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Resource Refactoring Tool for Visual Studio 2010 now with XAML support
I've just updated Resource Refactoring Tool for Visual Studio 2005/8/10 co be able to extract strings from XAML. See page on <a href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/39ae29d3-81e1-43d4-9c48-fc9644869d84/">Visual Studio Gallery</a>. Downlload <a href="http://dzonny.cz/Portals/0/SW/ResourceRefactorSetup.msi">Installer</a> | <a href="http://dzonny.cz/Portals/0/SW/ResourceRefactor.src.rar">Source code</a>. <a href="http://dzonny.cz/Software/Blog/tabid/93/EntryID/40/language/cs-CZ/Default.aspx">See original blogpost</a> 

Deploy Database Programatically
Visual Studio 2010 offers a new type of project for database development - *.dbproj. This new type of project can be "build". Build checks some syntax and consistency and mainly it creates some XML representation of your database including UDTs, stored procedures, tables and everything. This representation can be used to deploy database schema do any SQL Server database (create a new or upgrade existing). I was just wondering if I can do this programatically from my code. The short answer is NO. The long answer is YES - and here is how: <a href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/dbDeploy">http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/dbDeploy</a>. 

Visual Basic enhancement #Đ57 - Get... operators
Lucian has very interesting blog on possible future features of VB. One of the latest is something called <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/lucian/archive/2010/02/11/power6-caller-member.aspx">_CALLLER_MEMBER_</a>. This is something PHP programmers know - pseudoconstant containign name of current method, property, providing file name, line etc. I have thought about something similar 2 years ago. Here is my complete idea - maybe to complex :-)... 

Resource Refactoring Tool for Visual Studio 2010
<a href="http://dzonny.cz/Software/Blog/tabid/93/EntryID/43/language/cs-CZ/Default.aspx">Update New version (2.1) available</a> There is very handy Visual Studio plugin called <a href="http://resourcerefactoring.codeplex.com">Resource Rafactoring Tool</a> on CodePlex. This tool does not work in Visual Studio 2010 (yet). I have made slight changes need to install and work in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. I'm going to upload my changes as patch to CodePlex, but working with patches is not very user-friendly and I wanted to share MSI with you as soon as possible, so I uploaded the MSI and source to my website. <h3>The tool itself and tool source code is licensed under Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) </h3> This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the software, you accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not use the software. 1. Definitions The terms "reproduce," "reproduction," "derivative works," and "distribution" have the same meaning here as under U.S. copyright law. A "contribution" is the original software, or any additions or changes to the software. A "contributor" is any person that distributes its contribution under this license. "Licensed patents" are a contributor's patent claims that read directly on its contribution. 2. Grant of Rights (A) Copyright Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to reproduce its contribution, prepare derivative works of its contribution, and distribute its contribution or any derivative works that you create. (B) Patent Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed patents to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, and/or otherwise dispose of its contribution in the software or derivative works of the contribution in the software. 3. Conditions and Limitations (A) No Trademark License- This license does not grant you rights to use any contributors' name, logo, or trademarks. (B) If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents that you claim are infringed by the software, your patent license from such contributor to the software ends automatically. (C) If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software. (D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under a license that complies with this license. (E) The software is licensed "as-is." You bear the risk of using it. The contributors give no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws which this license cannot change. To the extent permitted under your local laws, the contributors exclude the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. I hope I do not violate license termy by modifying the tool and sharing it with you. <h3>Release notes:</h3><ul><li>Should work win VS 2005/2008/2010 (tested 2008 and 2010).</li><li>Includes my another <a href="http://resourcerefactoring.codeplex.com/SourceControl/PatchList.aspx">patch 1905</a> to this project (allow to extract string to any resx file, not only those with Build Action = Embedded Resource).</li><li>With exception of patch 1905 no changes have been done to source code of tool itself.</li><li>Installer have been changed to use <a href="http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/">WiX 3.5</a>.</li><li>This tool have not been intensively tested. I just hope it will work with VS2010 as it worked with 2005/8 and it seems to work. </li></ul><a href="http://dzonny.cz/Portals/0/SW/ResourceRefactor.src.rar">Download Resource Refactoring Tool 2010 Source Code</a> <a href="http://dzonny.cz/Portals/0/SW/ResourceRefactorSetup.msi">Download Resource Refactoring Tool 2010 MSI Installer</a> 

Windows 7 Annoyances
It seems that new trend in Microsoft is to create great software with plenty of usefully functions and omit so basic functionality that users are totally upset. Remember - In Office 2007: No customization, no image grouping, no scanning. In VS2010: No floating toolbars. In Vista: No support for 2 GPUs from different vendors. Nin W7: let's see... 

Windows 7 - first 3 days
My old laptop died (have been died by incapable Acer service - they haven't been able to get rid of noisy fan within 30 days, so according to Czech law they have to give me my money back). So, I have bought a new laptop with Windows 7 x64. After 3 days I have it almost working and here are my experiences...

