Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
I was doing some work on the Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET book yesterday. We’ve added some additional content to Appendix B to show some of the “visual patterns” that can tell you what’s wrong with your parallel code. Here’s one of those patterns… The image on the left ...
Tags: Gotchas, Parallel book, Parallel Computing
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
I spent a bunch of time over the holidays getting to know F# a bit better. I think I now consider myself to be truly dangerous with it.
A couple of things which repeatedly bit me as I stumbled through learning F# as a n00b.
Tags: F#, Gotchas, TDD, xUnit
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
I ran into a couple of issues when writing an F# class to be consumed by C#. Specifically when it came to adding attributes to a property declared on an interface. You would expect the following code to decorate the SofteningLength property with the Dependency and DefaultValue attributes: ...
Tags: C#, F#, Gotchas, Mixed languages, Unity
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Here’s nasty little quirk of MSBuild and Visual Studio which took me some time to solve last night… I have a C# project file which has been modified to import a custom .targets file. This targets file in turn imports some settings (property and item groups) using the following ...
Tags: Coding, Gotchas, Visual Studio
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
The other day I added a VC++ project to my main solution file and all hell broke loose on the TeamCity CI server. Errors like this started appearing. D:\TeamCity\buildAgent\work\71a700fe606e0795\trunk\NBody.sln error MSB3411: Could not load the Visual C++ component "VCBuild.exe". If the component is not installed, either ...
Tags: Continuous integration, Gotchas
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
I've been playing around with WPF data binding recently and was struggling a bit with how to debug it when things weren't working right. Translation: cursing a lot when everything was hawked and I couldn't figure out why.
Suppose I have the following binding that doesn't work the way I expect.
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Tags: Gotchas, WPF
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
I ran into the following issue with p&p's Composite WPF guidance (Prism). Prism allows you to configure your application with multiple modules. These can either be statically referenced or dynamically discovered at runtime In my scenario I have two assemblies each containing a module; assembly A and assembly B, containing ...
Tags: Coding, Gotchas, Prism
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
I've been working on an application that uses Composite Application Guidance for WPF (Prism) and wanted to upgrade to use Enterprise Library 4.1 rather than the 4.0 version that Prism originally shipped against. Turns out updating this is pretty straightforward (but not trivial)...
Tags: EntLib, Gotchas, p&p, Prism
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
So having got my home server up and running I finally got around to getting music streaming off it into my living room with a Logitech Squeezebox Duet.
First off this is not an appliance, it's a science project, albeit a really good one. I spent a happy hour fiddling ...
Tags: Gotchas, Hardware, Squeezebox, Windows Home Server
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
It works! So the build is complete and I have a working server. Interesting this weekend the system disk in the machine I have downstairs chose to start failing CHKDSK. WHS actually picked up on this and warned me while it was trying to backup. Restoring the disk from ...
Tags: Gotchas, Green IT, Hardware, Windows Home Server
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