Mar
30th

5 Firefox Extensions Any Web Developer Must Have

Posted by Amit |
Filed under Utilities, Web Development |

We all know that Firefox has tons of plug-ins and add-on’s, but there are a few any web developer must know and use. The description and screenshots are taken from the Firefox add-ons site.

CSSMate: Inline CSS Editing Evolved. Originally a port of the fantastic EditCSS tool that I’ve been using for many months. I’ve gutted [...]


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Mar
30th

Photoshop Express - Free and Online

Posted by Shahar Y |
Filed under Technology & Internet |

Adobe, creator of the desktop graphic editor Photoshop, launched a new online and free edition of Photoshop Express (Beta). Here is a quote from a post Create your Logos, Buttons and Icons for Free that was published a few weeks ago in this blog: “There are many graphic editor programs in the market. Whether those [...]


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Mar
27th

A Better Way to Extract Data from DateTime

Posted by Amit |
Filed under .Net, C# |

Lately I took part in several code reviews and I noticed that whenever people need to extract the month name from the datetime object many different solutions are presented. Some of the solutions were not very successful, so I decided to shed some light on this issue through an example.
These are the most common (and [...]


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Mar
26th

A New Pattern for Event Declaration

Posted by Amit |
Filed under .Net, C# |

We all know the pattern to declare an event in C#, fairly easy, here is a remainder:
1: public class EventTest
2: {
3: public event EventHandler MyEvent;
[...]


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Mar
25th

What to do When Lotus Notes Crashes

Posted by Shahar Y |
Filed under Misc., Technology & Internet |

Lotus Notes is an integrated desktop client option for accessing business e-mail, calendars and applications on [an] IBM Lotus Domino server. The Notes client is mainly used as an email client in large organizations, so some of us have to work with it. I, personally don’t like it because it is not user friendly (see [...]


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Mar
25th

Customize SpellCheck on WPF Text Controls

Posted by Shahar Y |
Filed under WPF |

WPF has a great feature for spell checking called SpellCheck, which is applied on TextBox and RichTextBox controls. In this post I will explain about it and how can it be customized. Lets go back to the start, to activate the spell checker just set SpellCheck.IsEnabled property to True. Easy, right?. Take a look at [...]


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Mar
24th

Using WinForms with WPF, Watch Out!

Posted by Amit |
Filed under C#, WPF |

Here is an interesting thing that happened to me at work.
For various reasons the application i am working on has a Windows Form in its base, and most of the controls are WPF, part of them are WinForms. The weirdest thing happened to me as i was trying to open a WPF Window from one [...]


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Mar
23rd

Create your Logos, Buttons and Icons for Free

Posted by Shahar Y |
Filed under Technology & Internet |

There are many graphic editor programs in the market. Whether those products are commercial or free, their users are required to gain high skills in a specific tool, in order to achieve satisfying results. There are several sites in the web which makes it possible to create logos, button images and icons for free and [...]


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Mar
22nd

How to reset Identity Increment value in MS SQL

Posted by Shahar A |
Filed under C#, Misc. |

An Identity column in SQL Server is used to auto number the rows. See this great post on Autonumbering & Identity Columns. When you delete rows from the table, the identity will not reset but you have few options of doing it yourself. The SQL Server Management Studio GUI doesn’t support this option…
1. DBCC CHECKIDENT
This [...]


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Mar
22nd

3 Ways to Run NUnit From Visual Studio

Posted by Shahar Y |
Filed under C#, Visual Studio |

Like it or not, whoever wants to have a stable code, need to write unit tests. There are 2 main unit testing frameworks for .Net Environment: MBUnit and NUnit.  During this post, I am going to focus on NUnit and its integration with Visual Studio in particular.                               

Once we wrote our unit tests and compiled them, [...]


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