I’m officially a fan: System.Linq.Expressions is one of the coolest namespaces. I’ve been working on a simple workflow engine as an example codebase for exploring different aspects of object oriented programming (inheritance, encapsulation, polymorphism, design patterns, etc.) for training purposes....
I’ve been playing around with ASP.NET MVC for about a week now and it does everything right that ASP.NET web forms did so wrong. I’ve hated ASP.NET web forms with a passion as soon as I realized that the model...
I’ve blogged about the Visitor pattern previously and using double dispatch to resolve .NET’s inherent inability to resolve methods by parameter type at runtime. As I was reading about C# 4.0’s dynamic types, I started to wonder if this would...
Recently, I worked on prototyping WCF load balancing for our product, FirstPoint. I built a simple example to test the configuration and behavior of load balancing. Since there aren’t many end-to-end examples of WCF load balancing on the web, I’m...
Nikhil Kothari has been blogging furiously about Visual Studio 2010 and C# 4.0. One of his posts covering the dynamic programming features in C# 4.0 raised some interesting discussion in the comments. Some like Francois Ward: I heavily dislike this....
An interesting issue cropped up during development this week. It centered around a mysterious error that was happening in our web applications and causing IIS to crash…hard. Peeking in the event log, I found the following error:
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Event Type: Error Event Source: .NET Runtime Event Category: None Event ID: 1023 Date: 8/8/2008 Time: 7:07:28 PM User: N/A Computer: ZORCH6 Description: .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.1433 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (79FFEE24) (80131506) For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. |
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I’ve been working with Python for the last few weeks on a pet project that I have going on. I’ve been using PyDev with Eclipse and using Django as the application framework for this web app. Part of it is...
One of the most awesome features of WCF in .NET 3.5 is support for REST-style AJAX requests to the services. Rick Strahl has an excellent post on how to get it up and running with jQuery. Just some notes on...
In working with the SharePoint web services, I’ve noticed consistent errors with a few of the services which tend to return the following string: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime I hadn’t been able to figure out what...
Let it be known that I hate out of the box ASP.NET. Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it. I detest it. The simplicity with which it allows the average developer to create applications leads to applications designed for RAD...