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WSS 3.0 Meetings Web Service

elczara — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:07:00 GMT

On my previous article, I have mentioned of the object models of Windows SharePoint Services Web services designed for creating solutions that work with Windows SharePoint Services. One of the Web services I have tabulated on the same piece was Meetings Web service, the spotlight of this post.

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Some WCF Gotchas

cruizer — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:48:00 GMT

A project our team (in my employer) has been working on for a good number of months now makes extensive use of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). WCF is nothing really ground-breaking; its significance is that it unifies the various inter-process communication facilities into one common programming interface. Moreover, it is extensible so it can easily be extended to support different protocols and message formats that may come in vogue in the future. We've encountered some WCF gotchas along...(read more)

Concurrency is all the rage in MSDN Magazine

cruizer — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:02:00 GMT

The October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine features lots of articles about parallelism and concurrency. I guess it's all the rage these days! That's what happens when Moore's Law is no longer directly related to more GHz but more CPU cores instead. Concurrency is one of the big reasons why there's a push towards functional languages. I myself am trying to wrap my head around one called Haskell . Here's a free online book (print version coming out soon) about it. I guess this is a...(read more)

Speaking at Microsoft TechFEST 2008 Singapore

cruizer — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:30:00 GMT

I will be speaking at Microsoft TechFEST 2008 Singapore on October 23rd. The topic? Nothing special -- just same old LINQ Hopefully I can present it in a practical manner that will help developers get up to speed with it. In any case, I think LINQ is so simple to grasp that it's more likely that what's hindering adoption of it is corporate policies or strategies, not developer familiarity. It's not a simple thing for a development company to upgrade en masse to Visual Studio 2008, especially...(read more)

WSS 3.0 Lists Web Service

elczara — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:57:00 GMT

The Windows SharePoint Services Web services provided by the Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer namespace includes methods that provide Microsoft .NET Framework developers with object models for creating solutions that work with Windows SharePoint Services remotely from a client or custom application. They are defined through the server-side object model of the Microsoft.SharePoint assembly, and their design is optimized to reduce the number of roundtrips transacted between client computer and server.

Most Web services are provided through the /_vti_bin virtual directory, which maps to the \\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web Server extensions\12\ISAPI physical directory. The Administration Web service is provided through the /_vti_adm virtual directory, which maps to \\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web Server extensions\12\ ADMISAPI physical directory.

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One Great Tool For Us

Comgen — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:44:00 GMT

I was absent yesterday because I was sick then I thought of formatting my Mobile Computer, after installing all the softwares I needed I figured out that I forgot one important thing. I forgot to save my bookmarks which always saves me minutes of browsing, when ever I stumble upon a problem which I forgot the solution..... So what i did was to look for some utility to at least allow me not to repeat this Stupidity....

I Found this great Plugin for Firefox http://www.foxmarks.com/

I tested it just right now and Wow it really works.. plus there's alot of additional features like sharing and etc.....

When working software is not enough

velocity — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:25:26 GMT

A team that followed agile practices still finds itself in trouble.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/A-Story-of-Project-Failure-Mitch-Lacey

Points that stand out a.k.a note to self

Signs that project was in trouble but got ignored - starting 35 minutes

a statement of work that took 6 months. [requirements were unstable]
team was blind to complexity of customer organization Having a customer representative does not actually mean he or she represents the real customers
customer IT organization was not involved
customer thought of agile in terms of waterfall development
No accountability on side of customer

Common thread I see is a breakdown in communication. What people missed big time was the assumptions both sides made. Customer assumed everything they wanted would get built. The dev team assumed the customers understood that the product backlog determines what gets built, that its a finite bucket.

Lessons Learned - starting 50 minutes

customer representative did not take accountability for their decisions. Business users changes requirements that was validated by the customer rep
Team failed to hold customer accountable for their decisions
Having the data does not mean you are right
No true project owner. One was concerned with time/money. Another was concerned only with functionality. [Two headed monster]
Team did not learn about the real project approvers until later

Takeaways

If you know the true project cost - don't fool yourself in believing you can cut it down but moving work to the customer.
Customer education is paramount. There has to be a plan for continuous education.
Raise uncomfortable truths - takes courage [an agile value]
Build an escape plan. [Each building has a fire escape]

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Questions it raises in my mind

Should there be an agile-fitness test/assessment for dev teams and organizations - before you start out an agile project?
How much controls should be in place to stay agile without descending into chaos/anarchy?

