I suppose it’s because I work in small teams or alone that I never realized how useful TortoiseSVN’s Log Messages filtering is. The highlighted regular expression shows just those revisions with either or both of these two files:
is the regular expression and RegexBuddy explains it well.
I use ESET Smart Security 4 for antivirus (AV) and firewall on 3 computers. This was the 3rd AV / AntiSpam (AS) / Firewall program I tried in Windows 7 and didn’t see a need to try another. The NOD32 AV/AS seems to work well – no problems so far – but the firewall was what convinced me to flex the credit card. It is configured to let me decide internet access for each individual program.
It also alerts to changed programs.
I run in Advanced mode, as circled below.
Personal firewall is setup to use Interactive filtering.
“Configure rules and zones…” highlighted above brings up an editable list of programs and permissions.
There may be better programs out there but I doubt I’ll ever find out.
Code4Blog (VS 2010)
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<Window x:Class="FirstTwitterApp.MainWindow" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:vm="clr-namespace:FirstTwitterApp.ViewModels" xmlns:local="clr-namespace:FirstTwitterApp"Code Snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer
1: <Window x:Class="FirstTwitterApp.MainWindow"
2: xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" 3: xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" 4: xmlns:vm="clr-namespace:FirstTwitterApp.ViewModels" 5: xmlns:local="clr-namespace:FirstTwitterApp"Follow Up. I discovered ReSharper can format XAML too. Details at the end.
This post describes how to set up Visual Studio 2010 to format “Attribute Hide & Seek” XAML like this 
into the one-attribute-per-line format I prefer. 
Adding the two formatting commands to the XAML editor context menu makes reformatting easy and convenient.
First, setup VS’s XAML format per this blog post (found via stackoverflow). Then reformat all or just the selected XAML from the Edit | Advanced submenu: 
Notice that the menu commands are Format Document and Format Selection. The word “Format” is first in both.
Adding these commands to the XAML editor context menu was more of a hassle than it should have been, IMO. I looked for “Format Document” and “Format Selection” without success in all the Categories in the Add Command dialog. I found the commands quickly using the searchable Options / Keyboard dialog box. Note they are “Edit.Format*”.
However, in the UNsearchable, UNfilterable Add Command dialog they are inconveniently listed as “Document Format” and “Selection Format”. 
Here is my updated popup menu shown on some XAML whose top line is about 3 monitors long. (I put Format Selection first because I think it will get used most often.)
I like the formatted XAML better.
Outlining helps too.
ReSharper formats XAML with its (duh!) XML Formatting Style.
A keyboard shortcut to ReSharper _Silent Cleanup Code works well.
I briefly tried one code formatter back in January & it didn’t work very well. I found this update blog post & will try again sometime.
A StackOverflow thread indicates incompatibilities in VS 2008/2010 solutions, projects, app.config’s & WCF Service References. Links to a tool to switch back & forth between 08/10.
More related threads:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/visual-studio-2010+visual-studio-2008
From Joannes Vermorel's blog:
Do not break URLs: When migrating your web pages, it's important to include the proper redirections. I have been using UrlRewritingNet, a nice open-source URL rewriting tool. UrlRewritingNet is very convenient to migrate ASP.NET pages because ISS does not intercept the requests even before they hit the ASP.NET machine.
From Scott Guthrie’s blog:
The most common scenarios where developers want greater flexibility with URLs are:
1) Handling cases where you want to restructure the pages within your web application, and you want to ensure that people who have bookmarked old URLs don't break when you move pages around. Url-rewriting enables you to transparently forward requests to the new page location without breaking browsers.
2) Improving the search relevancy of pages on your site with search engines like Google, Yahoo and Live. Specifically, URL Rewriting can often make it easier to embed common keywords into the URLs of the pages on your sites, which can often increase the chance of someone clicking your link. Moving from using querystring arguments to instead use fully qualified URL's can also in some cases increase your priority in search engine results. Using techniques that force referring links to use the same case and URL entrypoint (for example: weblogs.asp.net/scottgu instead of weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/default.aspx) can also avoid diluting your pagerank across multiple URLs, and increase your search results.
Design Guidelines for Developing Class Libraries
The design guidelines for developing class libraries are for library development that extends and interacts with the .NET Framework. The goal of the .NET Framework design guidelines is to help library designers ensure that their users reap the benefits of API consistency and ease of use by providing a unified programming model that is independent of the programming language used for development. It is strongly recommended that you follow these design guidelines when developing classes and components that extend the .NET Framework. Inconsistent library design adversely affects developer productivity and discourages adoption.
These guidelines are intended to help class library designers understand the trade-offs between different solutions. There might be situations where good library design requires that you violate these design guidelines. Such cases should be rare, and it is important that you have a clear and compelling reason for your decision.
Extensibility, Exceptions, Asynchronous Design Patterns, etc.
About Scratch
Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.
As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.
Initial article: Kid-friendly programming app an unfortunate casualty of Apple’s new app policies :-(
From Eric White’s Blog. The link.
