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Google Blackout

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Microsoft Surface - Tabletop Computing

I don’t think we’ll ever look at coffee tables the same way again after seeing this video. Something like this I was expecting to see from Apple but apparently Microsoft has been hard at work (5 years) developing the next iteration of the desktop. Funnily enough, it literally is a tabletop. The video shows multi-touch action points similiar to what the iPhone is capable of (the infamous pinch and rotate etc..) and a cool halo effect around a wi-fi device when you place it on top of it. It then detects what the device can do, camera let’s say, and you can then drag the pictures out of it and position them like cards in a deck on the table.

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The device will be at SIGGRAPH in San Diego Aug 5-9th
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List References for a .NET assembly

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A little program I wrote that will recursively scan a directory and output all references for assemblies. For example, I ran this on the \\dfpwebqa3\resources directory which has 50 or so assemblies in it and matched for which binaries had a reference to the assembly ‘Global.Utilities’.

So then, the scan for the Global.Utilities reference is found in each of the files listed along with the version number that was compiled in.

Output to screen or to a file

Download source and binary here

Coding Larger Projects

I work on a team of about 15 developers on the same project.  One of the more perplexing problems there is to solve for each developer is keeping their code compatible with everyone else’s while they are making changes.  It is rather natural for developers to check in their code at the end of the day, God knows we’ve all lost something one time or another, and if there have been changes on external methods or properties etc.., this causes problems with other references of course.  

One means for dealing with this that I’ve come up with is to keep a binaries folder (the .dll’s in other words) in our source tree.  Essentially developers once their code is at a stable point and they would like to expose it as a dependency to other developers, place their compile in this folder (let’s call it RESOURCES_BINARIES).  They first check out the file if it’s already in there , copy their new binary to the folder, and then check it in.  Voila, the new binary for everybody else available in RESOURECES_BINARIES.

For all other developers, they get the latest version of all the binaries, copy to a standard directory, let’s call it RESOURCES somewhere on their local machine,  set up their project reference path to point there, and compile away.  No need to get latest versions of the actual code, none of that.  Developers simply work with the binaries that others publish.  It’s actually been working out really well, and have no idea how we lived without it in the past.  Definitely a way to go on larger projects.

Translate Schema to XML

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Converter XSD schema file to an XML with all elements having blank values. Can only handle 1 level deep schemas and attributes don’t translate into the XML just element definitions.

Download source code and binary (requires .NET)

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Refactoring in Visual Studio

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Feature-wise Visual Studio 2005 leaves most people impressed. Lately since I’ve been working on somewhat larger projects with larger codebases there have been the inevitable sways in naming conventions and object names, i swear nobody ever makes up their mind.

Enter ‘Refactoring’ which has made my life MUCH MUCH easier. It works on just about anything you right-click on and scans all references of a symbol and changes it to it’s new name. There’s a nice little preview window I believe if you’ve got the Team Edition so you can see what all will change. Advised to be a little on the careful side though, it’s not perfect. I did a namespace change the other day, something like NS1 –> NS2.NS2Sub where NS2 shows up in the project in multiple other places with many sub namespaces and the refactoring engine became confused and went and did strange things.. So Find/Replace it was. But still this is very very useful