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Error 1704 Cleanup Utility by Chris Millard

Chris Millard has an excellent utility for getting past that annoying 1704 error message : Sometimes, Microsoft's Windows Installer package does not always uninstall a program properly, and even if you try and reboot your PC, you'll get the following error:- "Error 1704. An installation of My Program...

Published Wed, Jun 29 2005 11:24 AM by Darrell Norton

Filed under: Windows
AJAX-based VB and C# code converter

Now this is cool. Carlos Ag has a page that allows you to convert VB to C# or C# to VB as you type with code coloring . Fantastic use of AJAX. Check it out here: Code Translator VB <-> C#

Published Tue, Jun 28 2005 11:04 AM by Darrell Norton

Filed under: .NET
Microsoft Update version 6

Microsoft Update v6 is now available. It combines the old Windows Update and Office Update, so no more updating in two different places! Plus it has a cleaner, more polished look. It doesn't run on Firefox though.

Published Sat, Jun 25 2005 10:24 AM by Darrell Norton

Filed under: Windows
Dynamic languages work closer to how you design software

Some people I talk to have struggled with the usefulness of a dynamic language such as IronPython. To understand why dynamic languages are faster to develop in, let's take a look at how developers design. Robert Glass, in his article The Cognitive View: A Different Look at Software Design , references...

Published Thu, Jun 23 2005 10:47 AM by Darrell Norton

Filed under: Agile, .NET, Python
Other people are interested in IronPython

One of Joel's interns really likes IronPython . Go read it to see why, and then download the right version of IronPython and get started! IronPython for .NET 1.1 IronPython for .NET 2.0

Published Thu, Jun 23 2005 8:56 AM by Darrell Norton

Filed under: Python
Test-Driven Development helpers

I've been remiss in promoting Jonathan Cogley's (and his company, Thycotic Software) Test-Driven Development helpers: Thycotic.TddStarterKit Automatic URL generation for NUnitAsp tests Local extensions for NUnit and NUnitAsp Thycotic.DatabaseScripter Supports Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Easily script all...

Published Wed, Jun 22 2005 6:04 AM by Darrell Norton

Filed under: TDD
Modeling Artifacts (different ways of modeling)

Scott Ambler has a great page that lists 35 modeling artifact types . The page links to summary descriptions of a wide variety of modeling artifacts. Each page describes the artifact, provides an example or two, and provides links to suggested resources. In this list he also indicates if the technique...

Published Wed, Jun 22 2005 5:51 AM by Darrell Norton

Filed under: Agile
21 Lean Thinking Tools

My Lean Software Development Overview did a good job talking about the seven lean principles: eliminate waste, amplify learning, decide as late as possible, deliver as fast as possible, empower the team, build integrity in, and see the whole. However I only briefly mentioned the 21 tools that help you...

Published Tue, Jun 21 2005 7:21 AM by Darrell Norton

Filed under: Agile
Moderation troubles

If you left a comment on my blog in the past week, particularly the KDiff3 post which was getting quite a few comments, I have them but I can't get them to show up. I turned on moderation for anonymous comments only and apparently the Community Server 1.0 "approval" page doesn't approve anything. Oh...

Published Tue, Jun 21 2005 7:15 AM by Darrell Norton
KDiff3 is better than WinMerge

A lot of people are talking about how great WinMerge is. KDiff3 does the same thing and shows character-by-character differences much better (color-codes which characters/lines were added, deleted, etc.). Add in the ability to diff 3 files (not 3-way merge, diffing and merging 3 input files!) and the...

Published Mon, Jun 20 2005 6:59 PM by Darrell Norton

Filed under: Windows
Project Aardvark revealed!

Christopher Hawkins has figured out what Project Aardvark is all about . Thanks Chris!

Published Mon, Jun 20 2005 11:48 AM by Darrell Norton
Webcasts from TechEd 2005

TechEd 2005 webcasts available.

Published Mon, Jun 20 2005 8:46 AM by Darrell Norton

Filed under: .NET, Windows, SQL Server
Cross-browser ASP.NET client-side validation scripts

Cross-browser and HTML DOM-compliant ASP.NET client-side validation scripts . Free download. Sweet!

Published Fri, Jun 17 2005 7:32 AM by Darrell Norton

Filed under: .NET
Working code attracts people who want to Code

"Working code attracts people who want to code. Design documents attract people who want to talk about coding." [Charles Miller, Finding Discord in Harmony ] Reginald found this great quote by Charles Miller. It was initially in response to an open-source project, but we both think it has broader applicability...

Published Fri, Jun 17 2005 7:12 AM by Darrell Norton

Filed under: Agile
What's new in the .NET Framework

These are notes I took at Joel Pobar’s “What’s New in .NET 2.0” breakout session. New Features GZip compression is built-in. See the System.IO.Compression page for details. Strongly-typed resource files – no more returning everything as an object! See the Resource File Generator page for more details...

Published Thu, Jun 16 2005 8:04 AM by Darrell Norton

Filed under: .NET

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