April 2007 Entries
There is a very interesting discussion going on between two great Israeli blogers: Roy Osherove (a.k.a. ISerializable) and Oren Eini (better known as Ayende). It started with Roy's post, that his company is looking for a developer experienced in VSTS. Then Oren pointed out why he would avoid Visual Studio Team System. In response Roy wrote a post explaining his choice of VSTS. It didn't take long for Oren, to write a response, where he basically said, that all what Roy wrote above (and more) can be accomplished with other - free tools. As a result, Roy wrote a great post about...
From time to time there is a need to measure how much time it takes for a certain fragment of code to execute. First thought how to do this would probably be something like this: DateTime start = new DateTime();
DoSomething();
TimeSpan time = DateTime.Now.Subtract(start);
Console.WriteLine("Time taken: {0}", time.Ticks.ToString());
In .NET 2.0 however there is a class...
Ever since I started reading blogs, I was looking for good news aggregator. First I used the one built into Thunderbird, since I have already been using it as my mail client. Well, Thudnerbird is very good mail client, but they have much work in the area of feed aggregation. Then I switched to to Sage (Firefox extension) - I threw it away after 2 days. Then I used two other FF extensions with similar effect. I tried SharpReader, I tried several others but every single one had something (or was lacking something) that made me remove it. Then I...
While cleaning old temporary projects, I usually create to test some feature, I found one, that I think may me useful, so i decided to post it here.It's a program I created some time ago, when i needed to download a image, from given URL and display it, or save. Here is the simplest solution to do this. WebClient c = new WebClient();byte[] b = c.DownloadData(textBox1.Text);using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(b)){ Bitmap i = new Bitmap(ms); panel1.BackgroundImage = i;}panel1.BackgroundImageLayout = ImageLayout.Center;
Component Factory, makers of free Krypton Toolkit (very nice set of WinForm controls), created several good quickstart screencats showing how to use those controls (here). Worth checking, screencasts as well as Krypton Toolkit
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