Custom build step on file
BTW, in earlier versions of Visual Studio (definitely VC++ 6, but maybe later) it was possible to add an arbitrary custom compilation step for a file, that worked just fine […]
Hacker’s diary
T4 – Too Troublesome to Tackle?
Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) is a code generator built into Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Yes, you have it now on your machine 🙂 It was proposed to me […]
C#: Trouble with Lambdas in For Loops
I had an interesting bug the other day. I wrote a foreach loop along these lines: foreach (var entry in controlsByName) { entry.Key.SomeEvent += (sender,args)=>{ProcessControlName(entry.Value);} } Looks innocent enough, […]
Lost your thumbnails? Refresh Windows Components
For real. When you install a program that associates itself with image files, you may lose your thumbnails capability in Windows XP. It shows a giant icon of the program […]
Webdav – a nice alternative to FTP
Recently I needed to let remote users to transfer several hunderd megabytes of data to my machine. In the old days I would just go ahead and setup an FTP […]
Using a nested .csproj file for custom build step
It looks like you can add a .csproj file as an item to your Visual Studio project, and it will be executed during the project build. I.e. Main.csproj may contain […]
IE 8: Where did that tab go?
I am now using Internet Explorer 8 at work (corporate policy), and I noticed that sometimes I cannot find the tabs I open with “open link in new tab”. Firefox […]
Ruby
I’ve got a Ruby book “The Ruby Programming Language” by Flanagan and Matsumoto (or should I say the Ruby book?) as a New Year present. I am only starting the […]
Scripting .NET Apps
What are the options? This is what I found so far: * Dynamically compile C# or VB.NET code into an assembly and execute it – I used this route before […]
Poltergeist? No, Vista Data Redirection
As I was working with a Vista machine, I started noticing that occasionally when I make a changes to some files, only certain programs can see them, but others can’t. […]