The Comprehensive Document Comparison Tool -DiffDoc
Diff Doc compares files of all types of document formats - MS Word/PowerPoint/Excel, PDF,RTF, Text, XML, HTML, XML, Wordperfect and more.
[Via Jon Galloway's Blog]
System.Drawing.Color serialization
The Person class includes a HairColor property that stores a Color object. Because a Color cannot be automatically serialized/deserialized using the .NET System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer class, the Color object is saved to the XML file as an HTML string, and converted back into a Color when the XML file is loaded.
sing System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
//To support binary serialization you need to
// add the "[Serializable]" attribute
[Serializable]
public class Person
{
private Color _HairColor = Color.Empty;
// Initializes a new instance of the Person class.
// (required for serialization)
public Person()
{
}
// Set serialization to ignore this property
// because the 'HairColorHtml' property
// is used instead to serialize
// the 'HairColor' Color as an HTML string.
[XmlIgnoreAttribute()]
public Color HairColor
{
get
{
return _HairColor;
}
set
{
_HairColor = value;
}
}
// Serializes the 'HairColor' Color to XML.
[XmlElement("HairColor")]
public string HairColorHtml
{
get
{
return
ColorTranslator.ToHtml(_HairColor);
}
set
{
_HairColor = ColorTranslator.FromHtml( value );
}
}
}
Microsoft: .NET 2.0 | Clone Attack :-)
The Windows Forms team has posted .NET 2.0 versions of their UI clone apps, including:
Quicken Look and Feel - Mike Harsh
This is a UI front end that has the look and feel of Quicken
Outlook 2003 Look and Feel - Joe Stegman
This is a UI front end that has the look and feel of Microsoft Outlook 2003.
File Explorer Look and Feel - Joe Stegman
This is a UI front end that has the look and feel of Windows File Explorer
Microsoft Money Look and Feel - Joe Stegman
This is a UI front end that has the look and feel of Microsoft Money
Internet Explorer Look and Feel - Joe Stegman
This is a Windows Forms app that looks like Internet Explorer 6 and uses the new WebBrowser control.
[Via Chris Sells]
The MSBuild Community Tasks Project
The MSBuild Community Tasks Project is an open source project for MSBuild tasks. The goal of the project is to provide a collection of open source tasks for MSBuild.
[Via Paul Welter's Weblog]
Report design in a nutshell
Defining report data sources.
Using object data sources in Windows applications and Web sites.
Using Lists.
Using report parameters in local mode.
Designing master-detail reports.
