Colby Africa

Sometimes you need to load an assembly for use or inspection.  The problem is that loading an assembly is permanent for the lifetime of an application domain.  Sometimes this is acceptable and sometimes it is not.   Mike Shughrue and...

As I get further and further into the Project Server Interface (PSI), I run up against gaps in my knowledge and some times the community's knowledge, as it exists in searchable form online.  This little "gotcha's" can sometimes mean hours...

Here is an example: 1: private void Dispose( params IDisposable[] disposableObjects) 2: { 3: foreach (IDisposable disposableObject in disposableObjects) 4: { 5: if (disposableObject != null ) 6: { 7: disposableObject.Dispose...

I thought I would repost something Brian Smith wrote.  Believe you me when I say follow his advice: http://blogs.msdn.com/brismith/archive/2007/11/02/friends-don-t-let-friends-delete-their-cache-or-cancel-queue-jobs.aspx

While reading this post , I came across an interesting line of code: 1: Assert.IsTrue(ThrowsException<UpdateException>(() => rb.Update(b2))); 2:   3: ThrowsException<E> is : 4:   5: private static bool ThrowsException<E>...

I have been reading about cloud computing quite a bit.  I found that Microsoft is doing something really interesting under the code name "Sitka" (there is now a public beta, so the code word is no longer internal). Sitka, or SSDS, is cloud...

I implemented an integration service using the PSI for lifting data from a customer's system into Project Server.  The service ran like a champ in my development environment but upon deploying it at the customer site, I was flummoxed for a while...