June 2006 - jokiz -

"type search" in reflector

i can't seem to remember the old way the "Type Search" of Reflector works but currently it return all types with the keyed in word as part of the type name (fully qualified name with their namespace). Searching for "Form" will return a list including...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2006 10:30 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET

del.icio.us

lately, i have been switching from local storage to online. i shifted from rssbandit to bloglines for my blog reader and from browser bookmarking to del.icio.us . main reason is accessibiliy. del.icio.us is way better since you can tag a link to a number...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2006 9:29 AM by jokiz

Filed under: tips

needs a senior and a junior .net developer

our company is in need of a senior and a junior .net developer. i have seen the post in jobstreet this morning. if you are interested in agile practices (test-driven development, scrum, and continuous integration), join us, hehehe.

Published Wed, Jun 06 2006 9:21 AM by jokiz

Filed under: techie

Visual Studio 2003 hate list

here are some list of the behaviors that i hate with Visual Studio 2003. I hope most of them are fixed with the 2005 version. Crashing while attempting to attach to a process i started experiencing this back in my previous company and once in a while...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2006 10:35 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, visual studio, rants

to derive or not to derive from ApplicationException

remember the rule to always derive custom exceptions from ApplicationException? so you thought that the CLR never throws an ApplicationException? Krzysztof Cwalina (co-author of Brad Adams in the famous Framework Design Guidelines book) blogs about the...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2006 10:13 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, design guidelines

word selection through double click (with extra space)

double clicking almost anywhere selects the word where the curret is currently in. i used it a lot to add hyperlinks on blog posts and it's beginning to be a pain when it always select the space after the word. similar post here .

Published Mon, Jun 06 2006 4:52 PM by jokiz

Filed under: techie, tips, ms word

migrating tech posts from msn spaces

until now, i haven't fully migrated all my blog posts from my old msn spaces blog account here. i guess this is the right time to learn the metaweblog api of msn spaces, maybe i can use some of the exposed api...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2006 12:14 AM by jokiz

Filed under: techie, blogging

Databinding BrokenRules

i was applying the business rules on our CSLA derived business objects last week. when it came to the UI, we have this repeater control to display friendly messages to the user on our master page. i was about to bind the broken rules' descriptions of the concerned business object in the said repeater control when i could not find any slot from the RulesCollection of CSLA....

Published Sun, Jun 06 2006 9:57 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, CSLA, databinding

purging the email address cache of outlook

it has been months that the autocomple feature of microsoft outlook has been plaguing me and this time, i have conquered it (sometimes, i am just lazy to google around). i edited some of my contact list and i wanted all my contact email to display their...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2006 6:50 PM by jokiz

Filed under: tips, outlook

Storing business objects in ViewState

A very common exception when storing business objects in ViewState is an HttpException telling you : "The type [business object] must be marked as Serializable or have a TypeConverter other than ReferenceConverter to be put in viewstate." But you have...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2006 6:44 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, viewstate

css with datagrid

i was having some problem yesterday on setting the border color of the datagrid. setting the BorderColor property of the datagrid will set the outer box border of the html table together with the borders of the table cells. since i will be using the same...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2006 11:10 AM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, datagrid, css

Extended Sofware Evaluation Period

i was laughing the other night when i heard that scott hanselman has some software on its 4th month evaluation period. i have been evaluating resharper (hahaha) i think for the nth time (poor me). it was the reason why i got frustrated when yahoo mail...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2006 5:37 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, techie, resharper

Microsoft MVP

i just heard that a friend of mine is currently nominated as a Microsoft MVP. I hope he makes it because i believe he deserved it. Being a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional is also one of my dreams (every .NET developer i'm sure wants to be one). He...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2006 12:26 AM by jokiz

Filed under: techie

error code 1 returned by nunit.console

i am having this problem with nunit.console ran by nant. i have recently segrated our tests to have the persistence tests to be on a separate project. all is well, i was able to attach another task for the nant build for the added test project and i have...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2006 3:55 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, agile, tdd

keyboard shortcuts

Jon Galloway lists a compilation of keyboard shortcuts that will be helpful for keyboard lovers like me. You might as well check it out here . since i have been using firefox for months now, i haven't really dug in on how to optimize its usage using keyboard...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2006 11:16 AM by jokiz

Filed under: techie, tips, keyboard shortcuts

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