Andreas Zenker
a boy named goo
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ab-normal.dot – Why are all my documents locked?
I have been dealing a lot with documents. I have a fun project dealing with WPF documents that I hope to blog more on soon. Anyway, the last few days I have noticed that every document I open is locked. In order to do anything, even cut-and-paste, I need to go to Tools –> Unprotect Document. Then I am good to go.
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XAML editor and a life – no way!
Found this a while back and to search for it all over again to set up a new IDE. That’s one time too many.
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This is your brain on multiple tiers
Fowler’s first law of distributed object design: “Don’t distribute your objects”
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Calling a web service from behind a proxy
Once again I need to call out to an external web service from behind a proxy. Last time it was installing WATIR. This time it is just straight up .NET code, but somehow this configuration feels like something I have to learn over each time I see it, so I am going to burn it into my blog.
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The CMD crisis
I really like being familiar with command line tools, however, in reality I often find myself searching on line for some command I know I used before but just can't seem to remember. In a past life (read "job") I was able to turn around and ask a fellow lead dev who seemed to have The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Window's command line syntax burned into his psyche in no particular order of precedence. We called him "Inspector Gadget" because, when you were looking for the odd utility, tool or command, he was your man. Alas, today I had to resort to Google (MS employees here read "Live Search") Here are a few reminders I needed today and some new stuff I learned. Hopefully I'll remember to look here next time.
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Naming UI control variables
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What is code quality?
Recently I had the chance to examine, in detail, each of the code analysis rules built into Visual Studio 2008. These are, almost exactly, the same rules you will get in FxCop 1.36. In fact, as you consider working MS code analysis into your development lifecycle, you have three options:
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WATIR under the bridge (Proxy)
Hit this today attempting to install WATIR on my current development box. The domain has a proxy server that has only occasionally caused me issues, but now I was unable to use gem to install WATIR unless I could configure the proxy. The correct syntax was harder to find than I expected, so I thought I would capture it here:
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Setting up remote debugging on 2003 and 2008 server
For a long time I have wanted to be able to do this without it being a 2 day ordeal, or having to beg IT to open up some ports etc. Seems to me the last time I looked this was a lot harder than it is now. Has it gotten easier or did I just assume it was annoying and not really consider it? Not sure, but it has been a real life-saver on recent projects, especially SharePoint. Here are the links that got me up and running quickly.
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SharePoint - The New Oracle
I was posting a WPF question on stackoverflow and I took a few minutes to tie up loose ends on a question I had asked back in September about how to best go about developing web parts for SharePoint as an ASP.NET developer. I was just getting started out with rough proto-types of what the client was requesting and was doing all my mock-ups in ASP.NET web forms. I didn't want to be "slowed down" by any SharePoint learning curve. I was comfortable in ASP.NET and just wanted to be able to deploy my ASP.NET user controls into SharePoint and not get my hands dirty actually learning SharePoint. I asked the question hoping for a quick work-around that would fit my needs. So here I am 3 months later, a SharePoint survivor. Question is: would I start the same way if I had it to do again?