Microsoft embraces jQuery

cruizer — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:46:00 GMT

I couldn't believe it: read ScottGu's blog post . Finally, Microsoft is getting *it*. No need to fight it, no need to exhibit their traditional NIH mindset and create their own (as they have demonstrated many times, not only in the .NET platform). They're finally including a useful open source product into their own. And they're promising not to fork it. Here's to Microsoft finally coming of age:...(read more)

How To: Teach Your Apps To Speak With System.Speech.SpeechSynthesizer Part 2

keithrull — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:20:00 GMT

In part 1 of this series i showed you how to specify the voice, gender, rate and volume of the our SpeechSynthesizer object. This time i'm going to show you how to use predefined Voices in your machine and utilize it as hints to your SpeechSynthesizer object.

The first thing that I did to our sample project is change the UI since we would not need the Gender and Age combo box in our form. The result is a UI like this:

Next, we need to figure out a way to extract the names of the installed voices in our machine. To this we need to use the SpeechSynthesizer.GetInstalledVoices() method. This method, when invoked returns a readonly collection of TTS(text-to-speech) voices also known as InstalledVoice objects that are readily available in your machine. The InstalledVoice object contains a property called VoiceInfo which represents the voice information about that TTS voice. To begin our project we need to get all the VoiceInfo objects on each and every InstalledVoice. Below is a code snippet showing how we can accomplish this task:

//create a new speechsynthesizer object
static SpeechSynthesizer speechSynth = new SpeechSynthesizer();

/// <summary>
/// a method that returns all the currently installed voice
/// info objects in the machine
/// </summary>
/// <returns>a list of VoiceInfo objects</returns>
private static List<VoiceInfo> GetInstalledVoices()
{
    //get the current cultureinfo
    CultureInfo currentCulture = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture;

    //use linq to select each voiceinfo object from the intalledvoices collection
    var listOfVoiceInfo = from voice
                              in speechSynth.GetInstalledVoices(currentCulture)
                          select voice.VoiceInfo;

    //return the selected voiceinfo objects
    return listOfVoiceInfo.ToList<VoiceInfo>();
}

Next, we need to bind the resulting list to our voiceComboBox.

private void MainForm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    BindData();
}

/// <summary>
/// Bind the voices to our combobox
/// </summary>
private void BindData()
{
    //get the installed voices
    List<VoiceInfo> listOfVoices = GetInstalledVoices();
    //bind the list to our combobox
    voicesComboBox.DataSource = listOfVoices;
    voicesComboBox.DisplayMember = "Name";
}

And finally we need to create the logic inside our button click event to initiate our SpeechSynthesizer

private void speakUpButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    //get the values specified in our form
    string messageToSay = wordsTextBox.Text;
    int selectedVolume = volumeTrackBar.Value;
    int selectedVoiceRate = voiceRateTrackBar.Value;

    //get the selected voice info
    VoiceInfo vi = voicesComboBox.SelectedItem as VoiceInfo;
                
    //specify the volume for our SpeechSynthesizer object
    speechSynth.Volume = selectedVolume;
    //specify the rate  for our SpeechSynthesizer object
    speechSynth.Rate = selectedVoiceRate;
    //specify the voice info specifying the voice to use
    speechSynth.SelectVoice(vi.Name);
    //say the message
    speechSynth.SpeakAsync(messageToSay);
}

And we are done ;) Running the application would show as all the installed TTS voice in our machine. One thing to note is that this list is machine dependent and different machines might contain different voices.

Clicking the "Speak!" button should echo our selected voice.

Next time I'll show you how to export the resulting speech to a wave file. HTH

AccelerIE8

velocity — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:40:00 GMT

I’ve been using IE8 Beta 2 for some time now. One of its features is something called accelerators. The concept is simple. In our everyday browsing experience, we find ourselves copy and pasting text from one site to another. Examples of this would be searching for a particular term you read while browsing a page. What I’d normally do is open up a new tab, copy and paste the term into the search toolbar or type www.live.com in the address bar and then paste the term into the search text box.

