ClearCase Nightmares
For those who don’t know, ClearCase is the IBM solution for source code management. I am using it on a project for a client and it has been a nightmare. It regularly corrupts source files and...
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Kate Gregory spoke at the TRINUG (www.trinug.org) meeting tonight. Her topic was Click-Once meets the real world. She talked about the capabilities of Click-Once using just the Visual Studio IDE, and...
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Enterprise Library Logging Application Block
I’ve downloaded the January 2006 Enterprise Library and installed it. I wanted to play with the logging application block for some things I’ve got in mind. It’s very easy to configure and use the...
View ArticleFramework Design Guidelines
A couple of weeks ago I found a book on Amazon that looked interesting. “Framework Design Guidelines” by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams is part of the Microsoft .NET Development Series. The...
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Consistent Version Numbers Across All Assemblies
I came across a simple, but useful, technique the other day. It keeps the version numbers of all assemblies consistent when building your Visual Studio solution. It works with either 2003 or 2005...
View ArticlePro .NET 2.0 Code and Design Standards in C#
Mark Horner takes on the ambitious project of telling us how to standardize code, design, and patterns in “Pro .NET 2.0 Code and Design Standards in C#” published by Apress. A what, where, why and how...
View ArticleCreating a Strongly Typed Heterogeneous Collection in .NET 2.0.
I found a solution to an interesting problem while developing an application for a state licensing board. I was using generics for strongly-typed collections of objects, but had a need to have...
View ArticleIt’s the Simple Things
You have to love the simple things that save time and make your life easier. Years ago, back in the days of DOS, I used an editor named Brief. Brief was published by a company named UnderWare and was...
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Another Simple Thing
Sometimes I can get a little long-winded when naming variables or methods. Combine that with a secret desire to write a complete program with one line of code and you can imagine what my code can look...
View ArticleNew Blog
Blogging is getting better. I have been less than prolific in my blogging, partly because I have almost no time and partly because it just wasn't much fun. That last part seems to be changing with...
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