There's a new monthly version (1.02) out of Regulazy. You can grab it over here . (if the link is broken try http://tools.osherove.com/ ) Regulazy is a visual Regex Creation tool for beginners. It contains an easy ''point and click'' user interface , and allows creating regular expressions for simple searches almost instantly without requiring ...

Speaking of Multiple Remote Desktops - it's not really that hard to build such an application. Microsoft had a ''Microsoft RDP Client Control'' ActiveX control that you can use in your apps. I've even went ahead and implemented a small proof of concept form ( you can download it here ) that opens a new remote desktop and does an automatic login ...

this is more or less a test posting the UI have changed completley and i want to figure out how, what and why took some while and email support to figure out how this works. Done some ugly trick to get the tags in my [Select Tag] list posted all of the tags, which i copied from the start page .NET,.net development,.NET General,.Net ...

Mike has recently recommended a command line parser library for .NET called Param.NET . Personally, I don't think this sort of thing should be driven (as is param.net) by a configuration file. In fact, custom attributes could be put to some great use here. I while I ago I tried and liked a different solution to the same problem using Attributes. ...

For the past few weeks I've been deep down inside a client's project. It's a large distributed application and one of the features I was working on made me realize just how little I've gotten the chance to use MSMQ in my projects, which is a total shame, really. MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queue) is a great bridge for helping you distribute messages ...

I chatted with Ingo Rammer and Christian Weyer of the ThinkTecture team shortly after both of them had finished doing their talks about Distributed architectures at TechEd Europe. The interviews starts with Christian and we talk about web services, security and scalability. 10 minutes into the interview Ingo Rammer shows up after having been ...

I'm not much of a fan of various ''Application Generators'' software, but Sherpa seems to be an interesting find. It's allows full application generation but with inherent extensibility (by changing templates, XSLT and other measures) I haven't gotten the change to use it yet on anything real, but it does seem promising. The nice thing about these ...

The first of several Interviews I managed to do during TechEd Europe: I chatted with Steve cook for a very interesting hour about his role in the development of UML, the concept behind software factories and domain specific languages, and the role DSLs play within Visual Studio .NET 2005. Steve even takes us on a short step by step walk through on ...

We started getting this weird exception when trying to build some solution manually: ''Project <Name> could not be opened because the Microsoft Visual C# .NET compiler could not be created'' It might be one of these things here , but for me it was something different. The path of one of the project files inside the solution was just too long ...

Someone asked me if I knew a way to add a custom dialog to pop up when dealing with the .NET property grid. I didn't, but when I looked it up I found a few good starting points on this matter: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/bending_property.asp (in C#) http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Propertygrid_Editor.asp (making the first one work in ...

Update : See at the end of this post for an important issue you need to know about if you're going to use this solution. Here's something I've been using in my programs lately. I've been pretty darn annoyed with the whole threading issue in Winforms - that is - lack of property semantics to take care of it. So, I created a hack, It's a little ...

My first MSDN Magazine article is (finally!) up: Simplify Data Layer Unit Testing using Enterprise Services ''Despite all the hype surrounding unit testing and Test Driven Development (TDD) many developers don't see them as useful processes that are applicable to the production of real-world applications. One reason is that once you get down to ...

Last month I delivered a presentation at the Israel .NET architects user group about Software Factories and Domain Specific Languages. Perhaps it's just my big ego, but I definitely feel that people should be able to hear presentation by recording if they can't make it to the actual user group meeting. Sometimes ther'es some great material there ...

My friend, Jonathan Einav (His blog is, sadly, empty for now) just sent me this by email. It's a solution to a versioning problem he encountered, which he has made public for the community. This is a a nice approach to deal with binary de-serialization type version changes (and avoid the iterating '' Possible version mismatch. Type ...

Update: Fixed broken links (21-6-06) I just finished adding a new downloads section to the Team Agile website . In the process, I've revamped some of the downloads I've made available to date with some documentation and a face lift. XT-Unit XtUnit is a unit testing extension for .Net based frameworks. It uses the interception application block to ...

Summary Events and delegates in the .NET Framework present an interesting case of apparent simplicity with abundant complexity underneath. Unfortunately, we *have* to take into account the complexity underneath if we are to use events correctly in our applications. What I m suggesting here is that most developers today are *not* raising events ...

The following helps in cases when you get the following error messages: ''Deployment manifest requires publisher and product specified'' or ''files missing from deployment'' Here's what I needed to do on my Win Server 2003: 1. Open RegEdit (back up your registry always before changing stuff!!) and browse to the key: ...

I finally got around to release the full source code for The Regulator . Up until now the source code was partial and included mostly just the plugins for it. Now you get to see what a sloppy coder I really was when I dreamed up this thing, and the stages I took from making it from a simple GUI to a pluggable architecture of GUI and logical ...

Jeff Perrin needed a function to return the first N words in a string (to create a small summary or a snippet thingy). He did it using the manual and awkward method of parsing the string manually. That method is more error prone and usually makes for less readable code. Fortunately, you can use regular expressions here quite nicely. Here's a test ...

A while ago I released two articles about implementing plugins in your .net applications( here and here ). I then went ahead and created a generic piece of code that encapsulates the functionality demonstrated in those articles that can be ''dropped in'' your application to give instant plugin recognition abilities (after small interface ...