It has been quite a New Year so far. As of today, Monday January 14th 2008, I have left Speedway and the Speedy Rewards™ team and found new employment with SDS Consulting and I have new eyes courtesy of Lasik Plus of Dayton. I’d say that’s a fairly ambitious first two weeks. I’m still working [...]
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New Year Indeed
Jan 15
So last weekend I picked up the new ASP.Net 3.5 Extensions Preview CTP (and MVC Toolkit) from the ASP.Net team and I’m loving the MVC bits. I never could get in to MonoRail mainly because I’m a developer diva. I need intellisense, syntax highlighting, the whole deal. For a CTP, this release packs quite a [...]
I posted recently a manual .reg file for adding the NHibernate Query Generator custom tool to Visual Studio 2008. I just sent Ayende an update to the .Setup Product.wxs, a WiX file, which adds a new fixture specifically for 2008. If you are interested in building the installer and running the trunk of NHQG, below [...]
I’ve updated my PerformanceHelper class that I’ll throw around certain code blocks to help trend or monitor performance. Before it was merely a PerformanceCounter wrapper with a few metrics, but now you can specify Console, Debug and/or Perfmon. You do this by using an XOR ( ’|’ ) in a new Constructor. Here’s an example which outputs to [...]
Here’s one of those real-world situations that no one bothers to demo. If you are building a form or have some sort of input your gathering from the user, you’ll likely want the first input control Focused initially. You have a few ways to do this (in ascending order of recommendation): Call Focus() on the [...]