Yesterday I released Snippet Designer 1.2 Beta. Codeplex Page: http://snippetdesigner.codeplex.com/ Visual Studio Gallery Page: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/B08B0375-139E-41D7-AF9B-FAEE50F68392 This release contains several...

This lexer allows you to define your regular expression based rules in a very declarative way using F# computation expressions. open Lexer let definitions = lexerDefinitions { do ! addNextlineDefinition " NEWLINE " @" (\n\r)|\n|...

This lexer allows you to define your regular expression based rules in a very declarative way using F# computation expressions. open Lexer let definitions = lexerDefinitions { do! addNextlineDefinition "NEWLINE" @"(\n\r)|\n|\r" do!... Continue...

ls * -recurse -include *.aspx, *.ascx, *.cs, *.ps1 | Get-Content | Measure-Object -Line Just replace the file extensions with the ones you use in your project.

I have been working with ASP .NET MVC and I use the Moq mocking library to help test the code I write. Often in ASP MVC anonymous objects are passed around as function arguments. This is especially common in calls to RouteUrl. Since I want to be able...

Have you ever had the desire to convert some RTF text into HTML? Probably not. But if you do, then you are in luck! I recently had the need to do this conversion and after some searching found out a way to do it by enhancing a sample distributed in the...

I don’t know why I didn’t do this long ago, but I am done writing this: var val = (SomeEnum)Enum.Parse( typeof (SomeEnum),”someString”); I have typed this too many times and it annoys me.  I wrote a small extension method on the...

When reading source code, I sometimes come across unappealing code(sometimes even my own).  However, there is one kind of “bad code” I see quite frequently.  It is a set of unit tests which have had the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle...

It is an age old question: How do you teach your girlfriend hex? I encountered this problem when I was a web developer in college for a late night student activities program aptly named  Late Nite Binghamton.  My co-worker and girlfriend Mallory was a...

I am excited to announce that the Snippet Designer is featured in the April issue of MSDN Magazine.                    It is featured in the Toolbox column where they highlight useful tools and blogs....

Often when learning a new technology I start with a simple console application in which the program is run in a loop it continues to prompt you for more input until you give some command like quit or exit or whatever you choose: Enter input: someInput...

I just wrote this simple plugin for JQuery which lets you synchronize the scroll bars of any collection of elements.  This lets you move the scrollbar of one div it have the scrollbars’ of the rest of the divs move the same exact amount. Here is...

I randomly yesterday started thinking about the unfoldr function in Haskell while working out at the gym (how nerdy is that, I am lifting iron but thinking of functional programming). Unfoldr take a single and an unfolding function and turns it into a...

The xUnit .Net codeplex page lists one useful Visual Studio code snippet for creating a Fact. As you can tell I am fairly fond of code snippets so I created a few more which I use when writing xUnit.net facts. These are one line snippets that I find very...

My co-workers and I recently came across a piece of code which exposed some assumptions we had about the “correct” behavior of two functions; these assumptions turned out to be false.  The code dealt with determining if the IP of a  request...

I just released Snippet Designer 1.1.  This is not a major release but just some bug fixes and often requested changes to make the snippet designer more useful.   Some of the most notable changes are: Languages Service are turned OFF by default...

I was using attributes from the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations    namespace for model validation.  This namespace includes a few very useful validation attributes such as Required Attribute – Validates the field has a value Range...

When working with a multi-tier application I often find myself converting from one of the tiers object models to my own similar (but often different) model.  I often write code that would set one by one each property from a web tier object to my...

I made 2 slight changes and I think it works pretty well now. I now detect if the browser is Firefox and use the regular resize event since its resize behaves like a resizeComplete. I also modified the timeout a bit since I think 100 ms might be too small...

I have run into issues recently with the browsers' implementation of the resize event on the window. Opera, Safari, IE and Firefox all have different behaviors when this event is fired. Firefox only fires it when you release the mouse. IE fires this event...

I have have been playing around with F# and I decided to create a state monad. This worked out really well since I was able to leverage the F# computation expressions . I then decided to try to extend this and make it more general by creating a parameterized...

When writing a generic function I start from left to right (the same way I write most things except when I took Yiddish in college).  For example, Lets say I am writing a simple generic method which return the first element of a generic list. I want...

A few days ago I made a post about using SQL CE 3.5 with LINQ to SQL . I described a way to use connection pooling with SQL CE. A gracious blog reader (Mike Brown) pointed out a way I could make my solution much simpler by using the [ ThreadStatic ] attribute...

Some History The Snippet Designer was started as an intern project of mine during the Summer of 2006. The idea was to make snippet files (which were introduced to Visual Studio in 2005) a first class entity. Following this idea I created a Visual Studio...

Using LINQ to SQL with SQL CE 3.5 can be a bit of a challenge. First off, the LINQ to SQL Visual Studio designer doesn't support SQL CE so you need to run sqlmetal from the command line to create the object model (or write it by hand). Once you get past...