Contents tagged with C#
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Manual Express Downloads are now live
This is great news!!!
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WebCasts : Building end-to-end applications with C# Express
I noticed that Dan Fernandez just blogged about an upcoming series of chats which revolve around creating applications using Visual C# Express 2005. Get all the details here:
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Visual Web Developer Express Edition FAQ
Visual Web Developer Express (VWD) is a lightweight tool for building ASP.NET applications and WebServices.
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Lately I've had fun building different kinds of features
I've been fortunate enough to get to play with some interesting technologies of late due to some different types of features that I've been required to deliver. We've got a WinForms client which is a front-end to a BI application and lately we've had to implement:
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Dynamically running an Assembly in a separate process (with your tail between your legs)
I'm currently building an application updater tool which needs to receive an arbitrary list of assemblies, calculate which one is the bootstrapper and exectute it. I had it in my head that I would need to create an AppDomain and then use reflection to load and Invoke the entry point of the bootstrap application - so I spent until the wee hours trying to get all kinds of Reflective incantations to work. I could get Assembly.Load to work quite simply:
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Building Msi's is NOT a no-brainer
Having spent the greater part of last week writing a complex .msi installer I was heartened to see a nice listing of Msi tasks which are non-trivial to implement pop-up today:
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A primitive, generic DataLayer using Generics
I've only just starting dabbling with Generics and although I can see how cool they are I can also see that it will take some time to get used to them. To me it seems that although I know what they are I'm not sure that I always use it when I should - or how I should for that matter!
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NullReferenceException = LoadFromFile( ... ) ;
The other day I was trying to fix a problem on a website. The problem was that, whenever I tried to load a file from the filesystem, I received a NullReferenceException being thrown from "GdipLoadImageFromFile"!
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ReThrowing exceptions
Here's some good pointers for re-throwing exceptions:
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ViewState size, File Upload Memory Leak, Enums passed as Args and CancelEventArgs
A bookmark of interesting posts which I've seen in the past couple of days...