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Home Automation Part 3 - Using Regular Expressions to Parse Sensor Dat

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:16:01 GMT

Third installment in a series describing a remote temperature logging application. This post gives an in depth explanation of .NET regular expressions and includes an interactive regular expression evaluator application.

Implicit and Explicit Interface Implementations

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:01:02 GMT

A discussion of the subtleties of implicit and explicit interface implementations in C#.

MSDN Community Content

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:31:01 GMT

MSDN recently added Wiki functionality to the portion of the site dealing with Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0. This already looks like it is going to be a great resource - at the time of this post, there were almost 1000 topics with Community Content from over 300 contributors.

Home Automation Part 2 - Making Basic Measurements

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:31:02 GMT

Remotely controlling the temperature of a cabin over the internet. In the previous installment I described my decision to build a temperature and humidity sensor network using modules from IButtonLink.com. The heart of the system is the Link45 which connects the PC's serial port to the sensor network and provides an ASCII interface to the sensors.

Home Automation Part 1 - Burning $200 of propane

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:31:02 GMT

I like to use my knowledge of technology to solve problems outside of work. In this series I explain how I used C# and the Internet to remotely monitor a propane stove in my cabin. While reading about my adventures you will learn about C#, embedded technology, regular expressions, databases, web servers, web cams and much more.

New For VS2005 - Abstract Stub Generation

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:01:01 GMT

Visual Studio 2005 includes a new feature to generate stubs for methods in an abstract base class. Here's an example of how it works.