The 0.5 beta version of the Orchard project has just been released. Here are 4 points that I really like about this engine:
You can download the source code or simply install it with WebPI
Microsoft has just unveiled LightSwitch, a tool for developing business applications without having to touch the code. Jason Zander provides an excellent introduction on his site.
There will be a template for C# and VB. At first glance, the generated application seems to run on WPF for the Desktop version, and probably Silverlight or XBAP for the web version.
The beta will be available on August 23rd.
Stay tuned
StyleCop is a free tool from Microsoft that allows you to check the style of your code (or others’). Additionally, StyleCop is now available as Open Source (on Codeplex), so I strongly recommend looking at the default rule implementations to help you create your own.
Here are some steps to create your custom StyleCop rules:
The Visual Studio 2010 keyboard shortcuts posters (in English only) have been updated (C++, C#, F#, and VB).
I have uploaded two source files that allow you to add a “Progress Bar” type column to a DataGridView.
While retrieving a list of multimedia files, I ended up with a list of files with 4-character names that meant nothing. Grrr…. So I decided to create a small utility to rename the files according to a pattern I already had on my machine based on the artist, album, and song title.
But a problem quickly arose: How to retrieve this metadata (mainly from MP3 files)?
So I did what I often do when I have a question, I did a little search. And I found on this StackOverflow result a link to TagLib# (also working on Mono)! This library from Novell does all the work for me! It allows me to access metadata for many different types of files. Here is the basic example among several provided on their site:
[Read More]I encountered a situation while developing a WPF application that used the ObservableCollection class. Here is the description:
A collection of items that contains several items (which themselves implement the INotifyPropertyChanged interface). I need to perform certain calculations: total items to be completed, total completed items, remaining items, etc. But when one of these items changed status and became completed, it was impossible to push the information (push) to a higher level.
[Read More]For some time now, I have had the chance to experiment with PRISM and I really like what it brings to the table. But I also use some Telerik controls for WPF, and after doing some research, I noticed that Telerik has included in its documentation some elements about PRISM.
Here are some interesting links:
If you have other interesting articles, let me know via the comments or my contact page
[Read More]Here is a collection of tools/plugins/utilities that allow you to work even more efficiently with VS2010. Here are the three that I install with VS2010. While you’re at it, take a look at the Visual Studio Gallery, you’re sure to find something interesting!
Newly arrived, the Pro Power Tools offer better tab management (by project, color coding, scrolling, stacking, …) as well as search in the Add Reference menu, which is quite nice, and I even noticed an improvement in the performance of this dialog.
[Read More]I had previously talked about the difference between Geek and Nerd, but here is a common vision of the Geek and the Nerd by XKCD:
