The Source Sanctuary

Welcome to The Source Sanctuary - A safe place on the internet where my most suited software projects will be placed for a public view. All of the selected projects have been damaged beyond sanity be a sheer number of comments and they all include an article describing the most interesting points. Fell free to read the articles, use the code and mail me your thoughts - I do this to share my discoveries and code with others and eventually improve my own programming skills.

The Source Sanctuary currently hosts the following finished projects:

• SourceSafe Directory Sync - Synchronize a directory tree with a Visual SourceSafe project, loaded with comments and DIY style SourceSafe automation code!
• Clipboard Ramifications - Whatever happens when you cross a Private Clipboard Format Hackertool with the Visual Basic Drag & Drop concept.
• Labyrinth - Create labyrinths with exactly one soloution, beautifully slow vb com version plus a speedy, short and unreadable commandline c sample.
• Frontpage 2000 webbot - Create your own webbot used to extract database contents into html at design time.

Projects under construction (documentation not finished)

• SourceSafe toolbox - Search & Replace labels (using fancy recursive version manipulation), Select projects & label (prepare for configuration management)
• SourceSafe Advanced - Getting downright dirty with SourceSafe plugins and extending the SourceSafe Explorer
• htmlTools - jitTranslate (multiple language versions of the same html-file) & autoContents (Auto generate table of contents) & autoHtml (easy maintenance of shared information between html pages)
• Dynamic Flash - Combine fluffy animation with dynamic contents by linking a flash movie to a web server or using XmlSockets to chat with a vb service.
• Instant Message - Send and receive instant messages on sockets with VB Service based server using SQL server and automation based vb client.

Planned projects (not documented yet)

• Driving Crystal Reports - A quick walk-through of satisfying your basic reporting needs with Crystal Reports.
• Crystal Reports Multi Language - Maintain one version of your report, automatically generate multiple language versions from that one.
• Outlook with an Attitude - Just how much MAPI/CDO/Automation it takes to make your application professionally complicated with Outlook!
• Protocol to heaven - Roll your own url style protocols to VSS items without any COM mumbojumbo.

Feel free to share your comments with me.