How to Write Actionable Bug Reports

I often find myself maintaining open source projects. I’ve contributed to many over the years, even hosting multi-person “source available” projects...

What’s New in the Beta Metro/JS Templates for VS11

The Consumer Preview of Windows 8 (aka the Win8 beta) is now available for download, along with the matching Visual Studio 11 beta. You can download...

GUI REPL for Roslyn

If you recall from REPL for the Rosyln CTP 10/2011, I’ve been playing around building a little C# REPL app using Roslyn. That version was built as a...

Moving My Data To The Cloud: Stormy Weather

For years, I’ve maintained a single “main” computer. It was the computer that was the central authority of all of the personal data I’d accumulated...

REPL for the Rosyln CTP 10/2011

I don’t know what it is, but I’ve long been fascinated with using the C# syntax as a command line execution environment. It could be that PowerShell...

Using LINQPad to Run My Life: Budgeting

I use LINQPad all the time for a bunch of stuff, but most recently and most relevant, I’ve been using it for a personal chore that isn’t...

LINQ Has Changed Me

In the old days, the post-colonial, pre-LINQ days of yore, I’d have written a one-way MD5 encryption like so: This implementation is fine and has...

Time to check the donuts

One day when I was supposed to be writing, I needed something to do (as often happens). In this particular case, I built a little tray icon app...

Updated the CsvFileTester for Jet 4.0

I was playing around building a tool to let me edit a database table in Excel, so I updated my CvsFileTester project to work in a modern world,...

Entity Designer Database Generation Power Pack

the Entity Designer Database Generation Power PackDatabase Generation featureVSWindows WorkflowsT4 Templates Basic Table-per-Hierarchy support. This...

LINQPad updated to support Data Services!

Joe Albahari, the author of LINQPad, has added support for WCF Data Services to the 1.37.1 version beta of LINQPad. This means that you can point...

Add “Search the Internet” Back to the Win7 Start Menu

Windows 7 took away a feature I use all the time, as shown on the right: Search the Internet. Here’s what I did all day, every day in Windows Vista:...

Tired of writing unit tests yourself? Try Pex!

From the Pex site: “Pex (Program EXploration) produces a traditional unit test suite with high code coverage. … To do so, Pex performs a systematic...

Custom Window Chrome in WPF

WPFhow to do custom chrome in your WPF applications...

On Beyond Unit Testing

Quetzal Bradley is a software development engineer (SDE) on my team with *tons* of experience in all manner of infrastructure stuff including the...

Configuring VS08 to Debug .NET Framework Source

Shawn Burke has released the details to set up VS08 to debug into the .NET Framework source code, including the following assemblies: mscorlib.DLL...

Visual Studio 2008 Has Been Released!

From the Visual Studio home page: Learn more about Visual Studio 2008 MSDN Subscribers: Get Visual Studio 2008 Download Trial Editions of Visual...

Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries!

After programming with MFC (a lot!) and writing the ATL book, it was *very* difficult for me to live in a world without the source code to figure...

Shawn has prepared Genghis v0.8

Shawn Wildermuth has prepared a v0.8 release of Genghis that includes a bunch of stuff that the folks that put the v0.6 release together dropped....

Genghis moved to CodePlex

Shawn WildermuthGenghis to CodePlex...

Show Me The Templates!

Show Me The Template is a tool for exploring the templates, be their data, control or items panel, that comes with the controls built into WPF for...

Visual Studio Orcas March 2007 CTP

And the hits they keep on comin’: What’s New in VS Orcas March CTP VPC image (includes the *long* list of what’s new) Virtual PC 2007 (*free* but...

Lutz Roeder’s Reflector 5.0

NET Reflector 5.0 .NET Reflector 5.0 Add-Ins .NET Reflector 5.0 new feature overview (PowerPoint deck)Need I say more...

Detailed Time Zone Data

A long time ago (2000), I was fascinated with turning a phone number into a time zone so I could tell what time it would be somewhere before I...

.NET: Decompressing zip file entries into memory

I knew that the J# libraries in .NET had zip file support, but I couldn’t find any samples that showed how to decompress the files into memory. The...

Windows Servers for the rest of us

Charlie Kindel of COM fame (he’s wrote the foreword to Don’s seminal work “Essential COM”) is the Product Unit Manager (softie-speak for “butt on...

Window Clippings 1.5

Capturing screenshots for a book used to be a piece of cake. Alt+PrintScreent and you were golden. However, sometimes I wanted to get the cursor,...

CodeFetch: Search Book Source Code

CodeFetch...

Point: Local Live Maps

When it comes to Web 2.0 apps, online maps are easily the thing I use the most. I don’t go anywhere these days w/o first pulling up the map on...

VS2005 SP1

“Through further advancement and feedback, Service Pack 1 … provides over 70 improvements for common development scenarios including: New processor...

XNA Game Studio Express Has Been Released!

Oh, man, I *so* want to write a game that runs on my Xbox 360! Now I can (and so can you). Enjoy! P.S. Impeach...

If it can be installed, Scott’s installed it

and if it’s any good, we hear about it. Really, I’m just posting this link to Scott Hanselman’s 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List...

Number to String Converter

To capture the work that Doug and I did to make Indigo (WCF) and Avalon (WPF) work together, I tore up our PDC sample application into a set of...

RegistrySettingsProvider2

I updated the SDK RegistrySettingsProvider to implement IApplicationSettings and built a sample to demonstrate how to integrate it (or any .NET...

Number To String Converter

To capture the work that Doug and I did to make Indigo (WCF) and Avalon (WPF) work together, I tore up our PDC sample application into a set of...

MS Live Labs PhotoSynth: building the photo web

Imagine your vacation photos displayed in 3D and linked together, both around a space and zooming in and out. Now imagine everyone’s photos linked...

Functional Language Summary

I’ve been hearing a lot about functional programming lately (and the circle of life continues); I found Functional Programming For The Rest of Us to...

A Shared Source Site: CodePlex

″CodePlex functionality, built on Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005 Team Foundation Server, provides source control, issue tracking, discussion forums...

“man” for MSDN

you’ll love MSDN man...

Annotate the MSDN Wiki

pinvoke.netGetTempFileNamethe MSDN Wiki...

Advanced MSDN Search

MSDNUIMSDNMFCCECheck it out...

Web Application Project: “The type ‘foo’ exists in both ‘some dll’ and ‘another dll’”

In using the most excellent Web Application Project support for ASP.NET 2.0 in VS05 from Mr. Guthrie and co, I ran into what was first an...

Visual Studio Express Editions Free4Ever

Top-notch tools at rock-bottom prices. Enjoy...

Tell me about your troubles and woes configuring, deploying and maintaining distributed .NET apps

Believe it or not, Microsoft is always trying to improve its products and to do so, I find we do our best work when we actually ask our potential...

Gengis for .NET 2.0

Genghis has been updated for .NET 2.0 and is available from the Genghis workspace. Enjoy. Update: The following controls have been added to Genghis...

I’m with Scott — I Love Monad

I fell in love w/ the potential of monad a while ago w/ Jeffrey Snover’s original Channel9 video, but I was too lazy to download it onto all of my...

ClickOnce + FireFox

If you’re having trouble with ClickOnce while using FireFox as your default browser, then this post is for you. Thanks, Saurabh...

Hello from ASP.NET 2.0

VS05 Web Application Project preview...

Network bandwidth usage monitor?

...

Calling a Remote Index Server from .NET

I was building some code to access Index Server’s results via .NET and I got this: // Catalog specified in connection stringstring query = “select...

.NET 2.0 Breaks NTD

a problem with .NET 2.0 and No-Touch Deployment applications over the internet““...

Bindows: Windows Implemented in AJAX

Holy User32 in a browser window, Batman! I don’t know what it’s like to use an app built this way, but looking at the samples blows me away…...

New Workspace Link for RegexDesigner

HereThe nice folks at GotDotNet have decided in their infinite wisdom to move all of the workspaces to a new hierarchy w/o forwarding the URLs and...

Windows Template Library (WTL) 7.5

It looks like my old friend Nenad Stefanovic is up to his old tricks with a new version of my favorite native framework, the Windows Template...

Lots of WinForms 2.0 Chewy Goodness

Hereall kinds of WinForms 2.0 resources...

Windows Forms 2.0 UI Clones

HereThe Windows Forms team has posted .NET 2.0 versions of their UI clone apps, including: Outlook 2003 Clone File Explorer Clone RSS Portal Money...

Using VS05 to build .NET 1.x apps

a list of steps to take when you want to use Visual Studio 2005 to continue to maintain your .NET 1.x applications under the .NET 1.x Framework...

Generics Q: Best way to convert a string to a T?

What’s the best way to implement the following semantic (feel free to change the signature)? bool ConvertFromStringToT(string in, ref T out) {…} I’d...

Scraping old versions of VS05 off your system

If you read the ReadMe.htm from the Visual Studio 2005 setup, you’ll see a detailed list of up to 23 things to uninstall in the right order (plus 2...

VS05 Has Shipped! Wahoo!

Soma says it all...

MS Dogfooding Avalon

As MS releases new frameworks, folks always ask “Does MS use this?” Of course, MS has tons of existing apps that would be silly to rewrite, but when...

Tracking exceptions thrown by your apps worldwide

This is an interesting, and free, service that you hook your app up to and when it throws an exception, it’ll log it w/ the service so that you can...

Remove the slow “Compress Old Files” option!

“Scott HanselmanShawn Van Ness...

Early WinFS beta posted for MSDN subscribers

WinFS posts their own beta 1SQL““RCRTM...

Very Cool Nullable Fix

NET 2.0 has the idea of a “nullable” type built right in, e.g. Nullable x = null; // legal This adds nullability to value types as well as...

What should I do w/ the metadata?

Imagine I’ve got some “metadata” that describes some functionality of my system, e.g. the command line parameters to a tool: Once I have this...

WinFX Beta 1 Online SDK Docs

I think the title says it all…...

Cool Avalon Default Style Trick

a cool trick for pulling out the default style of an Avalon lookless control...

My First MsBuild Task

Heremy first custom msbuild task...

Eric Sink: The Game is Afoot

I don’t know if Eric understands the ISV industry or not, but certainly seems to. Luckily, I’m on a real product team now, so I get to try to...

Looking forward to the Portland Code Camp, 7/23-24

The session list for the Portland Code Camp, July 23-24, has just been posted. I’m especially looking forward to the following: .NET Windows Forms...

Register for COM Interop and VS05b2

I was helping a colleague work through a .NET COM interop issue. He’d found my article on the topic (“Hosting Windows Forms Controls in COM Control...

Grid: The King of Avalon Layout

PMduplicating the behavior of the scaling OSX toolbar with 8 lines of C# code2Dscale images as you mouse around...

Avalon and ASP.NET, Together At Last

Scott Guthrie says: “What we’ve set out to do is to make it dramatically easier for anyone to build AJAX-style web applications that deliver rich,...

New Monad Build Available

download the latest beta of Monad...

Ajax.NET

AJAXAjax.NET...

Col. Jessup on the .NET Performance Team

This is fabulous! Let me give you a taste: “We use words like L2, swaps, and working set. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent...

@this freaked me out

I saw code that looked like this today: class Class1 { static void Foo(object @this) { Console.WriteLine(@this); } static void Main(string[]...

C++ is dead, long live C++!

Congrats to the VC++ 2005 team for a write-up like this! “The truth is that this new development in C++ seriously undermines the justification for...

“dumpbin” is now “link -dump”

Apparently in Whidbey, “dumpbin” (and some other tools that were merely wrappers around link) has been dumped. To get to it now, do “link -dump...

When did the cmd shell start doing this?!?

Imagine the following C program: If I run this from a command shell and I enter “hi” [Enter], it looks like this: If I run it again using “lo”...

Another VB.NET feature that makes me jealous

First there was case-correction, now VB programmers in VS 2005 beta 2 get grayed out members in intellisense if they set their ClickOnce properties...

