Discovering coding pearls

Solution to "Unable to start vsperfmon.exe"

I tried running VS2008's profiler and ran into the following problem: VS prompted me to login as...

Author: jxk5005 Date: 03/19/2009

REST endpoint hosted in a WCF windows service

I have a Windows service that acts as a cache server and is implemented using WCF. This service...

Author: jxk5005 Date: 03/15/2009

Have a unit test project but tests don't show up in TestView?

I recently had to deal with this issue in which I had created a unit test project with references to...

Author: jxk5005 Date: 08/12/2008

Nulls returned in Async WCF queries

I'm talking about client side async calls -- i.e. when you use svcutil /a to generate async methods...

Author: jxk5005 Date: 08/12/2008

WCF Callback Gotchas

I got to use WCF callbacks recently and realized some of it's gotchas, which are listed here:...

Author: jxk5005 Date: 04/29/2008

Joins to be clear

Just to be clear, there are 5 types of a SQL joins: Cross-join or Cartesian Product - Joins all rows...

Author: jxk5005 Date: 04/27/2008

Ambiguous reference to System.UI.Web.Extensions.dll

If you install Visual studio 2008 while the 2005 version exists, and you have a website project that...

Author: jxk5005 Date: 04/05/2008

WCF service that works with different clients

I am back from a long & happy vacation and starting to write to my blog again. I was recently...

Author: jxk5005 Date: 03/18/2008

Using ChannelFactory Vs. Proxies in WCF

I tried researching this area over the net, but couldn't find a whole lot. So, here's my blog about...

Author: jxk5005 Date: 02/03/2008