Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/09
As a follow-up on my earlier number validation posts (Elf proef in C# and Other number verifications), I found a nice T-SQL version of the Elfproef for Dutch bank account numbers.
It works at least from SQL Server 2000 and up, most likely also in the (unsupported) SQL Server 7.
–jeroen
via: Elfproef als T-SQL UDF.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/06
While fooling around with Microsoft Surface, you are astonished with the number of fingers it supports: 10 is no problem on the Samsung SUR40 which can also do full HD resolution (more specs here).
Not so with the standard Windows 7 touch support: that has only 2.
As I want to increase that to better mimic the development environment to the actual environment a few notes:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/03
When moving a truckload of stuff from Visual Source Crash, I came a long many .webinfo files.
I wasn’t sure they should be in TFS, and indeed they should not:
.webinfo should be excluded. (Some info about webinfo: How to copy and configure ASP.NET projects between different local computers)
–jeroen
via: asp.net – Should the WebInfo file be excluded from SVN – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/02
Portable Library Tools extension is a great tool for creating assemblies that run on a variety of .NET platforms without recompilation.
I hope a Visual Studio 11 version of it comes soon.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/28
| How | Upper | Lower | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keyboard | CTRL + SHIFT + U | CTRL + U | |
| Menu | Edit -> Advanced -> Make Uppercase | Edit -> Advanced -> Make Lowercase | |
| Command | Edit.MakeUppercase | Edit.MakeLowercase | |
| Versions | 2008, 2010, 11 | ||
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/27
EAN (GLN,GTIN, EAN numbers administered by GS1)
Related:
/** * This is a data provider for the above Unit-test. */ public function provider() { return array( array('', null), // Empty array('0', null), // Empty array(' ', null), // Empty array('NOT-NUMERIC', null), array('77676656', null), // Invalid EAN8 - we do not validated EAN8 at this time. array('123456789999', '0123456789999'), // Upc valid, translated to EAN array('5031366016409', '5031366016409'), array('99802618537', '0099802618537'), array('99802469443', '0099802469443'), array('58231298109', '0058231298109'), // Too short but valid ean, needs zeros padding. ); }
via Ean13.php – yinyang – YinYang Zend Framework Supplement Library – Google Project Hosting.
Edit 20210402: this library has since moved without commit history from Google Code to GitHub with new source code file at [Wayback/Archive.is] yinyang/Ean13.php at master · henryhayes/yinyang.
YinYang is a library of classes. Generally anything that is created in addition to Zend Framework and can be reused will be included in this library. YinYang requires Zend Framework as most of the classes extend ZF.
To use, simply checkout a copy, add the library/YinYang folder to your library folder and add YinYang to your list of autoloader namespaces.
Old:
- [Wayback] Repository – Google Code Archive – Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.
- [Wayback] Commits – Google Code Archive – Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.
New:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/26
Notes:
Log, Ln, Lg, Log10, LogE, Ld
Common logarithm – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Exponential_and_logarithmic_functions ISO 31-11 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Binary logarithm – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
What is logarithm(log, lg, ln).
Why Use a Logarithmic Scale to Display Data Math Forum – Ask Dr. Math.
STRAIGHT LINE ON ARITHMETIC GRAPH PAPER (LINEAR FUNCTION)
http://www.humboldt.edu/geology/courses/geology531/531_handouts/equations_of_graphs.pdf
Font sizes
Five simple steps to better typography – Part 4 | Mark Boulton.
A List Apart: Articles: How to Size Text in CSS.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/25
The below code didn’t compile during a .NET 1.1 to 4 migration.
Downstream code:
Word.Document document = app.Documents.Add(ref FileName, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing);
Upstream code (6 layers up!):
string filename = Path.Combine(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["MSWordTemplateDirectory"], (string)status["CoverLetter"]);
And somewhere in the middle:
public bool GenerateLetter(Word.Application app, DataRow row, object FileName, object FilePathAndName)
Downstream code:
Word.Document document = app.Documents.Add(ref templateFileName, ref missing);
Upstream code (6 layers up!):
templateFileName = Path.Combine(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["MSWordTemplateDirectory"], (string)status["CoverLetter"]);
And somewhere in the middle:
public bool GenerateLetter(Word.Application app, DataRow row, object templateFileName, object documentFileName)
Coincidentally, parameters are now all lowercase.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/20
This post describes the TFS workspace cleanup features Treeclean and Scorch.
Both are not in the Visual Studio UI nor TFS tool, but are available form the ftpt command from the optional Team Foundation Power Tools package.
