The Sandbox

SHAREPOINT CONSULTANT OPPORTUNITY

rlestak — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:32:54 GMT

Please contact me if you are a SharePoint Consultant and are interested in joining one of the largest and fastest growing IT consulting firms in Los Angeles.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Ramona Lestak
Recruiter / HR Manager
805/445-8972
rlestak@cpisolutions.com

What VS 2008 color theme is Scottgu using

mopos — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:26:53 GMT

I recently watched scottgu building a silverlight 2 application here on channel 9. Which color theme was he using in visual studio.

Br,
Morten

Twitula

Kevin Daly — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:02:46 GMT

This is the Twitter client I wrote earlier in the year for Windows Mobile (specifically, Windows Mobile Classic and Professional, to use the new official names that convey no useful information whatsoever). That is, Windows Mobile for touch screen devices, or what we used to call Pocket PC. Unfortunately the "People I follow" option has not worked since the Twitter developers did something back in I think August that caused the https://twitter.com/statuses/friends.xml call to handle authentication incorrectly, with the effect that it now always returns a "not found" error. This bug has been notified on the Twitter forum and commented on by numerous people, but they haven't done anything about it. Consequently I decided not to do any further work with what is obviously an unstable and unsupported API.
Other people may have more patience than me and feel inclined to implement a work around to deal with this issue and whichever others arise subsequently - those people might find this code of some use.
Anyone who sees that I render every word in a tweet separately will no doubt conclude that I'm insane, stupid or both: it was my solution to the problem of rendering links correctly along with ordinary text for any arbitrary input string, while positioning everything (more or less) correctly. I never liked it, but it did the trick and wasn't as slow as I'd feared ("Good enough for free", was my thought, to be honest).
I do sincerely apologise for the lack of comments: I was writing the code for myself and yes, I confess, largely making it up as I went along (see again under "Good enough for free"). I do feel guilty however about the lack of explanatory comments.
Despite all that there may be bits and pieces here that provide some people with useful ideas. I'm pretty pleased with the overall look (not so much with having to use interop code to achieve it), and I think the "finger-swipey stuff" is at least a good start. Speaking of fingers, I made a conscious effort to be "finger-friendly" (and the swipey bit was part of that, as were the admittedly somewhat garish buttons on the dialogs), although my main objective with this program was to break away from the Godawful VB4-ish look that the Compact Framework tends to impose on us (I'd like to do something similar for Diarist, but since the input controls occupy almost the entire display area I haven't worked out how as yet).

PS. If you've actually used Twitula and had never noticed that there was integrated help, don't spend too much time slapping your forehead. Anyone could make that mistake.

Need PDC videos and PPTs

Trilok — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:36:01 GMT

hello can any one give me the exact location on internet where i can get video and ppt of PDC

Thanks

Send Me Your PDC Video

mswanson — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:05:44 GMT

Help me motivate the Microsoft employees who will be at PDC2008. Send me your video, and I may use it at our big on-campus meeting. Thank you in advance for your help!

Service Enabled Workflow Sample Files

jbienz — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:21:09 GMT

These files are for the Service Enabling Workflows screencast.

FormatC source code formatting

Sven Groot — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:04:02 GMT

FormatC is a utility that allows you to add syntax highlighting to your C#, Visual Basic, C++, XML, HTML, Transact-SQL or PowerShell source code, so you can publish it on a web page or blog post.

FormatC supports the new features introduced in C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9.0, including Linq and Visual Basic XML literals.

You can format your source code using the interface on my site and simply copy/paste the results into a webpage or blog post, and customize the highlighting by editing the provided style sheet (or simply keep the default).

The download provided here contains a class library to use in your own application, and also contains the source code.

Objects to Database

AnthonyJohnston — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:54:46 GMT

Hi,

Just put up a project that I have been working on which generates a database script based on an object model that you build.

here's the link
http://code.google.com/p/antix-objects-to-database/

download the solution
http://antix-objects-to-database.googlecode.com/files/Antix.ObjectsToDatabase_1.0.zip

Comments and suggestions welcome
Ant

MS Rbotics Studio DSS C++ service

dina123 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:17:18 GMT

Hello,
I m using MS Robotics Studio. I want to create DSS C++ service having multiple input connection pins? How Can I do That? If u have some idea plz reply me asap.

Search Engine Rank Finder (SERF)

SlackmasterK — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:08:21 GMT

Have you ever wondered to yourself... "Self, I wonder where I'm ranking on Google for Vista SP1 Redistributable"? Then you Google it and find your site in the results? Then you feel proud if you showed up on page 1? I do that... So today I sat down and wrote it for a blog rewrite I'm working on. You can get the full rundown on it here.

Basically you give it a search term and a domain, pick a search engine, and it tells you where you appear within the engine's search results. So if you're #1 on Google for something, it'll tell you and give you a link to that Google results page.

Sure, there are some improvements that could be made; but it was quick, dirty, and effective.

UI Automation Stress

crnriman — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:43:38 GMT

Worry about the stability of your application and its UI??

Here is a sample that uses the UI Automation API's from .net (3.0 and above) to stress test your application.

Just run
InvokeStress.exe -pid [processId]
or
InvokeStress.exe -title [windowTitle]

And see if your app can survive being taken through its paces over a 24 hour period.

MS Robotics Studio DSS Service

dina123 — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:58:41 GMT

Hello,
I am working in MS Robotics Studio. I want to use MS Robotics Studio DSS Service into my vc++ Project. How can I use Existing or newly created DSS service in VC++ Project? If You have some idea please reply me asap.