I Like VC# Express

I was paving a box this weekend with the March Avalon/Indigo CTP and I needed the matching Feb CTP of VS05, so I installed the Feb CTP of VC#...

RegexDesigner Updated

RegexDesigner has been updated to v1.1GDN...

Translate C# To And From VB.NET As You Type!

Carlos Aguilar MaresSDEMSa fabulous C# to/from VB.NET code translation tool...

Duncan Shows How To Host MSDN Content On Your Site

Are you unhappy with how MSDN arranges content on our site? Would you like to host the content you’ve written on your own site in your own chrome?...

When the student is ready, the teacher will come

I’ve been digging into .NET application extensibility lately, discovering the various pieces discussed here. And then, just when I’d despaired of...

XSLTO: Mapping XSLT to Objects

HereMSDNXSLTKim Wolk has built a little prototypeXPATHXPATH Update: Steve Dunn has ported Kim’s sample from .NET 2.0 beta to .NET 1.1. Thanks, Steve...

Awaiting and Dreading Subtext

If you follow the link to the subtext demo that Preston Bannister mentions, you’ll see my idea of hell, i.e. manipulating code primarily with a...

Thinstall sounds cool

Jim Hubbard gives Thinstall a ringing endorsement: “This solution will take your executable (.Net, VB or C++) and all of its dependencies and wrap...

GUI Front End to XmlSerializerPreCompiler

Mathew Nolton has posted a GUI front-end to my XmlSerializerPreCompiler that you might find useful. Thanks, Matt...

Rich Salz on WSDL 2.0

According to Rich Salz’s reading of the WSDL 2.0 spec (Rich makes a living selling hardware to make XML smoke, so I think he knows), the following...

Tons of Fun with Windows Media Encoder

I’ve been wanting an easy way to capture screen demos and audio for a while and after stumbling across Jon Udell’s post on Movies of Software, I...

Distributed Shared Always On Message Queue Service

HereAmazon now provides a distributed, shared, always on message queuing service...

Jon Udell Knocks My Socks Off With Dragon Naturally Speaking 8.0

watching Jon Udell use Dragon Naturally Speaking 8.0...

MaxiVista: Changing My Mind About Tablets

When I first read about MaxiVista, the thing that really got me interested was that it gave me two things that I really want from my Tablet PC. The...

I’m With Jim: X1 Rocks

Jim’s rightX1 kicks its butt...

Channel9: More Monad

I want to recommend it...

re: Business Object Design tools question

Today Ralph Loizzo asked me what tool I use to outline my objects, to which I replied: The tool I use most often to design my systems is a text...

Mixed Feelings

For the last few months, I’ve been doing some really cool work with a group of folks whose only task is to build apps that exercise the WinFX...

Very Much Enjoying .NET Rocks Lately

DNR goes up and down like every other media outlet (it’s not unlike this very web site in that way), but I’ve really been enjoying it muchly lately....

Giving a Mapped Drive .NET FullTrust

Lately, I’ve been running Virtual PC a lot to test various versions of WinFX on various platforms. To save me for locking any valuable code into a...

Windows Command Shell Partner Drop 3 Available

MSHhttp://beta.microsoft.comNT...

Windows Forms 2.0 Rocks The House

Joe Stegman shows off the ability of Windows Forms 2.0 to build very professional looking UIsMSNMSIEIEwindowsforms.net ASAP...

Dealing with Programmer’s Block

A friend of mine IM’d me just a few moments ago and asked, “When you’re sitting in front of a code editor and you have no motivation, what do you...

Good Idea: Builders in Visual Studio Code View

I really love Mitch’s idea for a “Builder” in the Visual Studio Code View: There are tons of hidden strings in code that would benefit from such a...

MSDN TOC Right From The IA’s Mouth

Have you got opinions about how information is arranged on MSDN? Do you have issues with the Table of Contents? Are you just looking for some way to...

Tim and His Angle Brackets

Tim Ewald, one of my closest friends and the guy I think deserves to be much more famous (the first chapter of his criminally under-selling...

