Release days are good days – Colin Eberhardt and I are very happy to announce SLF 1.0!
SLF is a framework with a simple but ambitious mission: To provide every developer with the means to easily plug in logging functionality into her application. As such, it aims at two fundamental goals:
- Simplicity: SLF allows you to plug in solid logging functionality into your application with literally one line of code, while providing you with an upgrade path to complex logging scenarios at any time.
- Flexibility: SLF provides you with a common interface that decouples the logging framework of your choice (e.g. log4net or NLog) from your code. This eliminates dependencies on a given framework, thus allowing you to switch (or even combine!) frameworks at any time. Furthermore, SLF’s modular architecture allows you to plug-in custom logging strategies very easily.
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I like using CSS classes to format specific content of my blog posts, in order to keep my formatting centralized. I prefer HTML that looks like this over inline styles:
If you invoke the <span class="code">GetData</span> method, ...
Quickly inserting CSS directives is something you can’t easily do with Windows Live Writer. This started to annoy me while writing an article, so I came up with two simple plug-ins that do just that: Formatting selected text through CSS classes.
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I just made a few minor updates to two libraries which assemble as set of helper classes for C# and WPF and thought: Why not share them? The libraries aren’t really intended to be used directly in your code, but you might find one or another helper method or snippet that might make a nice addition to your own toolbox 🙂
Hardcodet.Commons (C#, .NET 3.5)
Common helper classes and snippets (simple base classes, file management, weak events, extension methods etc.)
Hardcodet.Wpf.Commons (C#, .NET 3.5)
Stuff I commonly use in WPF projects, such as checking for design time, base classes for commands and converters, data binding helpers and other stuff.
I’ll keep these libraries up-to-date, version history will be posted here.
History:
2009.09.14 Initial blog release
I just posted an upgrade to my WPF NotifyIcon, which adds some minor improvements to the control. The most important one is probably the simplified data binding support for context menus (thanks to Nic Pillinger for the hint), but I also managed to add some polish in a few other areas.
Apart from the updated control itself, I completely revamped the sample project. It’s no longer just a showcase but contains various standalone samples which cover all aspects of the control. And last but not least, I published a complementary tutorial on the CodeProject. One could say I was quite busy 😉
Further information and download on the project page:
http://www.hardcodet.net/projects/wpf-notifyicon
I’ve just uploaded installer and source code of NetDrives 1.0. This is my first tool that does not only address fellow developers, but a wider audience 🙂
In a few words, NetDrives is an open source utility that helps you manage your network shares and mapped network drives. Unlike Windows, it can reconnect to secured shares during startup and provides you quick access to your configured shares.
More information, screenshots, and downloads at the project page:
http://www.hardcodet.net/netdrives
I’m happy to announce the public release of my WPF NotifyIcon control 🙂
This is an implementation of a NotifyIcon (aka system tray icon or taskbar icon) for the WPF platform. It does not just rely on the existing Windows Forms component, but is a purely independent control which leverages several features of the WPF framework in order to display rich ToolTips, Popups, context menus, and balloon messages.
I’m planning on doing an introductory article on CodeProject (well, somewhere along the way…) but you’ll probably get along just fine – the control comes with a sample application that shows off most of the control’s features.
Further information and download on the project page:
http://www.hardcodet.net/projects/wpf-notifyicon
