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Google search options: [allintitle:]

2011-08-10T21:36:00.000-07:00

http://www.google.com/intl/gn/help/operators.html

allintitle:

If you start a query with [allintitle:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title. For instance, [allintitle: google search] will return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the title.

This functionality is also available through Advanced Search page, under Advanced Web Search > Occurrences.

intitle:

If you include [intitle:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title. For instance, [intitle:google search] will return documents that mention the word "google" in their title, and mention the word "search" anywhere in the document (title or no). Note there can be no space between the "intitle:" and the following word.

Putting [intitle:] in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting [allintitle:] at the front of your query: [intitle:google intitle:search] is the same as [allintitle: google search].

Razor Syntax in ASP.NET MVC

2010-08-31T22:32:00.000-07:00

ScottGu has nice article "Introducing “Razor” – a new view engine for ASP.NET"
It all looks cool in VS2010 with syntax highlighting but I wonder how readable this style is in text viewer...

Should try it in next ASP.NET project.

View.TrackActivityInSolution

2010-08-24T20:47:00.000-07:00

Nice short-cut: assign Alt-T to View.TrackActivityInSolution command in VS2010 to Turn-On/Off that option. Now you can browse files in solution and ask VS to show your position in solution tree only when you need it!

"M" language, Modeling in Text

2010-08-23T18:04:00.000-07:00

This five-part video series by Miguel Llopis, a member of the “M” language team, leads you through the step-by-step process of modeling a basic domain-specific language.

Part 1: Modeling a Language (7:57)
Part 2: Data (6:25)
Part 3: Transformation (5:36)
Part 4: Constraints (3:03)
Part 5: Identity and Relationships (6:21)

Level: 300 (core competency)

My Notes: easy video, fast intro to the M-language.

Samples show how to convert

Pat is 24 years old.
Chris is 32 years old.
Granny is 98 years old.
Billy is 3 years old.

To this:

Main[ [ { Name => "Pat", Age => "24" }, { Name => "Chris", Age => "32" }, { Name => "Granny", Age => "98" }, { Name => "Billy", Age => "3" } ] ]

Using this grammar:

module NovCTP { language Contacts { syntax Main = p:Person* => People { valuesof(p) }; syntax Person = n:Name "is" a:Age "years" "old." => { Name => n, Age => a}; token Name = ('a'..'z' | 'A'..'Z')+; token Age = '0'..'9'+; interleave Whitespace = " " | "\r" | "\n"; } }

Modeling Services Resources and Community

2010-08-23T17:55:00.000-07:00

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/ee720189.aspx

Start page to SQL services new staff. It includes "M" language, "Quadrant" app and something else.

"M" looks interesting. Quadrant implementation is great. I'm loosely watching this projects for last couple years and yes, they have some progress but still no real life samples.

DSL is nice feature and M is very easy implementation of DSL. But all samples which are available so far could be easily coded in XML...

Let's wait more.

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit sample website

2008-09-01T23:21:00.000-07:00

http://www.asp.net/ajax/ajaxcontroltoolkit/samples/

Controls which could be useful for my current project (EP60):
AutoComplete
Calendar
DropDown
MakedEdit
ModalPopup
PopupControl
TextBoxWatermark
ToggleButton

Setup and Deployment Project FAQ

2008-08-18T18:37:00.000-07:00

Setup and Deployment Project FAQ found on MSDN Forums.

There are some small hits in this FAQ:

How do I create an uninstall link on my shortcut
How do I deploy a Hybrid VB6 and VB.NET application?

and some more but not a lot..

Passign Parameters to CustomAction

2008-08-18T08:12:00.000-07:00

How to Pass Command Line Arguments to MSI Installer Custom Actions

Install the application without user intervention and full logging:

setup.msi /qb /l* log.txt MyCustomParameter=one MyOtherCustomParameter=two

Uninstall the application without user intervention:

msiexec /x {13F62DF0-E078-45C8-B0FB-185D307DB500} /qb

If you use the logging switch on the command line, and then run the setup:

setup.msi /l* c:\setup.log

You will see a list of parameters in the log file. You can specify any of these on the command line:

setup.msi /i <parameter>=<value>

And those should pass into the dialog boxes. I believe the command line you should use would be:

websetup.msi TARGETVDIR=MyVirtualWebSiteDirectory

AJAX-Enabled Web Service

2008-08-18T07:29:00.001-07:00

Is there special way to AJAX-enabled Web service ?
Yes, you need to add [System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService] attibute to the class definition.

Create and Use an AJAX-Enabled Web Service in a Web Site in Visual Studio 2008?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vs2008/bb821302.aspx

In this video, Rob Windsor shows you how to create an AJAX-enabled Web service and use its methods from client script running in a separate Web application.

Presented by Rob Windsor on October 23, 2007
Length: 12 minutes 40 seconds

Walkthrough: Redirecting an Application to Target a Different XML Web Service at Installation

2008-08-18T00:51:00.000-07:00

Walkthrough: Redirecting an Application to Target a Different XML Web Service at Installation

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5k10s063(VS.80).aspx

shows how to make CustomAction dll, Add new Form in setup and pass value from that form to CustomAction. Then this value is saved in web.config/appSettings element.

WSE 3 Deployment: MSI and ClickOnce

2008-07-29T13:48:00.000-07:00

WSE 3 Deployment: MSI and ClickOnce

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/install/WSE3Deployment.aspx

Prototyping with Visio

2008-07-29T08:45:00.000-07:00

Prototyping with Visio
http://www.guuui.com/issues/01_06.php

Short introduction with step-by-step samples. Visio can create links between elements and pages (shapes and articles), they are converted to links when saved to HTML.

http://www.installsite.org/

2008-07-29T04:22:00.000-07:00

Software and Support for Setup Developers
http://www.installsite.org/

Deploying a C# application (Visual Studio Setup Project)

2008-07-28T19:15:00.000-07:00

Let's keep up with MSI:

Deploying a C# application (Visual Studio Setup Project)
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/showtopic58021.htm

A page with screen shots and page by page steps on how to create setup for Windows application.
Nice overview.

URL-Based Windows Installer Installation Example

2008-07-27T23:19:00.000-07:00

A URL-Based Windows Installer Installation Example
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367817(VS.85).aspx

Internet Download Bootstrapping
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369557(VS.85).aspx

and other Windows Installer Examples could be found here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372837(VS.85).aspx

set of articles "From MSI to WiX" by Alex Shevchuk

2008-07-27T23:14:00.000-07:00

Interesting set of articles "From MSI to WiX" by Alex Shevchuk

http://blogs.technet.com/alexshev/pages/from-msi-to-wix.aspx

This is a series of articles on building installation packages using WiX.