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Expression Trees-Lambdas to CodeDom Conversion

Introduction
Some people are working to make the meta-programming possible. Some says as language oriented programming or domain specific language, but I prefer in general as meta-programming. For years programming languages supported to generate code with the powerful libraries or developers worked just with string concatenations and external linkers.
Nowadays meta-programming is getting more and more important […]

Distributed Functional Programming with F# MPI Tools for .NET

Introduction
For many years, parallel computing is an important area for research in high performance computing. Super computers dominated the industry all the time. However with the cost of obtaining a fast computer and a fast network, cluster computing considered as a good alternative. High Performance Computing market grew rapidly, mainly because of the clusters intensified. […]

MsBee, Write Compile Run .Net 1.1 Applications with Visual Studio 2005

I was just willing to write .Net 1.1 applications from Visual Studio 2005. Maybe you may already know but I found that great utility MsBee. You need also .Net Framework 1.1 SDK to make it install and work if you don’t have and surprisingly 1.1 SDK has a size of more than 100Mb.
Anyway, it is good […]

XML Notepad 2.0

Friday surprise from Microsoft, XML Notepad has rewritten in .net framework 2.0 from C++. It seems that the team did a great job. And best part is it will be available on Codeplex as a  community project.
Here are the features that I liked at first view

Open source
Comes with source code, samples (look at the […]

Another hidden .Net Tool usage basics: ilMerge

Ilmerge is a great utility for any .net developer. What it does is basically merge the assemblies. Let’s say you have three dll and one exe file, you can just merge those 4 files to 1 file using ilmerge. As a matter of fact, it is easy to use, you don’t need any recompilation or any other […]

Microsummary Generator plugin for Wordpress

Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 supports a new feature called microsummaries . It is a kind of smart bookmark feature added to firefox.However because firefox 2 is beta,  I think they don’t support dynamic files. What it looks for an xml file is the extension xml. As a result it can’t use for the dynamic […]

Wordpress Binary Blue Localization Problem Solved

I have the same localization problem with other guys that run binary blue theme. For details, you can read the post about Binary Blue Localization
I try and test from my home computer and the localization works perfect. However my server somehow doesn’t let me to do it. I tried every combination of the naming […]

Console2: Tabbed Command Prompt

Another open source tool appears on the web.
DownloadSquadLink Console: Tabbed command prompt for Windows.

This one is really useful to me. We are using console when we can’t do everything with mouse clicks. For example, we might want to compile a cs from the visual studio command prompt, we can’t do from the normal command […]

Synergy - Share Keyboard and Mouse on different Computers for free

Synergy is a great program that lets you share a single mouse and computer for multiple computers. You still need monitor for working.
Synergy
Settings window

Start dialog

Systray in action

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