Archive for March 2006
Features missing in VSTS – Part One
Dear Easter Bungie,
What I would like for easter (and not as an egg):
- a simple compare directories in source explorer
- and once your at it…add open with…context menu too
- detach workspaces from pc + user
- maybe include connection to source safe
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Searching the MSDN blogs
We can now search through the MSDN blogs using the MSDN lab search….
Silly formatter
Why use padleft, when you can use formatters?!!!
private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
string a = "aaa";textBox1.Text = String.Format(new SillyFormat(), "{0:Z10}", a) ;
}
private void Dummy_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
}
public class SillyFormat : IFormatProvider, ICustomFormatter
{
public object GetFormat (Type service)
{
if (service == typeof (ICustomFormatter))
{
return this;
}
else
{
return null;
}
}
public string Format (string format, object arg, IFormatProvider provider)
{
if (arg == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("Please provide argument to format.");
}
if (format != null && arg is string)
{
string s = format.Trim().ToLower();
string ret = (string) arg;
if (s.StartsWith("z"))
{
format = format.Trim (new char [] {'Z'});
int pos = Convert.ToInt32( format ) - ret.Length;
if ( pos > 0 )
{
ArrayList items = ArrayList.Repeat("0", Convert.ToInt32( format ) - ret.Length);
items.Add(ret);
string[] strings = (string[]) items.ToArray(typeof(String));
ret = String.Join("",strings);
}
}
return ret;
}
else if (arg is IFormattable)
{
return ((IFormattable)arg).ToString(format, provider);
}
else
{
return arg.ToString();
}
}
}
Macros – Visual Studio 2003
Been going through my existing VS.NET 2003 macros the other day… Close all active documents:
Comparing folders in Team Foundation Source Control
1. go to VS2005 command prompt
2. tf diff path1 path2 /recursive /noprompt
