julij 2007 - Zunanji viri

Midyear Reader Profile

Since it's summer here in Europe, and thus roughly middle of the year, here comes your, Dear Reader, profile. Mind you, only last years data (June 2006 - June 2007) is included, according to Google Analytics . Browser Versions: Operating Systems:...

Published 07-26-2007 22:58 by Matevz Gacnik's Weblog

Pripete označbe: Blogging

Loop over files in directory from a batch file

Figuring this out took me much longer than it should. The following line in a batch file will execute a command for each file in a directory: for %%I in (C:\*.*) do echo %%~nxI I had to overcome two obstacles to make this work: When including the command...

Published 07-24-2007 16:19 by Damir Arh's Corner

Pripete označbe: Development;Development/Batch

Creating custom tasks for CruiseControl.NET

Once you start putting CruiseControl.NET to production use you'll sooner or later encounter the need for custom build tasks. There's only a limited set of them in the package and Executable Task can only do so much. Unfortunately there is not...

Published 07-24-2007 13:57 by Damir Arh's Corner

Pripete označbe: Development;Development/.NET

Managed TxF: Distributed Transactions and Transactional NTFS

Based on my previous post , I managed to get distributed transaction scenario working using WCF , MTOM and WS-AtomicTransactions . This means that you have the option to transport arbitrary files , using transactional ACID semantics, from the client,...

Published 07-23-2007 22:54 by Matevz Gacnik's Weblog

Pripete označbe: .NET 3.5 - WCF;Transactions;Web Services;Windows Vista

WS-Management: Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

I dived into WS-Management support in Vista / Longhorn Server Windows Server 2008 this weekend. There are a couple of caveats if you want to enable remote WS-Management based access to these machines. Support for remote management is also built into Windows...

Published 07-22-2007 20:48 by Matevz Gacnik's Weblog

Pripete označbe: Web Services;Windows Vista

MSBuild.xsl problem in CruiseControl.NET 1.3

The 1.3.0.2918 build of CruiseControl.NET has an error in msbuild.xsl file which causes an XslLoadException to be thrown when trying to view the MSBuild output in the web dashboard. One of the users was nice enough to describe the changes to the file...

Published 07-22-2007 13:24 by Damir Arh's Corner

Pripete označbe: Development;Development/.NET;Downloads;Downloads/Sources

Installing MSI packages from command line

Although a MSI file can bi installed by double clicking on it in Explorer or by selecting install from the context menu, you might want to start from command line to include it in a script. This can be done by using the msiexec.exe utility. Although it's...

Published 07-22-2007 12:24 by Damir Arh's Corner

Pripete označbe: Personal;Personal/Software

Managed TxF: Support in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

If you happen to be on a Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 box, there is some goodness going your way. There is a basic managed TxF (Transactional NTFS) wrapper available (unveiled by Jason Olson ). What this thing gives you is this: try { using (TransactionScope...

Published 07-20-2007 16:59 by Matevz Gacnik's Weblog

Pripete označbe: Transactions;Windows Vista

Marking variables in VS.NET Debugger

Technorati Tags: vs.net, debugging Even after using Visual Studio for years (previous versions at least), you can always find hidden features. If you are debugging and have watch window open, you can click on “Make Object ID”. This will create...

Published 07-20-2007 16:42 by while true blog

Pripete označbe: vs.net

Six Months

»Become a better developer in six months.« Define 'better'. :) I've been tagged by Denis 'The SQL Menace' Gobo to share my views on how I would go about becoming a better developer in the next six months. (Self-)education is the first...

Published 07-20-2007 14:53 by snaps & snippets

SQL Server 2005 XML Methods, Part Three, The XPath Expression

We've discussed the basics of XML in SQL, we've seen a few examples of XQueries and their performance; I guess we're ready to go a bit deeper. In this article we'll look more closely at XPath expressions and see how they behave in SQL...

Published 07-20-2007 0:29 by snaps & snippets

Problem: Adding custom properties to document text in Word 2007

There is some serious pain going on when you need to add a simple custom document property into multiple Word 2007 text areas. Say you have a version property that you would need to update using the document property mechanics. And say you use it in four...

Published 07-09-2007 22:44 by Matevz Gacnik's Weblog

Pripete označbe: Microsoft;Personal;Work

Apple iPhone Hacking

There's some serious iPhone hacking going on during the last week or so. Here 's the wiki page, that has lots of information on the project. Main devs, working on the unlock problem are from US and Hungary as it seems. The forum is here . Deliverables...

Published 07-08-2007 15:20 by Matevz Gacnik's Weblog

Pripete označbe: Apple

EXISTS or NOT EXISTS... that is the question here

Whether 'tis nobler to count the rows in tables And stall the traffic with outrageous pride Or to merely stop as early as a single row Fullfills the expectations; To exist: to be found. Has Hamlet ever designed a data driven solution? How to check...

Published 07-06-2007 15:20 by snaps & snippets

SQL Server 2005 XML Methods, Part Four, The Existential Quandary

We've seen SQL Server 2005 XML data retrieval methods in previous posts. In particular we've seen how they perform compared to T-SQL retrieval methods, and – quite frankly – the results were somewhat disappointing. There is an XML retrieval method...

Published 07-06-2007 15:17 by snaps & snippets