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All the articles I've posted.
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Microsoft Tafiti just released
I'm sure you have already heared of SilverLight before, right? If not: it's Microsoft's answer to Adobe Flash, providing the same features + XAML-like markup + easier databinding + ... Now you're up to pubDatetime: the Redmond people have just released a new site, Microsoft Tafiti, which is basically Live Search combined with a rich SilverLight interface. Tafiti means "do research" in Swahili. Don't think I'm a native Swahili speaker though, I found this here 8-) The screenshot I made was first rendered in FireFox. No need to worry your SilverLight application not going to work on other systems than Windows + IE! If this is the way the web is evolving, I like it! Slick graphics, but not the "feeling" you are working in a browser plugin.
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TFS Team Build and ASP.NET websites
Here's one I'd really like to share with everyone trying to build ASP.NET websites using TFS Build. First of all, a little story about the project setup... A VS2005 solution was created a few weeks ago. This solution included some projects, namely ASP.NET website, Domain Layer class library, Business Layer class library and DAL class library. The ASP.NET website uses project references to the class libraries, enabling automatic updates of all references on build. So far, so good. As a test case, this project was added to a new TFS project, and created a build for. That specific build kept failing forever, ignoring all tips I found on various websites.
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Open XML Developer workshop content
Over the last few months, Doug, Wouter, Brian and lots of other people delivered a series of OpenXML workshops around the globe. Those who were there, and those who weren't, can now download all content of these workshops from OpenXMLdeveloper.org. There are some interesting slideshows available for those of you who never heared about OpenXML before, as well as some nice code samples to get you started developing in C# or Java. As a side note: I also spotted a good article on OpenXML, explaining the Open Packaging Conventions with a self-created file format (based on OpenXML).
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PHP zip:// and parse_url...
After having a few months of problems using PHP and fopen('zip://something.xlsx#xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml', 'r'), I finally found the reason of that exact line of code giving errors on some PC's... Assuming this uses a call to parse_url under the hood, I tried parsing this, resulting in the following URL parts: Array ( [scheme] => zip [host] => something.xlsx#xl [path] => /worksheets/sheet1.xml ) That's just not correct... Parsing should return the following: Conclusion: beware when using parse_url and the zip file wrapper!
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My job?
Seems that, according to this Wikipedia entry, I work at Microsoft: To clarify this: I do not work at Microsoft, but at Dolmen, one of the top Belgian IT firms. I do work with Microsoft technology and tend to promote their technology too, but no job at Microsoft.(Thank you Wouter for showing me this)
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NHibernate 1.2.0 - Unexpected row count: 0; expected: 1
Great... I've been working with NHibernate and MySQL for a while now, without having any strange problems. For a project I'm working on, I'm using SqlClient instead of MySQL now, and strangeness occurs. When I try to Flush() a NHibernate session, here's what is thrown: The problem seems to be a combination of things. First, there's my mapping file: [code:xml] <id name="Hash" column="hash_id" type="String"> <generator class="assigned"/> </id> [/code]
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Enable sitemap security trimming in ASP.NET 2.0
Want to enable security trimming for your ASP.NET sitemap? Here's how... First of all, you need a new section in your web.config system.web element: [code:xml] <system.web> <!-- ... other system.web configuration stuff ... --> <siteMap defaultProvider="XmlSiteMapProvider" enabled="true"> <providers> <add name="XmlSiteMapProvider" description="Default SiteMap provider." type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider " siteMapFile="Web.sitemap" securityTrimmingEnabled="true" /> </providers> </siteMap> </system.web> [/code] Next, you should specify which pages are visible to who: [code:xml]
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VSTS Project methodology
A quick linkdump of some VSTS project methodology templates: RUP - http://www.osellus.com/solutions/microsoft/rup-vsts_solutions.htmlScrum - http://www.scrumforteamsystem.comMacroscope - http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/consulting/method/macroscope/index_p2.html
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Team Foundation Server - Subversion bridge
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PHPExcel 1.3.5 released
Just a quick note on the new PHPExcel 1.3.5 release. There are some cool new features included! One of the new features is rich text: one can now write coloured and styled text in a cell. Here's an example of how the feature demo result file looks: This is of course not all. Jakub had a couple of sleepless nights, but managed to port in the PEAR Spreadsheet classes. Meaningless? No! PHPExcel now supports Excel2007 and older versions, too. Want to write an Excel document for Excel200? No problem: [code:c#] $objWriter = new PHPExcel_Writer_Excel5($objPHPExcel);$objWriter->save('excel2000file.xls'); [/code] There's even a cooler part related to this, and that is .xlsx to .xls conversion! Here's how: [code:c#]