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Jan Tielens' Bloggings

Joy, frustration, excitement, madness, aha's, headaches, ... codito ergo sum!

  • PowerToys going open source

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    Yesterday I wrote something about the new PowerToys, and compared them to the other alternatives. I you read that post, you'll see the comments of Josh Ledgard of MS:
    Hi Jan.  I'm one of the guys at Microsoft who works on the Power Toys.  I wanted to let you know a little bit about the PowerToys effort.  I promise that we didn't work on these projects to displace third party tools.  I actually think that all of the commenting tools you mention have their plusses and minuses.  And at the moment some are more polished than the one our team released.  One of the motivations included giving people samples from Microsoft for extending the shell.  You can never have too many samples.  Another is that we just thought it would be a cool project to work on and provide a forum for other developers in the community to also work on.  Actually, we've been in contact with the writer of the VBXC tool you mentioned and he has recently joined our workspace project on gotdotnet that allows for other people to modify the code.  If your interested feel free to check out our workspaces.. http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/MessageBoard/Thread.aspx?id=107870
    Thanks, 
     josh

    I think Josh is completly right: you can't have too many samples and it's a cool project to work on! And ofcourse they did not start these projects to kill similar third party tools. I hope my previous post wasn't misunderstood, because I was trying to say that I really like the initiative. And going open source to the GotDotNet workspaces only makes it better:

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  • XML Comments in VB: PowerToys and "the others"

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    Microsoft has released some PowerToys for Visual Studio.NET 2003, including a tool that enables XML comments in Visual Basic.NET: VB Commenter. XML comments were available for C# developers since VS.NET 2002, and I still do not understand why they did not implement them in VB. But anyway, the great (open source) community of (VB).NET, has produced several tools to enable XML comments in VB:

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  • Remoting, Events and the 1.1 Framework

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    This weekend I played with the Observer Pattern to create a system that could publish events to a central server. To this server, other applications could subscribe to receive this events. Because I wanted the system to be fast, I choose .NET Remoting as communication between the clients and the server.

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  • Ingo talks about Webservices and Remoting

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    Last night I went to a presentation of Ingo Rammer about Remoting vs. Webservices, in Brussels, organised by the Belgian .NET Usergroup (BENUG) and sponsored by Ineta. The first part of the presentation was about Webservices (the usual stuff), and the second part was about Remoting (which was the reason I think, that people wanted to see this presentation because Ingo is known as a Remoting guy). Ingo did a nice job explaining the Remoting basics: creating servers/clients, registering channels, client activated, ...

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  • Little (off-topic) announcement...

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    Hi all .NET-folks out there! Since I really feel like being a part of this great community, I would like to announce my marriage! Yes, I'm going to get married on the 12th of July with Nele. Ofcourse (as a software engineer I had to) I've made a website with some info about us. I really would appriciate if you guys and girls could sign the guestbook. Since the site is in Dutch, I think most of you don't understand al the topics, but if you are intrested, feel free to take a look. Anyway thanks in advance for your intrest and/or nice words!

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  • Autocompletion in the command prompt!

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    Roy Osherove posted a link to some cool Registry settings. One of them I found quite usefull: Enable AutoCompletion in Command Prompt. Once this setting is done, you can use the tab key for autocompleting while typing in the command prompt (cmd)! For example you type "cd c:\progr" (without return) and press the tab key, "progr" will be completed to "Program Files".

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  • Eureka! SoapExtension problems solved!

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    Maybe you've read my post about the problems I had while using a custom SoapExtension class. Thanks to an anonymous reaction, I found the sollution!! I was testing the webservice by using the default test page from Internet Explorer, but the testpage in IE uses the GET protocol, not the SOAP protocol. So there was nothing wrong with my code (I started believing I really sucked ;-), I only had to make a very simple test application. Thanks again to the person who submitted this tip!

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