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Visual Studio Theme Makes Me Different Taste, Different Feeling

Samnang Chhun — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:28:00 +0000

I have been using Visual Studio for a couple of years, but I only work with default environment. Last night, I decided to switch to use new theme to get different taste with black screen editor. I felt so strange at first, but after I worked with it one hour. Then I realized I really love it. It’s like to make my brain refresh and learn something new. Scott Hanselman posted a gallery of ready to use themes to any taste, you can try to get your best environment.

My New Visual Studio Theme

If you want it, you can download it here. Give an alternate theme a try and let me know what you think.

.NET Coder should give Ruby a try!

Samnang Chhun — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:29:00 +0000

Last weekend, I gave Ruby a try. Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write. I’m a .NET coder, everyday I use C# for developing projects in my company. There are few reasons that bring me to try Ruby because I see a lot programmers mention Ruby is a very powerful and flexible programming language, is it true? And the main reason, I would like to try something new because almost my programming skills are just in static typed language and a bit dynamic typed language with Javascript.

After I played with Ruby about a few hours, I started loving it. Ruby is a fun toy. Like the differences between spoken languages, Ruby differs from most other programming languages not only by syntax, but by culture, grammar, and customs. And some programmers consider Ruby is English for computers. Ruby brings a new way of thinking about programming and software development. I would like to show you very basic examples, let’s go to see snippet code comparing between C# and Ruby.

//Swap value between two variables
int a = 5, b = 10;
int temp = a;
a = b;
b = temp;

//Output message 3 times
for(int i = 0; i <= 3; i++)
 Console.WriteLine("Hello");

//Output message if condition is true string
str = string.Empty;
if(str == string.Empty)
 Console.WriteLine("str is empty");

#Swap value between two variables
a, b = 5, 10
a, b = b, a

#Output message 3 times
3.times { puts "Hello" }

#Output message if condition is true
str = ''
puts "str is empty" if str.empty?

Code comparisons above are not to show which language is bad and another is good, but I just want to show how I feel about new language. Ruby code is short and readable like in English. There are lots of more powerful features in Ruby that I haven’t mentioned here.

If you haven’t touched something new recently, why don’t you give Ruby a try?

My NHibernate Presentation is available

Samnang Chhun — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:55:00 +0000

This is a presentation of NHibernate that I have presented to my colleagues as like in my Techtalk few months ago after I have spent some times for taking look at NHibernate. It focuses on a brief overview of the power of NHibernate. I decide to publish and hope that it will be useful for someone who is new and wants to get started on NHibernate.

NHibernate (The ORM For .NET Platform)

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The Full List of PDC2008 Sessions

Samnang Chhun — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:53:00 +0000

After PDC2008(Professional Developers Conference October 27-30, 2008) finished, there were a lot of new things coming with this event. Unfortunately for those ones(like me) who didn’t participate this event, you can now have full and free access to a simple list of all keynotes and sessions by code and title. Luckily, our life become better.

Mike Swanson has prepared for us a simple list of all keynotes and sessions by code and title.

What should we learn from all of those technologies?

Get Started Castle MonoRail Project Template for VS2008

Samnang Chhun — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:02:00 +0000

At least I faced a problem, when I was trying in order to start MonoRail project, I didn’t get good luck from creating a new project from New Project window of Visual Studio 2008. Then I checked out on Castle website, I found it has only support Visual Studio 2005. After that, I needed to start creating my testing project from scratch. Some .NET programmers are annoyed when they are new and want to try MonoRail, at least me. So I decide to create a new MonoRail template project that you can import it into your template project window. It’s very simple for you to get a working project that you just only give project name and click on Run button.

Import template project Instruction:

Get the latest CastleProject Binary/MSI Installation from http://www.castleproject.org/castle/download.html
Download template project from Castle MonoRail Project
Copy it into {your document folder}\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates

After you are done, you will get your Castle MonoRail Project under My Templates in New Project window.

New MonoRail Project

Project structure

Finally, what are you waiting for? Try MonoRail!

Compile and Test .NET Code Snippet Without Saving

Samnang Chhun — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:29:00 +0000

I often find myself creating a new .NET project in Visual Studio.NET every time I want to try some simple pieces of code from books that I read or test some code in my system. Have you ever faced the same problem? If yes, that’s not a big deal forever. I’ve found a little tool invaluable called Snippet Compiler.

The Snippet Compiler is a small Windows-based application that allows you to write, compile, and run .NET 2.0/3.5 code.It has some other features such as intellisense that lets you write code as fast as using Visual Studio.NET, etc, but the ability of just being able to test things quickly is my opinion the best feature.

Snippet Compiler was written by Jeff Key and can be download from http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/SnippetCompiler/.

All I can say is a tool that .NET programmers must have in their development PC. What are your tools?