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DNK Community Guidelines - Suggestions welcome!

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:01:10 GMT

Lets come up with some much needed community guidelines for DNK. Please post your suggestions and comments below, I'll update the community guidelines page on the Google group once we have reached a consensus.

More Image Processing with C# Lambdas

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:05:18 GMT

This is a continuation of the earlier post on image processing with C# lambda expressions. The previous blog describes a simple way to define image processing in terms of lambda expressions, and while efficient, it's missing the ability to do commands that examine pixels outside of the source pixel in order to compute the destination pixel. The way around this is to provide more information to the lambda expression.

Stupid NUnit Tricks #3 Foiled!

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:16:12 GMT

Revelation of a CLR bug.

jQuery Ajax uploader plugin (with progress bar!)

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:46:04 GMT

Do you want your HTML file upload controls to show a progress bar during the upload? That's always been tricky. Here's a cool jQuery plugin that gets the job done, along with a demo app written in ASP.NET MVC.

Windows 7 Developer Guide

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:31:02 GMT

"Build applications on a solid foundation; enable richer application experiences; and integrate the best of Windows and web services. The features and technologies of the Windows 7 operating system enable you to build the next generation of software applications. Download this guide to read descriptions of those features and see vivid screen shots from the pre-Beta version of Windows 7 released at PDC. " [docx and xps -download]

DeepZoom extended into 3D Demo

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:28:34 GMT

DeepZoom extended into 3D Demo directly from this link.. Silverlight 3?

Scan to Scribd (or anything) Tutorial

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:18:22 GMT

Lou has written an article about how to send scanned images to some place on the web. "All of the non-uploading code will work in any Scan to X project, where X can be Amazon S3, Azure SQL Data Services, Google Docs, SharePoint, or any CMIS compliant ECM (you just need to write the uploading part). "

Managed and Unmanaged, Metaphorically

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:16:38 GMT

"Last night I was asked what the difference was between managed and unmanaged code by a non-coder. I came up with a metaphor which works and our CEO asked me to post it."

Microsoft's Five Year Plan for SharePoint

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:31:02 GMT

I'm not from Microsoft, but I've worked at several Microsoft partners and it's not hard to see the repeating pattern. Microsoft loves to build platforms.

An ISV's perspective on CMIS

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:16:09 GMT

CMIS is an emerging standard for defining an interface for basic document repository interaction. It is proposed by Microsoft, EMC, and IBM, who with SharePoint, Documentum and FileNet make up a big part of the Enterprise Content Management market.

Much ado about nullity: Exploding type variation

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:01:11 GMT

The issue is that in Java and C# there are a number of different type modifiers for dealing with the concept of nullity. Because of this even any simple type can be one of three separate somewhat incompatible subtypes.

The Future of Programming Languages

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:31:16 GMT

In this article I'm going to focus on Dynamic Typing and Metaprogramming in particular. It's interesting to consider what the impact on the maintainability of our code from their increased prominence might be.

Tidying Up Old Blog Entries (Cleaning up MS Office HTML tags)

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:16:33 GMT

Looking back it seems like complete lunacy. For a period of time my method of choice to create blog entries was to write them out in Word 2003 and then export html. The almost unreadable text has been haunting me for a long time and I've finally gone back and fixed them. Along the way I built a small utility for doing this and here it is

Late Binding in C# using Dynamic Compilation

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:16:02 GMT

Steve goes through his approach to using reflection, making the code easier to read, making it easier to maintain, discusses the "middle-class multiple inheritance", and provides a zipped project of the AdapterCompiler.

F# at Code Camp 10 In Waltham, MA

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:01:14 GMT

Richard Minerich presented functional programming and concurrency in F# at Code Camp in Massachusetts

Embeddable C# Compiler

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:46:05 GMT

Manuel de Icaza created an embeddable C# compiler for Mono.

VSX Conference

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:31:13 GMT

Lou Franco's recollection of events at the VSX Conference last week. (Visual Studio eXtensibility)

Tidy Things Up

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:16:16 GMT

Ever wanted to have one assembly, but be able to manage your code in separate assemblies?

Some Managed/Unmanaged Exception Tricks

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:01:23 GMT

I just spent 5 days tracking down a Heisenbug. Historically, I've tracked down a lot of these but not because I create a lot of them, because I'm good at finding them. In this particular case, I had a set of unit tests that were failing on our build server but did not fail consistently on my machine. This is not a good sign to start with.

How much should I expect my end-user to know?

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:16:12 GMT

From a software support perspective, the question is, how much should I expect my end-user to know? If someone asks me a basic question about our product, then I answer it without hesitation. But what if someone asks me a basic programming question? For example, how to create a for-loop?

How to set up your own free VSLab-based Matlab/Mathematica replacement

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:31:02 GMT

VSLab has just been updated with full support for Visual Studio 2008 Shell and the F# CTP release. It has been a rough couple of weeks for the VSLab team as F# CTP changed a number of things and they have been working hard to put together a compatible release. In this article I talk about a bit about what exactly VSLab is and walk you through creating a free VSLab installation.

Visual Studio Shell 2008: Bringing More .NET Languages into the Fold

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:16:03 GMT

Visual Studio Shell was released in January of 2007 without much fanfare. Even though it's free to download, at the time it was not very useful for most developers as few packages had yet been written for it. Now eight months have gone by and quite a few projects are sporting free Visual Studio interfaces. In this article I discuss Visual Studio Shell itself as well as several of the languages which are currently developing shells.

What if it's not in Environment.SpecialFolder?

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:31:02 GMT

The correct way to find the location of system folders not listed in Environment.SpecialFolder.

Changing Your Garbage Collector Settings on the Fly

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:01:12 GMT

.NET 3.5 and 2.0 SP1 jointly included a new feature which lets you programmatically manipulate the way your garbage collector acts. This can be done through changing the value of a new property of the System.Runtime.GCSettings class named LatencyMode. In this article I will walk you through this new property and the different effects of each of it's possible settings.

More F# At Code Camp Hartford

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:16:02 GMT

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