launch of programs using hot keys.
Logical grouping of commands.
Using separators to make the menu handier.
Quick and handy set-up using drag&drop

Download PS Hot Launch

[Via LifeHacker]

Technorati : freeware, soft, tools, utils
Ice Rocket : freeware, soft, tools, utils

Easy Picture2Icon

2006-05-15T14:39:00.000+03:00

Easy Picture2Icon is a wonderful tool for converting images or digital photos in to Windows icons. Easy Picture2Icon make it possible to use any graphical editor to produce icons.Easy Picture2Icon has support for making transparent icons and the user can choose which color to make transparent. With this picture to icon converter it is possible to make icon files that contain multiple icons of different sizes.

Features:

Images formats that can be converted to Windows icons (.ico files) are:
BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG
True color icons.
Single image icon file.
Multiple icons in one Windows icon file.
Transparent color icons.
User choused transparent color.
Image edge cutting to fit icon function.
Image resize to fit icon function.
The supported icon sizes are 16x16, 32x32 and 48x48

Download Easy Picture2Icon

Technorati : convert, freeware, graphics, icon, picture, utils
Ice Rocket : convert, freeware, graphics, icon, picture, utils

Google Co-op

2006-05-14T12:55:00.000+03:00

"Google Co-op is about sharing expertise. You can contribute your expertise and benefit when others do the same. Help other users find information more easily by creating "subscribed links" for your services and labeling webpages around the topics you know best."

Google Co-op Features:

Personalized search results, where you can subscribe to content providers like Digg
"Free AdWords" from Google for those who help refine searches
The "onebox" for the masses
Finally, cluster search results
A sort of semantic web, only that some of the data is stored not on your webserver, but on Google's server (an important distinction, I think - the competition can't access this meta-data, and it's a bit of a Google lock-in!)
Google becoming a meta search engine, an aggregator of other specialized search engines
Meta-keywords 2.0 - the trust is build into Google's account system to prevent spamming
Social bookmarking and tagging a la del.icio.us

[Via Philipp Lenssen]

Technorati : cluster, collaboration, coop, google, search, tagging, web
Ice Rocket : cluster, collaboration, coop, google, search, tagging, web

Windows Firewall Site

2006-05-11T10:55:00.000+03:00

A new Windows Firewall Site has been published, providing a central location for all the published resources on the Windows Firewall provided with Windows XP , Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn".

[Via Joe Davies's WebLog]

Technorati : firewall, resource, site, windows
Ice Rocket : firewall, resource, site, windows

Wait control for ASP.NET

2006-05-10T09:43:00.000+03:00

BusyBoxDotNet is a very useful ASP.NET user control for your web pages.

"BusyBoxDotNet is an ASP.NET web control library. It is built for ASP.NET 1.1 but it is fully compatible with ASP.NET 2.0 and will soon be written especially for it.
The main control is the BusyBox control, which can be used to show a customizable box inside web pages during time consuming activities, a very useful behavior especially during long processing tasks, in order to inform the user that something is actually happening. Typical time consuming tasks are file uploads, complex queries against databases, heavy load operations in application code, or heavy pages which require some time to be rendered by the browser.
Among the new features, there's the option to show it on page loads, in case the pages takes a while to load and you want to notify the user that the loading process is still going."

BusyBoxDotNet Features:

Ease of integration: no need to write javascript code, stylesheets or HTML, everything is embedded in a simple drag and drop control.
Cross browser compatibility . Tested with actual versions of Firefox/Mozilla, Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape Navigator.
Many customization options.

Get BusyBoxDotNet

Download animated images to use with BusyBoxDotNet. (1) (2)

Generate animated gifs on the fly, customizing shape, fore color and background color to use with BusyBoxDotNet. (1)

Technorati : asp, control, csharp, progress, resourse
Ice Rocket : asp, control, csharp, progress, resourse

Microsoft Bloggers List

2006-05-09T12:38:00.000+03:00

[Via Blake Handler's Blog]

Technorati : blog, blogger, directory, microsoft, resources
Ice Rocket : blog, blogger, directory, microsoft, resources

Internet Logger v1.1

2006-05-09T11:40:00.000+03:00

Save both incoming and outgoing Internet traffic (all data sent or received by browser: Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera; email client: Outlook, Thunderbird; instant messenger: MSN, Yahoo, AOL, ICQ, Skype; media player and etc.) on the hard drive for future use.

