I updated my blog site to version 1.8 of DasBlog and created a new theme called Business. I will release soon a version of the theme so that you can use it for your own blog site.
Any feedback and suggestions are welcome!
With the DSL tools of VS.NET 2005 you can create your own designer integrated into VS.NET 2005 for a visual domain specific language. Clipcode has released a DSL for the Gang of Four patterns with the source code.
Currently it provides the following patterns
If you are targeting Windows XP SP2 or Windows 2003 and your .NET application relies on COM components, then it is not needed anymore to register your COM components. This can be done by using manifest files. Registration-Free Activation of .NET-Based Components: A Walkthrough is an excellent article about this topic.
The session 'Turn Left or Right? How to Best Design Your Web Services Interface' at TechEd was very interesting and pointed issues like versioning, contracts, interfaces, etc.
Christian Weyer from ThinkTecture is currently building a tool called WSContractFirst (WSCF) that can generate code from a contract. Dealing with the "Melted Cheese Effect" is an article on MSDN about this subject and more parts will be published.
One way of setting up CC.NET and VSS is that CC.NET is responsible for getting the latest version (setting the attribute autoGetSource to true of the sourcecontrol node in the ccnet.config file) or NAnt by using the vssget task of NAntContrib for compiling the sources by NAnt. I always use the csc task instead of the solution task, therefore it is necessary to have a clean version of VSS, because VSS does not automatically delete files locally that have been deleted in the VSS database.
An alternative and better way is to set a shadow folder in VSS. A shadow folder contains a copy of the most recently checked-in version of each file in the project. This is exactly what we need for compiling the sources.
That way is CC.NET only using VSS for monitoring changes in the VSS database and/or labeling.
I am looking forward to TechEd Amsterdam 2005. No doubt that it will be a great experience and there will be a lot of interesting seminars given.
And do not forget to register to the BeLux Country Drink!
I don't use UML on a daily basis, therefore it is handy to have a summary of the UML diagrams. A very good quick reference of UML can be found here
In the course of next week I will release a new version of IStaySharp.WebBrowser. It contains new features, fixes and the set of properties and methods are made compatible with the webbrowser control in VS.NET 2005 (e.g.: EnableBack, DocumentText, ObjectForScripting, etc.).
New Features:
Velen die mij kennen weten dat ik een Urbanus fan ben, en eindelijk hebben ze de live shows van Urbanus op DVD gezet. Het heeft wel lang geduurd, maar ze hebben er nu toch direct 3 uitgegeven. Wat een aangename verrassing in de Fnac vandaag :-)
Ik hoef u denk ik niet te vertellen dat ik ze meegenomen heb :-)
It' s a pub located in Clearfield and it has a website. Some more pictures can be found here.
Does such a pub exists near Belgium? Please let me know :-)