Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools

Recently i found this power tools throw google and i found that it save more time.
Click here to find it

Cosmos what`s next ?

In the previous days i found something really good on codeplex.com , it is new open source project called "Cosmos" this project depend on running Microsoft intermediate language without operating system (it creates real time kernel) , this means you can run your c# program just by booting from CD
i`ll let you see the project page and read documentation , please follow this link

http://www.codeplex.com/Cosmos

Recently , i know that this project showed in Microsoft EDC (Egyptian Developer Conference) but i did not have the chance to attend to the conference , you can wait until the videos of the conference be available and i`ll paste a link here for this session

this is another resources and examples :

http://gocosmos.org/
http://www.gocosmos.org/Docs/UserKit/index.en.aspx
http://lab.obsethryl.eu/content/cosmos-one-opensource-csharp-c-based-kernels

Microsoft EDC Website

EDC 2008, Cairo, Egypt.
Cairo International Conference Center
April 13th - 14th

EDC 2008 is the biggest Developers Conference of the year in Egypt, and is a critical event for any developer who wants to see the newest as well as the next-generation technology. EDC is full of sessions and activities that help you to learn the current and the future of the Microsoft Platform and get to know people who are as passionate about software as you are.

You will found Microsoft EDC 2008 web site here

You will found Microsoft EDC 2008 Agenda here

Change MDI Container Background Color

MdiClient ctlMDI;

// Loop through all of the form's controls looking
// for the control of type MdiClient.
foreach (Control ctl in this.Controls)
{

try
{
// Attempt to cast the control to type MdiClient.
ctlMDI = (MdiClient)ctl;

// Set the BackColor of the MdiClient control.
ctlMDI.BackColor = this.BackColor;
}
catch (InvalidCastException)
{
// Catch and ignore the error if casting failed.
}

}

Collection of WCF Sessions

This is a collection of videos i found through youtupe, i hope that this videos be useful for someone.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2471E942C68A6925

Source profile here

Creating a simple user interface with MonoDevelop

I watched this video on Youtube , and i really like it - Can we make good C# applications without errors of visual studio , moreover on Linux .

Pentagon bans Google map-makers

BBC :

The US defence department has banned the giant internet search engine Google from filming inside and making detailed studies of US military bases.

See details

My comment : I think that when Google was constructed , any one can`t imagine that Google technologies can do great things like that, it is so wonderful ,I hope to be a member of huge company team like Google - it`s my great wish.

Software development process

A software development process is a structure imposed on the development of a software product. Synonyms include software life cycle and software process. There are several models for such processes, each describing approaches to a variety of tasks or activities that take place during the process.

Read source article at wiki

10 mistakes to avoid in software development

Forrester Research published a report listing 10 mistakes that send software development projects off track.

Noting that projects can get in serious trouble or fail even when effective project management is in place, Forrester analysts said projects are doomed by mistakes made at inception, not during execution.

"These types of mistakes create unfavorable conditions that even impeccable project management practices cannot overcome," the report states in its summary.

The 10 mistakes that put projects at risk of failure include:

* Never committing to project success.

* Freezing the schedule and budget before a project is sufficiently understoo

* Overscoping a solution.

* Circumventing the application development organization altogether.

* Underestimating the complexity of a problem.

* Being stingy with subject-matter experts, in which their participation is not sufficient.

* Choosing the wrong project leadership.

* Distrusting managers who have had tasks delegated to them.

* Jumping into development without enough research.

* Suppressing bad news, in which dialogue is insufficient.

Forrester recommends that a project be viewed in how it could unfold rather than how it should unfold. Application development personnel can enlarge dialogue with the business to include not only what to do but what to avoid. The 10 mistakes should be treated as risks to be managed. There should be a partnership with the business to assess time and cost penalties a project would incur if any of these mistakes were made.

"The costliest risks are the ones to work hardest at avoiding," Forrester said.

copied from here

C# and .Net on Linux

another article talking about Compile and run C# command line and GUI applications on Linux by Shekhar Govindarajan

Click here to read

Mono brings .NET apps to Linux

Mono, the open source development platform based on .NET, lets you build powerful, flexible Linux® applications and still take advantage of cross-platform capabilities using a variety of .NET-compatible languages. This article walks you through installing Mono on your system and developing your first sample Mono-compiled C# application that runs on both Linux and Microsoft ® Windows®.