Download Internet Logger(124 Kb)

Technorati : http, soft, tools
Ice Rocket : http, soft, tools

HTTP Debugger

2006-05-09T11:37:00.000+03:00

Capture, analyze and debug all HTTP communications between the web browser on the client side and the web server on the other side. Internet software developers can use HTTP Debugger to analyze the communication between their programs and Internet.

Each HTTP transaction can be examined to see the HTTP header parameter values, cookies, query strings, error codes and etc. All captured network traffic can be saved either in RAW network format or decoded (how browsers see it) format.

HTTP Debugger works with all today's alternative browsers and their plugins, as well as with your own software. You can even monitor and debug ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger and other popular Internet programs.

Monitor and debug all outgoing HTTP requests from a browser (or any other selected program) and corresponding responses from a server.
See the full header and content data of both: HTTP requests and responses.
Catch when the browser performs automatic redirects.
Capture requests from all of the installed plugins (Flash, ActiveX, etc.) in addition to requests sent by a browser directly. Analyze the same page in all modern browsers simultaneously.
Measure the size and downloading time of your web pages to optimize the performance of your web site.
The gzip and chunked encodings will be automatically processed by the program.
View information supplied by each web browser or any program when you visit a site.
Analyze how other sites work and how they implement certain features.
Learn about how HTTP works (useful for programming and web design cases).

Download HTTP Debugger (240 Kb)

Technorati : debug, debuger, freeware, http, soft, tools
Ice Rocket : debug, debuger, freeware, http, soft, tools

Refactoring Databases Website

2006-05-08T11:03:00.000+03:00

The newly updated Refactoring Databases Website by Scott W. Ambler and Pramodkumar J. Sadalage is a excellent resource for DB developer.The authors introduce powerful refactoring techniques specifically designed for database systems.The authors demonstrate how small changes to table structures, data, stored procedures, and triggers can significantly enhance any database design-without changing semantics. You'll learn how to evolve database schemas in step with source code-and become far more effective in projects relying on iterative, agile methodologies .

DB Refactoring techniques and strategies

Add CRUD Methods
Add Foreign Key Constraint
Add Lookup Table
Add Mirror Table
Add Read Method
Add Trigger for Calculated Column
Apply Standard Codes
Apply Standard Type
Consolidate Key Strategy
Drop Column
Drop Column Constraint
Drop Default Value
Drop Foreign Key Constraint
Drop Non Nullable
Drop Table
Drop View
Encapsulate Table With View
Introduce Calculated Column
Introduce Calculation Method
Introduce Cascading Delete
Introduce Column Constraint
Introduce Common Format
Introduce Default Value
Introduce Hard Delete
Introduce Index
Introduce Read Only Table
Introduce Soft Delete
Introduce Surrogate Key
Introduce Trigger for History
Make Column Non Nullable
Merge Columns
Merge Tables
Migrate Method From Database
Migrate Method To Database
Move Column
Move Data
Rename Column
Rename Table
Rename View
Replace LOB With Table
Replace Column
Replace Method(s) With View
Replace One-To-Many With Associative Tables
Replace Surrogate Key With Natural Key
Replace Type Code With Property Flags
Replace View With Methods(s)
Split Column
Split Table
Use Official Data Source

Technorati : agile, db, design, mssql, oracle, patterns, refactoring, sql
Ice Rocket : agile, db, design, mssql, oracle, patterns, refactoring, sql

Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets

2006-05-06T14:28:00.000+03:00

Code Snippets are reusable, task-oriented blocks of code.You can download the Visual C# code snippets by clicking on the categories below.

