April 2009 Entries
How to find blocked processes in SQL Server – Part 1 – required knowledge for developers of all caliber From Reflective Perspective: The asp.net <deployment retail=" true" /> attribute – interesting…. I need to look into this What’s been happening in Fluent NHibernate land? This is a wonderful project for anyone using NHibernate What developers should be doing in readiness for Windows 7 – I’m definitely into this. History (and my eval of it) suggests Win7...
Stayed up too late last night… tough getting up this morning Ayende an interesting technique for testing NHibernate with in-memory databases Dimecast.net just released a screencast covering the new Func and Action types in C# 3.0 JumpstartTV has a 4 minute primer on SSIS Expression Language Basics From The Morning Brew #336, Karl Seguin starts a series on rolling his own validation framework. I like series like this (check out Danny’s series on building the Funq DI container) – you can learn alot from watching someone else...
Not a lot out there today… or Friday for that matter. Here’s a few nuggets Redgate is giving away from good ebooks – You can register at that link to download them. Some interesting thoughts on Databases and Multi-Tenancy by Anne Epstein on Devlicious. Windows 7 Release Candidate Update - Windows 7 Team announce to the world that the Windows 7 RC will be made available to MSDN subscribers on 30th April , and to the general public on 5th May. To me, Model...
Every morning I dig through various feeds of content and create a reading list for myself. I try to get through this list throughout the course of the day. Whatever spills over I tried to get to on the weekends. Maybe somebody else out there will find this useful.
Microsoft released CCI on CodePlex – this is the code inspection engine behind FxCop. This (or some version of it) is also the engine that Visual Studio Code Analysis tooling uses in their Team System SKU’s of VS. That’s pretty interesting… good that Microsoft is becoming more and...
I’ve been playing with Windows 7 Beta on a VM for quite some time and I really like it. I’ve been yearning for something new for a while now, and on a whim… I did it. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate Beta on my main machine. I think this is the first time I’ve committed to a beta OS. We’ll see how this guys, but I have a feeling it’s going to be just fine.
Here’s the software I’m running so far and it’s Win7 compatibility
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This morning, I had Virtual Box in full screen mode on my Windows desktop, and I forgot the keystroke to get out. The typical key combos didn’t work. Strangely, I couldn’t find anything on Google or Virtual Box’s user guide that told me how to get out of full screen. Of course, it tells you how to get out when you go to full screen mode, but if you don’t pay attention (or forget), good luck finding it after the fact. Luckily, I have Virtual Box on my laptop as well, so I had a backup. So anyone out...
Over the years, I’ve switched between VMware Workstation, VMware Server, Microsoft Virtual PC, and Microsoft Virtual Server for my Virtual Machine hosting platforms. A friend of mine recently suggested checking out VirtualBox from Sun. I was somewhat hunting for a new platform because I no longer own a VMware Workstation license, and the free version of VMware Server has went completely web based which I found very difficult to use. I’ve tried to like Virtual PC, but Microsoft has seemed to abandon this product and fully investing in their Hyper-V technology. I’ve heard great things about Hyper-V, but it’s not...
I’ve been getting into some pretty advanced scenarios with WCF where we need to precisely shape the XML on the wire and the schema’s that are produced by svcutil.exe. Trust me, the moment you start using WCF for exposing services to Java clients, those Java clients are really going to care how the XML looks. WCF makes .NET-to-.NET very easy, and .NET-to-Java doable, but I wouldn’t call it easy. For vanilla scenarios (simple contracts with simple types and basic complex types), it’s pretty easy. The hooks exposed by WCF for shaping the XML are pretty poor in my opinion....