Alias to namespaces in C#

I know that probabily you already know how to give an alias to your namespaces references and I know also there is some easy content in the web that explain that.

But this is a little tip that I never thought searching and step on it by chance.

Imagine that you are using two or more control libraries, one is from .NET (Desktop or Web) and the other are from external companies or from the community.

In this case it's very common to find a Label control, for example, in more than one library. So when that happens you'll have something like this:


Imagine calling these references all the time, this is bad for readability and also for the compiler, which have to load the reference in runtime instead of doing it in compile time.

There is a very simple way of not loading this references all the time and improving the readability, that are aliases.



So that is it, I hope you all liked it.

Cheers.

Searching for labels in Team Foundation Server - TFS

In my new work I started to dealing with TFS Version Control programming in c#, for some problems you could use the microsoft library, for others you have to use the TFS Command Line Utility both in code.

Ok, some of you could ask me what is this Team Foundation Server?

It's the server storage for the version control of the Team Foundation Suite of Microsoft. The Version Control here is a combo, composed by Server (TFS) and (TFVSC).

While Team Foundation Version Control is equivalent to Source Safe, provided by Microsoft too there are other equivalents like Tortoise Subversion, a excelent alternative for those with no money to expend in the sooooooooo expensive Microsoft set of solutions.
But in the case of Tortoise you still need a server to host your files, for example assembla.

Ok enough of this small talk! got it?

In a certain point of the tool I was developing appeared a need to query the server for all the labels of a specific folder. You could use it to get files labels too.

So let's go to method that solved the problem =D.

That's it! Ask any questions that you need....

Here you could see a deep explanation about

That's all, hope you like it.

See you next time...

Good Bye PopFly

I've runned to my game at popfly today only to discover that Popfly Beta doesn't exists anymore, that makes me very sad....
PopFly Blog

For those who share the passion for making games, please try XNA,KODU, GameBuilder at NetBeans with Java Programming language or just C++/C#/Java games in general at GameDev, this good site for beginners and seniors at game developing =D.

Good Bye PopFly rest in peace....XD

OOXML torna-se padrão iso!

Boas vindas ou nem tantas ao mais novo padrão ISO, o Office Open Xml, padrão Microsoft® para criação de apresentações, documentos e planilhas foi aprovado no dia 1 de abril com 75% dos votos e não é mentira rsrsrsrsrs, agora o ODF, padrão utilizado no OpenOffice, possui um equivalente, talvez concorrente e quem sabe parceiro de quarto. Aguardem por tutoriais de programação em C# e dicas sobre o padrão. Quer ele seja bem recebido pela comunidade quer não o OOXML agora tornou-se realidade e quem sabe podemos construir algo de interessante ao invés de somente criticar o ocorrido.
Veja a notícia na integra no Canal de Tecnologia do Terra .
Para aqueles que não conhecem:
http://openxmldeveloper.org/default.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

Abraços.