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Debugging Assembly Loading Errors

There are situations sometimes when .NET loads wrong assembly or can't load one at all. Usually we can see TypeLoadException in that case. Assuming we have exception at all. One of my work colleagues had situation today that gave a real world example...

Published 06-28-2007 5:27 PM by Jimmy

Filed under: Tools, .NET 2.0, Tips & Tricks
Validation with Enterprise Library 3.x

Usually object validation requires writing a lot of code that examines properties and returns validation result. With VAB this scenario becomes extremely easy and simple. Let us consider sample class: 1 public class User 2 { 3 public User() 4 { 5 } 6...

Published 06-26-2007 12:43 PM by Jimmy

Filed under: Tools, .NET 2.0, Tips & Tricks
How to Create Graph in Silverlight

The Silverlight is the great tool to do presentation layer for web applications. Things like diagrams, charts, schemas etc. I will stop myself here. There is a lot sources about where the Silverlight can be used so I will leave that to your imagination...

Published 06-15-2007 2:46 PM by Jimmy

Filed under: Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET 3.5
Which ORM – Advice Needed

I'm starting new project and one of things I'm not sure about is which ORM should I choose. So far I have experience with eXpress Persistent Objects (XPO) by DevExpress. It's nice but I'm not sure if the best. I'm considering NHibernate and eventually...

Published 06-15-2007 7:18 AM by Jimmy

Filed under: Mental disorder
How to Write Specification - Examples

Writing specification and documentation is one of the biggest issues for most developers. We are rather technical persons and writing twenty sentences to describe something that exist in our mind as a code is sometimes painful process. This is why I'm...

Published 06-14-2007 3:19 PM by Jimmy

Filed under: Visual Studio, Design
Life Hacks: Personal Wiki

Who heard about life hacks ? Or rather who didn't? Well, not long time ago I didn't. First time I've heard about that from one Hanselminutes, show #18 and later on #43 . Today on way to work I was listen another archive show #15 about something totally...

Published 06-14-2007 12:39 PM by Jimmy

Filed under: Life Hacks
CI In TFS Orcas - Short Review

Last month I'm focusing almost only on Continuous Integration. Number of hours spent on that subject allows me to pretend be advanced. So far all my CI experience was limited to CruiseControl.NET (95%) and a bit of Team Foundation Server. A problem with...

Published 06-12-2007 9:30 AM by Jimmy

Filed under: Visual Studio, Agile, Continuous integration
We are Hiring – C# Software Engineer

My new company is looking for two (2) C# Software Engineers into my team in Gloucester, UK. I need two folks that will be working with me on few projects. I'm looking for geeks, which will work not only on delivering product but also will help me to shake...

Published 06-07-2007 8:31 AM by Jimmy
My New Job

One of the changes last time was a new job. At mid of April I've started in MessageLabs in Gloucester as a Software Engineer. For most of us that name connects to small footer we can see sometimes in emails. That's it. Company is working on security,...

Published 06-06-2007 1:07 PM by Jimmy

Filed under: Mental disorder
A Sort of Excuse

I'm slowly coming back to normal life after a couple of months spent in hell. I promised myself I will never ever get "spare time" project anymore. List of articles, posts and books is grown massively. Wife wants to kill me as well as friends. So here...

Published 06-06-2007 8:59 AM by Jimmy

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Debugging Assembly Loading Errors

Validation with Enterprise Library 3.x

How to Create Graph in Silverlight

Which ORM – Advice Needed

How to Write Specification - Examples

Life Hacks: Personal Wiki

CI In TFS Orcas - Short Review

We are Hiring – C# Software Engineer

My New Job

A Sort of Excuse