Application Code Snippets
For working with Isolated Storage, ClickOnce tasks, Console Applications and Process Management.
Collections and Arrays Code Snippets
For tasks like creating, iterating, locating elements, and sorting collections like arrays and dictionaries.
Connectivity Code Snippets
For checking network status, downloading a file via HTTP, performing serial port operations, sending email and more.
Crystal Reports Code Snippets
For common reporting tasks such as printing a Crystal Report, setting report parameters, and configuring report data access.
Database Code Snippets
For performing a variety of common tasks around ADO.NET data access.
Datatypes Code Snippets
For various string conversions, date spanning operations, and other type-focused operations.
File System Code Snippets
For performing a number of tasks around reading, writing, and managing files.
Math Code Snippets
For calculating monthly payments, depreciation, sines, cosines, and random numbers.
Operating System Code Snippets
A large collection of snippets for Event logging, Message Queues, Process management, registry access, windows services, getting system information and more.
Security Code Snippets
For working with hashes, decrypting, encrypting, and getting a user's name.
Smart Devices Code Snippets
For performing common tasks on Smart Devices.
Windows Forms Code Snippets
For working with the clipboard, fonts, sounds, GDI drawing, and general Windows Form and control creation.
XML Code Snippets
For reading and writing XML, selecting nodes, performing XSL transforms, and other XML oriented tasks.

Technorati : 2005, code, refactoring, reuse, snippets, source, vs
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CSS Layout Resource

2006-05-04T12:52:00.000+03:00

This is a collection of 40 valid CSS layouts,without hacks nor workaround and tested to work in IE, FireFox, Safari and Opera.

Technorati : FireFox, Html, Safari, collection, css, design, ie, layout

The Microsoft Consolas Font Family

2006-05-04T09:46:00.000+03:00

The Microsoft Consolas Font Family is a set of highly legible fonts designed for ClearType. It is intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances where a monospaced font is specified.All characters have the same width, like old typewriters, making it a good choice for personal and business correspondence. Optimizing the font specifically for ClearType allowed a design with proportions closer to normal text than traditional monospaced fonts like Courier. This allows for more comfortable reading of extended text on-screen.

Download Consolas Font Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

Technorati : cleartype, font, programng, reading

Download the video you are watching .

2006-05-03T06:08:00.000+03:00

Special plugin for Firefox Browser makes possible to save video from the online services to the hard disk for the local watching.

Services supported:
Youtube, Google Video, iFilm, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Myspace, Angry Alien, AnimeEpisodes.Net, Badjojo, Blastro, Blennus, Blip.tv, Bofunk, Bolt, Break.com, Castpost, CollegeHumor, Current TV, Dachix, Danerd, DailySixer.com, DevilDucky, Double Agent, eVideoShare, EVTV1, FindVideos, Free Video Blog, Grinvi, Grouper, Hiphopdeal, Kontraband, Lulu TV, Midis.biz, Music.com, MusicVideoCodes.info, MySpace Video Code, Newgrounds, NothingToxic, PcPlanets, Pixparty, PlsThx, Putfile, Revver, Sharkle, SmitHappens, StreetFire, That Video Site, TotallyCrap, VideoCodes4U, VideoCodesWorld, VideoCodeZone, vidiLife, Vimeo, vSocial, Yikers, ZippyVideos... and any other webpage with embedded objects.

Get VideoDownloader

Technorati : addin, firefox, freeware, plugin, service, tool, video

Software modeling platform - StarUML

2006-05-03T05:39:00.000+03:00

StarUML is a software modeling platform that supports UML (Unified Modeling Language). It is based on UML version 1.4 and provides eleven different types of diagram, and it accepts UML 2.0 notation. It actively supports the MDA (Model Driven Architecture) approach by supporting the UML profile concept. StarUML excels in customizability to the user's environment and has a high extensibility in its functionality. Using StarUML, one of the top leading software modeling tools, will guarantee to maximize the productivity and quality of your software projects.

UML Tool that Adapts to the User

StarUML provides maximum customization to the user's environment by offering customizing variables that can be applied in the user's software development methodology, project platform, and language.

True MDA Support

Software architecture is a critical process that can reach 10 years or more into the future. The intention of the OMG (Object Management Group) is to use MDA (Model Driven Architecture) technology to create platform independent models and allow automatic acquisition of platform dependent models or codes from platform independent models. StarUML truly complies with UML 1.4 standards, UML 2.0 notation and provides the UML Profile concept, allowing creation of platform independent models. Users can easily obtain their end products through simple template document.

