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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: public class MyException: Exception { } If you right click on Exception and pick Go to Definition
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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 really lousy (~4Mb at best) MPEG2 (!) encoded streams. The most obvious consequence of such encoding
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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 at runtime in my managed DirectX 3D application (yet both worked in NVidia FX Composer ). Why would
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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? WPF lets you play it, heck, even Silverlight has no problems playing video - it is a matter of setting a
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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 material is in Slovene language. Enjoy.
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Righthand has joined LLBLGenPro partners

I am proud to announce that today, after years of experience with LLBLGenPro development, I've become an official LLBLGenPro partner . As such I am offering consultancy and development with LLBLGenPro , the #1 ORM product for .net. Do you want to
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Creating wrappers for sealed and other types for mocking

Did you ever wanted to mock a sealed class or non-virtual methods? Unless you are using TypeMock you are in for some coding as there is no easy way to mock them just like that (I am fiddling with MOQ but AFAIK no mock framework is capable of mocking sealed
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SharePoint 2007 training with Sahil in Europe

Sahil "SharePoint dude" Malik will be doing advanced SharePoint 2007 training in Norway . Yep, that's the same Sahil that blogs like mad about SharePoint . So if you are into SharePoint development you are having a great opportunity to learn from the
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Developer Express steps into WPF

Developer Express , my favorite 3rd party .net component vendor, has just made its first public step into Windows Presentation Foundation world. They released a beta version of their charting product DXCharts for WPF (hey, where are those Xtra, Xpress,
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ASPxGridView, MS Ajax and XYDataSource

If you use Developer Express ASPxGridView within MS Ajax' UpdatePanel (ASPxGridView.EnableCallBacks="False") you should be aware that you should perform DataBind() method within OnInit method (Init event). Otherwise editing just won't
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The time of "Vote for XY product" is here again

asp.netPRO started voting process for asp.netPRO Readers' Choice Awards 2008 as they do every year. And all of the 3rd party component vendors are asking for your vote, as usual. Nothing wrong there. But there are two things that I noticed during my voting.
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telerik supporting Mono?

Looks like telerik is going to support Mono . This news is certainly interesting for Mono guys as it might give wings to Mono. Which is a good thing, indeed. However, the support (if it is going to happen) will probably be limited to asp.net components
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Revolutionary approach to check whether connection to database will work for next command

As we all know, an open connection to database server might drop for a reason or another whenever. And a dead connection is one of the reasons that our command against database server might not succeed - instead we'll get an exception. I mean, you can't
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Righthand Dataset Debugger Visualizer goes 2008 and looses expiration restriction at the same time

As a (late) new year gift I've removed annoying expiration restriction from my dataset debugger visualizer. Find the 0.9.12 update here . I've also rebuilt it for Visual Studio 2008 version which will be the only one supported from now on. Find the 0.9.12
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Righthand Dataset Debugger Visualizer

RightHand.DataSet.Visualizer is an MDI application that lets you inspect DataSet structure and its data plus tons of other useful operations on DataSet. Why would I need a DataSet visualizer? How often does a programmer wonder what data a dataset holds?
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