Click to read article

Facebook group for EDC ( Egyptian Developer Conference )

Description:

A group to send information and news about the upcoming event " Egyptian Developer Conference " previously known as MDC(Middle East developer conference)

Visit here

Performance and Editor fixes for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008

Download Instructions :

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=10826

Issues that are fixed:

HTML Source view performance

• Source editor freezes for a few seconds when typing in a page with a custom control that has more than two levels of sub-properties.
• “View Code” right-click context menu command takes a long time to appear with web application projects.
• Visual Studio has very slow behavior when opening large HTML documents.
• Visual Studio has responsiveness issues when working with big HTML files with certain markup.
• The Tab/Shift-Tab (Indent/Un-indent) operation is slow with large HTML selections.

Design view performance

• Slow typing in design view with certain page markup configurations.

HTML editing

• Quotes are not inserted after Class or CssClass attribute even when the option is enabled.
• Visual Studio crashes when ServiceReference element points back to the current web page.

JavaScript editing

• When opening a JavaScript file, colorization of the client script is sometimes delayed several seconds.
• JavaScript Intellisense does not work if an empty string property is encountered before the current line of editing.

Web Site build performance

• Build is very slow when Bin folder contains large number of assemblies and .refresh files with web-site projects.

for more information visit (the place which i found this news)

Some useful wmi links

Everything In WMI via C# :

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/EverythingInWmi03.aspx

Get System Info using C# :

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/nitinsysteminfo.aspx

Regular Expressions Cheat Sheets

This two links to anther sites which includes Regular Expressions Cheat Sheets ....

http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/regular-expressions-cheat-sheet/

http://regexlib.com/CheatSheet.aspx

This will be very useful to all of us ....

now , i am 21 years

To night , I am 21 years old then new year has came , new year means new mission in this life .

The hardest thing is to calculate the best and worst things in last year , and make the next year better .

Happy birthday for me ....

Thanks for my best friends :

1. my mother (The first who remembered my birthday)
   
2. wahba (second)
   
3. wardaya (third)

Good bye 20 and welcome 21 , i hope the new year to be better for me and for my family .

Extract Tables from HTML page and store it in data set using Regular Expressions

Some times we need to extract information from HTML pages ,for example extracting table from HTML page
here you will find how to do it using regular expression , this code is written using C# :

private static DataSet ConvertHTMLTablesToDataSet(string HTML)
{
DataTable dt;
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
dt = new DataTable();
string TableExpression = "<table[^>]*>(.*?)</table>";
string HeaderExpression = "<th[^>]*>(.*?)</th>";
string RowExpression = "<tr[^>]*>(.*?)</tr>";
string ColumnExpression = "<td[^>]*>(.*?)</td>";
bool HeadersExist = false;
int iCurrentColumn = 0;
int iCurrentRow = 0;

MatchCollection Tables = Regex.Matches(HTML,
TableExpression,
RegexOptions.Singleline |
RegexOptions.Multiline |
RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);


foreach (Match Table in Tables)
{
iCurrentRow = 0;
HeadersExist = false;
dt = new DataTable();

if (Table.Value.Contains("<th"))
{
HeadersExist = true;

MatchCollection Headers = Regex.Matches(Table.Value,
HeaderExpression,
RegexOptions.Singleline |
RegexOptions.Multiline |
RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

foreach (Match Header in Headers)
{
dt.Columns.Add(Header.Groups[1].ToString());
}

}
else
{

int myvar2222 = Regex.Matches(
Regex.Matches(
Regex.Matches(
Table.Value,
TableExpression,
RegexOptions.Singleline
| RegexOptions.Multiline |
RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)[0].ToString(),
RowExpression, RegexOptions.Singleline |
RegexOptions.Multiline |
RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)[0].ToString(),
ColumnExpression,
RegexOptions.Singleline |
RegexOptions.Multiline |
RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Count;

for (int iColumns = 1; iColumns <= myvar2222; iColumns++)
{
dt.Columns.Add("Column " + System.Convert.ToString(iColumns));
}

