The title isn’t descriptive enough for this post, but it will have to do. Today I was trying to get an ASP.NET application to allow me to define two different login levels. What I was trying to do was the following:
I stumbled upon a great workspace at GotDotNet: Visual Studio Core Community Powertoys. Here you can find some pretty neat powertoys for the Visual Studio IDE. For example:
Go Back Visual Studio Add-In
The Go Back Add-in provides a Navigate Backward functionality that is different than the normal Navigate Backward functionality. (Which does some neat things like close a file if you happened to have opened it while navigating forward)
At the Powertoys Weblog, Sara Ford posted about a very cool tool which is available at gotdotnet: Regex Builder.
At gotdotnet it is described as follows:
A tool for building and testing Regular Expressions. It allows you to manipulate the expression and your source text, and shows you a tree with all of the Matches, Groups, and Captures found in the text.
The last couple of years I’ve had small Visual Studio crashes, where Visual Studio stopped and asked me if I wanted to restart and reopen the current project. These crashes never meant a loss of work. Today I had the first BIG VS2K3 crash and this time it did cost me. A lot…
Sure, I’m not the first one to blog about it. But I still didn’t want it to go unnoticed… Visual Studio .NET 2005 Beta 2 is out now. (Available for people with MSDN subscriptions)
For those of you who don’t have an MSDN subscription, the Express Editions can give an idea of the power .NET 2.0 will bring to you.
Most of you probably know about the refactoring options Visual Studio 2005 will deliver to us. For those of you who would like to experience what refactoring, using optimization, partial code generation and more feels like without waiting for VS2K5, you should try JetBrains’ ReSharper. I installed it yesterday (after having downloaded it a few weeks ago) and it’s a great addition to the Visual Studio development environment.
Dino Esposito wrote an excellent article on the new and improved DataGridView control in .NET 2.0 in the .NET magazine of April this year. It explains the possibilities the newly built gridcontrol gives you. Finally a decent grid control…
If you’ve ever worked with Access XP or earlier in combination with SourceSafe 6 and are now using Access 2003, you might miss the SourceSafe capabilities in Access. Out of the box, Access 2003 did not support putting your Access stuff in Sourcesafe. Microsoft has now released an Access 2003 add-in for this! So, if you would like your Access 2003 program to be taken into source code control: it now can. The add-in can be found here.
The hype surrounding Visual Studio 2005 almost makes you not notice all the other upcoming Microsoft developer products which will accompany VS2K5. One of these products is the new source code control system. This January at the ASP.NET 2.0 roadshow in Amsterdam, Scott Guthrie (leading engineer on the ASP.NET 2.0 team) described the new source code control system as ‘SourceSafe done right’.
Brad Abrams posted the internal MS Coding guidelines on his blog earlier this year.
Interesting reading stuff!
I tested my own code against these guidelines. I think I would pass…. 😉
Questa posted a very usefull piece of code…
It’s possible to convert a string representation of an enum back to an enum!
private enum MyEnumeration
{
FooBar,
Foo,
Bar
}
...
MyEnum foo = MyEnum.Foo;
foobar = foo.ToString();
MyEnum bar = (MyEnum)Enum.Parse(typeof(MyEnum), foobar);
At the end of this code, the variable bar has the MyEnum value Foo, just the way it’s supposed to be…
Actually, the cause for this error is very small and simple. But because the error doesn’t clearly state what’s wrong and there’s not a lot to be found about this, I’ll post it here anyway… Otherwise, you might be looking for this for a while, while it’s so easy!