August 2006 - Posts

Resharper's Unit Test Runner hangs

Published 08-30-2006 3:31 PM | jokiz

One of my teammate is using Resharper 2.0's unit test runner and i like the way it presented the passed, failed and ignored tests in tabs. I want to shift to using it instead of TestDriven.Net which just output results to the Output Window but i am experiencing...

Filed under: visual studio, resharper

formula parser for .NET

Published 08-29-2006 1:24 PM | jokiz

my current requirement is to support a formula parser for our application. although it supports just a subset of the common MS Excel functions, what's trivial for me is the support for grouping symbols. we had a similar requirement back in college in...

Filed under: .NET, techie, parser

MRT G-Pass

Published 08-24-2006 4:11 PM | jokiz

i just bought my own G-Pass this morning. It costed me 100 bucks with a free 50 peso MRT load. Too bad loading is just through G-Cash or their booths, it would have been better if it will just be included to the globe bill - hassle free.

Filed under: techie, lokal

sending messages from pc

Published 08-24-2006 2:14 PM | jokiz

anyone using a better software to send sms from pc through one's mobile phone? I'm currently using Nokia PC Suite and the Send Messages feature is tiresome for me, opening the inbox folder most of the time, etc. if there's an outlook addin, better.

Filed under: techie, mobile

java's protected == .NET's protected internal

Published 08-23-2006 8:35 PM | jokiz

i was teaching the basics of inheritance in java to one of my math tutees when i bumped into one of the differences of java and .NET. basically i declared a field variable as protected and was able to access the said field from a different class on the...

Filed under: trivia, C#, java

designtime visual inheritance bug for new .NET 2.0 controls

Published 08-23-2006 8:27 PM | jokiz

i just found out a bug on visual inheritance concerning the new controls in .NET 2.0. Basically it says that if you have an inherited control (non-private), designer won't allow you to "design it" in the child form (they're locked). more info here .

Filed under: .NET, visual studio, bug

NHibernate Caches

Published 08-23-2006 2:27 PM | jokiz

one my my officemate who haven't used NHibernate brought up the idea of caching of ORMs. i have no idea about caching resultsets from the side of NHibernate until i consulted the docs . Turns out that the caching feature is an addin to NHibernate (similar...

Filed under: .NET, NHibernate, caching

Top Answerers in MSDN Forums

Published 08-22-2006 11:05 AM | jokiz

it was my first time this month to be included in the top 100 answerers in msdn forums. i am currently placed 76th in today's ranking. the list includes two other filipinos, a co-msforumer joeydj who specializes in SQL and Paul Domag, a Microsoft...

Filed under: techie, lokal

VS 2003 SP1 available

Published 08-17-2006 9:49 PM | jokiz

Soma blogs about the just released service pack 1 for vs 2003. i am not installing it yet until a number of users have already said that the said service pack is stable. i don't want to deal with a bug resulting from this fix (if there will be any...

Filed under: visual studio

unit testing the .NET framework

Published 08-17-2006 5:02 PM | jokiz

once in a while, i fire up snipper compiler to test the .NET framework classes to investigate how they would behave. just like the unexpected dividebyzeroexception of double data type that i posted before. i usually have this dummy solution to test console...

Filed under: .NET, tdd

assemblyversion - revision number before build number

Published 08-17-2006 11:40 AM | jokiz

although msdn docs say that the proper format for assembly version is <major version>.<minor version>.<build number>.<revision> i was surprised that our current project is using a different format which is used by the nant build...

Filed under: .NET, continuous integration, subversion

subversion one click setup

Published 08-17-2006 11:09 AM | jokiz

i remember when i first set up subversion for my own projects and it was pretty messy, installing the service, etc. all are described in this blog post . months ago, rodel told me that there is a one click installer for setting up subversion and now that...

Filed under: version control, subversion

Duplicating files for an installer using Orca MSI editor

Published 08-16-2006 11:04 PM | jokiz

I had a chance to create an installer for our last project and my experience are worth sharing. I have read a number of articles and blog posts about setup and deployment projects, installers, etc. and i've saved them in my deliciount account . worth...

Filed under: orca setup installer msi

CommandTimeout vs ConnectionTimeout

Published 08-15-2006 1:23 PM | jokiz

ConnectionTimeout is the one specified in your connection string and it is the time it takes for a connection.Open() invocation to wait until it gets a connection reference from the connection pool. (Default value is 15 seconds) CommandTimeout on the...

Filed under: SQL, ADO.NET

tag editing with community server 2.1

Published 08-11-2006 8:32 PM | jokiz

i am trying to reconfigure the tags for my previous blog posts and it's very easy now with the current version of community server. i think i can finish them all in less than an hour.

Filed under: tips, communityserver, tags