}

MatchCollection Rows = Regex.Matches(Table.Value,
RowExpression,
RegexOptions.Singleline |
RegexOptions.Multiline | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

foreach (Match Row in Rows)
{

if (!((iCurrentRow == 0) & HeadersExist))
{
DataRow dr = dt.NewRow();
iCurrentColumn = 0;

MatchCollection Columns = Regex.Matches(Row.Value,
ColumnExpression,
RegexOptions.Singleline |
RegexOptions.Multiline |
RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

foreach (Match Column in Columns)
{
dr[iCurrentColumn] = Column.Groups[1].ToString();
iCurrentColumn++;
}

dt.Rows.Add(dr);
}
iCurrentRow++;
}
ds.Tables.Add(dt);

}

return ds;
}

This code i found it through google but i converted it it C# ...

EDC 2008

The EDC ( Egypt Developer Conference - previously known as the MDC ) will be on 13-15 April in intercontinental City Stars, Cairo

Validate Input Using Regular Expressions

Problem :
You need to validate that user input or data read from a file has the expected structure and content.
For example, you want to ensure that a user enters a valid IP address, telephone number, or e-mail
address.
Solution :
Use regular expressions to ensure that the input data follows the correct structure and contains only
valid characters for the expected type of information.
How It Works :
When a user inputs data to your application or your application reads data from a file, it’s good
practice to assume that the data is bad until you have verified its accuracy. One common validation
requirement is to ensure that data entries such as e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and credit
card numbers follow the pattern and content constraints expected of such data. Obviously, you cannot
be sure the actual data entered is valid until you use it, and you cannot compare it against values that are known to be correct. However, ensuring the data has the correct structure and content is
a good first step to determining whether the input is accurate. Regular expressions provide an excellent
mechanism for evaluating strings for the presence of patterns, and you can use this to your
advantage when validating input data.
The first thing you must do is figure out the regular expression syntax that will correctly match
the structure and content of data you are trying to validate. This is by far the most difficult aspect of
using regular expressions. Many resources exist to help you with regular expressions, such as
The Regulator (http://regex.osherove.com/) and RegExDesigner.NET by Chris Sells http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/#regexd). The RegExLib.com web site (http://www.regxlib.com/) also provides hundreds of useful prebuilt expressions.
Regular expressions are constructed from two types of elements: literals and metacharacters.
Literals represent specific characters that appear in the pattern you want to match. Metacharacters
provide support for wildcard matching, ranges, grouping, repetition, conditionals, and other control
mechanisms. Table 2-2 describes some of the more commonly used regular expression metacharacter
elements. (Consult the .NET SDK documentation for a full description of regular expressions.)

Input Type	Description	Regular Expression
Numeric input	The input consists of one or more decimal digits; for example, 5 or 5683874674.	^\d+$
Personal identification number (PIN)	The input consists of four decimal	^\d{4}$
Credit card number	The input consists of data that matches the pattern of most major credit card numbers; for example, 4921835221552042 or 4921-8352-2155-2042.	^\d{4}-?\d{4}-?\d{4}-?\d{4}$
Simple password	The input consists of six to eight characters; for example, ghtd6f or b8c7hogh.	^\w{6,8}$
E-mail address	The input consists of an Internet expression indicates that each address element must consist of one or more word characters or hyphens; for example, somebody@company.com.	^[\w-]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]+$
HTTP or HTTPS URL	The input consists of an HTTP-based or HTTPS-based URL; for example, www.hotmail.com	^https?://([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]+(/[\w-./?%=]*)?$

The Code :
The ValidateInput method shown in the following example tests any input string to see if it
matches a specified regular expression.

using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace mahmoud_alam
{
class new292
{
public static bool ValidateInput(string regex, string input)
{
// Create a new Regex based on the specified regular expression.
Regex r = new Regex(regex);
// Test if the specified input matches the regular expression.
return r.IsMatch(input);
}

public static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Test the input from the command line. The first argument is the
// regular expression, and the second is the input.
Console.WriteLine("Regular Expression: {0}", args[0]);
Console.WriteLine("Input: {0}", args[1]);
Console.WriteLine("Valid = {0}", ValidateInput(args[0], args[1]));
// Wait to continue.
Console.WriteLine("\nMain method complete. Press Enter");
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}