December 4, 2008 – 7:18 pm
This is a very common thing many of you might be knowing this thing already. However, I am just putting this information as it might help someone. In a distributed development scenario it becomes imminent to have remote debugging possible lest you have your development environment both on your regular development system and the remote [...]
December 3, 2008 – 2:31 pm
Very often scenarios crop up when we want to clean our mammoth source code repository without having to export it elsewhere. I was looking for an elegant way to delete hidden .svn folders which are created by tortoise svn to keep track of the repository state on the client. I found this site which provided [...]
September 8, 2008 – 11:45 pm
It was really odd for me to find an error in MSDN code example which took almost a couple of hours to figure out what is wrong. I am working in VSTO (Visual Studio Tool for Office). I am developing a plugin which is suppose to override some of the specific Office 2007 functionalities and [...]
August 31, 2008 – 2:42 pm
I would have never known that this takes up these many calls to perform a simple Console.WriteLine operation unless Microsoft had released the source code of the .net framework. I am delighted that the source code for 3.5 sp1 is out. It is time to dive deep in the framework itself.
Find the link below:
http://blogs.msdn.com/rscc/archive/2008/08/28/net-framework-3-5-sp1-sources-are-available.aspx
August 21, 2008 – 10:19 am
I found this incredible link to start most of the XP system apps from Run box.
Program
Run Command
Accessibility Controls
access.cpl
Accessibility Wizard
accwiz
Add Hardware Wizard
hdwwiz.cpl
Add/Remove Programs
appwiz.cpl
Administrative Tools
control admintools
Adobe Acrobat ( if installed )
acrobat
Adobe Distiller ( if installed )
acrodist
Adobe ImageReady ( if installed )
imageready
Adobe Photoshop ( if installed )
photoshop
Automatic Updates
wuaucpl.cpl
Basic Media Player
mplay32
Bluetooth Transfer Wizard
fsquirt
Calculator
calc
Ccleaner ( if installed )
ccleaner
C: Drive
c:
Certificate Manager
cdrtmgr.msc
Character [...]
August 13, 2008 – 12:16 am
I had a task in hand to read and update a few registry settings. Since the registry keys might change in future and some more changes might be required on the fly, I decided to go with script instead of a config driven executable. Also, one compelling reason was that it has been some time [...]
Very often I require to perform (de)compression of archives programmatically. I use SharpZipLib for this purpose. After fiddling with several algorithms I found this simple piece of code that performs an elegant task of quick decompression of a zip archive.
internal void Decompress(string fileName,string extractPath)
{
FastZip fZip = new FastZip();
fZip.ExtractZip(fileName, extractPath, “”);
}
Link: http://dotnet.org.za/thea/archive/2006/01/17/Unzip-files-programmatically-in-C_2300_-_2D00_-_2300_ZipLib.aspx
While exploring for CodeRush guides I stumbled across this website. The author has compiled a very good link to various tools and utilities which someone can use to boost his productivity a great deal. The reason I bookmarked this website and I am providing the link here is that it contains almost all the productivity [...]
I am an ardent admirer of console commands. For a very fast execution of the most simple tasks, I rely on cmd. About an year back I saw my tech architect using Grep on windows. Until then I didn’t know how effective it could be on Windows platform. At that very moment I downloaded unix-utilities [...]
I have been trying to push myself for learning LINQ and Lambda expressions for quite some time now. I try to create some dummy projects sometimes but since our current project is being developed in .NET Framework v2.0 so these very new things get out of touch very soon. Also, there is so much happening [...]
