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Case Study for ADO.NET Data Services
15 August 08 10:57 AM | marcelolr | 0 Comments   
Here is the summary blurb: Misys Healthcare Systems Team Uses Powerful Tools to Build Innovative Web-Based Medical Records Application For more than a decade, Misys Healthcare Systems and Veracity Solutions have partnered to develop innovative applications Read More...
New Programming Guides for ADO.NET
13 August 08 09:47 AM | marcelolr | 0 Comments   
It's always been interesting to me to see how different people will approach learning a new API. Some like to go through the programming guides, some through samples, some comb the reference documentation, some dive into the IDE and let Intellisense guide Read More...
System.Data.Services
11 August 08 07:29 PM | marcelolr | 2 Comments   
The documentation is online... isn't this URI so very clean? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.services.aspx Here's the one-sentence-or-less explanation of what's in this namespace, to give you a sense of what's used where. Setting Up Read More...
Mutability in the .NET Framework
18 June 08 02:49 PM | marcelolr | 1 Comments   
Long on prose and short on code, this post just explores some patterns involving mutable/immutable objects in the .NET Framework (mutability from an external point-of-view, at least). The punch line comes at the end, for all of those interested in how Read More...
JavaScript Date and ADO.NET Data Services
05 June 08 04:35 PM | marcelolr | 0 Comments   
In my last post , we established that JavaScript Date objects are 'local time-zone aware', and care needs to be taken in how they are constructed and displayed. There are constructors, 'toString'-type methods and getters/setters for both local-timezone-based Read More...
JavaScript Date, UTC and local times
04 June 08 04:31 PM | marcelolr | 1 Comments   
I've talked about the Date type in the past , and since then I've come across a couple of gotchas that developers should probably be aware of. Unlike the regular DateTime type in the .NET Framework, the JavaScript Date type supports the both the UTC and Read More...
Insta-get your tools with Sysinternals Live
29 May 08 11:29 AM | marcelolr | 1 Comments   
The Sysinternals tools have been popular for years and years - they do what they do exceedingly well, and can help troubleshoot all sorts of problems. Well, using them just got easier - as this post announces, there is a beta Sysinternals Live service Read More...
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Writing code with style
23 May 08 12:33 PM | marcelolr | 0 Comments   
The release of Microsoft Source Analysis for C# has just been announced - read more at http://blogs.msdn.com/sourceanalysis/ . Known internally as StyleCop, the ADO.NET Data Services has been using this for a while, as have other teams I know of. The Read More...
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My launcher gadget
28 April 08 12:02 PM | marcelolr | 0 Comments   
OK, this is up here by popular request, and not because it's fit for anything. There is a bunch of polishing that can be done, but I think we can leave that as an exercise for the reader <grin>. First, create a folder named 'MyLauncher.gadget' (how Read More...
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How I speed up Windows Vista
15 April 08 10:28 PM | marcelolr | 3 Comments   
I was just reading How to speed up Windows Vista on tech.msn.com, written by Scott Dunn of PC World, and it got me thinking about what I do to get a more responsive system (anything to shorten those build+test cycles!) 1. I have a USB drive for Windows Read More...
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Managed breakpoints with no symbols in Visual Studio
08 April 08 04:56 PM | marcelolr | 0 Comments   
Sometimes you might find yourself debugging when you don't have symbols for a managed library - that is, you don't have the PDB file for it. In managed code, there is a whole lot of metadata lying around, so you can still set a breakpoint from Visual Read More...
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Visual Studio 2008 performance goodness
07 April 08 05:36 PM | marcelolr | 0 Comments   
If you haven't looked at what's new for 2008 for the performance tools. There are some nice things going on. The MSDN article on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc337887.aspx discusses some of them. Comparing reports is useful, and some of my Read More...
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Process Explorer vs CPU spikes - fight!
07 April 08 08:29 AM | marcelolr | 0 Comments   
Mark Russinovich has a new post about diagnosing CPU spikes with Process Explorer and KernRate , including how to set Process Explorer up to run in the background every time you log in. Pretty handy to have it there by the time your CPU becomes sluggish Read More...
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Vacations and connecting dots
12 March 08 10:31 AM | marcelolr | 0 Comments   
I'll be leaving on vacations for a couple of weeks soon, so it's very unlikely that you'll see updates in that time frame here. Vacations are a good time to recharge batteries and spend time broadening horizons, which also helps connect dots sometimes... Read More...
Drag and Drop with shell-style previews
02 February 08 11:43 AM | marcelolr | 0 Comments   
Adam Root has posted a step-by-step post on how to enable nice preview images across windows when implementing drag and drop. I haven't written on the topic in a while, but it's turned out to be a very popular source of emails even today, so I'm sure Read More...
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