Here’s a bunch of freeware tools and components for Visual Studio and ASP.NET from Morrison Schwartz. Some include source code, others you can purchase the source for what looks to be a relatively small fee.This Blog Hosted On: http://www.DotNetJunkies.com/

If you have any unit tests based on dates and/or the passage of time, go ahead and run them today. Hopefully there are no hard-coded skeletons in the closet.This Blog Hosted On: http://www.DotNetJunkies.com/

Here are some of my 2005 resolutions: Professional Learn Python – I’m going to start learning a new programming language every year. This year is going to be Python. I’ve already learned a good bit, and I really like Python’s way of working with lists. Expect some posts on that. Post more articles – I have some...

Last night I peeled the shrink wrap off one of my most highly anticipated Christmas gifts, The Lord of the Rings extended DVD collection. I only got to watch The Fellowship of the Ring, which took long enough considering the extra half-hour of film. I liked the added and extended scenes since they made the movie more continuous, although I can...

On Windows: Go to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins Each search engine has two files; a .src and either a .png or a .gif file. All you have to do is delete the two files for the search engine you wish to remove (for example google.src and google.gif) and restart Firefox.This Blog Hosted On: http://www.DotNetJunkies.com/

Python has a function similar to the .NET Framework’s Path.Combine method, except that Python can take any number of string parameters. I decided to port this to .NET. Here’s the code for a Utils.Path.Combine method that takes a string array of paths and returns the concatenated path: 1: using System; 2: using System.Text; 3: using...

Not sure how to tap the full power of Google? Advanced operators got you down? Try Soople, the easy search in Google. As a shortcut-loving geek I’ll probably never use it, but it could be good for the average computer user. Soople is not endorsed by Google.This Blog Hosted On: http://www.DotNetJunkies.com/

Bummer, it looks like my favorite way to avoid spam is down (hopefully not out). From the website: MAILINATOR IS --- DOWN !!! That's right -- sorry folks, mailinator is down, down, down -- as in "not up".It is not accepting emails at all and this is really the only active webpage.The good news is that its only temporary. The bad news is, well,...

Recently I had to do some performance profiling for one of our applications that was almost ready for production. Always on the lookout for new tools, I decided to check out what open source profilers were available. The best one I found was nprof, the .NET profiler. Download the zip file and extract to a folder on your computer. Following the...

The Mozilla ad appearing in the New York Times.This Blog Hosted On: http://www.DotNetJunkies.com/

First The Lord of the Rings extended edition trilogy set comes out on DVD, and now I find out that Andrew Adamson, director of Shrek, is going to direct The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe from The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis. Coming in December, 2005.This Blog Hosted On: http://www.DotNetJunkies.com/

Nils Jonsson has posted a code sample on The Code Project that makes it easy to raise argument exceptions. You know, argument exceptions are those exceptions you are supposed to raise when the parameters passed in to your method don’t match what you thought they would be? Nils makes it easy by including the following 9 base methods (plus...

A lot of people are hinting at what’s going to be announced in Beta Monday morning at 10 PST. MSN is having a teleconference call where anyone can call in. Here’s how (from the MSNSearch weblog):  When: Monday, Dec. 13, 2004; Teleconference begins at 10 a.m. PST Call-in number (U.S.): (800)...

Previously, Raymond Chen engaged his massive blog readership in developing a View in Firefox capability in IE for me. Raymond specifically notes that his solution is for advanced users, meaning us. :) Recently I stumbled upon FireFoxView on the Mozilla extensions homepage. Interestingly, it uses the Firefox extension installer process to...

Grant points us to a cross-browser drag-and-drop example. Good stuff, and Grant was the king of Javascript at a previous employer, so I’ll listen to his recommendation. etLux’s implementation, though, seems to rely on pasting code into too many different places. I like the simplicity of Dean Edward’s moz-behaviors (bold...