Tim Sneath On The What’s New in WinForms 2.0

a nice, concise list of what’s new in Windows Forms 2.0...

Refactoring C# Code Using Visual Studio 2005

the new refactoring features in Visual Studio 2005 for C#...

Looking for Genghis Co-Khan

the shared source Genghis library...

Lots of Fun Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Stuff

MSDN shipped their part of Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 at about 12:30am on Tuesday morning. Sara has a nice summary of the new MSDN Product Feedback...

The Good Bits of STL in .NET 2.0

Krzysztof Cwalina’sdelegated-based APIs in combination with genericsSTL...

More On The VC# 2005 Key Bindings

VC90+% of the old key bindings will continue to work...

The VS Keybinding Randomizer Is An Actual Person

Joe Nalewabau, a Lead PM on the Visual C# team, admitted today that he was responsible for the VC# keyboard randomization process for Visual Studio...

Leaked Image of VB.net Context Menu

The great thing about multiple language teams in .NET is that each team can provide tools specific for their audience, like this leaked image of the...

Replicator v0.1

one of these...

On Threat Modeling

Lately, when the subject about how to actually secure a .NET app or component comes up, a magic phrase is uttered: “threat modeling.” Apparently,...

.NET Framework 2.0: BindingList

After spending a bunch of time with various partial IBindingList implementations, I just stumbled onto a brand new one in the Visual Studio 2005...

A Gathering of VS05 Team System Info

I find that in the process of learning about something, I often dig through a lot of places before I come up with what I’m looking for. In the case...

Chad on the Visual Studio Team Wants To Meet You

Chad says: “You are important to me! You spend your money and time on VS, and you expect VS to help you make more money and time. You will be using...

More Free WIndows Forms Controls:vbAccelerator

After posting a few sets of free Windows Forms controls, now I’m a magnet for the “but you forgot my favorite free controls site” emails, which I...

Kent Sums Sums Up the P/Invoke Add-In Nicely: Whoa

P/Invoke Wikian add-in to pull and drop P/Invoke signatures directly into VS.NETWhoa...

FileDisassembler Add-In for Reflector 4.0

R4disassembly an entire assembly into source code files...

More Free WIndows Forms Controls:xpCommon Controls

they keep on coming...

NetXP: More Free Windows Forms Controls

Roy points outMike pointed out to himnow I’m pointing out to you: NetXPNET...

PInvoke.NET: Interop the Wiki Way

HereMSDB.NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability GuideWard...

Son of Strike Debugging Inside Visual Studio .NET

HereIn his June ’03 Bugslayer column, John Robbins made a sideways comment when discussing Son of Strike (SOS), a debugging extension from Microsoft...

WiX: Open Source XML-Based MSI Creation

Rob Mensching, an MS SDE, has finally released his WiX tools for building MSI files from XML. I say “finally,” because I’ve been using his tools for...

FxCop for SQL Server

NETThe Microsoft SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer One less thing I have to build myself. : )...

Visual Studio 6 SP6

another SP for you Visual C++ 6 and Visual Basic 6 programmersSPNET...

Web Site Dedicated to Extending VS.NET

I swear I only stopped reading blogs for a coupla days, but interesting news has just surged! For example, I just found out that MSDN has an entire...

VS.NET Whidbey Has a Command Shell Window Built It

It’s well hidden, but Jason Olson points out that VS.NET Whidbey finally has a command shell built right in. Now if only it changed folders with my...

Very Cool Web Service Testing Tool from Mindreef

I knew Mindreef had cool testing tools, but I just found one today on their web site that I ended up using all afternoon. You feed it a WSDL URL and...

The VS7 Debugger doesn’t work. What can I do?

Mark Parks, a PM on the Visual C# Debugger QA team, has posted ways to fix common VS.NET debugger problems. He’s even got a fix for why I can’t...

Genghis v0.5 Released

After much delay (man, this Microsoft gig keeps a person busy), I’m happy to announce Genghis v0.5: New HtmlLinkLabel class from Jeff Key that knows...

