23
FEB
2006

DeckWorkspace extension (CAB) – Prevent drawing controls until all controls are initialized

CAB is an application block for building smart clients in .NET 2.0 and contains proven practices for building complex UI forms with so called SmartParts and Workspaces. The DeckWorkspace enables you to show and hide controls and SmartParts in an overlapped manner with no visible...
19
FEB
2006

The power of a markup language

One of the most popular markup languages is HTML. A markup language contains text and meta data about the text, such as layouts, styles, etc. Now Wiki sites are becoming more and more popular, and most of them use a customized markup language for HTML. One of the popular wiki...
13
FEB
2006

Applied Patterns – Part 2

Building an application and/or library usually starts with an OO design. Typically from that design you will define interfaces and implement base classes, which can be used as a starting point for building your application. Defining the signature of a base class is very...
12
FEB
2006

Syntax highlighting for MediaWiki

Here I describe how you can add syntax highlighting (C#, SQL, Javascript, etc.) in MediaWiki. In MediaWiki you can add syntax highlighting through GeSHiHighlight but I found it interesting for combining the world of PHP and .NET. For syntax highlighting in .NET I used the...
01
FEB
2006

Visual Studio 2005 SP1

Microsoft announces on the msdn site that service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 will appear around Q3 of 2006.
01
FEB
2006

IE 7 Beta 2 released

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 has been released to the public, and can be downloaded here. I installed IE7 on a clean WinXP SP2 without any problems through VPC. My blog site and IStaySharp.NET rendered correctly with IE7. The coolest feature I found, is the integrated rss reader…