Task Today I’ve got a requirement from my customer to prevent showing the system menu when WinForm’s icon (top left) is right-clicked. The form is painted by DevExpress […]
Powerful and easy installation authoring of .net applications with Advanced Installer
Lately I’ve built a .net class library that supports COM as well. To make setup file I usually use Visual Studio’s Setup Project because I rarely do anything […]
ClickOnce and DevExpress components deployment
Let’s say you’ve build a WinForms application and put some DevExpress (or any other 3rd party controls installed in GAC I suppose) controls in there. At some point […]
Packing assemblies to a single file for Righthand.Dataset.Visualizer
A while ago I’ve created Righthand.DataSet.Visualizer, an advanced DataSet visualizer. Today I’ve added support for displaying a single table as well. It wasn’t a big deal but I […]
ANTS Memory Profiler 5 and its expiration message
I installed ANTS Memory Profiler 5 beta version a couple of weeks ago to try it out. Unfortunately I haven’t had time to really use it but it […]
Autoimplement base class constructors with CodeRush
How often do you derive a class and re-create all of the base constructors? This is not an uncommon task, let’s take a custom exception class for example: […]
SIOL (IPTV provider) managed to upset its customers once more
I have an IPTV provided by biggest national IPTV/IS provider. The current service is poor at best. We have FTTH (the slowest is 20Mb – that’s awesome) but […]
DirectX HLSL compiler chokes on unicode sources
In a week or so I’ve created two HLSL effects in two different .fx files. While they were really simple and straightforward, one of them failed to load […]
XNA Game Studio: I could play video but I’d rather not
Did you ever try to play a video inside your DirectX application, or a newer XNA Game Studio? One could assume that this is a trivial task, right? […]
Material from my "Making ORM applications more secure/Naredimo ORM aplikacije varnejše" presentation
I posted both slides and demo code from my "Making ORM applications more secure/Naredimo ORM aplikacije varnejše" presentation held at Bleeding Edge conference in Portorož on 1.10.2008. The […]