Tag: Programming

I came across that Nuget because I was writing WPF UI applications and I needed a folder picker. Someone in the internet suggests to use the WinForms dialogs. I sort of hate using two frameworks. And then another one brought up the Nuget WindowsAPICodePack.Shell with it’s class representation of the Windows Common Dialogs, including the capability of picking folders in the open dialog window.

So, I started using that. Then, at some point, a friend pointed out to me, that the Nuget package I was using did not look like an official Microsoft package, but a repackage someone did. That made me stop and think. I don’t assume any bad intent, but I found it very very strange. The official package vanished. And there is a huge load of packages which strange names:

I don’t like this. Even if there is no ill intent from any of the authors, I still don’t like this, as it reeks like fraught, phishing, and vulnerabilities. Sorry, but, no.

So, where is the official package? Seems to have disappeared, that’s why there are the repackages by community members. Why did it disappear? No idea. Maybe it got caught in a semi-automatic cleanup as it was orphaned. Someone suggestion it’s replaced by Microsoft.Windows.SDK.Contracts.

In the end, I replaced the code in my projects by either using the WinForms dialog, or by writing a very small p/invoke wrapper class calling the Win32 API directly. If you are interested, have a look:

https://github.com/sgrottel/open-here/commit/9de68198e35f0f6dec9386372cc71bada54c2f5b

The moral of the story is, a Nuget package is only as good as the people maintaining it. And, I mean people, not organizations. Because in the end, it’s whether or not individuals want to give their best.

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Git has this cursed function to fuck up your files by doing unspeakable things to your line endings.

For example, from Githubs Documentation on Line Endings:

On Windows, you simply pass true to the configuration. For example:

$ git config –global core.autocrlf true

Please, never never never never never never never never never never never never do this!

THERE IS NO REASON TO DO IT!

Git is here to keep track of our files, NOT TO CHANGE OUR FILES IN ANY WAY.

So, please, just, never never never never never never never never never never never never do this! Leave my file endings alone!

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Today I release a new version of my Checkouts Overview tool.

Version 1.1 is a feature release, improving the scanning of your hard disks searching for repository checkouts, and adding the ability to perform a git fetch while updating the entry status.

Some minor improvements to the UI also provide a more consistent look and feel.

Grab the release from Github: Release Feature Release v1.1 – Better Disk Scanning and Git Fetch · sgrottel/checkouts-overview (github.com)

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Today I present you the Checkouts Overview tool.

https://github.com/sgrottel/checkouts-overview
https://go.grottel.net/checkouts-overview

What? Why? Because this little tool helps me.

In my private setup, I have a lot of smaller repos checked out, and work on them only occasionally. In addition, I got several repos to collect the history of some text documents. Some of those repos are synced against servers which are only occasionally online, partially for power saving or partially due to VPN and network connectivity stuff. As a result, I often keep losing track of the sync states of all the different repos.

Is everything checked in? — most times, yes. If the change was complete.

Is everything pushed? — maybe.

Am I on branches? — no idea.

You might not need this app, if you have a better structured work process with your stuff than I do. I don’t, so I need help by a tool, by this tool.

If you are interested, you find more info in the app’s github repository.

Note: and as for the app’s icon, it’s about (repository) clones, right.

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The Windows Powershell is quite nice. Of course, now all the Linux users start bitching around, that they always has something like this and that it is nothing special. And no one claims otherwise. But still, the PowerShell is nice and I enjoy it. :-)

Like today: I needed a simple hex dump of a file:

PS >  $str = ""; $cnt = 0; get-content -encoding byte C:\pfad\zur\Datei.txt | foreach-object { $str += (" {0:x2}" -f $_); if ($cnt++ -eq 7) { $cnt = 0; $str += "`n"; } }; write-host $str

It’s elegance is limited, that I will admit, however, I does it’s job. And, somehow, it is quite nice …

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