What an accelerator does is to cut out the copy+open tab+paste steps.

To learn more about it, I tried my hand in creating an accelerator and ended up with two. An accelerator is nothing more than an xml file. I used this developer’s guide to get started.

The code below is an accelerator for looking up stock quotes from MSN Moneycentral.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <openServiceDescription xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/openservicedescription/1.0"> <homepageUrl>http://moneycentral.msn.com</homepageUrl> <display> <name>Get Stock Quote on MSN</name> <icon>http://moneycentral.msn.com/favicon.ico</icon> </display> <activity category="Quote"> <activityAction context="selection"> <execute method="get" action="http://moneycentral.msn.com/detail/stock_quote"> <parameter name="Symbol" value="{selection}" type="text" /> <parameter name="getquote" value="Get+Quote" type="text" /> </execute> </activityAction> </activity> </openServiceDescription>

[Edit] -- I can't get my link to work for now. I've uploaded these to http://www.ieaddons.com and I'll just link to them once they are up.

If you are using IE8, install my Get Stock Quote accelerator and try it out on the following: MSFT ORCL GOOG ACN (Select one of the stock symbols, right-click and select the 'Get Stock Quote' accelerator)

Or you can try out my Acronym Finder accelerator and look up the following acronyms: BRB YAGNI WTF JAFO

My only gripe at this point is the way the accelerators are accessed. I'm thinking a keyboard shortcut or a favorites mode would be better than what is available now.

AyoS!! Blogs na to!!

CornbitsLangKatapat — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:48:00 GMT

Nice! Thanks Admin for building a site like this!
Nais ko lang pong ibahagi ang aking mga natutunan sa larangan ng Sharepoint..
I already have 3+ years in development.. I still consider myself newbie
Yep! NEWBIE.. musmus pa ang dev exp ko kesa sa ibang pinoy.
Kaya gagawa ako ng blogs para ishare ang mga nalalaman ko, at malaman kung may
mas tama na approach galing sa mga comments o suggestions nyo..

Dito ako sa Singapore ngaun working sa isang maliit na company, doing sharepoint projects.. Sa Singapore kung san malinis ang paligid.. kung saan magkakamukha ang mga bahay.. walang tambay sa daan.. walang trapik.. kung san minsan mayayanig ka sa MRT nila dahil sa aroma ng mga katabi mo.. mga 5 seconds hihinto pintig ng puso mo at nasa deep-coma siguro..

then magkakaulirat ka na at maayos ka na ulet.. hehehe..
kung san mataas ang work-life imbalance (or sakin lang siguro?) work work..
masyadong maayos, pero miss ko pa rin ang thrill ng manirahan sa Tondo, YEAH! mas exciting pa kesa sa panonood mo ng Joaquin Bordado dahil reallife and action sa lugar namin.
OK.. Nothing to do with development.. just sharing..

Naniniwala ako na mas madaming magagaling na developer dito na pinoy kesa sa locals o sa ibang culture.. Madaming Edwin Sarmiento dito, pero mas gusto natin ng low-profile basta masupport ang needs ng pamilya sa Pinas.. Sayang nga eh..

Eto ung mga things na pwede ko ishare sa mga susunod na blogs:

-Webpart codes
-Sharepoint best practices learned thru recent projects
-Sharepoint - Form Based Authentication, actual industry setup
-Search / Custom Search / CAML: how? which is better?
-Sharepoint and HyperDrive
-BDC
-Workflows: Designer / WSS / Sharepoint
-Infopath + Sharepoint + Biztalk
-Silverlight / AJAX for Sharepoint
-Sharepoint + Windows Media Services = YouTube
-Quick List Definitions creation and deployment

As much as posible, lahat ng post ko ay mailalathala sa Filipino
nyaha.. Hindi dahil bopols ako sa English, pero alam kong mas maiintindihan ng kapwa pinoy..
syempre may konting English pa din (pano mo tatagalugin ang "Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1"?) ok corny..

