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Speech synthesis in .NET

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Have you ever tried speech synthesis (i.e. text pronounced by computer)? It’s surprisingly easy. The following trivial example announces the current time (language: PowerShell): Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech $synthesizer = New-Object -TypeName System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer $synthesizer.Speak("It’s {0:H m}" -f (Get-Date)) You can even make voice reporting of exceptions: $nullReference.ToString() trap { Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech $synthesizer = New-Object -TypeName …

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XML documentation from Dynamics AX to Word

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It may also happen sometimes to you that you want to add a description of basic classes of some solution to a document. If you write XML documentation in code (and it’s a really big mistake if not), you have the description already done, you just need to get it into the target document. You …

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Few thoughts about dynamic languages

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Today I visited MDCC (Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen) to attend a TechTalk named Dynamic languages for statically typed minds. The lecture was given by Niclas Nilsson and his main goal was to convince us, the developers used mainly to static-typed languages, that dynamic languages have some advantages too. Niclas didn’t go into any theory, he …

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Deleting work items in TFS

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Functionality for deleting work items in Team Foundation Server is quite successfully hidden, so many people have no idea that it is possible. (That might be even good. ;)). TFS2010 Work items cannot be deleted from graphical interface, but it’s possible in the command line, more precisely by witadmin utility. In Visual Studio Command Prompt, …

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