Brian Kriesel

Skittles Vodka

2009-02-15T16:51:00.62-08:00

I found a link, http://mixthatdrink.com/skittles-vodka-tutorial/, that outlines how to create skittles vodka. Since I haven't added nearly as much content to this blog as I thought I’d post some pictures from when I made a batch. I must say after starting my own blog and then not using it or polishing up the front end I'm more impressed by the people that take the effort to continually blog.

Before it was filtered.

After it has been filtered.

The orange flavor mixed with OJ

The green flavor mixed with Mountain Dew

Upgrading .NET 1.1 Winforms into partial classes

2008-09-21T10:46:43.728-07:00

Any forms/user controls added to a project after the VS2005 release are broken into partial classes.

The Designer.cs part of the class contains the InitalizeComponent method, the dispose method, and the control declerations. This makes the forms easier to work with.

When upgrading an old VS2003 project to 2005 it doesn’t automatically break up this code. The old VS2003 forms and user controls can be updated to pull this code out so they’re easier to work with too.

Step #1 Check out the form

Step # 2 Create a copy of the file and rename one of the files to end with Designer.cs

Step #3 Open the files in VS2005 outside of the project. Just open the files directly.

From the Form.CS file remove the InitializeComponent(), dispose, and control declarations

From the From.Designer.CS file remove everything BUT the InitializeComponent(), dispose, and control declerations

*Note that the designer file doesn’t need the using statements.

Step #4 Set the class as a partial class

The designer file

From the cs file

Step #5 Reopen the project. Right click on the designer file and select Include In Project.

Step #6 Do a Rebuild

Step #7 Makes sure the form designer opens

This does checkout the project file remember to turn the project file in when done.

This refactoring makes the cs files smaller which makes them faster and easier to work with in VS

Texas

2008-09-02T17:23:31.878-07:00

So why does this blog exist?

2008-08-23T18:28:12.372-07:00

I started this blog to have a little bit of a web presence. I develop business logic, winforms, and reports at work so I thought it might be nice to get a little web development in. I’m going to try and get one good technical post up a week they’ll probably have a .NET slant to them. This seems like a reasonable goal, but who knows maybe after a while I’ll have to adjust that.

First Post

2008-08-20T10:44:52.515-07:00

Woot!