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ReSharper, DXCore and GhostDoc can co-exist at last

Maybe this has been possible for some time, but I finally got the combination of ReSharper , DXCore and GhostDoc to co-exist peacefully on my Vista machine. I'm using: Resharper 3.0.2 DXCore 2.5.10 GhostDoc 2.1.2 Why is this important: it enables me to use CR_Documentor , giving a very nice almost...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 12-21-2007
Cryptographic failure while signing assembly: Unknown error (8013141c)

I started experiencing a Cryptographic failure while signing assembly: Unknown error (8013141c) after moving my Visual Studio 2005 solutions to Visual Studio 2008. The reason: I'm using strongly named assemblies, and I was running Visual Studio 2005 as Administrator. Visual Studio 2008 does not require...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 12-15-2007
Visual Studio 2008 At High (*) DPI Settings

(*) "High" as in "more than 96" I have a frustrating issue with VS2008 on my Vista machine, but luckily I found a solution. Here's the issue: As long as my Windows DPI settings are set to the default of 96 DPI, everything is fine. But when I set the DPI settings higher, things...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 12-13-2007
LINQPad - Yes, I'm Tired of SQL

LINQPad is a tool for learning LINQ, and incidentally for replacing SQL Management Studio. Playing around with Linq and seeing how much more elegant it is to phrase queries in Linq rather than SQL, I really feel sooo tired of SQL. I'm missing Linq, and I wish the whole world would upgrade to .NET...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 12-08-2007
MaskedTextBox and SelectAll - or why MSDN Community Content is cool

I was working on one of my pet projects the other day, and wanted to implement this behavior: I have a text box for entering a time, and I use a masked textbox for that purpose. The text box has a default value, but the text should be selected so that users can start typing a new time right away - without...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 11-22-2007
delarou's weblog - AcceptButton and CancelButton on a UserControl

Today I was looking for the AcceptButton and CancelButton property on System.Windows.Forms.UserControl . Guess what? They don't exist. A bit of Googling (*) pointed me to this blog entry, which works like a charm: delarou's weblog - AcceptButton and CancelButton on a UserControl (*) as in "searching...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 09-07-2007
Another Link Roundup

Architecture, Analysis and Design The Domain Tree : a thought-provoking comparison between domain models and the WPF visual tree. CSLA .NET 3.0 available for download Part III. Grabbing the ScreenShot Development tools and tips IE Developer Toolbar Tools for the artistically challenged Datadudes rejoice...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 08-23-2007
ASP.NET 2.0 Databinding and Custom Paging

A lot has happened in ASP.NET 2.0 when it comes do databinding. There are the data sources that make it really easy to grab some data from a SQL database. There is even the ObjectDataSource so Microsoft effectively introduced the middle tier in ASP.NET applications (as a speaker on a conference put it...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 08-07-2007
Seen on CodePlex: MSBuildShellExtension

Looks cool: a way to build your projects by right-clicking on the project file in windows explorer: the MSBuildShellExtension project on CodePlex . Disclaimer: I haven't tried this myself yet.

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 08-02-2007
Windows Vista release schedule

From a blog entry that quotes an article by Paul Thurrot: Windows Vista Beta 2: According to Paul, Beta 2 has to be "feature complete" by the end of September. This probably means whatever features they want to include in Beta 2 needs to be working in whatever build they come up with by the...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 08-31-2005

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