Archive for the ‘C#’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/15
If you use Visual Studio 2005 for some old projects that have not yet been converted, and they open very slowly: read this post on If Your Visual Studio Solutions Open Slowly Check WebsiteCache by Thomas F. Abraham.
Emptying your WebsiteCache directory solves the issue: it had about 30-thousand empty directories in it.
The location depends on your Windows version:
- Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and below:
“%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\WebsiteCache”
- Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and up:
“%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache”
This bug has been fixed in Visual Studio 2008 and up.
–jeroen
via: If Your Visual Studio Solutions Open Slowly, Check WebsiteCache | Thomas F. Abraham – On Technology.
Posted in .NET, C#, C# 2.0, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/10
Greg Hewgill published a bunch Stack Overflow ebooks and StackExchange stats.
His readme explains a bit more on the books.
The blog he maintains makes up for some nice reading too.
Be sure to read the blog entry on the ebooks.
–jeroen
via Stack Overflow ebooks.
Posted in *nix, .NET, ASP.NET, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, Database Development, Delphi, Delphi for PHP, Development, HTML, HTML5, Java, Pingback, Power User, RegEx, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, SQL, SQL Server, Stackoverflow, XML/XSD | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/06
Earlier this week, Red Gate announced that the new Reflector version 7 would cost USD 35, as of March 2011, and the current free version 6.6 will expire on May 30th, 2011.
That caused a lot of stir, on their forum, twitter, reddit and a lot of other places. Even an old thread at StackOverflow got a new boost. It seems Red Gate did not read Social media judo: How to turn a fight into a brand-building moment.
Here is a summary of the past, present and future of things happening around reflector, including some workarounds and alternative products.
First a bit of history.
Lutz Roeder over the years developed .NET Reflector as a free tool. A few hightlights: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in .NET, C#, Delphi, Development, Prism, Software Development | 4 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/18
In the past I wrote a few blog posts on posting sourcecode in WordPress.
Nick Hodges‘ last Flotsam and Jetsam blog post pointed me to the SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript that is used by WordPress and many other engines/sites.
Their site contains an even more elaborate list of supported languages.
I had the basic list right in my last post, but was missing all the aliases (which often are easier than the longer proper names).
This is the new table adapted from their list: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in .NET, Batch-Files, C#, CSS, Database Development, Delphi, Delphi for PHP, Development, HTML, HTML5, Java, PowerShell, RegEx, Scripting, SQL, VBS, Web Development, WordPress, XML, XML/XSD, XSD | 5 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/11/10
If you want to do Windows Phone 7 development, then get this book: Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzod.
The eBook and source code are free:
This book is a gift from the Windows Phone 7 team at Microsoft to the programming community, and I am proud to have been a part of it. Within the pages that follow, I show you the basics of writing applications for Windows Phone 7 using the C# programming language with the Silverlight and XNA 2D frameworks.
Yes, Programming Windows Phone 7 is truly a free download, but for those readers who still love paper—as I certainly do—this book will also be available (for sale)
In addition to C# and VB.NET, you can also do this in Delphi Prism.
Cool times ahead, because now there are 4 major competitors (in no particular order):
- iPhone
- Android
- Windows Phone 7
- Symbian
I left out the competitors of the past, as they soon will be deprecated.
–jeroen
via Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold – Microsoft Press – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
Posted in .NET, C#, Delphi, Development, Prism, Software Development | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/11/03
I tried searching for an XSD or other schema that describes ASX (Advanced Stream Redirector) files, but somehow could not find them.
The ASX files can be used to generate a playlist, but they are a bit richer in content than the WPL (Windows Media Player Playlist) file format.
So here is a post with some references to ASX files, examples, documentation and an XSD you could use for ASX files, and why ASX is not valid XML, it is just well-formed. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in .NET, C#, Delphi, Development, Software Development, XML, XML/XSD, XSD | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/29
Recently, a co-worker at a client asked me “What is better: extension methods of helper classses?”.
This question is relevant not only in the .NET and Delphi worlds.
My answer was simple, consisting of these 3 points: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in .NET, C#, C# 4.0, Delphi, Development, Opinions, Software Development | 5 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/25
Be sure to watch the radstudiodemos project at sourceforge.
It contains the RAD Studio Demos from Embarcadero in this SVN repository.
Which means that the demos of the current RAD Studio version are there, and Embarcadero is filling it with the Demos from the upcoming Delphi XE version.
In fact, quite a few Delphi XE demos have been checked in already.
John Kaster will put on the C# version of DbxUtils on-line there soon.
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, C#, Delphi, Development, Software Development | 4 Comments »
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