Reimplementing Mike’s cmdline Utility using WMI

HereIn early 2000, Mike Woodring moved Heaven and Earth to write a tool that would inject a DLL into a process’s memory for purposes of finding the...

Genghis v0.5 On the Way, But Baby First

HereFor those folks asking, another drop of Genghis is on the way, which includes an HTML link class that handles links for you, a user-sizeable...

The Facts About The Windows Source Code Posting

MS’s official word...

My First .NET Tool Gets An Update

HereGiven Aaron’s wonderful set of .NET XML tools, I don’t know why Tony Malandain found my little xmlValid tool for checking XML well-formedness...

ImCli Classes Updated for MSNP8

HerePlenty of folks have asked for updates to my IM client classes to support the new MSNP8 protocol, but only Robert M. Wagner Jr. made the changes...

Learn the new VC++ from the master

I used to brag that, unlike most C++ programmers, I learned C++ directly from the CFRONT 2.0 release notes and not from Stanley Lippman (his C++...

WinForms SDI and MDI wizards?

HereSDIMDI...

WksSync Updated

Here...

ADO.NET CSV File Tester

HereCSV...

ADO.NET CsvFileTester

CsvFileTester is a tool inspired by Shawn Wildermuth’s ExcelFileTester, which he wrote ’cuz I kept asking him how to do queries on...

The Visual C++ Team Wants You!

HereOKVS...

XmlSerializer Workshop

HereNETXML...

Another .NET Regular Expression Tool

Here...

Are You Missing Out on Code Generation?

Here...

.NET FormatDesigner

FormatDesigner is an application to experiment with the format strings used to format data in String.Format and various type’s ToString...

*Free* (as in beer) Access to VSIP!

Here“FREEVSIPSDKVSIPNET...

Regular Expression Workbench 2.0

Here...

Genghis Moved to GotDotNet Workspaces 1.0

Here...

Spout: Learning to Learn

Here...

XmlSerializerPreCompiler

Here“...

XmlSerializerPreCompiler

Tired of the XmlSerializer’s generic “File or assembly name ctewkx4b.dll, or one of its dependencies, was not found” exception? The...

Filter Files With Unknown Extensions For XP

The fact that Windows XP Find in Files only searches files with known file extensions drives me crazy because it skips, among other things, .cs...

SQL Buddy

Here...

Genghis v0.4

Sorry for the long wait. There’s been two whole books written between the last release of Genghis and this one. Here’s the list of new features:...

NAnt 0.8.2 released

Here...

Hello IDispatch Lovers

I’m probably jumping into this topic a bit late but it doesn’t seem to end. I admit I haven’t read all article in this thread but I...

Exposing Multiple Interfaces to Scripting Clients

This page represents an attempt to capture the collective consciousness of the COM community. Of course, thoughtful feedback is welcome...

NUnitASP

HereNET...

.NET ResourceExplorer

In writing the resources chapter of my WinForms book, I found that there was no single utility for displaying the resource contents of...

New Genghis Release Coming

HereASAP...

ADO.NET — Offline and On Tap

Here“NET...

WinForms Control Inspector — Spy++ for .NET

Here“NET...

VBTV Episode 2: DO NOT WATCH THIS SHOW!

HereVBTV...

Regular Expressions in .NET

HereNET’...

Scancode Mapper

Scancode Mapper is a GUI tool for setting the Scan Code Mapper for Windows Registry settings for Win2K+: As an example of what this tool does to...

NUnit 2.0 Released

HereNETNET...

NUnit 2.0 RC3 available

Here...

TAPI Explorer

I built the TAPI Explorer (tExplorer) to allow me to understand the various capabilities of the telephony devices installed on my system when I...

Microsoft XML Diff and Patch 1.0

Here“XMLXMLXMLXMLXMLXDLXMLXMLXMLMS...

VC++ Jacket for the Best Managed C++ Entry

HereNETPM“NET”...

Genghis v0.3 Release

What’s new in Genghis v0.3: Screen shots for everything. Source available via CVS repository. MRU support, including both in-menu and sub-menu...

