May 2008 - Posts

Full-Screening your WebImageViewer
27 May 08 01:20 PM | jacobl | 1 Comments   
Last week, I posted 2 web apps ( here and here ) as part of our 31 Apps in 31 Days promotion . They both have one thing in common (outside of the fact that they're online): being full screen WebImageViewers. There are a few hoops that you need to hop Read More...
Custom NAnt Task for Removing TFS Bindings
21 May 08 07:46 AM | jacobl | 1 Comments   
Before I get started, I want to say thanks to Mike Carbenay and his article on CodeProject about removing source control bindings . His WinForms app gave me the base which was used to develop this custom NAnt task. Atalasoft is a toolkit vendor. So, as Read More...
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Beauty is only Skin-Deep Part Deux: If it looks like a duck, it might be a WinForm
19 May 08 07:57 AM | jacobl | 1 Comments   
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and waddles like a duck, then it's probably a duck. But if it just looks like one, it might be my next WinForms application. Ah, and yes it is. This blog will put a useless spin on creating non-standard shaped Read More...
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Beauty is only Skin-Deep: Skinning your WinForms Application
09 May 08 11:00 AM | jacobl | 3 Comments   
We all want our Windows applications to stand out, and I think most people would like to believe that there are a few distinct approaches to achieving this. You can either have an app that does great things, one that does things great, or one that does Read More...
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Writing Custom NAnt Tasks
07 May 08 01:23 PM | jacobl | 6 Comments   
Working as a Build Engineer for about 9 months, I've had the opportunity to push NAnt build scripting to the limits. Our DotImage product is made up of both managed and unmanaged code, third party libraries with .NET wrappers, code that sometimes differs Read More...
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Presenting at the Western Mass.NET Users Group
05 May 08 08:59 AM | jacobl | 0 Comments   
I will be doing a presentation on build automation using CruiseControl and NAnt at the Western Mass .NET Users Group meeting on May 6th at 6pm. The presentation will cover the basics of CruiseControl and NAnt as well as developing custom tasks to stretch Read More...