Scott Hanselman

Kent Sharkey in the heezy! RSS Subscribed. 

And you know he's a nice guy since his Googlisms are:

kent sharkey is an mcsd
kent sharkey is the soap evangelist and is learning a fear of my camera and me
kent sharkey is the technical evangelist

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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In an attempt to find a quickie utility to force open files to close under Windows I stumbled upon TaskManagerEx that extends the Windows Task Manager with such yummy features as:

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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In C++ if problems happen, we'll want to log the error along with filename and Line Numbers, often like:

CString strCompleteMessage;
strCompleteMessage.Format(_T("%s , HRESULT %0x [%s,%d]"),strMessage,hr,A2W(__FILE__),__LINE__);
LogInfo(strCompleteMessage);

In C#, there are no such macros so we use the StackFrame class. Below we show how to print the filename and line numbers while logging messages/errors.

     public static void foo()
     {
     // some operations here
     // some error here
     string msg = "Unable to do xyz operation, Please report this to abc@xyz.com";

     // true means get the file information also ( needs pdb files which can be generated for Release builds )

     StackFrame CallStack = new StackFrame(0, true);
     Console.WriteLine("Error:{0} occurred in:{1} in File: {2} at Line: {3}", msg, CallStack.GetMethod(), CallStack.GetFileName(), CallStack.GetFileLineNumber() );
}

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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update Microsoft is acquiring some assets of Connectix, including an unreleased server program and software that permits Windows to run on a Macintosh. [News.com]

Interesting, since Microsoft has a universal license for VMWare for all MS employees.  I've never used the Connectix product, but I guess I will soon!

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Jorge Curioso and I have updated Outlook2RSS (download here) (modified from Peter Drayton's Google2RSS) to include additional features in RSS 0.93 as well as support for Inline Images and Attachments from within Outlook!  This means, you can include inline images from within Outlook and with a little magic (very little) we will deal with all the Outlook cid://ABCE32432 crazy URLs and munge the content appropriately.  The images will be extracted from Outlook into the same directory as the RSS feed with the external URLs automatically added.

Jorge is happily running his blog with Outlook2RSS and has added a "Publish Blog" tool to his standard Outlook Toolbar.  You too can have you own blog from Outlook...just create RSS from a private or public Outlook folder and style to taste.

Next step, make it an add-in...here's a thought - Greg, how about using this code to implement an "Export to RSS" feature in NewsGator so we can both aggregate feeds and publish feeds from any Outlook Folder?  You've got all the infrastructure already...I'd like to have it run on the same schedule, and it'd only be one extra tab...;)

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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