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Delegate Type Inference in C#

Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:02 PM by noahc
Today I saw some C# language syntax that made me think, "hey, wait a minute, I didn't know you could do that!", so perhaps it'll be new to someone else too.  Honestly, I don't know how I missed this memo. Let's start off with the code, Read More...
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Pull Web Service Data into Excel

Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:24 AM by noahc
Visual Studio 2008 has great Office 2007 integration with the ability to essentially open an Excel worksheet from within VS and add C# code as if it was a Windows Forms application.  Just today an acquaintance asked how to pull data off the web and Read More...
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A Little LINQ

Posted Monday, September 10, 2007 10:39 AM by noahc
LINQ is out in strength and I've got to admit, even though I talked to Anders Hejlsberg over three years ago about it, I've just recently started using it in my own code. There's a lot out on the net about it, but here's my 2c to help people get started. Read More...
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String.Equals Performance Comparison

Posted Friday, June 29, 2007 8:54 AM by noahc
I recently had an app that I used the VSTS Profiler on to find that a significant portion of time was spent comparing some long strings. I was using String.Equals(string a, string b, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) since I didn't care about Read More...
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Amazon Short URL RegEx

Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 6:19 PM by noahc
When you search amazon.com, it takes you to product pages that have a real long URL. It can be nice and short, so here's a little regular expression to shorten it. Long URL: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Visual-Studio-System-Programmer/dp/0764584367/ref=sr_1_1/104-4732806-7470339?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179873697&sr=8-1 Read More...
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HTML Applications (HTAs)

Posted Sunday, March 25, 2007 9:20 PM by noahc
HTML Applications (HTAs) are DHTML pages that have full local privileges.  They've been around for a long time, but a colleague recently inquired so it was worth remembering.  They're frequently used for splash screens on CD autoruns or as frontends Read More...
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Rolling Up Status on Work Items

Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 12:09 PM by noahc
Say you have a work item type (WIT) that represent a big task, like a Feature, then you have individual Task work items that make up that feature. You want to update the work completed and remaining of the tasks, and have that roll into the corrosponding Read More...
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Get a Web Page's Title from a URL (C#)

Posted Monday, February 19, 2007 8:53 AM by noahc
I was creating an app that saves URLs copied to the clipboard into an XML file. This little bit of code came in handy so I thought I'd be worth sharing. This code checks to make sure the URL is to a valid HTML page by first checking the type of request, Read More...
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TFS Work Item Hierarchy

Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 11:09 AM by noahc
.altrow {background: ;} .appname {font-size: 10pt;} .boxed {border: black 1px solid; padding: 4px; background: aliceblue;} tr.header {background: navy; font: bold 11pt arial; color: white;} td.header {padding: 2px; padding-left: 8px;} .title {font: bold Read More...
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Outlook C# Extensibility: Contacts Without a Photo

Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 6:25 PM by noahc
Gosh I love extensibility. I'd so much rather take the time to write an app to automate a 1min task, if I had to do that task over and over again. MS Office has great extensibility. Here's a quick example of an app to list out all your contacts that don't Read More...
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Register a Custom URL Protocol Handler

Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:58 AM by noahc
Perhaps you're familiar with such URL protocol handlers such as http://microsoft.com , ftp://user:pass@server outlook:Contacts , file://http://www.coad.net/blog/images/Greenstone.bmp , ms-help://... Want to make your own client-side URL handler? Maybe Read More...
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Copy Paste HTML From MS Word: IE's DHTML Editing Control (in a .NET WinApp)

Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 2:53 PM by noahc
When copy/pasting from MS Word, the HTML it generates is really messy and can't be used verbatim. This has been a pain of mine and many others. I've found that many 3rd party controls, and some client-side blogging tools (like BlogJet) have a miraculous Read More...
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CoadNet VS Project Templates, Quick Code + Console App for C# in VS05

Posted Friday, July 14, 2006 12:31 PM by noahc
Here are two project templates that I created and use on an almost daily basis that I packaged up to share. About a year ago I posted one of my project templates for VS03.NET, “ Creating Quick Tests in C# ”, that became the top VS add-in download Read More...
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VSWindowManager PowerToy - VS Plugin for Tool Windows Management

Posted Monday, July 10, 2006 7:25 PM by noahc
I was checking out an MSDN Magazine post on “ Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now ” and came across this great VS Plug-in for managing window layouts, VSWindowManager PowerToy . I use a laptop for development, and while Read More...
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XPathmania - XPath in VS

Posted Monday, July 10, 2006 7:08 PM by noahc
This is a cool little plug-in from DonXML for VS that lets you run XPath statements against the currently opened XML document. I’ve been waiting for something like this!! I write a lot of XPath and this sure makes testing the expressions sooooo Read More...
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