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Tonight (12/03/2007) I attended the Tulsa, OK .NET User Group's Visual Studio InstallFest organized by David Walker. The event had an amazing turnout with over 150 people in attendance. We had a great time networking and installing Visual Studio 2008...
Found this project, http://research.microsoft.com/Pex/ from MS Research which apparently dynamically generates tests and code analysis during active development. Interesting way to enforce code quality and just prove requirements are being met.
Bookvar http://www.bookvar.net/Default.aspx is a free Mind Mapping Windows Application built on the .NET 3.5 Beta Framework. It highlights some amazing UI features available in WPF. The application can be easily extended via add-ins. The development team...
I'm sure, like me, you've seen plenty of production web.config files with debug=true set. Most senior ASP.NET developers will recognize that debug should be set to false for the production build. However, this small detail is often over looked...
Recursion is a computer science concept in which a method / function essentially calls itself until some condition is met. Recursion can be an elegant solution to some logic problems. However, I believe there are some potential dangers in using recursion...
The following conversation is a conversation with Microsoft Financial Services Sr. Architect Colin Cole discussing Office Business Applications (OBA). This is a new type of blog post for me and a Drowning In Technical Debt first. I hope to conduct similar...
Dave Strommer copied me on an email a few months back from a colleauge regarding the FailFast method. This method was added to the .NET 2.0 framework and basically terminates a process without executing the any application Try-Finally or finalizer code...
Found this project http://www.codeplex.com/wpfcab on codeplex. It strives to add WPF Views to the CAB. This solution doesn't use crossbow and isn't using interop with WinForms.
Windows Services are similar to UNIX daemons. They are applications that start when Windows boots and continue running until Windows shuts down. A Windows Service might be used to implement a timer that continually polls a source looking for new data. When new data is found an import process might be kicked off. .NET has made developing Windows Services much easier than past methods. As mentioned above a Windows Service is an application and as such requires installation. In the remainder of this post I would like to propose an alternative to developing a Windows Services for cases when an ASP.NET Application has already been developed....
Smart Client front end to MS Log Parser Utility....
Free .NET 3.0 Training...
Perhaps Garbage Collection is spoiling us as developers. The Garbage Collector is kind of like our own maid following us around picking up every mess we create. Anway, .NET does a great job managing many resources for us including things like memory and conncetion pooling. However, this doesn't mean we are completely off the hook.
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SubSonic: Zero Code DAL...
I have use the Report Viewer Control included in Visual Studio 2005 to embed reports within our Smart Client. The control allows me to create professional reports without the use of a third party tools. Plus I can always scale up to Reporting Services should the need arrise.
There is a Report Viewer Redistributable available for download. However, the Redistributable is an MSI and installs all components in the GAC. This action requires administrator permissions which is not a choice due to our corporate security policy.
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This Article discusses how to properly organize a new project in source control. It also talks about integrating unit testing and continous builds....
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