NUnit 2.0 RC1 available

HereGUIXML...

VBTV

HereNET...

Beta-2 of Nunit 2.0 is available

Here““XML...

Microsoft XML Diff and Patch 1.0 Beta

Here“XML“MSXMLXMLAPI...

treecc — Free Compiler Construction Tool for C#

Here“...

Genghis — 0.2 Release

Thanks to all of the *very* active contributors, Genghis has doubled in size! This update includes: an automated nant build a framework for nunit...

ADOGuy’s Typed DataSet Generator

“The Typed DataSet that Microsoft generates from Visual Studio.NET (or from the XSD.exe tool), does not support derivation directly. In order to...

Brent Rector: The Truth about Code Obfuscators

“An obfuscator only delays the inevitable. With unlimited resources (time and money) and physical access to code, all code can be reverse...

Visual Build Pro

“It’s easy to put Visual Build Pro to work doing all that manual labor for you so you can focus on more important things. Visual Build Pro is a...

Updated XsdClassesGen

Eric Eric Friedman has submitted code to support namespaces and uninstall. The former fills the biggest hole in XsdClassesGen (thanks Eric), but why...

.NET XsdClassesGen

XsdClassesGen is a Custom Tool Add-In to VS.NET 2002 & 2003 to generate type-safe wrapper classes for serializing to and from XML...

Modern C++ Design

this book...

Genghis — .01 release

the v0.1 version of Genghis...

Announcing Genghis

GenghisNETATL...

SafeFormatter for .NET

Are you building and deploying .NET applications in a secure environment, e.g. over the intranet or the internet? If so, they you’ve...

Giving VS.NET That XP Look

USE THIS FILE WITH CARE. It causes problems with image lists for .NET EXEs that don’t also use the same manifest file. Just drop this...

.NET CollectionGen

[Note: As of 5/5/03, the functionality of CollectionGen has been sucked into Eric Smith’s CodeSmith. I asked Eric to take on these features...

RegexDesigner.NET

is a powerful visual tool for helping you construct and test .NET Regular Expressions. When you are happy with your...

.NET IM Client Classes

Inspired by my need to know who was calling without hauling my butt off the couch to look at the caller ID on the phone across the room...

Welcome to Genghis!

Genghis is a set of extensions built on top of .NET and integrated with WinForms to provide application-level services in the same flavor as the...

VS.NET Fun Facts

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the VS.NET Fun Facts piece that started as praise and bitching about VS.NET, but turned into...

CorPub

Oct 10, 2001 I’ve updated CorPub to show *all* managed AppDomains by initializing the COR debugging sub-system prior to...

.NET XML Checker and Validator

Aug 8, 2001 xmlValid is simple command line utility that will check an xml file for well-formedness and, optionally, will...

Setting the Completion Character

Aug 7, 2001 Whenever I set up a new machine (which happens a lot as WinXP and .NET go through their beta & RC cycles), I...

NullScript Used to Reverse Engineer Gen

Wow. I’m impressed as all get out. Hugh Brown has reverse-engineered Gen as one of the tests of his NullScript implementation....

Moniker Wizard

Here’s my moniker wizard that includes the framework used by the Basic Monikers...

Tim’s COM+ Utilities

Aug 4, 2001 The great and powerful Tim Ewald (author of Transactional COM+: Building Scalable Applications and...

Command Line Parsing

Aug 3, 2001 I got tired of not having getopt under Win32 and the best version to port doesn’t handle slashes (as per the Windows...

Expando Objects

Aug 2, 2001 I’ve seen lots of interest lately in expando objects, e.g. objects that can add methods and properties on the fly. Joe...

Windows Template Library

Aug 1, 2001 WTL is, spiritually at least, what the MFC team would’ve come up with had they...

VARIANT_BOOL Wrapper

July 31, 2001 CComBool is a class to prevent the misuse of the VARIANT_BOOL type. VARIANT_BOOL is a problem because its legal...

ATL CRT Numbers

July 30, 2001 The following table lists the various prices you pay for using the CRT and the default Win98 support in VC6. The...

