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May 2005 - Posts

• More Visualizers for Visual Studio 2005

  I wrote about visualizers before , now check out: Nonnenberg's visualizers Read More... Posted Saturday, May 28, 2005 10:29 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• The web to the rescue of Office Developpers

  A new Wiki that wants to help you and to help you to help others developing Office Applications: OfficeWiki Read More... Posted Saturday, May 28, 2005 10:27 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Collection of articles about Microsoft model(l)ing

  Microsoft's Modeling Strategy Read More... Posted Saturday, May 28, 2005 10:17 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Coding

• Interview on (teaching) Design Patterns with Erich Gamma (Part I)

  From TestDriven.com : How to Use Design Patterns Read More... Posted Saturday, May 28, 2005 9:51 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Training, Coding

• Playing with Avalon

  I haven't tried it yet but Sandbox3D v.0.0.0.1 sounds/looks really nice. As with ASP.NET web development I guess we are in desperate need of editors (And I don't mean VI or Notepad). Side note: When a line of text appears red in a web page that has been Read More... Posted Friday, May 27, 2005 9:01 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Talk to me!

  I can't wait to get my hands on the New managed Speech API ! More than a decade ago I programmed the Sound Blaster 2 using C and MS-DOS and still like to get my machine to talk to me using the MS Agents . The roundtrip is easier I always talk to my PC… Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 24, 2005 8:58 AM by Erno de Weerd | 4 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Excel 2003 and XML

  In the article Using the Excel XML Toolbox for Microsoft Office Excel 2003 on the MSDN is a lot of information that will help you to use schema's and XML in Excel. When creating Smart Clients using VSTO this is very valuable information. Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 24, 2005 8:42 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Get while it's hot: the Device Emulator

  Device Emulator Preview is available on Microsoft Betaplace As far as I can see they have changed the way the emulator works: you're really using ActiveSync now! Read More... Posted Friday, May 20, 2005 10:20 PM by Erno de Weerd | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Rubberducking/Earwokking

  Rory Blyth invented Earwok king. I know this as Rubber ducking from one of my favorite books " The Pragmatic Programmer " Read More... Posted Monday, May 16, 2005 10:37 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Coding

• Mobile DirectX examples and tutorials

  As I wrote about before: DirectX will be available for mobile devices . You can find quite a few examples and tutorials right here . I guess Microsoft should release a beta emulator so I won't need to flash my PDA with beta stuff… Edit: There is Read More... Posted Monday, May 16, 2005 10:30 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Game coding

• Hilarious!

  Rory Blyth does it again by putting his job in jeopardy Read More... Posted Thursday, May 12, 2005 8:29 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Off topic

• Growing up, getting mobile

  Windows Mobile 5.0 has been announced and what a great set of features it will have. One feature that I really like is DirectX support but when I checked out all other new APIs I could help but thinking: "It's about time." So now I can port my 3D engine Read More... Posted Thursday, May 12, 2005 8:18 AM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Game coding

• Being a trainer

  Being a trainer can be quite a challenge. There is a message you want to send. There is a message the audience is expecting. There is always some environmental noise. Rory Blyth wrote two posts that discuss this challenge: 1. I *think* I'm right, but Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 4:38 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Training

• Creating a database independent connection in your application

  When writing database code many times the code is database specific. The code in this sample is not. First you must add to the config file (web.config or MyApplication.exe.config) an appSettings section like this: < appSettings > < add key ="dbAssemblyName" Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 9:33 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Smart Applications: feels like web parts to me…

  Composite UI Application Block Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 9:09 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• More on Garbage Collection, Managed Resources and Dispose

  Atomicity and asynchronous exception failures Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 8:49 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• DataSets and Web Services

  Motivated by the the number of hits on this post (this post is really getting hit by Google ) I promoted this post to be an article . This post is therefore no longer up to date so please read and link to the article . Many examples of web services in Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 8:43 AM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Using Garbage Collection, Dispose and Managed Resources

  Cyrus wrote a very interesting post on the deal with the C# “using” construct . In addition I recommend reading the two parts of an MSDN publication on the garbage collector ( part 1 , part 2 ) Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 10, 2005 11:02 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• ASP 2.0 - Look at that Cache!

