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• In Praise of the Lowly Comment

  Here's an article showing how to make comments in your code more useful and effective for you and your fellow developers. It identifies the four kinds of comments that are worthwhile in most source code: Placeholder comments - A string around your virtual finger - eg. TODO comments Summary comments - explain an entire block of code at one time Intent comments - Why is this code here? Rocket Science comments - sometimes people need a little help to understand the rocket science in a piece of code! http://www.developer.com/design/article.php/3642901... Read More... Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 9:00 AM from TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblog | 0 Comments Filed under: Programming

• DB Connection Strings

  If you've ever struggled to find the right value for the connection string to use for some .NET Framework database programming, then this web site is probably exactly what you have been waiting for. http://www.ConnectionStrings.com/ It seems like every possible database and access method you might ever need to use is listed - including SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2 Ingres, and a load more databases I've never even heard of! I'm sure you can find this connection string information in various documentation and help files, but sometimes it's nice to easily accessible on your browser bookmarks list.... Read More... Posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 2:44 PM from TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblog | 0 Comments Filed under: Programming

• Domain Specific Language (DSL) Tools for Visual Studio

  The Visual Studio Team just announces the release of a Domain Specific Language (DSL) Tools add-on to VS Pro. DSL Tools v1 is a set of tools for creating graphical designers hosted in Visual Studio. These tools enable you to create a custom graphical designer that uses your own domain-specific diagrammatic notation. You can then create custom text templates that use models created in your designer to generate source code and other files. For more details about DSL Tools and this release see http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/DSLTools/... Read More... Posted Friday, September 22, 2006 11:36 AM from TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblog | 0 Comments Filed under: Programming

• Power Toys for Visual Studio

  Microsoft's Developer Solution team has recently announce the Shared Source release of a number of v1.0 Power Toys for Visual Studio on CodePlex. CodePlex is the cool new community development Web site for distributed and collaborative software development. The Power Toys for Visual Studio Collection includes many widely requested tools and utilities for enhancing and customizing Visual Studio, including: MSBee - an addition to MSBuild that allows developers to build managed applications in Visual Studio 2005 that target .NET 1.1 Team Foundation Server Admin Tool - allows a TFS administrator to quickly add and modify user permissions to all three platforms utilized by TFS. Managed Stack Explorer - a lightweight tool that provides a quick and easy way to monitor .NET 2.0 managed processes and their stacks. Each VS Power Toy release contains Well-documented source code for community members to jump in and start coding Unit tests for all mainline functionality Build and Test scripts, similar to BVTs, to ensure high-quality check-ins Extended documentation, including basic documentation, developer design docs, and test plans Getting Started guide, including future work items for the 1.1 release Go try them for yourself.... Read More... Posted Friday, May 19, 2006 6:28 PM from TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblog | 0 Comments Filed under: Programming