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Visual Studio: Find in Specific File Types
My boss was just telling me about a small feature that he wished Visual Studio had. I misunderstood him, and thought he was talking about being able to find text in files of specific type, a feature that I have wanted before. I then realized that I had never really searched for such a feature; I had just assumed Visual Studio didn’t have it. After a few seconds of looking through dialogs, I had found the option to filter a textual search based on file type: There are a few preset file type filters, but...
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API Tip: Don't create your own IDisposable
I'm in the middle of refactoring some ugly code that synchronizes a couple of our systems. One of our systems forces us to use an API; we're not allowed to modify the database directly or we void our service contract. You'd hope, then, that they provide a decent API for interacting with the system.
Well, first things first, the "API" is really just a bunch of horrible .Net wrappers around COM components.
Next, we come to the fact that they have their own "IDisposable" interface, called "IBBDisposable". It doesn't have a "Dispose" method, instead it has a "CloseDown" method. So basically,...
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First post from Live Writer
Let’s see how well SubText works with the MetaWeblog API. Well, pictures don’t work. That’s a shame. I was hoping for some seamless, frictionless integration. Something that just works. Not today. I can’t even put a FAIL picture up to show how much of a fail that is from a user perspective.
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SubText Friction
I'm only a few minutes into setting up my new blog, and SubText is already giving me grief. This reminds me of why I decided to run off and build my own blog engine.
Lets see what issues I've run into so-far:
Couldn't get SubText to run under IIS7's Integraded mode; had to switch to Classic.
Had permissions issues on my App_Data folder.
Ran into several errors while changing some options that seem to have "fixed" themselves when I refreshed the page.
Getting a NullReferenceException when I try to...
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First Post
Just finished setting up SubText... time for the obligatory "first post" post.
So yeah, this is the first post. Enjoy the ride :)