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VS2005 RTM is buggy!
I thought I was the only one. I thought it was just me and that I was doing something wrong or extraordinary. I shut up. Now the genie is out of the bottle. First it was Roy Osherove's frustration with VS2005. Now, my colleague and friend Atanas forwarded Ayende Rahein's complaints and his rant about VS2005 getting in the way of TDD. minimsft has collected a lot of other rants about all the defects that have long been known and have not been fixed for the final version. I have two problems with VS2005: Web site projects compiles are sloooow. The r.a.d.controls suite installer packs a...November 05, 2005 2 min read -
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Ooo Champs Elysee....
Wondering why I suddenly disappeared? Well, some time ago I made a promise to myself to maintain a work-life balance and to take a vacation every three months. So, I made a list of places I wanted to visit and last week it was time for ... Paris! It's really hard to describe in just words how good I felt and what a great time I had. As a matter of fact, I had been in Paris a few times before, but it was only for a day and I had not come even close to appreciating all of its splendor... -
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Book Review: Working Effectively with Legacy Code
I finished reading Michael Feathers' book this week, and I am absolutely thrilled. This is my first book review on this blog, and I hope it gives a good idea of the book, so that people can make an informed decision on whether to spend their time reading it. -
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r.a.d.controls = 13 + 5: the math behind (Part III)
Today my meetings ended up earlier than I expected and this freed up some time to go over r.a.d.toolbar and r.a.d.combobox 2.0.r.a.d.toolbar 1.0Another great new control that we will be releasing in Q4 is r.a.d.toolbar. Unlike r.a.d.calendar it’s more or less feature-complete and will not undergo much evolution. r.a.d.toolbar will be by far the richest toolbar control for ASP.NET. Integrated with r.a.d.dock it will give you the versatility of the winforms toolbar with all the cool options such as re-ordering, floating toolbars, pinned toolbars, keyboard shortcuts, flexible databinding and a whole lot more. r.a.d.combobox 2.0In the last few months we received very... -
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r.a.d.controls = 13 + 5: the math behind (Part II)
In my first post on r.a.d.controls Q4 (http://blogs.telerik.com/vassilterziev/posts/05-10-09/r_a_d_controls_13_5_the_math_behind_Part_I.aspx) I made an overview of r.a.d.grid 3.0. Today it’s time to share some information about r.a.d.combobox 2.0, r.a.d.toolbar and the long-awaited r.a.d.calendar. In the course of the previous week I’ve had a chance to review the work in progress and I am very happy with what our dev and design teams have done - all products are both high-performance and very visually appealing. The latter is pretty important as our products, in terms of capabilities, are way ahead of documentation and examples and customers do have a problem to see all their beauty and... -
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Internet Explorer developer toolbar (beta)
Going through my daily blog feeds, I found a link to an old post on the IE blog. I don't know how I missed it before, but now I went ahead, downloaded, and installed the toolbar add-on. I can tell the toolbar is inspired by the Mozilla WebDeveloper extension by Chris Pederick: it has almost the same features. I use Chris' Mozilla extension all the time, and I am really happy I found an Internet Explorer counterpart. The features that I loved: The DOM viewer: this one is built in Mozilla. I have seen several bookmarklets that try to do it for IE, but this implementation is the most...October 14, 2005 2 min read -
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r.a.d.telepathy
Boy, did I have fun this morning... Here's what we received as a feature request from a customer:"I would like such a control for my clients that will make them understand that consulting on how to do projects is not free and that they should expect a bill when they get a solution, whether verbal or delivered. Could you create a control that I could embed in my correspondence and web projects that would change their ethical thinking? I am thinking r.a.d.Morality is a good name for it. Of course, you can wait until you have completed r.a.d.Telepathy as there is more demand... -
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r.a.d.controls = 13 + 5: the math behind (Part I)
One of the most common questions we are getting in the last couple of months is - "What will you be releasing in Q4"? For a number of reasons our typical answer has been - “It's going to be one of the best releases ever! Don’t waste time, buy a r.a.d.controls subscription license, and get the updates for free”. Unfortunately nowadays the words “exciting” and “best ever” are so widely abused that no one really believes them. Instead, customers want to know all the details in order to determine why the new product is so much better than the old... -
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You know you've had too much...
...of InstallShield when you dream about it. Last night, after yesterday's problems, I dreamt about events, conditions, and property grids. Ugh! Good thing, I am taking a break from installers soon. Do you dream about your work a lot?... -
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InstallShield discriminates me!
InstallShield caused a lot of grief today by treating my code as inferior. A single action worked differently if it was invoked by my code than if being called by an InstallShield "native" command. I was trying to implement some advanced logic in an installer's custom feature selection. My goal was to have two features that you can install together or separately. I wanted to force the user to install at least one of the features. InstallShield does not support that, so I ventured into writing a custom action in JScript. I had a simple plan:Verify if both features are deselected and set a flag property. Enable or...