Excellent Extensibility and Flexibility

StarUML provides excellent extensibility and flexibility. It provides Add-In frameworks for extending the functionality of the tool. It is designed to allow access to all functions of the model/meta-model and tool through COM Automation, and it provides extension of menu and option items. Also, users can create their own approaches and frameworks according to their methodologies. The tool can also be integrated with any external tools.

Download Now! (StarUML 5.0 Official Stable)

Technorati : freeware, mda, modeling, opensource, tool, uml

GmailSync - command line backup utility

2006-05-02T11:39:00.000+03:00

GmailSync is a command line backup utility synchronize files on your PC to your gmail.GmailSync keeps track of the backed up files therefore it only does the differential backup.

Download GmailSync

Technorati : backup, cli, freeware, gmail, synchronization, tool

Data paging in the database (an Gentle.NET approach)

2006-05-01T14:00:00.000+03:00

This post will show you how to do really simple data paging in Gentle.Net ORM Framework
Lets say you have 1000 rows of data and you only want to view 100 rows at a time ,
you will need to page trough the data a 10 times, each time you page you view a set of records.

User Table
The table in my example is presented in script below.This table will contain the data which will be paged.

CREATE TABLE [Users] (
[UserId] [numeric](18, 0) IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,
[UserName] [varchar] (25) ,
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO

User class
The User class is taken from Gentle.Net manual

[TableName("Users")]

public class User

{

private int userId;

private string userName;

public User(int userId, string userName)

{

this.userId = userId;

this.userName = userName;

}

[TableColumn("UserId"), PrimaryKey]

public int Id

{

get

{

return userId;

}

set

{

userId = value;

}

[TableColumn(NotNull=true)]

public string Name

{

get

{

return userName;

}

Our final function will looks like this:

/// <summary>

/// Reads the user entries from underline datastore.

/// </summary>

/// <param name="pageRecords">Amount of records in the page</param>

/// <param name="page">Current page namber</param>

/// <param name="totalRecords">Total records.</param>

/// <returns></returns>

public static IList ReadUser( int pageRecords, int page, ref int totalRecords)

{

// create count query

SqlBuilder sb = new SqlBuilder(

StatementType.Count,

typeof (User));

// get total row count

SqlStatement stmt = sb.GetStatement(true);

totalRecords = stmt.Execute().Count;

// create select query

sb = new SqlBuilder(

StatementType.Select,

typeof (User));

// add sorting by UserName if nessesary

//sb.AddOrderByField(true, "UserName");

sb.SetRowLimit(pageRecords);

stmt = sb.GetStatement(true);

SqlResult sqlResult = stmt.Execute();

IList list =

ObjectFactory.GetCollection(typeof (User), sqlResult.Page(page));

return list;

}

Technorati : c#, csharp, database, gentle.net, opensource, source

Opening URL from within the C# program

2006-04-30T10:41:00.000+03:00

Use this function to retrieve path of default browser

/// <summary>
/// Reads path of default browser from registry
/// </summary>
/// <returns></returns>
private static string GetDefaultBrowserPath()
{
string key = @"htmlfile\shell\open\command";
RegistryKey registryKey =
Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey(key, false);
// get default browser path
return ((string) registryKey.GetValue(null, null)).Split('"')[1];
}

Opens URL in default browser from within the C# program.

string defaultBrowserPath = GetDefaultBrowserPath();

try
{
// launch default browser
Process.Start(defaultBrowserPath, "http://www.yahoo.com");
}
catch (Exception exp)
{
MessageBox.Show(exp.Message);
}

Opens URL in separate instance of default browser from within the C# program.

// open URL in separate instance of default browser
Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.FileName = GetDefaultBrowserPath();
p.StartInfo.Arguments = "http://www.yahoo.com";
p.Start();

Technorati : IE, URL, browser, c#, code, dotnet, snippet

Zoundry Blog Writer

2006-04-27T14:02:00.000+03:00

The Zoundry Blog Writer is a blog editor that makes editing and manging your posts across your blogs simpler and faster.It's as easy to use as a word processor, also it contains smart tools to add links, tags, photos, music and video files, and many more.I've summarized some of the coolest features of Zoundry Blog Writer.

