Archive for category .Net

New Year Indeed

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 [...]

ASP.Net MVC and Forms Authentication

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 [...]

NHibernate Query Generator Installer for Visual Studio 2008

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 [...]

PerformanceHelper.cs Update: Perfmon, Console, and Debug Output options

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 [...]

WPF Controls TabIndex: Moving to the First Input Control

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 [...]