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Eclipse Ganymede - released

PRiMoZ — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:50:16 GMT

You can get new major release of Eclipse on eclipse.org download website. There are plenty of eclipse packages and you can compare them here. You can read everything about new features:

I'll check this new package for J2EE and BIRT tomorrow morning.

Business Wiki engine

PRiMoZ — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:13:42 GMT

I was testing some wiki engines for business use. I couldn't choose one all-round winner. Wiki must have have workspaces for different teams, hierarchical document organization, must be free and opensource, WYSIWYG editor, import/export (doc, pdf), discussions, ASP.NET or PHP,...

I checked following wiki engines:

MediaWiki

pros: easy to use and install, many plugins, many templates
cons: don't like document management (categories and namespaces), must install a lot of additional plugins

TWiki

pros: more enterprise oriented, like workspaces, good design
cons: I hate perl, confusing install procedure

TikiWiki

a lot out of the box packages, little confusing with all this packages, very ugly templates

XWiki

small amount of plugins, little confusing

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Handle CSV files in Java

PRiMoZ — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:31:21 GMT

FlatPack is flat file parser that can handles fixed length and custom delimited CSV files. Column mapping is done through XML files and it is fully customizable. With this package you can read and write CSV files, it can handles string, numeric and date values.

Check out FlatPack project website on Sourceforge.

If you work with CSV files in Java, following projects might also be interesting.

---UPDATE
User Motion Control on DZone posted a comment that I should also check Super CSV.

How to install and use ASP.NET CMS umbraco

PRiMoZ — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:25:20 GMT

In this post I'll show you:

what applications are required to run umbraco,
how to configure umbraco,
how to create first simple website.

To run umbraco you need Windows operationg system, IIS web server, .NET Framework 2.0, ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 and Microsoft SQL Server. I will show you how to install everything in video, but first download all required components. You can get .NET Framework 2.0, ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 and SQL Server 2005 Express from Microsoft Download Center.

When all components are installed then you are ready to install umbraco. First download package from umbraco codeplex website. If you have Windows Vista or 2003 you can use installer, otherwise download zip package. It is recommended that you install umbraco as separate webiste. If you have Windows XP I recommend that you use XP PRO IIS Admin application from jetstat. This application allows you to configure more than one website on Windows XP.

You have to configure IIS that http://localhost will point to umbraco website. You can also change port number or create new row in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file. Keep this in mind when you wants to access umbraco for first time.

In the following video you can see how to install umbraco on Windows 2003 and how to create very simple website.

In next post I will show you more advanced scenarios. We will look at document types, template hierarchy, macros (XSLT, user controls)...

VMWare Server on Vista x64

PRiMoZ — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:48:48 GMT

If you are going to install VMWare Server 1.0.4 on Vista x64 be prepared. First reboot you machine and press F8 at startup and choose "Driver Signature Enforcment Disable". VMWare server installs a bunch of unsigned drivers and if you don't choose this option it won't work.

I google about this driver enforcment policy and I think that there is no other option to disable this. Windows pathces removes all other workarounds with Bcdedit.exe. People say that VistaBootPRO or EasyBCD can do the trick, but I'm not a fan of 3party tools which mess with system files. If somebody tried, please report.

I didn't abandon my blog

PRiMoZ — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:30:26 GMT

I didn't abandon my blog, I was just fully occupied with my degree for last 2 months. I'm working on mobile application for Windows Mobile platform and integration with IBM Asset Management Software.

Beside common .NET and ASP.NET coding I'm also working with / I'm interested in following technologies:

In the future you can expect new articles about this interesting topics.

.NET applications for Symbian mobile phones

PRiMoZ — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:40:05 GMT

redFIVElabs developed own Compact Framework which is compatible with Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 and works on Symbian powered mobile phones. This is really great news and it will expand usage of all .NET CF applications. Net60 is redFIVElabs name for their framework. Currently it is in beta stage, I hope they release final version soon.

I hope that there will be a release of Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition for Symbian phones in the future.

Visual Studio 2008 - Unexpected Error

PRiMoZ — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:20:16 GMT

If you are receiving unexpected problems with new Visual Studio 2008 it could be that some plugin for VS 2005 is incompatible with VS 2008. We have problems with Visual SVN 1.2.2. The solution is - uninstall plugin or upgrade to new version (1.3.1).

If you see this error, check all your plugins.

Learn .NET Compact Framework - Useful resources

PRiMoZ — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:15:50 GMT

I'am working on one mobile project. It is hard for ASP.NET developer to adapt all this mobile forms concepts. First of all I found out that there are a no useful resources compared to ASP.NET. (Community, Controls, Articles, Demos,...) If you are in the same sh... as me, then check out this resources.

Web

Blogs

Windows Mobile Team Blog

Controls

Books

Microsoft Mobile Development Handbook

Stuff

If you have any resource about .NET Compact Framework programming please post comment.

ASP.NET Ajax Data Controls

PRiMoZ — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:23:05 GMT

You can find new and very cool Ajax Data Controls on CodePlex. Project is maintained by DotNetSlackers team and currently contains an AjaxGridView, AjaxDataList and AjaxRepeater. Check out samples page.

Project home on CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/AjaxDataControls

Live Samples: http://dotnetslackers.com/projects/AjaxDataControls