Personal

Moving on…

In a month I will be leaving my current position in my company. After six and so years it is time to move on. In the last couple of months I've been thinking about where I would like to work – what is

Silverlight

Horizontal ListBox in Silverlight

In our app, we needed to create a selection list for an input field. The obvious solution is to use a ListBox. But we wanted the ListBox to be horizontal, like this: The solution <ListBox Grid.Row="0" ItemsSource="{Binding

Windows 7

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 installation trouble

My computer is set to use automatic updates from Windows Update. So when SP1 for Windows 7 came out, I didn't even think about installing it… Windows Update will take care of it for me. But sadly I was mistaking. After two

Agile

Adopt the Symptom

A couple of months ago, I needed to use a laptop of one of my co-workers. When I opened the computer I was baffled by the behavior of the mouse pad. Apparently the mouse direction were inverted – when you go up, the cursor moved

Tips and Tricks

Defining Acceptance criteria for mapping conventions in NHibernate

Today I'm hosting a post from Leeran Yarhi, one of the developers in my team: Hi guys, I’m Leeran Yarhi, a developer in Yossi’s team. Recently we had a problem while mapping one of our domain entities with Fluent NHibernate

Silverlight

Unit testing in Silverlight

My team is working on a Silverlight project for the last three months. One of the first issues we encountered was unit testing for the Silverlight libraries. Unfortunately, this issue is not trivial. Current dev tools, including the VSTS do not support running tests

DEV

Adding dictionaries for spell checking in Windows Live Writer

I'm using live writer since it's beta releases. I currently write in two blogs. Technical blog, in English, and a cooking blog in Hebrew. One of the biggest pains in Windows Live Writer was that the spell check dictionary was

Windows 7

Fixing autorun in Windows 7

Lately I notice that every time I insert a DiskOnKey or a disk, the AutoPlay/autorun doesn't appear. I also notice that when I click on the disk drive in My Computer window, I will get directed to the explorer view of

Visual Studio

Improving Visual Studio 2010 performance

About two months ago, we upgraded our projects to Visual Studio 2010. Since then the developers started to complain about the performance of the IDE. It seems to have degraded in comparison to VS2008. From build times that doubled to stalling in the editor

Security

FreeTextBox and Asp.Net 4.0 request validation

In Asp.Net 4.0 the request validation [http://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers/request-validation] model has changed (Yet another breaking change). In short, request validation is a security feature of Asp.Net which meant to prevent XSS and script injection attacks. As of

Deployment

Using VBScript to copy files to a folder in a MSI Setup Project

Last week I found out that one of our admin apps on the server was not installed currently. It is an app that is installed in ArcMap, and the reason it didn’t work is that ArcMap has been installed on d:\programs files

Continuous Integration

Running a Visual Studio 2010 upgraded project in TeamCity

You’ve upgraded your project to Visual Studio 2010 and .Net framework 4. Good for you! But when you commit it to the source control, the automatic build in TeamCity [http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/] starts to run, and alas, build failed! In order

DEV

TimeSpan.Parse breaking change in .Net Framework 4

This week my team upgraded our solutions to Visual Studio 2010 and .Net framework 4. When we ran the tests of one our projects, one of our tests failed with a weird reason. The code is simple: public DateTime CreateDateWithGivenTime(string time) { var t

Debug

DTC Error while running integreation testing

In one bright day, our integration tests in the build server started to fail randomly. Each test that failed showed this message: > ORA-02049: timeout: distributed transaction waiting for lock These were integration tests on our database (Oracle database). Each of these tests had

DEV

Free source control for home usage

Recently, I’ve started to work on several projects in my free time. After a while, I realized that I couldn’t manage without source control (especially after you do some refactoring on a xaml code and suddenly nothing works…). I started to search,

Installations

Installing Windows 7 on Asus Eee netbook

Since windows 7 was released I couldn’t wait to install it on my computer. I have suffered with vista since it came out, and I wanted to get rid of it ASAP. I’ve installed it on my main computer (which is one

st_geometry

st_geometry configuration

In st_geometry overview [https://blog.house-of-code.com/st-geometry-overview] I gone over some important issues concerning st_geometry. You saw all kind of cool things you can do in simple SQL queries. In order to use these queries you need to do some additional

st_geometry

st_geometry overview

How does st_geometry works? st_geometry is a user defined type of the Oracle database. A user defined type in Oracle is like a class definition in .Net. It allows you to create a type with properties and methods. It also supports inheritance,

st_geometry

st_geometry introduction

In the last couple of months we have been using the new st_geometry type of the ArcSDE geodatabase. st_geometry allows us to use simple queries in order to retrieve and manipulate geographic data in a database. For example: SELECT * FROM buildings b

SDE

Geographic Database Migration - The solution

A long time ago I presented a problem: How can you migrate from Oracle 9i with SDE 9.1 to Oracle 10g with SDE 9.2 [https://blog.house-of-code.com/geographic-database-migration-the-problem]. After a long time I have found a solution. This solution was suggested

VS2008

PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008

A new/old extension to Visual Studio 2008 has been released on Friday, in the Visual Studio Gallery [http://www.visualstudiogallery.com/]: PowerCommands [http://www.visualstudiogallery.com/ExtensionDetails.aspx?ExtensionID=df3f0c30-3d37-4e06-9ef8-3bff3508be31] . It is the replacement of CoolCommands, and contains most of it's

ArcMap

Creating a setup project for ArcGis custom tools

In my last post [https://blog.house-of-code.com/creating-a-custom-tool-for-arcgis-products] I described how to create extensions to ArcGis products. After we've finished developing to tools and commands we want to deploy them to our clients. In the development computer, the tools are registered

ArcObjects

Creating a custom tool for ArcGis products

ESRI's desktop products can be extended by adding tools and command buttons integrally into the environment. This can be done by using VBA inside the products, or creating controls in .Net using the .Net ADF that's supplied with the product

Database

Granting privileges to layers

In our project, we have two users in the database: applicative user and admin user. The admin user is the owner of all the objects (tables,layers,sequences, etc...) and the applicative user has only limited privileges, mainly read-write to these objects. When creating

ASP.NET

AutoComplete Extender Troubleshooting

One of my tasks in our last release was to create a search box for a large value tree. For the implementation we (my team leader Doron [http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/dorony/] and I) decided to use the AutoComplete extender from the