I knew it very well, that was my former team, but now it’s official also for all the partner and not.

Microsoft Dynamics Mobile has been discontinued

So.. no comment, it’s  better!

Developing with the .Net Framework quite often we have to sign our assemblies and sometimes it could be nice also to know the Public Key Token from our own signed assembly.

To do that we have to use the “sn.exe” utility, provided with the .Net Framework and located usually in “the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\vX.XX\Bin\" folder. The problem is that we have to use the command prompt (the one provided with Visual Studio not the normal one), add some parameters to the command line and this is, I know, something that a lot of people won’t really like it (me too actually). It’s not our fault, but Visual Studio really spoiled us so why don’t try to find another way to read the Public Key Token of a signed assembly from inside the IDE?

Not so a big deal. A couple of step and we can do it. I think all the developers used at least once the “Tools” menu’ inside Visual Studio. Quite close to the bottom of this menu’ list, there is a link that allow us to customize the tools listed in our own menu’: the “External Tools…” one.

Clicking on this Visual Studio will open a new window like the one showed in the following picture and it will allow us to enter our data to set up the new link that we want to add to menu:

As shown in the picture, the more important data are the arguments:

• -T: ask the sn utility to actually display the token
• $(TargetDir)$(TargetName)$(TargetExt): the Visual Studio variables that will point to our project output
• enable the check “Use Output window” to enable Visual Studio to show the output result from the command in the output window

And we done it!

Now we can develop our own signed assemblies and we could expect a result like this after invoking our new link:

I really like and I always found interesting all the new things that I can learn about the Maori’s culture.

I think this happened due to my passion for rugby and after the first time I saw the legendary New Zealand National Rugby Team (aka All Blacks) playing on TV.

With this post, and maybe someone else. I’d like to share what I discovered surfing the net about this amazing culture, focusing on the picture and tatoo part.

The picture that I hereby published is one of the various and famous warrior mask that you can find around.

The face of the Maori warrior, or his mask, or Moko, is like an identification of the warrior and every patter have a particular meaning, showing the warrior great deeds, his courage, his ancestors and tradition, this is the reason (or at least one of the most important) cause is quite impossible to find two masks that are exactly the same. This means also, that is not so good to copy a whole mask from someone else, cause is like you’re stealing his identity.

So, if you want to make your own mask, you can copy a part and mesh it up with other parts taken from some other pics, or you can use some typical pattern that doesn’t belong to any particular clan and then resemble all together.

But this time, maybe, we have a winner: the Developer.

Reading this post it really seems like the efforts in Microsoft and Mozilla to enhance their web browser, with the help of the community too, reached a very nice achievement: they, both, made a tool that can be helpful in the daily life of a web developer. The other browser? Uhm, maybe the same with some little lacks.

Check it out: link 

That’s very cool.

Instead of opening a page with your translator, you can directly ask the Bing search engine to translate the words for you. This is very nice and useful feature that can speed up your surfing experience.

Look at this:

Check it out at the MS Translator official Team blog page.

I found a very interesting blog post in which the author collect a series of posts and data about how the .Net Entity Framework Designer use the public API in the System.Data.Entity.Design assembly.

I think it’s useful to stick it also here.

Check it out: Model and Code Generation Uncovered

Damn.. this is something that I’m really missing.. a crazy day at the “Parco di Monza” watching my favorite stuff with friends:

the Superbike (Supersport and SuperStock) races.

To remember those days when I was there:

And I really was there… when this happened! Amazing.. still remembering it.

I recently downloaded a couple of cool new socializing application for my Windows Mobile phone from Microsoft:

MyPhone

Facebook App for Win Mobile

And I found them very nice.. Try them. ;)

PHP.. a lot of time that I don’t use it.. and still one of the simplest platform for an easy web develop.

And now is also more integrated in .Net environment and IIS.. this link is a very good collection of resources:

The Daily WTF: PHP on Windows

I like the HOL (Hands on Labs). I really find them useful to introduce or to help delving into technologies or tools. And this time they just released the HOL on something really interesting, at least for me:

HOL Enterprise Library 4.1

HOL Unity App Block 1.2

At least some good stuff instead the last bad news from Microsoft (like the Live Labs closed and so on.. :( ).

I was so sad when I saw that one of my favorites video, the one about Kobe Bryant and the crazy Jackass crew, was removed.

But I found it back, so I decided to download it and save it on my public shared video folder.

So… Enjoy this video.. again. ;)

Uhm.. to be honest I don’t think so, but I’d really like it..

But what is it Gazelle? It’s a new project, actually right now is a prototype, about a new way to construct a web browser. Honestly not all so new. I found some things in common with the basic ideas that steer the development of Chrome, and looking at the comment, I’m not the only one thinking like this.

So… Enjoy it.. on Channel 9

Something is changing in my life.. at work and not only.

So.. better to back up some nice and useful post until I can still access my (former) blog on MSDN.

First: one of the best collection of resources to study and improve my awareness about all the .Net and Visual Studio world: Visual Studio and .Net resources 

Then I want to keep a link to one interesting project inside Microsoft Research, related to develop and test: PEX, automated whitebox testing download

And last but not least… Architect Center

Another very nice video (commercial) from Microsoft..

Another sport video..

Video: Jonah Lomu - Impossible is nothing..

No more words to add..

Yes.. but only if the man is Kobe Bryant!!

.. and if he has to jump over a pool of snakes!! Totally crazy!!

A quick note to remember myself, and maybe to share with someone else, that the Microsoft Live Labs just releasead PhotoSynth, a new technology that automatically reconstruct a three-dimensional space from a collection of photos of a place or an object.

So.... Enjoy it!  Photosynth

Another little post to help me to remember, and share, some useful links.

This is about software methodologies and I found it nice.

SW Methodologies at a glance..

I need to stick these link cause now I don't have enough spare time to see them.

And maybe this post can be useful for other people:

Microsoft Sync Framework 101 Samples 

.Net 3.5 Framework SP1 and training kit

Ok Ok.. It's a joke.

Or better, now there is "only" the blog:

Engineering Windows 7

but better than nothing ;)