Awhile ago I created a method to simulate a Enum but based on a string value rather than integral numeric (published here on CodeProject). It also allows for adding and extracting a description. However, if you’re just looking for a lightweight way to add a description to your enums, this blog post posits a simple, […]
You’ve all had it happen. You just put the finishing touches on your project and you hit the Publish button. The files are automatically copied to the file server and users start get the updates right away. You double-check the publish and then you realize that you published the DEBUG version with all your program […]
The MBP comes with a beautiful backlit keyboard and a multitouch trackpad that is also a big button. Both are very pleasant and easy to use–unless you run Windows or run into an application that require that you press the Home key. Then you’re hunting newsgroups for the magical key combos. Here are a couple […]
Edit: See updated version specifically for use with VS 2010. I needed to create a ClickOnce publish of an obfuscated exe for a customer since he was concerned about theft of his intellectual property. I added in several security features, but they were worthless if I couldn’t harden the executable against decompilers like .Net Reflector. […]
I stumbled across this add-in which automates the insertion of various Windows API declarations. If you’re like me, you track down solutions to your problem on the Internet, but sometimes it uses an API declaration in C# or VB6. Even worse, sometimes someone will use a non-standard or just plain difficult declaration style, for example: […]
If you’ve programmed for any length of time in .NET, you’re probably familiar with the DEBUG compiler constant that you can use to designate code to compile and run depending on your build configuration (e.g. Debug or Release). But very often you don’t care about the configuration you’re running–what you do care about is distinguishing […]
Ever been stuck working in VB.NET 2005 or 2008 with a project created in VB.NET 2003? Aside from language differences, you’re stuck with forms that except for resources are in one file. Not only is this ugly, but it makes the IDE slower, since it redraws when it detects any changes to a file that […]
As everyone else is weighing in with anecdotal evidence so will I. Since I use my Mac to run Windows to program in Windows and DOS for work, it’s very important to me to select the very best emulator. The odd thing is how each performed very well in different areas, both singularly excelling in […]
I created this blog so I could post about different things I’m working on, and I resolve with the new year to start doing so. I thought I’d begin by relating a difficult situation I had setting up an automated backup for my brother-in-law’s computer. I was trying to automate the use of NTBackup.exe which […]
Some time ago I submitted an article to CodeProject and I thought I’d post a link to it here. It’s not a new idea, but I think a novel implementation. The article’s purpose is to provide functionality like an Enum, but using a string as the target data type. I’ve actually used it quite frequently […]