My Tryst with Code
WCF service hosted in IIS - "This collection already contains an address with scheme http" - Why does this happen?
I came across this error when I tried hosting a WCF endpoint from a website in IIS. This can be...
Author: Alvaro Dias Date: 11/14/2010
Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application Code: 2103 Category: InitializeError Message: Invalid or malformed application: Check manifest
This is one weird error I encountered while creating a simple Silverlight application. Scenario:...
Author: Alvaro Dias Date: 11/14/2010
Pef for fun - an interesting tool to promote TDD
Hi Folks, the PEX team has released on online version of their unit testing tool at...
Author: Alvaro Dias Date: 08/18/2010
What happens when a constuctor is called
Consider the following class public class MyClass{ public int myField = 4; public MyClass() {...
Author: Alvaro Dias Date: 08/06/2010
what using the 'using' block in c# does to your code
Let us take a simple console application which has the below code written in it class Program {...
Author: Alvaro Dias Date: 04/14/2010
How To: Enable multiple netTcp port sharing for WCF end-points
Getting straight to the point, the checklist for this can be found here. 3 basic tasks need to be...
Author: Alvaro Dias Date: 03/09/2010
Nice to have C# 5.0 LinQ feature
currently LinQ only supports projections, instead if we could perform an action for each row inside...
Author: Alvaro Dias Date: 02/15/2010
Want a treat? Get others to send you an invite :P
Here's an example of my "idle mind at work"... writing code just for the heck of...
Author: Alvaro Dias Date: 12/28/2009
Once I was a College Student
<re-published from my old blog> So there I was, sitting at my desk staring at the computer...
Author: Alvaro Dias Date: 12/28/2009
Creating your own Visual Studio code snippets
<re-published from my old blog> Some time back I got thinking... everytime I start reading...
Author: Alvaro Dias Date: 12/28/2009
PEXing your way to better quality
OK. So my previous blog talked about some issue in PEX. What I realized is that I should have a...
Author: Alvaro Dias Date: 12/25/2009
PEX - invalid detour, process is not instrumented
I got the above error the other day while experimenting with moles. I got it at the below line:...
Author: Alvaro Dias Date: 11/30/2009
Data-tier applications in Visual Studio 2010
Today I was attending this session on SQL, all that's new to the market like SQL Azure, improvements...
Author: Alvaro Dias Date: 11/25/2009