Strong signing a third party assembly in .net

Just a quick tip for all you codeplex/codeproject code downloading junkies
Solution for assigning a strong name to a third party DLL using your visual studio command prompt.
E.g. Lets say the name of the third party DLL is myTest.dll.
Step 1: Dis-assemble the assembly
ildasm myTest.dll /out:myTest.il
Step 2: Re-Assemble using […]

Disabling the startup chime of a MacBook (iMac)

I searched for this thingy quite some time so here is a quick tip.
If the startup sound of your macbook, iMac or any recent mac computer starts to bother you you can turn it down (or mute it) with following tool: Psst.
It doesn’t get any easier then this
Just download the dmg file, fire […]

Microsoft Architect Council and OBA’s

I had the pleasure to be invited to the architects council yesterday,
which was presented by Philippe Destoop and had as primary subject OBA’s,
also known as Office Business Applications.
Microsoft recently set up a blog concerning the council at blogs.msdn.com/architectsrule and Philippe just updated the blog with the latest info on the new OBA reference application pack […]

Brackets on an Azerty mac keyboard

If you own an azerty mac keyboard you must have noticed the lack of the following keys:
\ { } [ ]
Quick tip:
\ = alt + shift + /
{ = alt + (
} = alt + )
[ = alt + shift + (
] = alt + shift + […]

How to generate a random string in c# 2.0

Although this is common knowledge to most dev’s,
I justed wanted to share some possible approaches for generating a random string in C#.
Approach 1: Create a static method in a utility class that will return a defined length of random characters.
One possible implementation could be:
static class Generator
{
private static Random _random = new Random();
public static string RandomString(int […]