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April 2005 - Posts

• 'New' site at Microsoft's

  In addition to the newsgroups Microsoft has started a wide collection of Technical Forums . Enjoy! Read More... Posted Friday, April 29, 2005 8:21 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Create your own snippets!

  In Visual Studio 2005 there is a great new feature called Code Snippets. This feature allows you to quickly insert common code constructs like a for-loop, try-catch, private field-public property. These snippets are stored (and programmed) in XML. Using Read More... Posted Friday, April 29, 2005 8:11 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Service Pack 3 for the .NET Compact Framework available

  Microsoft just released service pack 3 for the .NET Compact Framework: .NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP3 Developer Redistributable .NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP3 End-User Redistributable Read More... Posted Friday, April 29, 2005 6:20 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Download the Simple .Text Blog Editor Extensions

  Ok, here they are for all you avid .Text bloggers: The Simple Text Blog Editor Extensions for Internet Explorer and RssBandit . Install only at this time (read the readme.txt first!) I might reveal the source in a little while; I want to check them first Read More... Posted Friday, April 29, 2005 11:05 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Off topic

• Refactoring and VB .NET 2.0

  Although MS decided NOT to provide refactoring for Visual Basic .NET programmers in Visual Studio 2005 they did something to make up for it. Using this Refactor plugin for Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 you can do the Refactoring shuffle the VB way Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:22 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Extensions for the Simple .Text Blog Editor

  Using a very unknown feature of Internet Explorer I have created a set of three tools that allow users of the Simple .Text Blog Editor (STBE) to quickly launch the STBE with a new post containing a hyperlink to the page, post or hyperlink that was clicked Read More... Posted Monday, April 25, 2005 9:10 PM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Off topic

• Customizing VSTS with your own process

  Visual Studio Team System comes with MSF Agile. If you want to add your own process get The Extensibilty Kit beta 2. Read More... Posted Sunday, April 24, 2005 8:53 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Regular expressions and Unicode

  Something I never considered until now: Regular expressions, Unicode style.... And just incase you are wondering what regular expressions are all about go to: regularexpressions.info Read More... Posted Saturday, April 23, 2005 1:09 PM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Samples to go with the Office PIA's

  In addition to the previously mentioned PIA's for Office there's now a set of samples available: Introduction to the Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies Sample Launcher Read More... Posted Saturday, April 23, 2005 10:31 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• PowerToys for Visual Studio

  PowerToys for Visual Studio weblog is an excellent download source for a lot of tools that you might start to build on a rainy Sunday afternoon but never quite finish. Read More... Posted Friday, April 22, 2005 11:16 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Smart Clients using Microsoft Office 2003

  Visual Studio 2005 has a lot of features that support implementing Smart Applications using the Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) However, building applications that use the capabilities of Office 2003 using Visual Studio 2003 isn't as easy as it Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:58 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Internals of the CLR

  A very interesting article on the .NET CLR JIT and Run: Drill Into .NET Framework Internals to See How the CLR Creates Runtime Objects Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 19, 2005 12:41 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Plugin for RSSBandit

  I created a plugin for my favorite BlogReader: RSSBandit . With this plugin you can right-click a post and launch the Simple .Text Blog Editor it will create a new post containing a link to the post you just clicked. If you're interested in this plugin Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 19, 2005 12:36 AM by Erno de Weerd | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET, Off topic

• New sites at Microsoft's

  Two sites started last week on the MSDN: 1. In support of Visual Basic 6: VBRUN 2. In support of hobby programmers: Coding4Fun Read More... Posted Sunday, April 17, 2005 10:36 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Service bus / Message bus

  Interesting article about architecture and busses. Read More... Posted Sunday, April 17, 2005 10:28 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Dispose, garbage collection etc.

  A must read about Dispose, resource management, finalization etc. Read More... Posted Sunday, April 17, 2005 10:21 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• New article

  Added an article about Generics in .NET 2.0 and Java 1.5 Read More... Posted Sunday, April 17, 2005 11:10 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Introduction

  When someone has been expressing himself for many years in an environment that is heavily influenced by computers and technology it is inevitable that the high-tech language becomes a second nature. At first this technology itself stood at the centre Read More... Posted Thursday, April 14, 2005 12:02 AM by Erno de Weerd | (Comments Off) Filed under: Off topic