Goosh: The Unofficial Google Command Line

keithrull — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:29:00 GMT

Ever wondered how google would look like if it was on terminal mode (a la *Nix shell)? Then checkout Goosh! Goosh is a project that Stefhan Grothkopp started. The application behaves similar to a unix-shell wherein you type commands and it returns results based on your request (which in this case is web search results). I personally love the idea and have been using the tool since i found it.

This reminds me of the days when terminals were hip and cool. I do wish that the background was black though and the fonts converted to green to give more terminal-like feel to it but either way its two thumbs up for me ;)

How To: Teach Your Apps To Speak With System.Speech.SpeechSynthesizer

keithrull — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:45:00 GMT

One of the cool things that came out with .NET 3.x is the addition of System.Speech library. This library is a collection of classes that enables you to do alot of speech related things like speech recognition and text-to-speech conversion. It's a handful to talk about so i suggest you read up MSDN to learn more about this library^[¹^][²^][³^].

The app I'm going to show you today is a basic application that shows how to utilize the SpeechSynthesizer class that is located inside the System.Speech.Synthesis namespace.

To start this demo lets add a reference to the System.Speech namespace to our project. You can do this by doing a right-click on References > Add Reference and selecting System.Speech from the list.

Once added we can now beging utilizing this library by adding a using directive pointing to the specific System.Speech namepace that we want to utilize. For this demo we will use System.Speech.Synthesis

Next, we need to create a new SpeechSynthesizer object. SpeechSynthesizer is class that enables you to convert text-to-speech. The class also has several properties and methods that you can use customize the voice information on your speech synthesizer.

Next is the fun part which is making our application say some words. The cool thing about SpeechSynthersizer is that all you need to do to make your application speak is call the SpeechSynthesizer.Speak() method and your done ;)

Run our application and once started you should here the words "Hello, World" spoken by your machine. Pretty cool huh?!

What we did was a simple demonstration on how to make our apps speak with a few lines using SpeechSynthesizer. But what about customizing the voice? Fear not! I created a sample application that will show you how you can customize the synthesizer by specifying the rate, volume, gender and age of the emitted sound. Below is the screenshot showing the UI for the application

And here is the code snippet with comments detailing how to customize our SpeechSynthesizer object.

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Speech.Synthesis;

namespace KeithRull.TalkToMeGoose
{
    public partial class MainForm : Form
    {
        public MainForm()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        //create a new speechsynthesizer object
        SpeechSynthesizer speechSynth = new SpeechSynthesizer();

        private void speakUpButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //get the values specified in our form
            string messageToSay = wordsTextBox.Text;
            int selectedVolume = volumeTrackBar.Value;
            int selectedVoiceRate = voiceRateTrackBar.Value;
            string selectedGender = genderComboBox.SelectedItem.ToString();
            string selectedAge = ageComboBox.SelectedValue.ToString();

            Type voiceGenderType = typeof(VoiceGender);
            Type voiceAgeType = typeof(VoiceAge);

            //convert the selectedGender value to a VoiceGender
            VoiceGender gender = (VoiceGender)Enum.Parse(voiceGenderType, selectedGender);
            //convert the selectedAge value to a VoiceAge
            VoiceAge age = (VoiceAge)Enum.Parse(voiceAgeType, selectedAge);

            //specify the volume for our SpeechSynthesizer object
            speechSynth.Volume = selectedVolume;
            //specify the rate  for our SpeechSynthesizer object
            speechSynth.Rate = selectedVoiceRate;
            //specify the voice info by using hints regarding the gender and age
            speechSynth.SelectVoiceByHints(gender, age);
            //say the message
            speechSynth.SpeakAsync(messageToSay);
        }

        private void MainForm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            speechSynth.Speak("Hello, World!");
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Bind the enums to our combobox
        /// </summary>
        private void BindData()
        {
            BindAgeToComboBox();
            BindGenderToComboBox();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// bind the VoiceGender enum to our combobox
        /// </summary>
        private void BindGenderToComboBox()
        {
            //convert the enumeration to a string array
            Array voiceGenderArray = Enum.GetValues(typeof(VoiceGender));
            //bind the array to the datasource of our combobox
            genderComboBox.DataSource = voiceGenderArray;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Bind the VoiceAge enum to our combobox
        /// </summary>
        private void BindAgeToComboBox()
        {
            //convert the enumeration to a string array
            Array voiceAgeArray = Enum.GetValues(typeof(VoiceAge));
            //bind the array to the datasource of our combobox
            ageComboBox.DataSource = voiceAgeArray;
        }
    }
};

