All About Interop

I recently spent some time fiddling with my setup of emacs on Windows. I use emacs for lots of stuff; just now I optimized my setup for development of C# apps. I knew of the JDEE , which has been around for a long time. JDEE is the Java Development...

I saw a couple people asking about running powershell as an inferior shell within emacs. Here's what I do. For the tragically unhip, some background: PowerShell is a nifty shell, it ships as an add-on to Windows. Currently at v1.0, but the v2.0 is...

My buddy Justin wrote about how to set the Content-Type headers in a WebGet method in a WCF REST app. Doing this would allow each WebGet method to specify its own Content-Type at runtime. After I summarized how to build a WCF REST app in a post a...

In my prior post I wrote that I have a dream of getting c# code completion in emacs. Jason Rumney wrote to me: I think everything you want is here: http://cedet.sourceforge.net/semantic.shtml Semantic is what JDEE uses to provide code completion, and...

I've been fiddling some more with C# code completion in emacs. I wrote a csde-shell.el that is the CSDE equivalent to JDE 's beanshell.el . It runs as an inferior shell in emacs. The csde code-completion logic calls out to this shell to inquire about...

I love Visual Studio, but sometimes I build code using no graphical IDE - just the .NET Framework SDK. I wrote an article not long ago describing how to build a WCF Service using .NET 3.5, and just the SDK. I've always been a makefile weenie, but msbuild...

[I'm going to try to keep this up to date, because I periodically change tweak and improve flymake setup... Latest is 23 April 2008] I Loooooooove Flymake. Emacs, since a while back, ships with a package called flymake.el , that defines a minor mode...

No good options here. I know, dabbrev does some neat things. But it pales in comparison to real code completion as you get in Visual Studio, or, I think, even SharpDevelop. I checked out a module called csense that a lone developer hacked together...

I wrote this script to update all the AssemblyInfo.cs files in a Visual Studio solution, to have the same version number. This is the kind of thing I would have used Perl to do, in the past. But Powershell's got this covered nicely. [ 23 April 2008...

[I'm going to try to keep this up to date, because I periodically change tweak and improve flymake setup... Latest is 15 April 2008] This includes all my setup for C# development, including yasnippet, hideshow, flymake, htmlize, defaultcontent, timestamp...

I wrote this up as an example of how to run powershell.exe as an inferior shell from within a WPF app. It is not a "Powershell host" in the normal sense of the word, with a RunSpace and a RunSpaceFactory and so on. Instead, this example uses System...

Here's the proof that you can run powershell as a shell in Emacs . Grab the download from yesterday to get this awesome power yourself!

Chuck, in a comment on a previous post , posed this question: Why choose WCF for a REST app? Here it is in full context: I'm having a hard time justifying why I would use WCF for REST. It seems dead simple in ASP.NET (or any other web framework...

The default hideshow.el stuff in emacs doesn't "do" region/endregion, which is commonly seen in C# modules. Thankfully, the hideshow people thought of this, and made available a customization hook, where you can specify how to navigate blocks within the...

I previously wrote about using MSBuild to build all .cs files in a directory into a single exe . Here's a companion script that builds every .cs file into a separate exe. This might be helpful for directories where you keep sets of small projects,...

There's a nice add-in for Visual Studio called CopySourceAsHTML (for VS2005 , VS2008 ), which I have been using for a while now. Turns out there was an earlier progenitor in htmlize.el for emacs. Here's the result:

Hah! followup on a hot topic. I posted earlier on content-type negotiation in REST with WCF. My buddy Vittorio wrote about MySpace's kiss-and-tell episode at Mix08. MySpace has exposed a REST interface for the MySpace resources - see http://developer...

The beanshell is something that, I think, was specially engineered to support the JDE, and particularly the code completion stuff. In JDEE, emacs starts up a Java VM and runs the beanshell class, in comint (command interpreter) mode. Then emacs can send...

A distributed object cache (distributed hashtable) for .NET http://www.sriramkrishnan.com/blog/2008/02/cacheman-fast-distributed-hashtable-for.html

Remember when the Java vendors used to advocate WSRP as a way to accomplish Interop ? I never thought much of WSRP as a tool for implementing interop, and I went on the record with that . Web services (without the RP add-on), and REST are what people...

Some nice person built yasnippet.el , a snippet package for emacs. You type 2 or 3 letters, then hit TAB, and it expands into a snippet. Like dabbrev, but with forms-based fill-in fields. It's quickie code generation. Sadly, no C# snippets are included...