We just published a new article on using WCF from device applications on the Community site.  Read it here.

In case you missed it, I published a new article on our community site last week on how to get a DateTime.Now equivalent with the milliseconds field filled in.  Read it here.

Microsoft has just published a case study on Visual Studio 2008 highlighting none other than.....

We've proactively pulled (meaning no one threatened us or asked us to do it) our QRCodeCF Library from public availability due to internal concerns about GPL.  Personally I dislike GPL due to its viral nature - it makes using any GPL code in any software that you intend to use for commercial or proprietary systems extremely risky, and we simply don't want to perpetuate that.  We write software to solve problems, and not surprisingly I feel those who write software should be able to get paid for doing so and not worry that their entire business might have to be given away because of some insane licensing issue.

OpenNETCF is proud to announce that we've released Padarn - an ASP.NET Web Server designed to run under the limited resource environment of Windows CE.  For more information on Padarn, visit our web site.

After receiving a 16MB zip file of a native solution from a customer today, I've updated CleanSweep to clean out a lot of the crap created by the native build process (the last version was mostly for managed code).

I've also added very, very basic command-line support.  Right now if you provide no command line, it will clean the directory it is run from.  If you want to clean another folder, you pass the full path to the foilder to clean as the command line.

In my line of work it's pretty common to get zipped up packages containing source for a project from a customer.  Unfortunately iot's also really, really common for those zip files to be bloated will all sorts of garbage from the build, and it's irritating - I just received a 25MB file from a customer this morning.

Typically I go through and manually delete stuff to clean it up, but this solution had a lot of subfolders, and I'm a fan of automating anything you've done more than twice, so I took this as an opportunity to generate a utility that does this clean up for me. 

Version 1 is very basic - it should have some command-line options, etc - but it gets the job done and changing behavior to add other files/folders/extensions is simple (see the source).  Right now it will delete any files with the following extensions: .suo, .user, .scc, .vssscc, .vspscc, .pdb and any folder with one of these names: bin, obj, Debug, Release, TempPE.



The tool and full source is available for download here

USE THIS TOOL AT YOUR OWN RISK! 
Basically if you use it and lose some all-important data then consider that an object lesson in the virtues of source control free of charge.

Here's hoping that people start using it *before* sending me packages. If not it's still useful for recovering drive space and cleaning up project folders before putting them in source control.