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Working with .NET 1.1 in Visual Studio 2008 and Team Server

I was trying to write that post for so long that I've started worry that there will be new version of the Visual Studio before I will even start. Finally, I found some time and here it is. What I'm going to write about here is how to use the latest...

Published 08-22-2008 3:03 PM by Jimmy

Filed under: Visual Studio, Tips & Tricks, TFS

Interoperability between WCF and WSE 3.0

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services are wire-level compatible with Web Services Enhancements 3.0 (WSE3) clients. This is correct in theory, however, it's not as easy as one would expect. This article presents the issues on interoperability...

Published 07-18-2007 9:48 AM by Jimmy

Filed under: .NET 3.0, WCF, WSE 3.0, Web Services

Multiple sites and host headers on localhost with IIS7

One of the limitations of the IIS6 on Windows XP is that IIS is limited to only one site, so I had to use virtual directories for every site I was working on. Unfortunately I had one project that has to be placed directly in the site, not in a virtual...

Published 03-01-2007 2:01 PM by Jimmy

Filed under: ASP.NET, IIS7, Tips & Tricks

Visual Studio 2008 "Project Creation Failed" Deja Vu

I've finally installed Visual Studio 2008 RTM. It takes me two days. Well, not installing itself of course. I had to uninstall Beta 2 before, then I realised I have a lot of unused software I can uninstall as well. Then I found number of old software...

Published 11-22-2007 1:23 PM by Jimmy

Filed under: Visual Studio, Tips & Tricks

UDDI is (Not) Dead?

Over year ago Ed Gibbs asked the same question. Well it wasn't question maybe, however point is that UDDI may not be such dead yet. Some time ago I dug out that and I think it still can be useful. There are some conclusions. A bit of history For sure...

Published 11-15-2007 12:56 PM by Jimmy

Filed under: Web Services, Architecture, featured

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

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

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

TechEd Day 3 & 4: Bus Factor

I have a quick question for readers. What is "The Bus Factor"? If you know or you think you know please add comment. In first excitement of the conference I was trying to attend as much sessions as possible. Yesterday I realised that it's...

Published 11-08-2007 10:26 AM by Jimmy

Filed under: TechEd-Developers, TechEd-Developers featured

TechEd 2007 Day 2: Barcelona vs Glasgow Rangers

Yesterday ends on La Rambla fully packed with Glasgow Rangers fans. I hope the Rangers will win today because I want to see something in Barcelona but just the burnt out city. But let's back to the conference itself. Below you can find some information...

Published 11-07-2007 8:59 AM by Jimmy

Filed under: TechEd-Developers featured

Must-have Typed DataSet extensions

Of course if you are using them. Currently almost none is using standard data access methods in bigger projects. All the Data Access Layer (DAL) methods become very popular nowadays, just look at the most popular such as NHibernate, Sooda or the incoming...

Published 11-16-2006 5:19 PM by Jimmy

Filed under: C#

TechEd 2007 - A Short Reflection

The conference is over now and few days after, when I settled all urgent things in work, I can do some reflection. First of all that was my first TechEd so I was very excited and I expected a lot. And I didn't disappointed. Like someone said during...

Published 11-14-2007 11:22 AM by Jimmy

Filed under: TechEd-Developers, TechEd-Developers featured

TechEd 2007 Day 1: Summary

The first day gone quickly so there is a few words of summary. As this is my first TechEd, first impression is very good. Huge number of sessions, topics and advance levels makes making choice sometimes difficult but anyone will find something interesting...

Published 11-06-2007 9:38 AM by Jimmy

Filed under: TechEd-Developers

TechEd 2007 Day1: Past, Present and Future

We all know the past. So let's focus on present and the future. I have only few minutes to write a quick post before next session but there is a few quite exciting news I want to share. There is a bit of news from keynote presentation just ended....

Published 11-05-2007 2:54 PM by Jimmy

Filed under: TechEd-Developers

Continuous Integration #1: The environment and the first build

For the very first steps we are going to create very simple build server that will take our project from the repository and build it. Some kind of "Hello World" form CI (Continuous Integration) where I want to show generic concept how I server and scripts are organised....

Published 03-10-2007 12:45 AM by Jimmy

Filed under: Agile, Continuous integration

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