As always, you can download the source code for this project here: KeithRull.TalkToMeGoose1.zip (27.46 KB)

I hope I was able to show you how simple it is to add text to speech functionality to your .NET application. Next time I'll show you how to use predefined voices. Till next time ;)

How To: Detemine The Groups For A Windows User

keithrull — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:19:00 GMT

Below is a code snippet that allows you to determine what groups a Windows user is part of.

[C#]

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Security.Principal;
using System.Text;

namespace KeithRull.ActiveDirectory.IdentifyingUserGroups
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //get the WindowsIdentity of the current user
            WindowsIdentity currentWindowsIdentity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();
            //retrieve the groups that the user belongs to
            IdentityReferenceCollection currentWindowsIdentityGroups = currentWindowsIdentity.Groups;
            //iterate thru each group
            foreach (IdentityReference identity in currentWindowsIdentityGroups)
            {
                //translate the identity into an NTAccount identity
                IdentityReference ntAccountIdentityReference = identity.Translate(typeof(NTAccount));
                //get the value
                string groupName = ntAccountIdentityReference.ToString();
                //print to console
                Console.WriteLine(groupName);
            }
            //pause
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

[VB.NET]

Imports System 
Imports System.Collections.Generic 
Imports System.Linq 
Imports System.Security.Principal 
Imports System.Text 

Namespace KeithRull.ActiveDirectory.IdentifyingUserGroups 
    Class Program 
        Private Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String()) 
            'get the WindowsIdentity of the current user 
            Dim currentWindowsIdentity As WindowsIdentity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent() 
            'retrieve the groups that the user belongs to 
            Dim currentWindowsIdentityGroups As IdentityReferenceCollection = currentWindowsIdentity.Groups 
            'iterate thru each group 
            For Each identity As IdentityReference In currentWindowsIdentityGroups 
                'translate the identity into an NTAccount identity 
                Dim ntAccountIdentityReference As IdentityReference = identity.Translate(GetType(NTAccount)) 
                'get the value 
                Dim groupName As String = ntAccountIdentityReference.ToString() 
                'print to console 
                Console.WriteLine(groupName) 
            Next 
            'pause 
            Console.ReadLine() 
        End Sub 
    End Class 
End Namespace

HTH

This will be funny if it happened in real life

keithrull — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:01:00 GMT

Would you agree? ;)

SQL Audit Trail

Comgen — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:04:00 GMT

I was asked by a friend of mine on how to create a trigger that would trace the changes that a user did to a table. So i checked my bookmarks and give him this link

http://www.nigelrivett.net/SQLTriggers/Triggers_2_Creating_Audit_Trails.html

Hope to Get some of your opinions or maybe improvements on the topic inside the link above.

God Bless...

Programming SharePoint Library File

elczara — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:56:00 GMT

In my previous blog, I have mentioned that Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 / Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is bundled with lists and libraries. A SharePoint library, as I have mentioned, is a location on a SharePoint site where we can create, collect, update, and manage files, including document library, picture library, and form library. On this post, I have tabulated the assemblies and components necessary for SharePoint library files programming.

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Keith's Free eBook Recommendations Of The Month

keithrull — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:10:00 GMT

Speaking of free books... Below are the list of free ebooks that I recommend reading/downloading for this month. I personally love Karl Seguin's book and giving it 5 out 5 stars is actually an understatement if you ask me. :)

Karl Seguin's Foundation Of Programming: Building Better Software rocks so much I recommended it to everyone I know. This 79 page book is pack with a hearty bowl of software development knowledge that would teach you about the principles of development that you should have known way before you started coding that nightmarish system.