Features

Drag and drop support for pictures, image tags, links, and text from your computer and the Web
Automatically integrate product search
Integrated Tagging for IceRocket, Technorati, Flikr etc.
Create links to Google, Technorati, etc.
Template based preview
Spellcheck
Support for BlogThis via browser toolbar plug-in
Open and edit existing html file on your computer
Save post as a file to your computer
Automatic thumbnailing of pictures
Picture style settings - change border, dimensions, margins, alignment easily.
Automatically create podcast enclosures when you drag and drop MP3 files
Media repository that uploads pictures and podcast files
Upload pictures using FTP

Download Zoundry Blog Writer

Convert .Net Type to SqlDbType or DbType and vise versa

2006-04-25T18:13:00.000+03:00

This class can be useful when you make conversion between types .The class supports conversion between .Net Type , SqlDbType and DbType .

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Data;

namespace Devintelligence.Common.Data
{
/// <summary>
/// Convert a base data type to another base data type
/// </summary>
public sealed class TypeConvertor
{

private struct DbTypeMapEntry
{
public Type Type;
public DbType DbType;
public SqlDbType SqlDbType;
public DbTypeMapEntry( Type type, DbType dbType, SqlDbType sqlDbType )
{
this.Type = type;
this.DbType = dbType;
this.SqlDbType = sqlDbType;
}

};

private static ArrayList _DbTypeList = new ArrayList();



#region Constructors

static TypeConvertor()
{
DbTypeMapEntry dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(bool), DbType.Boolean , SqlDbType.Bit);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );

dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(byte), DbType.Double , SqlDbType.TinyInt);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );

dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(byte[]), DbType.Binary , SqlDbType.Image);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );

dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(DateTime), DbType.DateTime , SqlDbType.DateTime);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );

dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(Decimal), DbType.Decimal , SqlDbType.Decimal);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );

dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(double), DbType.Double , SqlDbType.Float);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );

dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(Guid), DbType.Guid , SqlDbType.UniqueIdentifier);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );

dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(Int16), DbType.Int16 , SqlDbType.SmallInt);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );

dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(Int32), DbType.Int32 , SqlDbType.Int);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );

dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(Int64), DbType.Int64 , SqlDbType.BigInt);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );

dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(object), DbType.Object , SqlDbType.Variant);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );

dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(string), DbType.String , SqlDbType.VarChar);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );


}


private TypeConvertor()
{


}

#endregion



#region Methods

/// <summary>
/// Convert db type to .Net data type
/// </summary>
/// <param name="dbType"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static Type ToNetType(DbType dbType)
{
DbTypeMapEntry entry = Find( dbType );
return entry.Type;
}


/// <summary>
/// Convert TSQL type to .Net data type
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sqlDbType"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static Type ToNetType(SqlDbType sqlDbType)
{
DbTypeMapEntry entry = Find( sqlDbType );
return entry.Type;
}

/// <summary>
/// Convert .Net type to Db type
/// </summary>
/// <param name="type"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static DbType ToDbType( Type type )
{
DbTypeMapEntry entry = Find( type );
return entry.DbType;
}

/// <summary>
/// Convert TSQL data type to DbType
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sqlDbType"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static DbType ToDbType( SqlDbType sqlDbType )
{
DbTypeMapEntry entry = Find( sqlDbType );
return entry.DbType;
}


/// <summary>
/// Convert .Net type to TSQL data type
/// </summary>
/// <param name="type"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static SqlDbType ToSqlDbType( Type type )
{
DbTypeMapEntry entry = Find( type );
return entry.SqlDbType;
}