  For Visual Studio 2005 you can create so called visualizers . These are custom views that display data during debugging. VS2005 uses this mechanism to display exceptions and datasets in a friendlier way than using the watch window. Brett Johnson created Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 10, 2005 9:08 AM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Programming Office Applications and optional parameters

  Great tip on using System.Type.Missing in C#: 'missing' in action with C# Read More... Posted Monday, May 09, 2005 7:55 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Game main-loop (the never ending story)

  From Ideal Winforms gameloop: Corrections and Additions I have derived my implementation of the game mainloop. The reason I prefer this one is simple: I want 'pure' .NET; no PInvoke if not necessary. public class TesterForm : System.Windows.Forms.Form Read More... Posted Monday, May 09, 2005 8:46 AM by Erno de Weerd | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET, Game coding

• How to compare two strings

  After reading this post on comparing strings APIs I can't help but being amazed that my kids understand me when I tell them to do something… Read More... Posted Sunday, May 08, 2005 10:12 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Coding

• SQL Server 2005, custom extended procedure memory

  Very informative post on Being careful with xproc memory allocation when writing extended procedures for SQL Server Read More... Posted Sunday, May 08, 2005 8:22 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Coding

• Internals of Timers in .NET

  A very nice post on Thread safety of Timer callbacks . It explains the internals of the CLR very well and helps you to understand the timers in .NET better. Read More... Posted Sunday, May 08, 2005 2:52 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Coding for SQL Server 2005 using .NET blog

  A very interesting new blog from Microsoft: SQL Server 2005: CLR Integration Read More... Posted Friday, May 06, 2005 8:43 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Main loop

  I finally decided to add a new category to this blog. As I mentioned before I like to program (3D) games for a hobby. Lately I have been porting my C++/OpenGL 3D engine to C#/Managed DirectX. I am also quite active in the game development community. One Read More... Posted Friday, May 06, 2005 8:40 AM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Game coding

• Test-driven Development with Visual Studio 2005

  From the MSDN: A Unit Testing Walkthrough with Visual Studio Team Test Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 7:15 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• ASP .NET 2.0 Internals

  From the MSDN an in-depth article on the ASP.NET 2.0 Internals Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 6:49 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Test-driven Development and Source Control

  A very interesting topic on When To Checkin When Doing TDD A few weeks ago I did a talk about Test-driven Development and Visual Studio 2005 for the Microsoft DevDays in The Netherlands and I'm still thinking about writing an article about it for this Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 9:15 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Coding

• Excellent overview of interesting SQL 2005 materials

  SQL 2005 Webcasts and Virtual Labs Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 9:07 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments

• Totally of topic but so much fun!

  Guess-the-Google Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 9:02 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Off topic

• Avalon / XAML

  If you are interested in Avalon and XAML you should take a look at XAML Playing Cards which is an initiative to redesign the playing cards of Hearts (you know, that game next to Solitaire). Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:56 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• MSF Agile Beta available

  Microsoft just released MSF Agile Beta . This is the process that will accompany Visual studio 2005 Team System. Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:46 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• I wish…

  One of my favorite things to do (when I'm not at work) is programming 3D games using C++/OpenGL and C#/DirectX. Unfortunately I haven't been able to convince my employer to start giving courses in game development. Anyway, I'd love to go to the Meltdown Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:39 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Coding, Game coding

• Why did I ever learn C# and VB.NET?

  In stead of learning C# and VB.NET I could have stayed with i386! If only this ASM to IL compiler had been available… Absolutely amazing. :-) Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 03, 2005 6:48 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Designing Sharepoint Styles

  A very nice, online, SharePoint Style Designer Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 03, 2005 4:07 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• How to configure trusted publishers.

  From the MSDN: Smart Client Developer Center: Configuring ClickOnce Trusted Publishers Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:33 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Artistic talents paint using .NET

  Paint is one of those 'old' familiar applications that hardly change from Windows version to version. Many times I start it just to do some quick pixel fiddling and when I need something extra I go for Paint Shop Pro . Recently I've become very fond of Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:26 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Off topic