Recently, I was challenged by the task of managing the overflow of the post on this site, for example in the following post: Visual Studio 2005 Class Diagram for Web Site. The problem is that there is no easy way to shorten the text and add ellipsis to the end, because the actual html of the post has complex structure. So, I decided to parse the code to a graph and work on this graph until it satisfies the condition. In this case, the condition was to have the length of the source not greater than some constant N, for example, N=1000 characters. So, I wrote the following class and validated it using several test cases.

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Just got back from the Genesis concert at United Center called Turn It On Again Tour. Phil Collins rocks! The performance was awesome, sound was perfect and visuals are excellent. He performed the best songs including Invisible Touch, Mama, Turn It On Again of course and many other well-known songs.

If you try to add class diagram to Web Site in Visual Studio 2005 and create a diagram of code-behind classes of web controls, the following messages will appear preventing from creating the diagram for such classes:

Visual Studio allows only classes in Add_Code folder and its subfolders added to class diagram and to manipulate such classes. This is a limitation in current release of Visual Studio because development team decided to take an opportunistic approach and limit the functionality of class designer only to static classes, not dynamic classes such as code-behind ones in web site projects.

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Still didn't get my own copy of the Vista, but found this one and was thinking it might be worth to get this one:

PS. http://www.gotw.ca/publications/C++CLIRationale.pdf

Interesting book by Kraig Brockschmidt: Mystic Microsoft: A Journey of Transformation in the Halls of High Technology

HTML version: http://www.mysticmicrosoft.com PDF version: http://www.mysticmicrosoft.com/MysticMicrosoft_ebook.pdf

I came accross a brief overview of the latest Windows kernel RTMed in Vista at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/02/VistaKernel/default.aspx