Daniel Cazzulino's Blog
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Why Embedded Silverlight Makes Sense
So Microsoft just shipped Silverlight 3.0. Outstanding achievement in its own right for a company that takes multi-year cycles for pretty much every product, if you ask me.
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How to get wi-fi network connectivity using Hyper-V
- Create a new Local Network with Virtual Network Manager (name it Hyper-V, for example)
- In the VHD, run msconfig.exe, in the Boot tab, click the Advanced options button, and select the Detect HAL option.
- Reboot the VM, reinstall the integration services and reboot again. Now you should get the new network adapter detected.
- Use ICS on the wi-fi network and select the local network Hyper-V as the one to share the connection with.
- To allow VPN access, you need to open a port (GRE) in the windows firewall as explained in http://help.wugnet.com/vista/VPN-server-configured-Generic-Routing-Encapsulatio-ftopict116489.html
Live Mesh as an application platform
The potential
You surely read quite a bit about Live Mesh. Oran Dennison has number of very technical and insightful posts on various aspects of the underlying platform.
MAB ContainerModel / Funq: a transparent container
From the point of view of the user of the container, he doesn't have to do anything at all. He just creates classes as usual:
Mobile Application Blocks ContainerModel / Funq: an introduction
What would you like to see in Enterprise Library 5.0?
There are few groups within Microsoft that are as open and so quick to deliver as patterns & practices. When you give them feedback or request features, chances are you'll see them implemented within months, rather than years (if they get enough support of the rest of the community!).
Announcing the free ViewModel Tool
If you're doing any kind of WPF development, you probably read at least some of the links in this entry on WPF Patterns.
Crazy Linq: replacing multiple and nested foreach statements with a query
Objective of the method: determine whether the given EnvDTE code class contains the given GeneratedCodeAttribute:
A picture is worth a thousand words: is XML dying?
Approaching Behavior Driven Development (BDD) from a Test Driven Development (TDD) perspective
Over the years doing TDD, I'm getting increasingly concerned about the value my test fixtures are bringing to the table in terms of documenting features and expected behavior.