/// <summary>
/// Convert DbType type to TSQL data type
/// </summary>
/// <param name="dbType"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static SqlDbType ToSqlDbType( DbType dbType )
{
DbTypeMapEntry entry = Find( dbType );
return entry.SqlDbType;
}


private static DbTypeMapEntry Find( Type type )
{
object retObj = null;
for( int i=0; i<_DbTypeList.Count; i++ )
{
DbTypeMapEntry entry = (DbTypeMapEntry)_DbTypeList[i];
if( entry.Type == type )
{
retObj = entry;
break;
}
}
if(retObj==null)
{
throw
new ApplicationException("Referenced an unsupported Type");
}

return (DbTypeMapEntry)retObj;
}

private static DbTypeMapEntry Find( DbType dbType )
{
object retObj = null;
for( int i=0; i<_DbTypeList.Count; i++ )
{
DbTypeMapEntry entry = (DbTypeMapEntry)_DbTypeList[i];
if( entry.DbType == dbType )
{
retObj = entry;
break;
}
}
if(retObj==null)
{
throw
new ApplicationException("Referenced an unsupported DbType");
}

return (DbTypeMapEntry)retObj;
}
private static DbTypeMapEntry Find( SqlDbType sqlDbType )
{
object retObj = null;
for( int i=0; i<_DbTypeList.Count; i++ )
{
DbTypeMapEntry entry = (DbTypeMapEntry)_DbTypeList[i];
if( entry.SqlDbType == sqlDbType )
{
retObj = entry;
break;
}
}
if(retObj==null)
{
throw
new ApplicationException("Referenced an unsupported SqlDbType");
}

return (DbTypeMapEntry)retObj;
}

#endregion
}
}

Technorati : code, database, dataset, net, snippet

Google Sitemap Generator

2006-04-23T12:15:00.000+03:00

Introduction

A simple and easy to use Sitemap Generator tool to help you make Google sitemaps.

Current feature list

The following features are currently included in Sitemap Generator:

Crawl website based on known URL
Edit the list of collected URLs Edit priority and frequency data per URL
Only working URLs are automatically included in the listing
Automatically create sitemap files
Automatically gzip sitemap files
Automatically upload sitemap files by FTP

Screen shots

Download Google Sitemap Generator

Technorati : google, sitemap, soft, tool, util

Log4Net Viewer 0.7

2006-04-23T12:12:00.000+03:00

Introduction

Log4Net Viewer is a GUI log viewer and filter for the Log4Net library. By default it listens for LoggingEvent objects sent using the UdpAppender and displays them in a table.

The events can be filtered based on:

Level
Logger
Message

All the details for each event can be displayed by selecting the event in the table.

Screen shot

Download Log4Net Viewer 0.7

The universal freeware editor - PSPad

2006-04-23T10:54:00.000+03:00

PSPad editor

The universal freeware editor is for you if you need to:

work with plain text - the editor has a wealth of formatting functions, including a spell checker
create web pages - as web authoring editor, PSPad contains many unique tools to save your time
use a good IDE for your compiler - editor PSPad catch and parse compiler output, integrate external help files, compare versions, and much more...

PSPad Features:

work with projects
work on several documents at the same time (MDI)
Save desktop session to later reopen all open files
FTP client - you can edit files directly from the web
macro recorder to record, save and load macros
search and replace in files
text difference with color-coded differences highlighted
templates (HTML tags, scripts, code templates...)
installation contains templates for HTML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, VBScript, MySQL, MS-Dos, Perl,...
syntax highlighting auto set by file type
user-defined highlighters for exotic environments
auto correction
intelligent internal HTML preview using IE and Mozilla
full HEX editor
call external programs, different for each environment
external compiler with catch command output, log window, log parser for each environment for "IDE" effect
color syntax highlight printing and print preview
integrated TiDy library for formatting and checking HTML code, conversion to CSS, XML, XHTML
integrated free version of top CSS editor TopStyle Lite
export with highlight to RTF, HTML, TeX format into file or clipboard
column block select, bookmarks, line numbers, ...
reformat and compress HTML code, tags char case change
line sorting with ability to sort on defined column, with option to drop duplicates
ASCII chart with HTML entities
Code explorer for Pascal, INI, HTML, XML, PHP, and more in future
spell checker
internal web browser with APACHE support
matching bracket highlighting
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