NOTE: You must have MailEnable installed, as this assembly makes reference to the MailEnable ActiveX DLLs.

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Usage:

You need to add reference to the DLL, then you can call JeremyABoyd.MailEnable.Utilities.AddMailbox()

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Needed to create a single file installer for a Visual Studio setup and deployment solution. WinRAR self extractor wouldn’t work, and neither did Winzip. Both would error out on the Setup.exe file being run (not sure why, I didn’t investigate it). So I built one based on the tutorial here. Then I had to make changes to the setup and deployment project, then go through the same process again… So I built a setup builder (Setupzor) to do it for me.

It runs on .Net 4.0, so if you have it, you can use this AWESOME utility.

• Setupzor (129 KB)

It was irritating beyond belief. I wanted to just steal some code. After all every great programmer steals their code!

After looking for an hour I decided I could have written it in the amount of time I had spent looking. Boy howdy, I was right. For your copy and pasting pleasure, my awesome spinner:

public class Spinner
{
    private static Random rnd = new Random();
    public static string Spin(string str)
    {
        string regex = @"\{(.*?)\}";
        return Regex.Replace(str, regex, new MatchEvaluator(WordScrambler));
    }
    public static string WordScrambler(Match match)
    {
        string[] items = match.Value.Substring(1, match.Value.Length - 2).Split('|');
        return items[rnd.Next(items.Length)];
    }
}

I am open to working with anyone who wants to help improve this project. It has slowed down a lot since George and I first started working on it, and like me, I am sure he would be more than happy to have more capable hands working with us.

Extract the zip, and upload both folders to your wp-content folder.

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Love does not mean I have to agree. This is from an old article that I read back the day it was published (as I have been doing for almost 5 years now).

If your “build process” is the F5 key, you have a problem. If you think this sounds ridiculous– who would possibly use their IDE as a substitute for a proper build process? — then I humbly suggest that you haven’t worked much in the mainstream corporate development world. The very idea of a build script outside the IDE is alien to most of these teams.

via Coding Horror: The F5 Key Is Not a Build Process.

My problem with this is that most people in a mainstream corporate development world USE the IDE to build. I know because I have been there in MULTIPLE jobs. I have been a rookie, and I have been a lead, that doesn’t stop me from using the IDE to build and publish. Now as the owner of my own company why would I want to waste money on something that comes for free out of the box?

I understand central build system, scheduled build processes, but I haven’t ever needed them.

Whether I was in a team of 10 or a team of one hundred, we would each check our code in, get latest and F5.

When I have a developer building an application for me, I don’t want to waste my time or theirs (billable) on an infrastructure that doesn’t get me a finished product any faster.

My Super Kick Ass GridView!

Here is an excerpt of how to use it

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George and I have had the pleasure to work on a couple of WP Themes together, one of them is still under development while the other Handgloves, is publicly available.

A tumblr developer, I am not. But I though what the heck, might as well try.

This theme is a work in progress, but it is my implementation of Handgloves for tumblr.

I will be releasing the source once all of the post types have been implemented.

Recently I have had to look this up twice, and hopefully by placing it here, I will never need to again (knock on wood). So again, without further ado… drum roll please…

enum CcType { Visa, MasterCard, Discover, Amex, Solo, Maestro }
CcType ccType = CcType.Visa;
string cardType = ccType.ToString();
// This will make cardType = "Visa"
// This is easy to remember, because well you are telling it to turn visa to a string.
// The next part I have to look up each time
ccType = (CcType)Enum.Parse(typeof(ccType), "MasterCard");
// There you go, the simple one line string to enum solution.

I hope this saves some Googling… for you and me!

So without further ado, for everyones enjoyment, I present GroupDropDownList and SelectListOptionGroup.

public static class Extenders {
    public static string GroupDownDropList(this HtmlHelper helper, string name, IEnumerable>SelectListOptionGroup> data, string optionLabel, object htmlAttributes) {
        if (data == null && helper.ViewData != null) data = helper.ViewData.Eval(name) as IEnumerable>SelectListOptionGroup>;
        if (data == null) return string.Empty;

        var select = new TagBuilder("select");

        if (htmlAttributes != null)
            select.MergeAttributes(new RouteValueDictionary(htmlAttributes));

        select.GenerateId(name);

        var optgroupHtml = new StringBuilder(string.Concat("
", optionLabel, "

"));
        var groups = data.ToList();
        foreach (var group in data) {
            var groupTag = new TagBuilder("optgroup");
            groupTag.Attributes.Add("label", helper.Encode(group.Name));
            var optHtml = new StringBuilder();
            foreach (var item in group.Items) {
                var option = new TagBuilder("option");
                option.Attributes.Add("value", helper.Encode(item.Value));
                if (item.Selected)
                    option.Attributes.Add("selected", "selected");
                option.InnerHtml = helper.Encode(item.Text);
                optHtml.AppendLine(option.ToString(TagRenderMode.Normal));
            }
            groupTag.InnerHtml = optHtml.ToString();
            optgroupHtml.AppendLine(groupTag.ToString(TagRenderMode.Normal));
        }
        select.InnerHtml = optgroupHtml.ToString();
        return select.ToString(TagRenderMode.Normal);
    }
}
public class SelectListOptionGroup {
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public List>SelectListItem> Items { get; set; }
}