December 2006 - Posts

Resharper 2.5 for VB guys

Published 12-19-2006 2:38 PM | jokiz

I was not able to blog about the version 2.5 release of my favorite Visual Studio Addin Jetbrains Resharper . I've seen in their release notes that they are now partially supporting VB projects so if you're into VB.NET, it's time that you try Resharper...

Filed under: resharper

Weird function calls in VB6

Published 12-14-2006 3:43 PM | jokiz

Note that i started my programming career as a .NET Developer so i never got hold of VB6.0 even in school (I have a Physics degree) I was experimenting with some vba codes when i stumbled upon this weird function call constructs for vb6/vba. i was calling...

Filed under: vba

Closing an MS Office document

Published 12-14-2006 2:31 PM | jokiz

I'm sure most of you have noticed when you press Alt+F4 while in an MS Office window, or click the X button in the upper right window of an Office document, it tries to close all instances of that Office application. If you have a number of word documents...

Filed under: tips, msoffice

Learning VBA

Published 12-13-2006 3:59 PM | jokiz

After installing Visual Studio Tools for Office and exploring it's functionalities, we've come to the conclusion that we won't be needing it. The current requirement is just to present the data to the client in a number of ways which is currently using...

Filed under: msoffice

Saved by an automated test

Published 12-09-2006 2:44 AM | jokiz

Last week, I was assigned to fix a bug in my first project in my current company. The said application was released months ago and is currently being used by our client. Initially, the fix was just to move a particular line of code just above a conditional...

Filed under: tdd, continuous integration

MbUnit 2.3 is out

Published 12-07-2006 9:31 PM | jokiz

Andew Stopford announced the release of MbUnit 2.3 here , and it's great to see my name as a contributor for the said release. If you haven't tried it's RowTestFixture , you better give it a shot. I haven't really explored more on it's features but I...

Filed under: tdd, xUnit

Hint-a-hint + SearchKeys

Published 12-07-2006 7:43 PM | jokiz

I have been using SearchKeys for a while now as I explore my mouseless computing world . It's good because firefox just emits numeric shortcut keys for google search results and my bookmarks at del.icio.us (used to support google groups, too bad). SearchKeys...

Filed under: tips, keyboard shortcuts

Learning VSTO

Published 12-07-2006 5:14 PM | jokiz

We've just upgraded to Visual Studio 2005 (finally!) and I'm currently exploring Visual Studio Tools for Office for my next project. It's my first time to use it and i have seen it used in one of the events through MS Philippines. The project's specification...

Filed under: .NET, visual studio, msoffice

An address incompatible with the requested protocol was used

Published 12-05-2006 11:34 PM | jokiz

i was trying out NHibernate with MySQL when i get this error message when opening a connection. problem is, i don't get the said error when i unplug my LAN cable which connects to my crappy Globe DSL (still crappy after two weeks, grrrr). i wonder why...

Filed under: NHibernate, MySQL

CCTray rocks

Published 12-03-2006 8:52 PM | jokiz

I have been using CruiseControl.NET for a 10 months now and i love it. The only thing that puzzles me is why the java counterpart still does not have a client application like CCTray which just parks at the system tray and gives out build status notifications...

Filed under: continuous integration, CCNET