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More F# At Code Camp Hartford

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Rick Minerich writes about CodeCamp in Hartford and his recent F# presentation with slides and code examples

Generic Fiddling

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:01:02 GMT

I spent an hour yesterday playing with generics to get my chops up a little better. After reading Krzystof Cwalina's post on the layout of the generic collections, I came up with this little gem:

Multilingual OCR

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:46:06 GMT

The challenges of accommodating multilingual OCR engines - and what does "multilingual" really mean anyway when it comes to technical implementation?

Managed C++ and IDisposable

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:01:10 GMT

Quick fix for IDisposable compiler error

Debugging Code in the GAC - the best thing since sliced bread

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:31:08 GMT

"[...] I read a lot and one thing that caught my eye was that any assembly that is to be used as an add-in needs to be signed and installed in the GAC. This is troublesome as I always assumed that debugging code built this way was going to be, well, a pain in the GAC." Steve Hawley from Atalasoft gives a great little tutorial on this would-be problem.

A .NET Assembly for Cloning Objects with Arbitrary Field Value Changes

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Rick says "The IcManipulator is based on Whizzo's Object Cloning IL Code. Instead of just blindly copying fields my code grabs values out of a hash table and places them in lieu of the old values. In this way private fields in a class can be altered." Free download Alpha 1 of the IcManipulator is available.

Developer Error or TFS Shortcoming?

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:01:03 GMT

Steve summarizes a recent experience where he had to reinstall his system and apps to eliminate a problem with unmanaged debugging. Source control ended up not having all of his code which could have been a disaster. Steve was able to successfully restore his machine but it took longer than it should have - couldn't TFS have helped with this?

IE on Acid

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:46:02 GMT

Cool wallpaper for those who like IE. more..

Menu item usability vs. learnability

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Lou Franco gives his take on application UI, inclusion/exclusion of menu items, etc. "A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would."

Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:46:11 GMT

Cheat sheets are helpful to have around because they allow you to quickly remember code syntax and see related concepts visually. Additionally, they're nice decorative pieces for your office. In this article, you'll find 23 excellent, print-ready cheat sheets for HTML/HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (including MooTools and jQuery).

22 useful links for ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:07:51 GMT

A collection of useful ASP.NET MVC -related links.

How to Build a Managed/Unmanaged Library

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:46:03 GMT

Working with an unmanaged static library - with that, you can build a managed C++ wrapper that exposes the functionality that you need. The C++ compiler does some fairly amazing things in terms of knowing when to do unmanaged/unmanaged transitions, but sometimes it does some surprising things that will cost. [Sample code included in the post]

Free WPF Image File Viewer with Annotations

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:01:03 GMT

This post includes a free image file viewer application complete with annotation controls - source code for the project is also included - this is a Windows Presentation Foundation application, 100% .NET, and was built using the DotImage toolkit from Atalasoft.

Blog Engine.NET1.4 Released

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:01:03 GMT

Blog Engine.net 1.4 has been released. more...

Blog Engine.NET1.4 Upgrade Guide

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:01:04 GMT

The upgrade process is fairly easy but there are a few things to be aware of. more....

MoQs Rox

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:09:15 GMT

My first impressions of the MoQ object mocking framework... Hell, my impressions with the first mocking framework I've ever used. tl;dr: Niiiiiice.

A Safe & Asynchronous One to Many Stream Copy Through IL & Inheritance

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:46:03 GMT

This post discusses ways to manage or work around problems arising from the statefulness of .NET Streams, including an explanation about how this is possible both through traditional inheritance and also through some indulgence in hacking of object protection levels by emitting custom IL.

Custom functions in NAnt

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:31:02 GMT

Some ideas about using NAnt for multiple builds. Code provided but is there a better way to do this?

Silverlight Twitter widget for your Blog

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:01:11 GMT

Silverlight Twitter widget for your Blog. Everyone wants their twitter feed on their blog. Now you can using silverlight. More...

Queuing up Your Remote Invokes

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Serializing requests for remote invoke or multiple requests at will? Here is some sample code and a free download that can help with setting this up.

Rhino Mocks 3.5 beta released

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:01:16 GMT

Odd this hasn't been submitted before. Rhino Mocks is one of the leading mock frameworks for unit testing in the dotnet world. This version fully supports the 3.5 fx.

XAML Serialization FTW

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:51:59 GMT

Some notes on my journey from XML serialization to XAML serialization of POCO's.

The Cursed History of Smalltalk in .NET

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:01:04 GMT

Digging up the history of Smalltalk for .NET - none of the 5 are currently in development

Visual C++ Compiler Bug Discovered

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:16:03 GMT

This bug exists in the optimizer in VC 2003 and 2005. It does not exist in VC 2008. Code, etc. included.

Tips on Creating Portable APIs

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:46:16 GMT

Five tips and hints on creating good portable APIs.