Merging multiple word processing documents into a single document is something that many people want to do. An application built for attorneys might assemble selected standard clauses into a contract. An application built for book publishers can assemble chapters of a book into a single document. This post explains the semantics of the altChunk element, and provides some code using the Open XML SDK that shows how to use altChunk.
Instead of using altChunk, you could write a program to merge the Open XML markup for documents. You would need to deal with a number of issues, including merging style sheets and resolving conflicting styles, merging the comments from all of the documents, merging bookmarks, and more. This is doable, but it’s a lot of work. You can use altChunk to let Word 2007 do the heavy lifting for you.
Jeff Atwood is in fine form today. ;-)
Despite my misgivings, email is the cockroach of communication mediums: you just can't kill it. Email is the one method of online contact that almost everyone -- at least for that subset of "everyone" which includes people who can bear to touch a computer at all -- is guaranteed to have, and use. Yes, you can make a fairly compelling case that email is for old stupid people, but let's table that discussion for now.
From So You'd Like to Send Some Email (Through Code)
P.S. Good solutions in the comments.
Snipped from http://webworkerdaily.com/2010/04/19/missing-a-meeting-due-to-volcanic-ash-check-out-these-tools/
While in some cases a face-to-face meeting is an absolute necessity, sometimes you can get by using technology. If you’re grounded this week, give these apps a try — they’re all available for very low cost (and some of them are free).
Maybes via http://www.google.com/search?&q=welding+bowie+md
From http://www.google.com/search?&q=maryland+welding+class
I just purchased, downloaded and installed Telerik’s RadControls for WPF. When installation finished it offered to run a demo program and I agreed.
I noticed an issue with RadWindow on this 4-monitor Win7-64 computer. RadWindow does not display on monitors 3 and 4. (Display Settings dialogs from UltraMon.)
I moved monitor 4 but RadWindow still doesn’t show up on it.
However, RadWindow does display on monitor 4 in this arrangement.
RadWindow shows up on all 4 monitors when they are arranged like this.
It appears that RadWindow does not like negative-number display positions.
The CodePlex Html Agility Pack is recommended.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1283433/parsing-information-out-of-a-scraped-screen-html
http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[c%23]+screen+scrape
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/html-agility-pack
Update: Unchecking the Preferred Width fixed the issue. H&M’s support forums are great!
I use the free utility StExBar on all my computers. It is a toolbar that adds useful utilities to Windows Explorer. This is a sample of its regular expression file renaming capability.
Another variation.
Note: On some computers StExBar was not available to Windows Explorer until I added it to the Windows Taskbar and/or Internet Explorer.
My documentation partner discovered a detail worth knowing about Help & Manual Topic IDs and their corresponding names in HTML Help. He wrote about it here.
The default Dr. Explain “Generate HTML” and Help & Manual “Import” settings leave each imported topic in a bordered table. The table looks fine as Dr. Explain output, but it does not look good inside the Help & Manual generated pages with their navigation system.
The easy way to get rid of the table border is to get rid of the table on import. It is a single-column table so this import option works great.
If Interactive Mode is on and a new program requests to use the internet this dialog will appear.
Select the desired checkboxes if the program is expected and click Allow. If Administrator rights are needed and you are not running with them a dialog will appear. Enter the appropriate administrator info and continue.
A Custom install (not Upgrade) from WinXP. Installing Win7-64 Home Premium. Initial install and updates went fine. I used an admin user for install to save work later. Next steps.
http://posterous.com provides an easy way to post to a blog: email. I am trying to figure out how to use Windows Live Writer with posterous since I already use it for blog posting. Googling brought up some links.
http://joshuazillmer.posterous.com/tag/windowslivewriter
http://zachishi.com/windows-live-writer-14
http://www.belltowernews.com/2009/05/no-subject.html
http://quicktips.posterous.com/how-i-make-my-blogging-life-easier
http://posterous.com/explore/tag/windowslivewriter
But I don’t see mention of which Blog Provider to choose. Posting this for emailing the link to posterous help.
I used the default user “Mark” for the “Easy” VMware installs of Win7-x86 and Win7-64. On the install that worked this led to extra steps: Creating “Admin” as an Administrator and converting “Mark” to a Standard User.
In the future use user name “Admin” for the Easy Install. Don’t use “Administrator” because it may conflict with the built-in Administrator account, if that still exists in Win7.
Using key: VVXYB-xxxxx-…
Installed fine, and the Downloads box never did anything.
After Shutdown & Snapshot, Updates.
… just one issue. Apparently after the VMware “Easy Install” is still trying to log on to account Mark every boot. After creating Admin and User accounts, and giving user Mark a password, this shows up on boot.
After the Admin logon “Log off” shows the expected screen. Going to ignore this for now.
Using this key: VTQB4-xxxxx-…
This never did anything… Killing it. (ESET didn’t block it.)
Drat.
Can’t find anything in vmware kb or communities.
