Slightly Useful Ramblings Of a SDE/T

How do I retrieve a list of all web services on a machine?

Vijai Kalyan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:16:00 GMT

If I have a machine say FOO and I want to retrieve all web services on that machine how do I do it? I can use WS-Discovery and I know how to do this with the .NET 4.0 Discovery API. However, the only sample I could find is multicast, which in my use case...(read more)

Redirecting Standard Error & Output For A Child Process

Vijai Kalyan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:09:00 GMT

If your application or library wants to kick off a child process C and you want to redirect standard output and error, this is what you do: ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo (); psi.Arguments = this .CreateArgumentsString(); psi.FileName = this...(read more)

Debuggee Process Terminated Abruptly

Vijai Kalyan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:32:00 GMT

I have been getting this error lately when trying to debug a test. I would be stepping over line by line and suddenly the debuggee process will exit suddenly. The proces exits with the error code is -2147023895 (0x800703e9). There are only a few reasons...(read more)

IGNORE_DUP_KEY, LINQ & Deadlocks

Vijai Kalyan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:16:00 GMT

I am working on a project. The idea is to persist stack trace information for each test failure in a database so that we can automate/facilitate analysis of related test failures. For example, we can query for all tests that fail at a particular method...(read more)

Implementing a Custom Test Type - Part 3 (Dissecting the MyTest Sample - 1)

Vijai Kalyan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:13:00 GMT

This post deals with the MyTest sample. I will start at the beginning of time. Pre Requisites I copied over the MyTest folder in the Visual Studio SDK to a separate directory. In doing so, I discovered some issues with the MyTestUI project. You will have...(read more)

Implementing a Custom Test Type - Part 2

Vijai Kalyan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:56:00 GMT

I have been investigating this topic for the past couple of days. Not much progress, but some interesting things to note. It might be an illuminating experience to use .NET Reflector to disassembly and study the unit test type implementation. The relevant...(read more)

How To Get Native Processor Architecture

Vijai Kalyan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:55:00 GMT

As anyone who has been looking at my blog knows, I have been mostly working on VS integration of the test tools used in our team (apart from setting up and managing TFS for the builds and various other initiatives.) Anyway, so, I started to author a project...(read more)

Implementing a Custom Test Type - Part 1

Vijai Kalyan — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:34:00 GMT

Introduction This and the next few blog posts will be focussed on implementing a custom test type for Visual Studio 2008. We have an internal tool that our team uses for testing quite extensively and which pre-dates the testing capabilities introduced...(read more)

Ideas For The Next Generation Of Programming Languages

Vijai Kalyan — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:33:00 GMT

This blog post deals with a vareity of things I feel would be nice to have features in the next generation of programming languages. I keep learning about compiler technology and I am hoping that in the next few years, I will be able to build a compiler...(read more)

Duh! InitializeShapeFields is only invoked once!

Vijai Kalyan — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:44:00 GMT

Beware!!! The method InitializeShapeFields appears in each shape class that is generated by the DSL tools. However, this method is only invoked ONCE per shape. It is due to this code /// <summary> /// Per-class ShapeFields for this shape. /// </summary>...(read more)

Auto Layout Diagram

Vijai Kalyan — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:30:00 GMT

In the DSL project I am working on, I am performing layout for the model diagram myself. This problem mostly arises because we want two-way synchronization between model and code. Hence, after one of our users has modified the diagram by hand, if we update...(read more)

64 Bits and DSL Tools

Vijai Kalyan — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:01:00 GMT

The DSL projects created by the DSL package wizard are configured to target AnyCPU .However, if you write a command line tool that references the generated DSL library, you should set up your project to target x86 even if you are working on a 64-bit machine....(read more)

DTE Events Are Different

Vijai Kalyan — Thu, 01 May 2008 06:56:00 GMT

As I learned today, DTE events are different. Event handlers that are local are marked for garbage collection when the handler goes out of scope. That means the event handler is likely to be fired at most once or never....(read more)

Modifying the Item Context Menu

Vijai Kalyan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:50:00 GMT

I was trying to implement an AddIn that modified the context menu for project items. Specifically, C# files. After poking around for a couple of hours, I succeeded. Adding a menu item (or CommandBarControl) is relatively simple. What was complicated was...(read more)

Visual Studio Project Creation Wizard and Templates

Vijai Kalyan — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:05:00 GMT

I found an interesting feature when creating a Visual Studio project template. (Details about how to create a template is left to a forthcoming post.) I was working on a wizard for the project template. In the IWizard::RunStarted method for the wizard,...(read more)