Archives (old content)

New Homepage and a Spam-Free Gallery

I got tired of editing Html in order to update my homepage so I switched to TiddlyWikki which allows simple html editing and fits perfectly to be used for my homepage.

Tip: Edit a project's XML in VS2005

I was doing some MSBuild development last week and I found it very annoying that I had to edit the project’s XML externally and then rename it and reload it in Visual Studio every time.

A .NET Ribbon Control (Office12 Style UI)

Someone had to do it sooner or later…

RibbonPad

https://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar/nextgen.html

Jansen Harris mentioned in one of the comments for this blog post that Microsoft will actually consider exposing their Ribbon .NET control. I doubt they ever will…

New Version of RSSBandit Released

A new version of RSSBandit (1.3.0.38) has been released. Its my RSS reader of choice and I haven’t seen anything better so far…

I'm a PDF?

Saw this on Oren’s blog and thought of giving it a try too…

[You are .pdf No matter where you go you look the same. You are an acrobat. Nothing is more important to you than the printed word.

Its Crunch Time!

The Mendocino preview release is due soon and we’re now entering crunch time!
This means long nights of debugging, integrating, LiveMeeting pizza\chinese food eating await…
Rejoice !🙂

Category Reorganization

I’ve made some effort to organize my blog’s categories.
Basically, I moved all the development related material to a “Development” category, and created a “Projects” category for my projects…

Generics FAQ

Recently published on MSDN:

Visual Studo .NET 2005 RTM

The Visual Studio .NET 2005 RTM release is available online for MSDN subscribers.
I understand the official release date is November 7th…

Breaking Changes in .NET Framework 2.0

Finally found the definite answer to the question raised in the following post.

The following link at MSDN describes all the breaking changes when migrating from .NET 1.1 to 2.0 and sort them by categories.