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++ Primer is a key part of C++ canon law). That boast came to a screeching halt when I had Stan in one of my COM courses and he revealed that he’d written the CFRONT 2.0 release notes.
I noticed that Stephane Rodriguez put an SDI and MDI wizard up on CodeProject. I've been *dying* for those forever, but I couldn't get his to work. Anyone come up with a simplified set up for them? Anyone interested in porting them to Genghis?
CsvFileTester is a tool inspired by
Shawn Wildermuth’s ExcelFileTester, which he wrote ’cuz I kept asking him
how to do queries on .xls files. However, because the Excel query language has
no where or order by clauses, I gave that up in favor of comma-separated text
files.
I wrote CsvFileTester (with Shawn’s help) to explore the ADO.NET/ODBC/JET
support for CSV files and I was amazed at how comprehensive the support was.
And, since I can never remember the syntax and limitations between one use of
Jet expression syntax and the next, I put a bunch of samples in the combobox.
The VC++ team has a bunch of cool work they need doing and they're looking for candidates. Don't be shy. Apply today!
And if http://microsoft.com/jobs is too slow for you, feel free to send your resume and a bottle of Scotch (OK, that last part is optional : ) to Terry Leeper, a friend of mine on the VS team desperate for help: tleeper@microsoft.com.
Simon Steele has posted a most excellent tool for digging through an assembly of .NET types trying to build XML serializers for them. This helps you to figure out which classes are going to succeed at design-time instead of at run-time and shows you what's wrong. Much cooler than my silly command line app. Thanks, Simon!
Regular Expressions seems a popular thing to build a tool around. The Regular looks cool. They all look cool. Why weren't any of these tools around when I started building RegexD?!?
