Tonight is the night!

My corps is putting on our yearly Christmas Concert. This year I have been in charge for the planning of it and I am quite nervous. Also the program up to this and this weekend has been almost to much to handle.

But I am really looking forward to the concert tonight - it will be great. KarlMagnus Fredriksson is our guest soloist and that will surely be great. Vasa Gospel is in kick-… form. And the band also sounds great. To top the whole thing off we have our youth gospel choir - Vasas Granater that will be nice addition to the whole scene.

This will be great.

The rest of the weekend will also be fun as I am presenter at the WindCorp Brass band Christmas concerts.

Here is a nice video of all the goodness that are coming our way in Team Foundation Server 2008: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb964499.aspx

Oooh - soon we will be there… I long for it… I want it… my precious

I found this article, via a tip from a colleague, on how to use Sandcastle (Microsoft’s new documentation generator) to generate system documentation as part of a build script:

Here it is

Nice examples both for CruiseControl and TFS also.

As I wrote the solo trombone of Stockholm Brass Band played a solo, Doolalynastics, that just blew me and a large part of the audience away.

Here is a video of that performance. For anyone into playing brass I can say that this was the second last piece and before this we have just played Celebration - notorious hard on the lip…

Thank you Håkan - I am still amazed

I got the opportunity to play with Stockholm’s Brass Band this weekend. First baritone this time.

What a great bunch of guys! Really nice people and the playing was at a very high level. If they met a little more often they could kick some serious … in any competition.

Yesterday Håkan Björkman, solo trombonist of the Royal Swedish Opera, blew the audience away with a unbelievable performance of a crazy hard piece called Doolalynastics. What a player! I am truly amazed of his skills.

Here is a video from the concert when we are playing the march Celebrate Rotary.

Found this great resource today - www.teamsystemwidgets.com. It’s a site with a lot of great stuff that can be used to improve TFS functionality.

Here is a Microsoft movie that shows you how to use one of the widgets to accomplish Continuous integration with TFS.

Another highlight was the MS Build status via LCD-TV

Today was a proud day for me as I for the first time ever was published. I have written the commentaries for Gothenburg Brass Bands last CD, In Perfect Peace. And now it has been released.

I feel so proud to be associated with that great band and such great musicians. It sound terrific and I shed a tear or two on certain places, when I thought about what Bengt would have said.

Thank you

In my recent project we have had to implement a own textbox to be able to set a few properties that force the user to follow certain formats etc. A few days ago I saw this as an opportunity to do something cool as an additional feature.

I wanted to implement a AutoComplete feature but with the values that the user has typed in this field before. It turns out that this is fairly easy to do, since AutoComplete is a property on the TextBox control in the .NET Framework. Here is a nice video that introduce the concepts surrounding AutoCompletion

So how did I do it then? First I added a handling of the Resize-event that sets the autoComplete-properties.

Me.AutoCompleteMode = Windows.Forms.AutoCompleteMode.Suggest Me.AutoCompleteSource = Windows.Forms.AutoCompleteSource.CustomSource Me.AutoCompleteCustomSource = State.HamtaAutoCompleteLista(Me.Name)

State.HamtaAutoCompleteLista is a function that returns the AutoCompleteStringCollection that should be used for the control.

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Here is a great site for finding information on how to get the most out of Visual Studio - Visual Studio Tip of the Day

Oh la la - this is a “dangerous” place for euphonium-players. A whole site with stuff to buy for euphonium-players…. http://www.justforbrass.com

Me like… Money gone… ;)