Archive for the 'Other' Category

My custom Visual Studio’s environment settings

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

I’m using non-standard Visual Studio environment settings and I’ve decided to share them with other developers on the web. I hope that everybody is familiar with how to import and export VS settings but for those who do not know I’ll write few words.
First of all you need to start your VS :). Then you [...]

Enterprise Library 3.1 installation problem

Monday, November 17th, 2008

I needed to install Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) on one old machine which I decided to use for some tests. As far as WCSF needs Enterprise Library 3.1 I’ve decided to install it. And I ran into a problem.
Firstly, let me say what I have installed on the machine. OS - Windows XP SP, [...]

I’m annoyed of how developers used to organize loops…

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Today, I browse the code of one of our projects in order to look through a problem I discussed with another developer and I saw a loop which irritated me. The sample of what I’m talking about is below.

object obj = null;
foreach (int item in array)
{
// initialize the object if the first pass
if (obj == [...]

How to use a custom xsd when edit a XML file in Visual Studio?

Monday, October 27th, 2008

In one of my projects people use NHibernate for accessing database. Today, I saw that when some xml file (mapping or configuration) is edited Visual Studio doesn’t provide intellisense and validation of the schema. Moreover, i found no one in the team to use xsd schemas provided by Hibernate.
The question is how to use custom [...]

Stupid situation with Mozilla cache

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Today, i ran into a situation which make me upset.
My environment is MS VS 2008, ASP.Net MVC, ExtJS. Web sites are debugged using internal VS 2008 IIS and Firebug.
I wrote a class in Javascript and after some tests i became to a moment when I needed to extend it. Let’s say that I need several [...]

Got back from holliday

Friday, September 12th, 2008

I didn’t write anything for a long time (more than a month) and i feel that I’m ready to get back to my blog and to start posting again. I was in a vacation and I got a real rest from work and computers :).
The first thing I’d like to share is an on-line book [...]