Because this post looks the most popular in this blog, I’ve decidede to update it. After try a lot of ISO tools out there, finally I decided to use WinCDEmu == Original Article == Once my box is ready, I need to WinSDK. The download format from MSDN is...

The first talk of today was CodeComplete 2 by Steve McConnell. His popular book Code Complete has beed reedited, and he is talking about it, here are my notes about it. First Version Written in 1993 95% is still OK Book companion WebSite http://cc2e.com...

When you have an Enum variable, and you want to build a UI to let the user choose one of this values, it's very convenient to show the user the current allowed values of the Enum. You can avoid duplicate data, doing this... (note it uses reflection, so...

Updated !! now this tool has it's own homepage at codeplex www.codeplex.com/trx2html ----------------------------------------------------------------- As I said in my previous post , I'm working on a tool to convert trx files (TestRun Results...

Today I've disoverd Notepad2, a notepad replacement with syntax highlighting for most popular languages, http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html . I build it in my own box, and now I'm ready to try to replace the original notepad.exe, I'm following...

I need to add tracing capabilities to my current app, just the ability to set an error level (INFO, WARNING, ERROR) to track the execution of one request in a simple text file, so I started to look for some implementations, I've found two main frameworks...

http://www.csscreator.com It's a Web site with a great collection of tips, links, and everything you need to develop standard Cascading Style Sheets

It's too late to ingestigate this http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/anoras/archive/2004/08/13/21962.aspx however I will keep it in my TODO list.

I've been trying to set up a continuous integration environment using NAnt, and CC.Net, but I did'nt know the best option to synchonize the AssemblyVersion.cs, the CC Label, and the versions tasks of NAnt. This article http://bitarray.co.uk/marc/archive...

The Asynchronous Javascript and Xml Pattern for dynamic web apps has a new implementation fot .Net 2.0 http://ajax.schwarz-interactive.de/csharpsample/default.aspx

One year ago I wrote about the tracing mechanism of .Net, http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2004/05/07/LogsAndTraces.aspx . Today I have wrote a Custom Trace Listener that allows you to rotate files based on date time, and takes care of the current...

I've been playing around with CSS tonite, it's an icredible technology..

Jeremy D. Miller talks in his blog about how to learn and apply Design Patterns. http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller/archive/2005/09/01/131509.aspx I completely agree with his ideas, however I've been in frustrating situations when you come to an...

When you setup TFS for the first time, usually you use the TFSSetup account. And with this account you are going to login for the first time. However, once your environment is complete, you will want to login as a different user, but the credentials you...

Every program has a "flow" or any kind of "main routine" where you can inspect the different steps involved in your application, now with graphical tools such BizTalk Server 2004 you could "draw" all your "main routines", but obviously this is not a great...

NUnit is the most popular unit tests framework for .Net. The new VSTS has a chance to replace NUnit in corporate environments, however there are some minor issues you must know before take a decission… ...

Last week I found the best VS+NUnit add in I know until now: http://www.mailframe.net/Products/TestRunner.htm It works great, however I got some errors related to the credentials of the process running your test fixtures (I was trying to find a certificate...

Es común entre los programadores desarrollar pequeñas herramientas que nos ayuden en las tareas más rutinarias. Es sorprendente ver la cantidad de herramientas parecidas, sólo hay que darse una vuelta por GotDotNet y encontraremos...

Today I was playing with the new DataBind capabilities of ASP.Net 2.0, and found this error.. here are some links to possible solutions Link to Some workaround for ObjectDataSource: could not find a non-generic method '...'

Yesterday I saw Dbox talking about service orientation, he was comparing different transport mechanisms as: HTTP / HTTPS (ASMX approach) DCOM (Com +) MSMQ (NT Service) Note Remoting is not in the list, this is because Don didn't like...

The biztalk pipeline framework define some interfaces that allows you to unit test the component without the biztalk infrastructure: Suppose you have a General Pipeline Component, that implements the method: IBaseMessage ExecutePipelineComponent...

In the last year, I've seen a number of new web applications with nice rich UI interface, and most of them are standards based, so multibrowser-mulitplatform (thanks to firefox). I'm talking about things like the SelectContactControl of GMail. Today I...

It's the opening keynote of OOPSLA. The Future of Programming from Richard Rashid of MS Research. I didn't like too much since he spend half of his time talking about the past not the future, and how things are very difficult to predict. He talked about...

I was spending some time composing Soap Messages using System.Xml, but I found a strange behavior of System.Xml while adding nodes to an existing XmlDocument. I have an empty soap envelope like this: string soapEnvelope = "<s:env xmlns:s='soap'><s...

Latest versions of Cruise Control .Net includes a template to render Simian Reports. Last week I've been asked abut it. From the website: "Simian (Similarity Analyser) identifies duplication in Java, C#, C, C++, COBOL, Ruby, JSP, ASP, HTML, XML...