John Luif

Just thought I would share a morning waking up in San Clemente California while on vacation.  This view is from our great friends Ben and Tonya’s awesome condo in downtown San Clemente.

Lately I have had a lot of failed SQL Server 2005 installs and then it says it is installed.  Microsoft has a Windows Installer Cleanup Utility to help cleanup after those failed installs so the install can be started over.

I just replaced my Klipsch 12” sub with a new Dayton Titanic 12” sub from Parts Express.  The Dayton sub is sold as a kit meaning you have to assemble it.  The assembly takes an hour and the only thing that is needed that is not included is a can of spray adhesive.

How does it sound – awesome!  The old Klipsch sounds like a cheap $50 sub next to this thing.  I have listened to sub four times the price and I would still pick the Titanic.  The amp is high quality and the auto on feature actually works unlike many other subs that need the volume cranked through the roof for the sub to turn on.

One last note, the cabinet is a tank and is very well constructed.  Fully assembled this sub is around 70 pounds.

Here is to shaking floors and rattling windows! 

I thought I was doing something really simple, have an Infragistics UltraWinGrid and a column chooser.  I listened to the event AfterColPosChanged and checked the ColumnHeader to get the VisiblePosition.  As a test I pulled all the columns off the grid onto the column chooser.  Then pulled two columns back on to the grid while looking at the VisiblePosition, first column = 1 second column = 4.  Looking at it puzzled I realized that these would be the VisiblePositions if all columns were pulled back onto the grid from the column chooser.  So the VisiblePosition is not the actual VisiblePosition but the what if all columns were visible VisiblePosition. 

One thing to note is that the VisiblePosition problem described above is only noticeable when using the column chooser and adding and removing columns.  It seems that moving column position from within the grid gives the correct VisiblePosition.

So how do you work with it?  Trying to keep track of the actual visible position is a losing battle when the user is able to move column positions and using the column chooser.  You have to not care about true VisiblePosition and yes this does sound stupid.  By looking at both the visible position and if the column is visible you can get the correct order of columns, but not the true visible positions. 

 

 

I received this information today on how to debug fit tests written in FitNesse:

Notice the command line argument passed to TestRunner.exe <host> <port> <location>.  Also notice that TestRunner.exe exists under the dotnet directory of the FitNesse distribution.  Now set a break point and hit F5 and let it rip.

 

I’m pleased to announce the first release of CR_ClassCleaner.  CR_ClassCleaner is a DXCore plug-in that provides organization and cleaning abilities to Visual Studio.  This release has been tested against VS 2005 and DXCore 2.0.4.

The concept of this plug-in is to be able to define “CodeGroups” using regular expressions that will organize code blocks into sections.  You can do this by using regions or not using regions.  There is more documentation is the Doc folder of the download.

Enjoy!