The main reason you need these two features is that TFS does not always clean up after it self when you perform get latest. For instance renamed directories, as well as bin and obj directories are not automatically removed.
The tfpt command I most often use this this one:
tfpt treeclean /exclude:*.suo,*.user
This deletes files from your local TFS workspace directory tree that are not in the source control system, but skips the *.suo and *.user files.
Tfpt also allows you to scorch files from your TFS.
So my second most used tfpt command is scorch in either of the two below forms:
tfpt scorch /recursive /diff
tfpt scorch /recursive /diff /exclude:*.suo,*.user
The first form is for the automatic build environment, the second for my normal development workspace.
Below is the explanation of treeclean and scorch.
First some other great commands from this StackOverflow answer by Martin Woodward:
Not quite, however you might want to download the TFS Power Tools and check out the command line utility tfpt.exe.
The “tfpt online” and “tfpt treeclean” might be most useful to you when working outside of an integrated TFS client. tfpt online will look for files in your local directory that are not under version control, treeclean will show you files in your local directory that are not under version control so that you can remove then if they are not required.
Scorch does more than Treeclean.
I use Treeclean for 90% of my normal workspace work, Scorch (with exclude) for about 10% of the time in my regular workspace.
For my CCnet build integration workspace, I only use Scorch (without exclude).
Treeclean just cleans the tree of stuff that is not in TFS:
B:\MasterWorkingDir>tfpt treeclean /? tfpt treeclean - Delete files and folders not under version control Usage: tfpt treeclean [/exclude:filespec1,filespec2,...] [filespec...] [/recursive] [/batchsize:num] [/noprompt [/preview]]
Scorch does more work: at the end, both source control and the local disk situation are identical.
B:\MasterWorkingDir>tfpt scorch /? tfpt scorch - Ensure source control and the local disk are identical Your local disk will be scanned for: (1) items that are not in source control (2) items which are different on disk from the workspace version (3) items which are in the workspace but are missing on disk Items not in source control will be deleted from disk, just as with the tfpt treeclean command. Items determined to be different on disk from the workspace version will be redownloaded from the server. Items missing on disk will also be redownloaded. Items with pending changes are exempted. By default, items deleted from your local disk (#3 above) will not be scanned for, and local items are determined to be identical/different from the workspace version *solely by examining the read-only bit on the file*. To redownload items deleted from your local disk (#3 above), supply the /deletes option. To detect items which are different from the workspace version but still have their read-only bit set (+R), supply the /diff option. When using either or both of these options, tfpt scorch runs more slowly. Usage: tfpt scorch [/exclude:filespec1,filespec2,...] [filespec...] [/recursive] [/batchsize:num] [/noprompt [/preview]] [/deletes] [/diff]
The commandline options are also different.
Scorch has these extra when compared to Treeclean:
/batchsize:num Set the batch size for server calls (default 500)
/deletes Detect and replace items missing from the local disk
/diff Use MD5 hashes to compare items with source control
Treeclean can have these options:
/noprompt Operate in command-line mode only
/exclude:filespec[,..] Files and directories matching a filespec in this list
are excluded from processing
/preview Do not make changes; only list the potential actions
/recursive Switch from one level of recursion to full recursion
/batchsize:num Set the batch size for server calls (default 500)
filespec... Only files and directories matching these filespecs
are processed
Scorch can have these options:
/noprompt Operate in command-line mode only
/exclude:filespec[,..] Files and directories matching a filespec in this list
are excluded from processing
/preview Do not make changes; only list the potential actions
/recursive Switch from one level of recursion to full recursion
/batchsize:num Set the batch size for server calls (default 500)
filespec... Only files and directories matching these filespecs
are processed
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/18
Having a done a lot of Async stuff in the .NET 2, 3.x and 4 era with multimedia applications (oh, the days of SynchronizationContext), this project seems very interesting:
AsyncBridge
Adds the new C#5 async features for .NET 4 projects
Download this project as a .zip file
Download this project as a tar.gz fileWhat does it do?
AsyncBridge lets you use the VS 11 C#5 compiler to write code that uses the async and await keywords, but to target .NET 4.0. It was published by Daniel Grunwald (from SharpDevelop) here.
As an extra, I’ve thrown in the new C#5 caller info attributes, which lets you automatically add the method name, line number or file path to your code.
Authors and Contributors
Daniel Grunwald (@dgrunwald) – Original code.
Omer Mor (@OmerMor) – Turned it into a full blown github repo with the complimentary nuget.
Alex Davies (@alexdavies74) – Wrote the blog post that inspired this, and is actively improving the code.
–jeroen
via: AsyncBridge.
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