For about an hour, all I wanted to do was use a WebGet attribute by adding this line of code to a test WCF application I was creating: using System.ServiceModel.Web; I went to the Add Reference dialog and looked for the assembly…  But as you can see below, for this project, it wasn’t available.   […]

myOSity.com reminds me of the original Microsoft Windows 3 Program Manager—an icon based launching pad to windowed applications (several of which are from various authors from around the web).  Interestingly, according the the creator’s blog the project will be going open source onto CodePlex. And for a very clever twist, check out Wiki-OS.  The concept […]

Subversion works great and is easy to install on Windows using Visual SVN Server.  Rather than using text commands to checkout/commit/log/etc, TortoiseSVN  seamlessly integrates with the Windows File Explorer as a shell extension providing excellent visual tools such as a Repo-Browser, Revision Graph, and Log Statistics. While TortoiseSVN has a visual diff tool, Beyond Compare […]

Using RegEdit, find the location of BlendLaunchPath. On my Windows Server 2008 box, the REG_SZ BlendLaunchPath was under [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Expression\Blend\4.0\VS] The proper location is: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Expression\Blend\VS] Below you can see the new VS key added with the BlendLaunchPath: Solution originally found in Tim Heuer’s blog.

A worthy quote found while reading the book Bushido, the Soul of Japan, (from Google books): “Chivalry is itself the poetry of life.” – Karl Wilhelm Fredrich Schegel, Philosophy of History which doesn’t actually exist in the book (you can search for it in the link to the book above).

All software development managers should know how to code and have real world production system experience; otherwise they are managing blind.  And, it’s equally important to keep one’s programming skills current. Managers that stop writing code will lose touch with their teams. Thus the mnemonic A.B.C. Always Be Coding which is a gentle reminder to […]

The idea of a complete desktop in a browser is intriguing.  Using remote desktops and virtual PCs is close.  But I like the idea of just going to a URL–the “cloud” desktop.  Something akin to GotoMyPC but without the need to actually setup the PC in the first place. Two “web-friendly” implementations worth exploring are […]

Visual Studio will automatically format your selected code by pressing CTRL+K+F (note: hold down the control key continuously, press K then press F).   To format all code in your currently active file in Visual Studio, press CTRL+K+D (same note as above).   For a list of more pre-defined keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio 2010 […]

Check out http://www.bing.com/maps/explore While still in beta it clearly shows some of the power of Silverlight. I am hoping that WPF/E (aka silverlight) makes it Everywhere—especially on mobile devices in the near future.   Nice job Microsoft.

Paint.Net is simply amazing.  When I first saw the program I knew then that the .Net framework was ready for primetime.  Paint.Net has the look and feel of a professional commercial application—something that is not easy to do and requires the right tools (which is why I had been a die-hard Delphi follower).  For a […]