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17 July 2008
What is Scalability? Do I have Extreme Requirements?
Can I turn my Volvo into an F1 Racer? I am a fan of auto racing. I started following racing way, way back. At the low end of the spectrum, anyone with a car can get started racing in autocrosses and track days, for not very much money. At the other end Read More...
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16 July 2008
.NET Terrarium - it's BAAAAAACK!
Remember Terrarium? It was a .NET 1.0 learning tool disguised as a game. Microsoft released a developer's kit, and and people built herbivores, carnivores, or plants and introduced them into a peer-to-peer, networked ecosystem where they interacted and Read More...
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25 April 2008
Interesting - CacheMan for .NET
A distributed object cache (distributed hashtable) for .NET http://www.sriramkrishnan.com/blog/2008/02/cacheman-fast-distributed-hashtable-for.html Read More...
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21 April 2008
Powershell script to batch-update AssemblyInfo.cs with new Version
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 - Read More...
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16 April 2008
MSBuild script for compiling each .cs file into an EXE
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, where Read More...
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11 April 2008
WPF invokes Powershell.exe as an inferior shell
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.Diagnostics.Process Read More...
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08 April 2008
MSBuild script for compiling all .cs files into a single assembly (DLL or EXE)
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 Read More...
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31 March 2008
Don't Believe Everything you Read on Wikipedia, especially about C# Anonymous Functions
I was reading Wikipedia the other day, and saw this: C# has partial anonymous function support through the use of delegates . ... Since anonymous methods are not nameless and can only be declared inside methods of classes then C# does not support full Read More...
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28 March 2008
Simple Auto Update, auto patch, for WPF Apps, without the Updater Block
I am writing some smaller WPF apps, and I want them to automatically update themselves, or automatically patch themselves, something like Lutz Roeder's Reflector or Paint.NET does. Scott Hanselman has commented on this previously , and he's right. Every Read More...
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22 March 2008
My Vista Experience just got sooooo much better
Quietly I've been suffering through an experience with Windows Vista on my laptop. I got my laptop, a HP/Compaq nc8430 , in October 2006 and had been running Vista on it since then. In the early days, I used a pre-release version of vista, but I switched Read More...
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22 December 2007
Gates Center at Carnegie Mellon
I visited my alma mater, Carnegie Mellon last weekend. Met up with some fellow alums who came in from out of town, including Brendan, Scott, and Brian, pictured here. We're checking out the construction site for the Gates Center at Carnegie Mellon. This Read More...
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20 November 2007
VS2005 support for SQL 2008 CTP5
Visual Studio 2005 Support for SQL Server 2008 CTP is now publicly available. Download Center links: SQL Server 2008 CTP, November 2007 - this is the "Community Tech Preview" (CTP5) of SQL 2008. Visual Studio 2005 Support for SQL Server 2008, CTP - this Read More...
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02 October 2007
Keeping it real on SOA
Bobby Wolfe of IBM told no lies when he said that Clients often want to build only an ESB, because that involves a technology challenge without the need for messy business requirements. Building just an ESB becomes an IT field of dreams, where IT builds Read More...
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28 August 2007
Talking about SOA to the Business Owners
Not really interop, but here's a discussion of how to talk about SOA to business owners. The view here is that Business value (agility, quicker deployments, less cost for development) is definitely the place to begin. But be prepared to discuss [the technical Read More...
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27 August 2007
From the Treasured Gems Dept: GotCodeSnippets.net
There are two kinds of developers who use Visual Studio 2005: The ones who know about and use gotcodesnippets.net , and the ones who will soon know about and use that site. In Word, there are macros. In the emacs text editor, you can define extensions Read More...
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