Some useful tips, some tricks to be more productive and some traps to avoid.
Some useful tips, some tricks to be more productive and some traps to avoid.
Saturday, February 09 2019
tips
Have you ever tried to fix a problem where you only got a glimpse of the error before the entire application disappeared in a puff of smoke?
Saturday, February 02 2019
tips
I frequently write console applications to automate things that I used to do manually. Sometimes these are test frameworks for my own use, other times they are utilities that I share.
Saturday, January 02 2016
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SharpDox is an exciting open source C# documentation generator that is both easy to set up and easy on the eyes. That said, I’ve run into a couple of minor issues getting it up and running - here’s a summary of my experience in the hope that it saves you some time.
Sunday, June 21 2015
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Have you ever observed how much your development process is hindered by the pace of I/O?
Sunday, August 11 2013
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Estimation is one of the dark arts of software development.
Monday, April 01 2013
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Ever tried to delete a file that is in use and wished that Windows Explorer would tell you which application has the file open?
Saturday, February 16 2013
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I’ve started using Microsoft’s Code Contracts and finding some interesting interactions with Code Analysis (aka fxCop), a feature of Visual Studio that I’m already using heavily.
Wednesday, July 25 2012
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As a followup to my recent post “Comspec Corruption”, I’m happy to report that the culprit has been found.
Tuesday, July 10 2012
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Following on from my earlier post describing my problems
installing Visual Studio 2012 RC. It turns out that some errant installer had set two values for my COMSPEC
environment variable:
Wednesday, September 14 2011
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While writing a windows service, I created a console version for debugging use. I wanted this console to display all
the logging, in real time, so I could see things were working. A bit of a search revealed that ColoredConsoleAppender
was the desired class, so I added code to set things up.
Monday, August 15 2011
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It’s admittedly rare, but sometimes you see something on Twitter that’s worth preserving and repeating …
Thursday, July 28 2011
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Scott Hanselman has an interesting note on product version numbering and naming. My response is too long for a tweet or a facebook comment, so I’m blogging it here and sending him a link …
Tuesday, March 01 2011
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Here’s a trap if you’re setting up an existing web application on a new IIS 7.5 installation …