How does a programmer spend vacation?
<div style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: Courier New; font-size: 10pt; color: black; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> <pre style="margin: 0px;">Me.MyCar.DriveTo(Earth.Slovakia.VysokéTatry)</pre> <pre style="margin: 0px;">While Now.Date < #7/12/2009#</pre> <pre style="margin: 0px;">    Me.WalkUphill()</pre> <pre style="margin: 0px;">    Me.WalkDownhill()</pre> <pre style="margin: 0px;">    Threading.Thread.Sleep((Now.Date.AddDays(ĐTools</a> to it. Well it's Beta 1 and you can see it at many places. Just attempt to import my 23projects solution took nearly whole weekend and I've posted about 10 bugs and suggestions to Microsoft Connect (hopefully I'll not be considered Connect spammer <img src="/Portals/_default/Smileys/bigsmile.gif" border="0">). And something still does not work - my C++/CLI project for managed Total Commander plugins makes C++/CLI compiler crahs (<a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=462208">462208</a>), my CIL makefile project cannot be build from yet unknown reason and some of my VB project report errors that don't exists (<a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=462216">462216</a>). On the other hand there are exciting hew features. Number one is explicit line continuation in Visual Basic. But Visual Basic has more improvements (array literals, collection initializers, multiline sub anf function lambdas - very usefull). Microsft had silently fixed ununderstandable behavior of Option Infer (<a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=306416">306416</a>). Covariance and contravariance seems to be good (event it is only for interfaces - but I think it's CLR limitation). IDE highlights referecnes and can generate stup from usage, but there is still no brace matching <img src="/Portals/_default/Smileys/crying.gif" border="0"> (<a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=106566">106566</a>). You can zoom text in IDE. There are some new classes in 4.0 (I haven't tryed it yet) and it seems that after 3.0/3.5 being "only" extensions to 2.0; 4.0 is whole new runtime. And it should be possible to utilize side-by-side versioning - in one process use different runtimes. The Visual Studio IDE look is IMHO somewhat step backward. VS have never been nicely blue as Office 2003, but at least it has cylinder-looking toolbars. Not it seems to be reworked in WPF. But WPF does not mean nice. In fact WPF mean that much more effort is needed to make application look normal. And it provides space for wild sesigners (see Experssion Belnd). By now Toolbars cannot be moved around IDE. I hope it will be fixed. On the other hand dockable windows and even document tabs are now free to move and dock almost anywhere - I like it! Now (maybe next weekend) I'm going to write some code in VS 2010 (VB 10 - nice coincidence). It will probably produce more Connect posts, and I'll be back in programming of my Tools library. I have't written much since I got a new Windows-Mobile-powered phone, so I wanted to write soemthing in CF a <a href="http://dzonny.cz/Default.aspx?id=91&tabid=61">Charmap</a>, and I'm participating in <a href="http://gpstracka.codeplex.com/">GPSTRacka</a>. I hope I'll do some progress in Exif manipulation in ĐTools and in Metanol before I'll co to High Tatras in July. Recent experience with VS 2010 also made me to update my <a href="http://dzonny.cz/Portals/0/SW/Visual%20Basic%208%20Improvements.docx">Visual Basic Improvements list</a>. 

CharMap for mobile devices
A few weeks ago I've got a new Windows-Mobile-powered mobile phone HTC Touch HD. One think I like about Windows Mobile is .NET Framework which makes application development for the platform very easy. One think I'm crazy about is peculiar character sets and Unicode characters. Those two thinks together with lack of such built-in software are reason why I've created my first device software: CharMap mobile. It's full-featured CharMap as you know it from Windows XP/Vista. With Unicode support, character names, Unicode subranges any may other features. From some peculiar reason (Windows Mobile / .NET CF limitation ?) it does not property display non-BMP (non-UTF-16) characters. And names of characters are not localized (whole user interface is localized to English and Czech and language can be switched though .NET CF does not support changing of CurrentUICulture). The application is distributes with setup CAB, binary files and source code. In feature it will probably become part of my open source project <a href="http://tools.codeplex.com">ĐTools</a>. The application can be <a href="http://dzonny.cz/Default.aspx?id=91&tabid=61">downloaded from my website</a>. <img src="/DesktopModules/Repository/MakeThumbnail.aspx?tabid=61&id=91" alt="Char map image">

XHTML a CSS reference
Myslel jsem, že už jsem to dávno pověsil někam na web, ale když jsem si to v práce chtěl stáhnout, zjistil jsem, že to nikde nemůžu najít. Tak tady to je: <a href="http://dzonny.czhttp://dzonny.cz/Portals/0/DOCs/CSS%20Guide.pdf">Velmi stručná reference CSS a XHTML</a> (<a href="http://dzonny.czhttp://dzonny.cz/Portals/0/DOCs/CSS%20Guide.doc">DOC</a>).<hr>I'd thought that I'd published it already. Them I wanted to download it at work and I've found that I could not find it anywhere. So, here it is: <a href="http://dzonny.czhttp://dzonny.cz/Portals/0/DOCs/CSS%20Guide.pdf">A very brief CSS and XHTML reference sheet</a> (<a href="http://dzonny.czhttp://dzonny.cz/Portals/0/DOCs/CSS%20Guide.doc">DOC</a>) (in Czech).