September 2007 - Posts

30 September 2007
SVNBridge: getting your codeplex bits with tortoise
SVNBridge is a Codeplex project which allows you to use TortoiseSVN (or other Subversion clients) with Team Foundation Server. Even though it's still in early alpha, I've been using it for the last days. It still crushes a lot, but currently I can't simply live without TortoiseSVN :) Btw... Read More...
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29 September 2007
Page flow with Page modules
A few days ago, my fried Paulo presented the concept of Page modules . Today I've just noticed that Paulo has already released a new post where he replaces the default modules that are used on the Page Flow Quick Start ( Page Flow Application Block ) with page modules . He even measured the response... Read More...
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29 September 2007
IIS: the process cannot access the file because it's being used by another process
This is what happens when you install Skype on a machine that also has IIS. Fortunately, this has happen to others and you can find an explanation of what's happening here: http://blogs.developerfusion.com/blogs/paulfp/archive/2007/04/16/2633.aspx Read More...
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28 September 2007
Configuring IIS for hosting Silverlight 1.1
From time to time there's always a new post asking on how to configure IIS to host Silverlight content. I've already written something about it, but I'd like to point you to a more complete reference which can be found here: http://silverlight.net/forums/t/479.aspx Read More...
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27 September 2007
Book review: Windows Developer Power Tools
[ Disclaimer : I've received a free copy of this book for review, but I can assure you that this did not affect my review in any way] I've just finished reading this huge book that presents several tools that will definitely make your life as a developer a lot easier. It's really a huge book... Read More...
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26 September 2007
More info on the history of the name C#
Some time ago I wrote a post about the history of the name of the C# language. As always, I should have asked about it to Paulo . Fortunately, he read my post and got an answer to it here . Read More...
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25 September 2007
The new ListView control
A few days ago I've said I was starting to play with the new controls introduced by .NET 3.5. One of those controls is the new ListView control. There already several good articles on this control. For instance, both Scott Guthrie and Rick Strahl have written about it (Rick also describes how to... Read More...
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25 September 2007
Silverlight pages and VS integration
Have you noticed that you can navigate from the "code-behind" file (cs file) to the designer by right clicking the page and choosing "View designer" (from the context menu that is shown when you perform right click), but there's isn't any option for going from the xaml page... Read More...
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25 September 2007
How to share code between Silverlight and other kinds of applications?
I really haven't looked at any Silverlight code for at least 2 months. In fact, I haven't really been around the forums until today. Now that I've returned :), I've noticed that there's a lot of similar questions around sharing code between .NET and the "mini-CLR" that is... Read More...
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25 September 2007
C#: Signaling state changes through events
[Update: Paulo was not impressed with this post but he didn't want to point it out in the comments. Next time, don't be shy :) He thinks I should drop the old sytax and write thread-safe code. As always, he's right. Let's be clear: if you're creating a new EventHandler event type... Read More...
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21 September 2007
What can we find in the next version of ASP.NET
I've finally started looking at the next version of the ASP.NET 3.5 platform. I've already seen that there are some new controls there, but in this post I'd like to reference one or two things that look promising and that are related with stuff that didn't work in the previous versions... Read More...
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21 September 2007
Still on NHibernate...
Yesterday I was complaining about the way NHibernate persists entities that contain collection of components. After some discussions on the Forums , Karl suggested that I should call session.Flush after calling the Save(OrUpdate) method to force the generation of the collection of components maintained... Read More...
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20 September 2007
Any NHibernate experts out there?
I've started looking at NHibernate and I must say that I'm impressed with several of its features. However, I've reached a point where something isn't quite right. I'm not sure if it's me (which is probably the case) or if it's a limitation/bug of NHibernate. Since I'm... Read More...
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19 September 2007
Dave again: the Renderer control
Dave Reed keeps surprising me everyday, Another great control with so few lines of code . I'll keep referencing just in case i get a new reader which hasn't added his cool blog to his RSS feed (if you're not new here and still haven't subscribed, what are you wainting for?) Read More...
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18 September 2007
Inline scripts inside UpdatePanels
Dave Reed has another great post that shows how to build a simple control that lets you put your script inside an UpdatePanel. Read More...
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17 September 2007
ASP.NET page modules
My good friend Paulo has a cool article on what he calls "Page Modules". "Page Modules" can be seen as a small framework that will let you be notified about all the events of the page life time, even in those scenarios where you're using Server.Transfer. Check it out here . Read More...
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17 September 2007
Properties on C#
Properties are strange beasts...in fact, when you access a property, you're really calling a method. Let's start with a simple example that shows a "parameterless property": public class Person { public String Name; private String _address; public String Address { get { return _address;... Read More...
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14 September 2007
John Robbins and a cool vista explorer trick
Besides writing really cool books and articles on debugging, John Robbins has also written a post on how to improve the switching time of programs in windows vista. Read More...
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14 September 2007
Windows vista: finally someone agrees with me about the copy file dialog...
I've been using Vista for some time now and i'm still not used to the new copy file dialog that is shown when you're copying a file to a place that already has a file with the same name. I was already starting to feel old and grumpy, but then Doug Stewart's post made me realize that i'm... Read More...
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13 September 2007
Installing windows 2008 server
After giving it some thought, I've decided to install windows 2008 on my development machine. After the 1st hour, where I had several problems with my NVidia Quadro4 which ended with its replacement by an old Matrox adapter(it simply didn't start after one of the automatic reboots), everything... Read More...
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