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Pragmatic Programmer

Pragmatic programming at it's best. The book is a light read and worth the time

Essential WPF

Thus far the best book I've read on WPF. Gets right down to working with WPF and the goals/history.

Purely Functional Data Structures

Reading this book makes me feel like I'm back in college. It will really get your mind going and is best read with a whiteboard handy.


July 2005 - Posts

File System Permissions
While working on a recent bug a question came up about how permissions work on NTFS. Take the following example directory path c:\University\Fall2005\Homework.cpp Now imagine that our user University\john had the access rights that were specified below. Read More...

Posted Monday, July 25, 2005 5:53 PM by Jared Parsons | 3 Comments

New way of dragging and dropping files
http://liihs.irit.fr/dragice/foldndrop/ Check out the video on this website. The author has implemented a new way of dragging and dropping files in Java and has videotaped a demo. Interesting stuff Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 3:36 PM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

Team System Developer & Test SKUs Public Chat this Wednesday
Don't forget to join us this Wednesday at 10am PST to discuss the new Team System Testing infrastructure. Topics include the Profiler, Test Tools (Unit, Generic, Manual), Web Load Testing, and Code Analysis (FxCop & PREFast). We have questions for Read More...

Posted Monday, July 18, 2005 3:17 PM by Jared Parsons | 1 Comments

Marshaling Nested Data Structures Part 4
This is part 4 of a series. You can find part one here . Please refer to that article for all of the Native definitions of the structures that I use here. In the previous article we were left with a solution where using the code was very clean but the Read More...

Posted Monday, July 18, 2005 9:51 AM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

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Marshaling Nested Data Structures Part 3
This is part 3 of a series. You can find part one here . Please refer to that article for all of the Native definitions of the structures that I use here. In part 2 of this series I demonstrated how you can Marshal nested data structures by flattening Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 14, 2005 7:58 PM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

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Marshaling Nested Data Structures Part 2
This is part 2 of a series. You can find part one here . Please refer to that article for all of the Native definitions of the structures that I use here. The most important thing to remember when Marshalling data is that the .Net Runtime really only Read More...

Posted Tuesday, July 12, 2005 11:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 2 Comments

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Marshaling Nested Data Structures Part 1
A frequent question that pops up on newsgroups such as microsoft.dotnet.framework.interop is how to Marshal nested structures (and arrays of nested structures) via P/Invoke. The documentation on the subject that I have found usually only covers structures Read More...

Posted Monday, July 11, 2005 12:47 PM by Jared Parsons | 11 Comments

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Updated Version of RunAsAdmin Available
Valery Pryamikov has released an update version of his RunAsAdmin tool. This version has a lot of new features including policy and stronger integration with the shell. This version is still in Beta but it's been very stable for me. http://www.harper.no/valery/PermaLink,guid,9dfd759b-6d53-4b97-8db8-350b32d68ab5.asp Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 07, 2005 12:38 PM by Jared Parsons | 5 Comments

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