CBT

iStation — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:26:43 GMT

Latest Ver.17.3.2

.NET Framework 2.0 WinForms Application
Recommended screen size: 1024 x 768 or larger

also available here
http://www.ynt-jp.com/istation/

CBT ~ eLearning English | The Sandbox | Channel 9
http://channel9.msdn.com/playground/Sandbox/261909-CBT--eLearning-English/

:)

CBT-Group

iStation — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:24:44 GMT

Latest Ver. 4.1.0

.NET Framework 2.0 WinForms Application
Recommended screen size: 1024 x 768 or larger

also available here
http://www.ynt-jp.com/istation/

CBT ~ eLearning English | The Sandbox | Channel 9
http://channel9.msdn.com/playground/Sandbox/261909-CBT--eLearning-English/

Fuzzy Matching with Linq and Extension methods

JoshRoss — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:53:53 GMT

[code language="vb"] Public Class FuzzyLookupForm Dim dc As New DataClasses1DataContext Private Sub UserInput_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles UserInput.KeyDown If e.KeyCode = Keys.Enter Then 'Local sequence cannot be used in LINQ to SQL implementation of query operators except the Contains() operator. 'HACK: cast customers to AsEnumerable. Dim customers = (From x In dc.oe_customers _ Let Location = x.name.Trim & " " & x.addr1.Trim & " " & x.city.Trim & " " & x.zip.Substring(0, 5) _ Select x.cust_code, Location).AsEnumerable 'I made the Location a concation of a bunch of fields in order not to have to reaggerate them in linq, at a later step. Dim q = From x In customers _ Let matches = UserInput.Text.ToLower.Split(New Char() {" "c, vbTab}).IntersectContains(x.Location.ToLower.Split(" ")).Count _ + UserInput.Text.ToLower.Split(New Char() {" "c, vbTab}).Intersect(x.Location.ToLower.Split(" ")).Count _ Where matches > 0 _ Select x.cust_code, x.Location, matches _ Order By matches Descending Me.DataGridView1.DataSource = q.ToArray End If End Sub End Class Module MatchingExtensions _ Function IntersectContains(ByVal first As IEnumerable(Of String), ByVal second As IEnumerable(Of String)) As IEnumerable(Of String) 'If first containts Det it will match Detroit in second. Return From f In first, s In second Where s.Contains(f) Select s Distinct End Function End Module [/code]

OLE - Oh-lay- Olay

Azin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:20:11 GMT

When upgrading to Office 2007, most add-ins working with OLE Automation fail. My enterprise customer has 3rd party OCX files with licensing issues for upgrade or no newer version of the OCX is available. Since this is a financial institution, they live and die by Excel automation.

Where is the best place to start when rewriting these? Where is the authoritative source for API's, new Objects, etc. for Office 2007?
thanks in advance for answering an Infrastructure gal on a App / Office compatibility project.

About the security of Web application

sachin vijay — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:41:17 GMT

Hi sir,
         I am working on an application and i wants that the admin of web app have the full right to access the all app and the user access only a specify area.I already created the user and admin account from asp.net security but i am unable to apply right and security. Plz help me ........
             Thanx in advance
                                   Sachin vijay

Roomba 500 series robots in Microsoft Robotics Studio

FryingSaucer — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:49:03 GMT

I've added support for the iRobot® Roomba 500 series of robots to Microsoft Robotics Studio.

The guys from the Microsoft Robotics Hardware forum asked me to post the code here. I will add a topic in the Robotics Hardware forum containing further information. Please post any comments in the Microsoft Robotics forum, not here.

Thanks,
Arnold

VIEWS Sample File

jbienz — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:32:31 GMT

This post includes the files for the Virtual Earth Mapping in Silverlight with VIEWS screencast.

Silverlight Image Search Sample Files

jbienz — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:19:00 GMT

These are the sample files for the Silverlight Image Search screencast.

WinBubble, Customize and Tweak your Windows Vista Easily

Lawrence.Albert — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:38:26 GMT

In just two clicks, WinBubble will help you to Customize and Tweak your Windows Vista easily. Its features cover Customization, Security and Optimization.

What's new on WinBubble 1.73?

* "Restore All Settings to Default" Button
* "Create a Restore Point" Context Menu option (Right-Click Menu)
* "Device Manager" Context Menu option (Right-Click Menu)
* Taking the Ownership of File and Folder options
* Help Links was added
* Anti-Bug feature was updated
* Automatic Back-up of OEM Information was added

WinBubble was written using the latest version of .Net

Enjoy!!!

http://nextmile.spaces.live.com/

Sandbox Test

CannotResolveSymbol — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:35:58 GMT

How well does the Sandbox work here? Let's see!

It Was This Big Dotnet

DCMonkey — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:45:47 GMT

This is a very simplistic clone of the Dimensions feature of xScope, as discussed in this Coffeehouse thread: You can download it from my SkyDrive.

NextUI WPF gauge 0.9

low2215 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:05:41 GMT

Hi , I have created a WPF gauge library , it is still beta and it is FREE to use . by default you should be able to use it with property editor only ..

send me comment or feedback . I have post some extra sample on my site nextwavesoft.com on how to use the gauge .

Thanks ...

CBT ~ eLearning English

iStation — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:14:30 GMT

Excerpts from "CBT ~ eLearning English"
Written in Japanese
PDF format

これは日本人がCBTを使って英語を学ぶマニュアルから抜粋したものです。
(This is a manual for Japanese to learn Englsih by CBT.)
:)

[Links to CBT and the Utilities]
CBT ~ Computer Based Training