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Embed Ruby code directly inside MSBUILD file using DLR and IronRuby

You know the MSBUILD drill. Everything is a custom task. Need to add two numbers? Write a custom task. Need to replace spaces in a string with '_' character? Write a custom task. I don't like the overhead of writing custom tasks. What you have with MSBuild Read More...
Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 2:27 AM by dgorti | 2 Comments

Ruby On Rails with IIS 7 - Reloaded

In my last post I mentioned getting into Ruby and making MABUILD and rake work together. I think I found a better way to do the same with PowerShell integration, which I will write up sometime this week. Now, it is inevitable that Ruby leads to Ruby On Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009 6:15 PM by dgorti | 9 Comments

Calling RAKE from MSBUILD

These days, I am spending quite a bit of time with Ruby, Ruby On Rails and RAKE. I am not into the Ruby religion yet, and not drinking the ruby Kool-aid that much. Just a little. I needed to integrate the TeamBuild (Team System) with Ruby/RAKE. So in Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 07, 2009 7:08 PM by dgorti | 2 Comments

Doing the same thing again and again

A while back in the C++ days, there were class libraries doing things like sending mail, opening/reading cert store, event log writing reading, etc. These were written in C++ to encapsulate some of the pain associated with routine tasks. Great Idea!! Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 04, 2009 1:39 AM by dgorti | 1 Comments

To Agile or Not Agile

I have been pondering over the Agile, Iterative, XTreme, waterfall and several other software methodologies. I think that each of them have their strengths, I have no reason to bash one methodology or pump some other methodology. Personally, I really Read More...
Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 2:33 AM by dgorti | 3 Comments

VSTT Controller and Agent setup

In my previous blog article, I pointed out that in a workgroup environment, Windows XP has the force guest policy on and it prevents agents and clients connecting to the controller. In this post, I want to expand on this and talk a bit more about VSTT Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:18 PM by dgorti | 4 Comments

Querying on WorkItem Links through the API

In Rosario Team Foundation Server, significant new functionality is added for liking work item types http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/08/06/work-item-tracking-enhancements-in-the-aug-rosario-ctp.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/teams_wit_tools/archive/tags/Rosario/default.aspx Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 6:29 PM by dgorti | 4 Comments

VSTT Controller, agent in a workgroup

So I moved from the networking group to Visual Studio Team System Test. Recently, I was investigating an issue where the client, controller and agent are not working together when in a workgroup topology. In other words, the machines that are running Read More...
Posted Friday, September 21, 2007 10:56 AM by dgorti | 2 Comments

Using a Network Monitor

These days connected applications are everywhere. Web Services and Indigo based applications are used to hook up various services over the internet. When something goes wrong you can debug all you want but ultimately you need to look at what is really Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 29, 2005 10:37 PM by dgorti | 3 Comments

Getting SubnetMask through System.Net.NetworkInformation

Some people have asked me how to get the SubnetMask for the network interfafce. The subnet mask is valid only for IPv4. The solution may not jump at you since there is no property called SubnetMask, however there is a property called IPv4Mask. Here is Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 04, 2005 5:44 PM by dgorti | 1 Comments

Using System.Net Tracing

In Whidbey (.NET Framework 2.0) System.Net has a new feature called Tracing. This uses the builtin CLR Tracing functionality. What is interesting about the System.Net Tracing is that You can easily see the data that is being sent or received without having Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 18, 2005 7:54 PM by dgorti | 11 Comments

Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted

Lets say that you are invoking a web service from another web service. Both are on the same box. You might be making authenticated or unauthenticated calls and perhaps you are setting the KeepAlive = false. Intermittently, (under load) you might get "Only Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 18, 2005 12:03 AM by dgorti | 11 Comments

I spoke at the PDC 2005

I presented System.Net tips and tricks. I did the lunch session on Tuesday and Wednesday. Lunch sessions are particularly difficult, you only have 45 minutes - You can't present lengthy topics. I chose to talk about the System.Net Tracing, Negotiate Stream, Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 17, 2005 11:50 PM by dgorti | 2 Comments

Please post your questions to http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=40

If you have questions on the System.Net [managed network programming api's] please post your questions to http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=40 I monitor this forum and so does all of my team. This is your best bet to get your questions Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 17, 2005 11:42 PM by dgorti | 0 Comments

Cookies, Cookie Collection and CookieContainer

When using System.Net or Web Services, you might want to receive or send cookies, perhaps for session state maintenance or in some rare situations for proxy authentication. The first thing we are tempted to do is to access WebResponse.Cookies collection. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 16, 2005 4:57 PM by dgorti | 4 Comments
 
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