Managed free thoughts from Stefano

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.