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When building a Windows RT application (based on C#) it is pretty common that you will want to notify your user of an event. It is more common that you are going to want to do this in a way which is not intrusive, aka does not get in the way of the user. Luckily for you the WinRT team has...
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Recently while trying to deploy a service to a clean VM (moving this off our main production server onto its own server) I ran into the error below” Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'System, Version=2.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e...
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Recently when I needed to parse the twitter datetime format into a .Net DateTime I found this post on the web showing how to do it. However, the format string in the post is setup for non-us format so I thought I would share how to do it for US formatted datetime. const string format = "ddd...
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One of the thoughts I've been considering recently with chocolatey is consistency with packages and naming conventions as chocolatey continues to grow. It's fine to name packages by the app/tool name, that's both intuitive and expected. What I am more interested in is when an application...
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DropkicK (DK) has been in development for over two years and has been used for production deployments for over a year. Dru Sellers originally posted about DK back in 2009 . While DK isn’t yet as super easy to grok as some of the other ChuckNorrisFramework tools and offers little in the idea of conventions...
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Anyone who has been doing any type of .net development knows you can subscribe (MSDN on event subscription ) to an event as follows: Subscribe to an Non-Anonymous Method ... // instance class w/ an event myClass.DoSomething += HandleDoSomething ... // the method which handles the event privat evoid HandleDoSomething...
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Last weekend I went up to Iowa Code Camp in Cedar Rapids and had the opportunity to do two presentations, one on NuGet and one known as the Automation Tools Roundup. ICC is one of my favorite conferences every year. It is twice a year and I try to make it to at least one of them. The people that...
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Less maintenance. Less work to package during your automated builds. Too easy. Remember Our Old Friend _PublishedWebsites? You’ve probably seen the _PublishedWebsites folder when building websites in automated builds. If not you can stop paying attention now. Still with me? Great! So you know how it...
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Easy and Instant deployments and instant scale for .NET? Awhile back a few of us were looking at Ruby Gems as the answer to package management for .NET . The gems platform supported the concept of DLLs as packages although some changes would have needed to happen to have long term use for the entire...
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Filed under: NHibernate, Fluent NHibernate, RoundhousE, HowTo, UppercuT, Development, Git, Tools, .NET, Agile, Gems, Challenge
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For those that have not yet heard, NuGet went v1 recently along with a whole slew of tools from the Microsoft folks. I’ve been lucky to be a part of the NuGet project and see it take shape over the past few months with community input and contributions. Even though v1.0 was released, we are already moving...
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Today I was trying to wrap some code in some tests (I got lazy and did not create the tests first… shot me). What I was trying to ensure was that my event handlers I passed into a method were actually being wired up for usage. Now I searched around the net for a while to see if there was...
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In a previous post I mentioned how I was going to show you how UppercuT (UC) has the ability to make gems stupid simple to create and publish. You ask if gems can get any easier and to that I answer, “Why YES, they can!” How about just filling out the information for the gemspec, running...
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In my last post I didn’t mention dependencies. Dependencies are their own animal. They require a couple more things to be in place. Let’s talk about those things. In the .NET world, the dependency for compiled bits is usually an exact version of a reference. Let me explain. So for example...
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In my last post I showed gems being used for .NET. Now let’s talk about How. Most of this stuff I’ve learned over the past two days, so if I have a mistake here or you have a better idea, please don’t hesitate to offer a better solution. The GemSpec The Gem::Specification reference...
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One of the pretty cool new nuggets inside the .Net 4.0 framework is System.Lazy and System.Lazy<T> . What System.Lazy brings to the table is a way to create objects which may need to perform intensive operations and defer the execution of the operation until it is 100% absolutely needed....