.NET
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Hantera web.config för olika miljöer
Jaha.. så var det den tiden av projektet igen. Jag visste ju att den skulle komma. Den kommer alltid förr eller senare. Ni vet vad jag talar om, ni har säkert råkat ut för det flera gånger själva, det är dags för er service/applikation att ta steget ut till en ny miljö – test, qa… Continue reading
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Gaahh!
Bara ett litet tips.. Om någon på ditt företag får syn på den här artikeln och föreslår att ni ska börja använda tipsen man får där; spring! snabbt! Using the .NET Framework Class Library from Visual Basic 6 Alltså, allvarligt talat.. Att vidareutveckla sina gamla VB6-applikationer till att börja utnyttja .NET istället för att helt… Continue reading
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New Visual Studio 2005 SDK Release
I’ve been implementing a couple of add-ins for VS 2005 and I just saw that there is a new release of the VS2005 SDK. The download is double the size of the last version, that has to be a good sign.. 🙂 Continue reading
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Transactional memory? Cool!
Joe Duffy has written a short introduction to something I hadn’t heard about before; Transactional memory. Basically, the idea is to implement some scheme for optimistic concurrency when doing things in-memory. I’m thinking this will be one of the things coming in C# 4.0! I mean, combine this with LINQ and.. well.. it’ll be way… Continue reading
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Project references in GAT
Yesterday I spent more or less the entire day trying to figure out how to add references between projects while unfolding a solution template. Turns out it was wasn’t that tricky once you get the hang of GAT… Here’s a step-by-step instruction: Add new arguments for the complete name of each project in the CreateSolution… Continue reading
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The pain of Guidance Automation Toolkit
I'm telling you, writing guidance packages using GAT can be infinitely frustrating! At least on my rather slow laptop with a measly 1 Gb of RAM. Why is that, you might ask yourself? Well, here's the process you use when finding errors in a package: Rebuild your package (about 45 seconds) Register your package (about… Continue reading
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GAT again
My last post was about the Guidance Automation Toolkit from the P&P team. Well, I’ve spent a couple of hours trying to wrap my head around it and I have to admit I’m quite overwhelmed. It is very well structured and the possibilities are endless, but the amount of XML files and other stuff is… Continue reading
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Guidance Automation Toolkit
Wow, these days it’s not easy keeping up with the latest stuff from Microsoft, especially if you’re an architect..! The latest thing to be released from the Pattern & Practices team is the Guidance Automation Toolkit. In short, it’s a set of tools that simplifies the process of creating templates and wizards for VS 2005.… Continue reading
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Custom Data Provider (continued)
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been creating a custom data provider using the new Data Provider Model in .NET Framework 2.0. Everything went really smoothly until I wanted to use the DbProviderFactories.GetFactory() method to instantiate my class. I had registered my DbProviderFactory-derived class in machine.config and it was overriding all the abstract… Continue reading
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Custom Data Provider
Back in the early days of the .NET Framework, I believe it was sometime early 2002, I read this article from MSDN Magazine. It describes how the Data Provider framwork can be extended with custom data providers and it was one of those reads that made me think “Wow, this .NET stuff is reeally cool!”.… Continue reading
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