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You probably know Google’s link command. It’s a special search query that allows you to find websites that link to another website. There’s a better way to find all pages that point to your website on Google.

For various reasons, the biggest being my desire to play around with .Text, I”ve moved my blog to my own server at http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net

The first post over there shows the app that I wrote last night and then used to copy all of my posts and categories over from this blog to the new location… I”ll post the code for that app at some point, as boring as it is…

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For various reasons, the biggest being my desire to play around with .Text, I”ve moved my blog to my own server at http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net

The first post over there shows the app that I wrote last night and then used to copy all of my posts and categories over from this blog to the new location… I”ll post the code for that app at some point, as boring as it is…

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I”ve set up my own little .Text installation and I”m considering copying (not removing the existing versions) posts to my installation so that I still have a visible archive… has anyone done this before? Happen to have created a tool or script to help the process?

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Block-level link analysis is Microsoft attempt to deal with the faults in PageRank and HITS (Hyperlink Induced Topic Search). What does this mean to your website?

Recusive GetFiles for DirectoryInfo via a C# Iterator

I have been working on a project using C# Express and so I have been playing around with some of the new C# 2.0 features. In my project I had a need to get all the files of a particular type in a given directory including all sub-directories. The DirectoryInfo class has a method GetFiles that takes a search pattern (ie “*.exe”) but it only searches that directory it doesn”t search sub-directories. So I figured this would be a good chance for me to play with these new things called iterators. At any rate I wrote a recursive version of GetFiles using an iterator so that I could do a simple foreach loop to get all the files recursively.

Click on the title of the post to read the entire article…

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Every day I get from 1 to 10 emails asking me various VB questions… some I answer by pointing to a link, some by providing code, and sometimes I just point people to the newsgroups or forums that exist for this type of question… but this time I thought I”d just post the question and answer into my blog …

The Question (edited slightly):

I just want to ask how to make the string in to proper format.. ex… input. gerald this must be the output: Gerald and i want it to interactively change when i”m inputing a string in a textbox..

And the answer is to put this code into the TextChanged event of your textbox;

 Dim ci As Globalization.CultureInfo = _     System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture    Private Sub TextBox1_TextChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, _          ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TextBox1.TextChanged      Dim pos As Integer = TextBox1.SelectionStart      TextBox1.Text = ci.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(TextBox1.Text)      If pos > 0 AndAlso pos <= TextBox1.Text.Length Then          TextBox1.SelectionStart = pos      End If  End Sub  

The key is that the CultureInfo class provides a TextInfo instance, which in turn has a method of “ToTitleCase” on it… This KB article provides more info and also shows an alternate method to achieve the same results (StrConv()).

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Every day I get from 1 to 10 emails asking me various VB questions… some I answer by pointing to a link, some by providing code, and sometimes I just point people to the newsgroups or forums that exist for this type of question… but this time I thought I”d just post the question and answer into my blog …

The Question (edited slightly):

I just want to ask how to make the string in to proper format..
ex…
input.
gerald

this must be the output:
Gerald

and i want it to interactively change when i”m inputing a string in a textbox..

And the answer is to put this code into the TextChanged event of your textbox;

Dim ci As Globalization.CultureInfo = _
    System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture

Private Sub TextBox1_TextChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
        ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TextBox1.TextChanged
    Dim pos As Integer = TextBox1.SelectionStart
    TextBox1.Text = ci.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(TextBox1.Text)
    If pos > 0 AndAlso pos <= TextBox1.Text.Length Then
        TextBox1.SelectionStart = pos
    End If
End Sub

The key is that the CultureInfo class provides a TextInfo instance, which in turn has a method of “ToTitleCase” on it… This KB article provides more info and also shows an alternate method to achieve the same results (StrConv()).

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Webmasters often delete link exchange requests. Do the following things to make sure that webmasters reply to your link exchange email message..

Just up…

Investigating Code Snippet Technology

Andrew W. Troelsen Intertech Training Summary: This article explorers the use of Visual Studio 2005 and Visual C# 2005 Express Edition code snippet technologies. Once the reader understands the XML syntax used to represent code snippets, this article examines the process of building and registering custom code expansions with your Microsoft .NET IDE of choice. (21 printed pages)

and up a few days ago…

An Introduction to Programming Using Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition

Andrew W. Troelsen Intertech Training Summary: This article introduces programming with the C# language using the Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Using various example projects, readers will be exposed to several aspects of the C# programming language and key concepts of the .NET platform. (23 printed pages)

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