Roland Weigelt

Es braut sich etwas zusammen in Nordrhein-Westfalen! Anlässlich der Vorstellung von Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 und Visual Studio 2008 haben sich die User Groups aus Bonn (Bonn-to-Code.Net), Köln (.net User Group Köln) und vom Niederrhein (.net developer user group niederrhein) zusammengetan, um unter der Schirmherrschaft des JustCommunity e.V. ergänzend zum offiziellen Launch ein Community-Event der besonderen Art auf die Beine zu stellen:

• Ein ganzer Tag voller Vorträge, verteilt auf drei parallele Tracks
• Sprecher, die als Entwickler und IT-Professionals aus ihrer täglichen Arbeit heraus Praxiswissen vermitteln
• Große Verlosung von Software (Not-for-resale Versionen von Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 und Visual Studio 2008, Lizenzen für CodeRush with Refactor! Pro, Resharper und dotTrace, ANTS Profiler und SQL Compare Pro)
• Vielfältige Möglichkeiten zum Networking mit anderen Teilnehmern und Firmen aus der Region

Und das zu einem Preis von nur 8,- Euro, in dem auch noch Verpflegung, Getränke und Parkausweis enthalten sind.

AFTERLAUNCH
Launch war gestern - heute ist Praxis

 

Freitag 11. April 2008
KonferenzZentrum im Technologiepark Köln
Anmeldung und weitere Infos auf www.afterlaunch.de

Even though GhostDoc is intended for English documentation (and there are no plans for future versions to change that), Luca Tagliaferri from Italy has created an Italian configuration file for GhostDoc 2.1.3. While I cannot comment on the quality (I haven't tried it, non parlo l'italiano), I recommend checking it out here. Just be sure to export your current configuration as a backup.

Wow, that came really unexpected: at a company meeting last Friday I received an award for organizing and leading the .NET User Group Bonn called "Bonn-to-Code.Net" (all credits for the glorious pun go to Jens Schaller).

Comma Soft AG has been very supportive in the past two years by letting the monthly meetings taking place in the conference rooms, but other than that the user group is something I'm running in my spare time - that's why this award was such a (nice) surprise.

To whom it may concern: Nice idea, sloppy execution.

Update 2008-02-09: As this thing is getting more and more elaborate, I'd like to clarify the "sloppy" comment. While I do acknowledge the overall effort you (whoever you are) put into this ARG, I must say that the initial impression wasn't favorable in regard to the level of quality - the English texts on the websites of two supposedly no-nonsense companies/organizations really would have benefited from some proof-reading. In a game where the goal seems to be the recruiting of smart people, you should always keep in mind that everything you do reflects on the company behind the game. Anyway, there are people (with way too much time on their hands) working on the various riddles and puzzles and I honestly wish you luck that at least one of them actually ends up working for you in the future.

My buddy Jens Schaller (of SonicFileFinder fame) has set himself the goal to blog one Vista tip each day of February.

The first posts are

1. Searching in Vista
2. Quickly Starting a Program with Administrator Rights
3. Copy Path of Selected File

His full blog can be found here, the tips are filed in the category Vista.

The winners of the programming contest over at the German website www.dotnet-snippets.de have been announced – my entry EventFilter was chosen by a jury from almost 100 entries to be the winner.

EventFilter is a generic helper class for dealing with events that may be raised multiple times in rapid succession, when only the last event of a “burst” is of interest.

You find the English version in this blog post I published recently.

<summary>
GhostDoc is a free add-in for Visual Studio that automatically generates XML
documentation comments for C#. Either by using existing documentation inherited
from base classes or implemented interfaces, or by deducing comments from
name and type of e.g. methods, properties or parameters.
</summary>

Quick Facts

• Version 2.1.3 is a minor bugfix release, fixing problem with documentation for specific operators and import/export of partial configurations.
• Download on the GhostDoc Website
• Users of earlier versions: Please read the ReadMe on upgrading!

What’s New in GhostDoc 2.1.3:

• Fixed: No documentation was generated for the operators "&", "<" and ">".
• Fixed: Rules for classes, events, interfaces and structs were not shown in the export dialog, making it impossible to exclude them from an export.
• Changed: Tags for empty rule collections in config files are now removed (cosmetic change, does not break compatibility of the file format).
• Added: Some "of the" triggers and prefixes, "no the" words and acronyms.

Note that VB.Net support is turned off by default and has to be turned on in the configuration dialog.

Here are some statistics for my Visual Studio add-in GhostDoc for the year 2007.

Downloads for Visual Studio 2005

• Version 1.9.5 (released back in 2006): 15294
• Version 2.0.0 (released 2007–05–01): 11395
• Version 2.1.0 (released 2007–06–24): 2351
• Version 2.1.1 (released 2007–07–04): 24909
• Version 2.1.2 (released 2007–11–25): 4873
• Total: 58822

Downloads for Visual Studio 2008

• Version 2.0.0 (released 2007–05–01): 444
• Version 2.1.0 (released 2007–06–24): 153
• Version 2.1.1 (released 2007–07–04): 3202
• Version 2.1.2 (released 2007–11–25): 3140
• Total: 6939

Downloads for Visual Studio .NET 2003

• Version 1.3.0 (released back in 2005): 4409

Donations by chosing an item from my Amazon WishLists (US, UK, DE):

• Total: 7 (a huge Thank You to you guys and gals!)