DevEnterprise.NET

Directory Monitor

noreply@blogger.com (Werner van Deventer) — Mon, 09 May 2011 20:04:00 +0000

Finally uploaded my Directory Monitor application!

* Monitor directories for file changes, modifications, deletions and new files.
* Monitor local directories or network shares (including hidden shares).
* Include/exclude filtering on files being monitored.
* Optionally execute an application when an event occurs.
* Quickly tell if a directory is available and being monitored.
* Balloon notifications whenever an event is fired.
* Auto updating, import/export and more.
* FREE!

Latest version 1.0.2.0 (2011/05/07)
Lots of new features with an improved UI.
More than likely the last release on .NET 3.5. I need to move to .NET 4.0 for certain performance features (such as memory mapped files) so that I can support really large log files.

Install it from here or check it out (with new screenshots) on my main website at DevEnterprise.NET

Update: Directory Monitor makes it on Softpedia with some sweet screenshots. It was also awarded the 100% clean award.

Update 2: Updated to optionally run an application when an event fires on a directory. The full path and file name gets passed to the app as well so you can use %1 and such inside batch files.

Update 3: Directory Monitor gets mentioned on My Digital Life.

Update 4: Directory Monitor gets mentioned on Life Rocks 2.0.

tinyMCE running in Windows Forms

noreply@blogger.com (Werner van Deventer) — Tue, 03 May 2011 21:28:00 +0000

This article has moved to my new blog at the URL:

Brutal Developer: tinyMCE running in Windows Forms

Launch of BrutalDev.com

noreply@blogger.com (Werner van Deventer) — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 16:21:00 +0000

I have launched a new programming blog www.brutaldev.com.

I will be releasing v2.0 of Directory Monitor here and will pretty much be discontinuing this blog other than posting updates for www.brutaldev.com and other personal software.

Follow me on Twitter to be notified of new posts or subscribe via RSS.

I am in the process of investigating a migration of the articles on here as they are read quite often.

Installing and removing fonts using C#

noreply@blogger.com (Werner van Deventer) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:07:00 +0000

This article has moved to my new blog at the URL:

Brutal Developer: Installing and removing fonts using C#

Sending HTML e-mail with embedded images (the correct way)

noreply@blogger.com (Werner van Deventer) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:02:00 +0000

This article has moved to my new blog at the URL:

Brutal Developer: Sending HTML e-mail with embedded images (the correct way)

Command Line E-mailer

noreply@blogger.com (Werner van Deventer) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:31:00 +0000

New application to send an e-mail from the command line. I found that most applications available for download on the internet were not capable of performing all the common e-mail sending functionality. This application covers all the bases I required.

* Attach multiple files to the e-mail.
* Send an e-mail to multiple recipients (including CC and BCC).
* Create e-mail message from a text file.
* Send e-mails in HTML format.
* Provide authentication information to the server and optionally send over SSL.
* Friendly error messages and input validation.
* FREE!

Download the zip or exe or read more check on my main website at DevEnterprise.NET

Checking if the workstation is locked

noreply@blogger.com (Werner van Deventer) — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:23:00 +0000

This article has moved to my new blog at the URL:

Brutal Developer: Checking if the workstation is locked

FCKeditor - HTTP Error 404 - Not Found.

noreply@blogger.com (Werner van Deventer) — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:55:00 +0000

While working on the content management for my website, I wanted to use a WYSIWYG editor to edit parts of my home page. I have used FCKeditor before and find it one of the most complete editors out there at the moment, besides it's been around for years now...

They have a .NET control wrapper for it so you can just drag it onto your web forms from the control toolbox. This seemed like the perfect solution until actually trying to run the application for the first time. I followed all the instructions on the support section on their website and everything should have worked.

Add the main control code (FCKeditor directory) to the root of the site.
Add the .NET wrapper assembly to the bin directory or add it as a reference to your project.
Add the control to the control toolbox and drag it on, done, or so it seems.

For some or other reason this fails with a HTTP 404 error? After much searching on the support pages I couldn't find a solution to this issue. I did dig up a vague answer on a forum but it boils down to this:

The default location of the FCKeditor control can't be found if your site is running in a virtual directory. The solution to this, thankfully is quite simple. You need to add the location of the control files to BasePath property of the control.

EG: If you have the FCKeditor directory in the root of your site you would use "BasePath='~/FCKeditor/'"
NB: You must provide a trailing forward slash otherwise you get a "The resource cannot be found." error!

So to close off, your code needs to look like this with the path of the editor control directory as the string for BasePath.

DevEnterprise.NET

noreply@blogger.com (Werner van Deventer) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:00:00 +0000

I have just recently put up my personal web site www.deventerprise.net
I want to blog about new technologies especially regarding C# and .NET and my experience in using them. This will also serve as a learning experience for me and hopefully I can help others overcome any issues that I come across.

Ideally I can refer back to my own blog as a means for finding information on how to do certain things and also as a log of any particularly difficult problems that needed to be solved.

UPDATE: Started a new software development blog using all the latest tools at my disposal: www.brutaldev.com