Red Gate's Dissecting SQL Server Execution Plan is a must read for anyone who deals with data on a daily basis. It talks about how to optimize your querries and understand whats causing your querries to sleep on you while being executed.

InfoQ's Domain Driven Design Quickly is a quickly-readable summary and introduction to the fundamentals of DDD that tries to summarizes Eric Evans' book as well as Jimmy Nilsson's Applying Domain Driven Design and various other sources. The book gives you hints and tips about DDD as well as ideas on how to start DDD in your own projects.

Minh T. Nguyen's Visual Studio.NET Tips & Tricks is a must read for all developers who use Visual Studio. Enuff said!

So what are you waiting for? Download and read 'em now!

Free Professional Visual Studio 2008 book? Count me IN!!!

keithrull — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:47:00 GMT

Nick! David! Can I get a copy of your book for free? :)

http://www.professionalvisualstudio.com/blog/2008/09/11/win-a-free-copy-of-professional-visual-studio-2008/

SQL is a functional language?!

cruizer — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:55:00 GMT

I was taken aback by the claim, mentioned by a speaker in an event I attended about two nights ago. The topic was about development in languages and concurrency, which particularly interested me. I don't know if you'll agree with the claim but I didn't and I guess the talk went downhill from there for me. Anyway, what's all the fuss about functional programming languages ? At first I thought "hey all languages are functional, that's why we have functions and procedures."...(read more)

Norton Security 2009. But wait, there's more...

modchip — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:35:00 GMT

Norton Security 2009. But wait, there's more......(read more)

Programming SharePoint List Data

elczara — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:10:00 GMT

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is bundled with lists and libraries. A list is a collection of information, including announcement, discussion board, and calendar. A library, on the other hand, is a location on a SharePoint site where we can create, collect, update, and manage files, including document library, picture library, and form library. On top of lists and libraries is the Windows SharePoint Services object model that consists of more than few assemblies and namespaces - that can used to programmatically interact with our SharePoint site components, including SharePoint lists and libraries.

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How To: Color Conversion in .NET

keithrull — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:33:00 GMT

Ever heard of ColorTranslator? It's a really cool class that you can use to convert colors in .NET. One of the things that it can do is that enables you to convert HTML colors to Windows colors and vice versa. One particular scenario wherein you might want to use this class is when you want to use HTML colors on your WinForm.

Below are examples on how to use this calls:

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace ColorTranslatorTest
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //convert a system.drawing.color to html
            Color c1 = Color.AntiqueWhite;
            button1.BackColor = c1;
            button1.Text = ColorTranslator.ToHtml(c1);

            //convert an html color to a gdi+ color
            string htmlColor = "#FFAD55";
            Color c2 = ColorTranslator.FromHtml(htmlColor);
            button2.BackColor = c2;
            button2.Text = ColorTranslator.ToHtml(c2);

            //convert a win32 color to gdi+ color
            int colorHexadecimalValue = 0xA267;
            Color c3 = ColorTranslator.FromWin32(colorHexadecimalValue);
            button3.BackColor = c3;
            button3.Text = ColorTranslator.ToWin32(c3).ToString("X");
        }
    }
}

HTH

Using search engines from an IE6 address bar

cruizer — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:37:00 GMT

After using progressive browsers such as Firefox and Safari in my previous employers, imagine my dismay when I realised we were stuck with IE6. One of the things I missed as I had to step back and bear with old IE6 is the absence of the search bar. We're not allowed to upgrade to IE7 nor download browsers (lest we risk dismissal, shudder!) so there was nothing I could do...or was it? Anyway many thanks to my officemate who gave me this cool registry hack. Maybe you've seen this already, maybe...(read more)

Switching workspaces in Websphere 5

lamia — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:53:00 GMT

I'm currently maintaining an application built on Websphere 5. It's such a shame that once you select a default workspace, there would be no option inside the IDE to switch workspace(RAD7 and plain old Eclipse has this). Luckily, I had a friend who already experienced this kind of problem and he gave me this CLI command

wsappdev -setworkspace

Just be sure to run wsappdev from your websphere install directory and once WS starts, it will prompt you to select your workspace.