VBLite

July 29, 2001 Dharma Shukla and I wrote “Extending ATL3.0 Containment to Help You Write Real-World Containers” in the...

Attila

stands for “ATL for Applications.” Attila is a set of extensions built on top of ATL to provide application-level services in the...

Simple Object II ATL ObjectWizard Extension

July 27, 2001 The Simple Object II ATL ObjectWizard Extension (whew — I’ve got to come up with a shorter name…) provides the...

CComVector: A SAFEARRAY Wrapper

July 26, 2001 I got tired of not having a smart type for SAFEARRAYs, so I built one. It’s limited to one dimension (does anyone use...

CComDate

July 25, 2001This zip provides two classes for use with dates and times under Windows: CComDATE: Wraps the COM DATE type, providing...

Exposing Multiple IDispatch Interfaces

If you’d like to know about how to expose multiple IDispatch implementations from a single COM object, check out this extensive treatment...

MDI Applications in ATL

July 23, 2001 At atlmdi.zip, please find Charles Petzold’s famous raw Win32 MDI application, MDIDemo, ported to ATL. See atlmdi.h...

Fixing the External Dispatch in ATL + IE5

July 22, 2001 Are you getting this: “Error: object doesn’t support this property or method” when you try to call a method on your...

TraceHook

July 21, 2001 TraceHook is a member function call tracing delegator hook based on Keith Brown’s most excellent universal...

CAspPtr

If you’ve ever had to write the code to pull the ASP intrinsic objects from the MTS context, you might appreciate CAspPtr, which allows the...

Smart IEnumVARIANT

Visual Basic and its variants (sic) use IEnumVARIANT to implement the For-Each statement. Unfortunately, they only ask for 1 element at a...

SmartEnumVARIANT

VB The SmartEnumVARIANT object manages buffered access to the underlying IEnumVARIANT. VB can still ask for one item at a time, but...

Implementing Marshal-by-Value using ATL

July 18, 2001 Not too long ago, Jonathan Borden, jborden@MEDIAONE.NET, posted a nifty class called IMarshalByValueImpl...

Implementing dispatch-based interfaces in ATL

July 17, 2001 There are three kinds of ways to declare a dispatch-based interface in IDL, but ATL (as of version 3.0), only...

MeowMoniker

If you’re into COM Monikers, here’s one that I like. A brief description of the purpose and the implementation of...

Basic Monikers

Wish there was a moniker that did CoCreateInstance just like the Class Moniker calls CoGetClassObject? Wish you were able to compose the...

regsvr.reg

July 14, 2001 regsvr.reg is a regedit script file that adds Register COM Server and Unregister COM Server to the context menu for...

ATL Composition

July 13, 2001 I’ve developed a set of macros to support implementing interfaces using nested composition in ATL (the one common way...

Client-Side Enumeration Iterator

July 12, 2001 Have you ever been jealous of the VB programmer who could write this: If so, you may be interested in the...

STL Enumerator Iterator

Have you ever been jealous of the VB programmer who could write this: when we poor C++ programmers have to write...

GitHelp

July 11, 2001 githelp.hdefines a set of wrappers for implementing inter-thread marshaling using the GIT instead of streams....

Codename TextBox

Have you ever wanted to generate code like the wizards do, i.e. start with a template, mix in some symbols and boom, out comes the code? If...

TZ Data to XML Project

These are the outputs of my attempts to translate the native tz data into XML for easier parsing for applications other...

Genghis

is a set of extensions built on top of .NET and integrated with WinForms to provide application-level services in the same flavor...

UrlRun

Mon, 26 Jun 2000 To deal w/ the number of wrapped URLs I get in my email box, I built UrlRun. It checks the clipboard for...

Welcome to Attila!

Attila GDI sample (Jim Murphy likes Attila and GDI a little too much…) Attila stands for “ATL...

Welcome to MeowMoniker!

MeowMoniker and Feline are COM objects designed and built by Chris Sells, with a great deal of input from Don Box and Tim Ewald. The...