Thoughts about .NET. Thoughts about code.
Posted in .NET, Powershell on Aug 31st, 2009
There is a way to use Powershell to search the contents of a file. This method will not use the Windows index so it will be slow, but it does work. get-childitem c:\users\ -filter *.txt -recurse | select-string -list -pattern "yourtext" | foreach {$_.Path} Finding files get-childitem: Get the children for a container. In this [...]
Posted in .NET, Powershell on Aug 30th, 2009
I needed to find a file that was created in March 2009. The folder isn’t indexed so I created this PowerShell script to help find the files within a specified date range. childitem -filter *.doc? -recurse | where {$_.CreationTime -gt [datetime]::parse("03/01/2009") -and $_.CreationTime -lt [datetime]::parse("03/31/2009") -and $_.length -gt 50} The first line recursively [...]
Posted in .NET, Conference on Apr 27th, 2006
Abstract Creating your own controls is a great way to augment your UI development. There’s more to creating user controls however than dropping a few constituent controls on a designer and crafting a few properties or methods. This session illustrates the techniques you need to elevate your user controls to the next level. Since other [...]
Posted in .NET, Conference on Apr 23rd, 2006
Alright, I love giving this talk. I’ve always liked graphics programming, wrote my first animation piece on an Apple II. Avalon, now with BORING and DRAB name Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), is very cool. The places where Avalon touches your UI is everywhere. Abstract The next version of Windows (Windows Vista) will include a completely [...]
Posted in .NET, Conference on Apr 22nd, 2006
Time to explain what I’m doing with my second talk at Toronto VSLive 2006. Abstract AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) has been getting lots of press lately. It provides a very Windows-like experience for web applications. AJAX is a mixture of technologies (DHTML, script, XML and more) that produce highly-performant and scalable UI’s by leveraging [...]
Posted in .NET, Conference on Apr 21st, 2006
I thought I would write about each of the talks I’m giving next week at VSLive Toronto. My first talk is Smart Data Clients 2.0. It’s part of the Smart Client track, a track that focuses on building applications that run on your OS. Yes, I’m talking about Windows applications here. Abstract Working with data [...]
Posted in .NET, Conference on Apr 20th, 2006
Next week I will be in Canada, more precisely I’ll be in Toronto. I’m going to be talking at the VSLive conference there. This is my second trip to the city. Last year, I was there and spent a a day hanging out with Jeremy Wright. Another night I wandered about the city with a [...]
Posted in .NET, VisualStudio on Apr 10th, 2006
I use the DeveloperExpress Refactor tool frequently when working in Visual Studio 2005. I suspect a lot of other developers use it too, especially since it is available for free – for Visual Basic programmers. There is a consistent bug in Refactor that hasn’t been fixed yet. It’s more of a petty annoyance than a [...]
I’m really trying to like the new .NET 2.0 help system. I am, I really am! I’m used to the fact that some help pages will be COMPLETELY lacking in sample code. I don’t like it, I think that Microsoft is really missing the mark here. But I’m used to it because I see it [...]
Posted in .NET, VisualStudio on Feb 25th, 2006
There are some tools that just seem to find their way into every .NET developer toolbox. Lutz Roeder’s Reflector for .NET is one of these. I don’t know a single working .NET developer that doesn’t use Reflector. Some of my friends live inside of it. Add to Visual Studio Since Reflector is such a useful [...]