Start using new C# 3.0 language features in 5 minutes
[tag]Visual Studio 2008[/tag] and [tag]C# 3.0[/tag] are coming with lots of new features, new language constructs, etc. That’s all super but it takes some time to get into it. However, there are some...
View ArticleWCF and interoperability – Consuming REST Services
With [tag].NET Framework[/tag] 3.5 came new version of [tag]Windows Communication Foundation[/tag] – [tag]WCF 3.5[/tag], bringing us very useful set of new features and one of them is out of the box...
View ArticleData-Driven Unit Testing using Excel in Visual Studio
Data-Driven Unit Tests are very powerful but, it seems to me, rarely used feature in Visual Studio. Although they are not suitable in all situations they can be of a great help. Personally, I used them...
View ArticleQCon London 2012 – High Expectations
I am in London this week for QCon London 2012. Expectations are high and I hope it lives up to it. So far so good, I have to say. I have been on two tutorials so far and if quality is kept at this...
View ArticleQCon London 2012 – Day 1 of the Conference
Today was the first day of the conference, and it was a very good day. I must say it largely met my expectations. I was part of the day on Architecture track and part of the day on High Availability....
View ArticleQCon London 2012 – Day 2
Just got back from another day at QCon London 2012. Previous day was very good, but this morning I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from the sessions, and surely it was a mixed bag. Originally, I’ve...
View ArticleQCon London 2012 – Day 3
Today was the final day of the conference. It has been a long week, but nonetheless rewarding. It was a pleasure being here and I feel I learned a lot during this time. Today, I planned to be mostly on...
View ArticleQCon London 2012 – Retrospective
After couple of weeks of letting things settle a bit after QCon London 2012 has anything stuck with me? Have I learned anything? Was it worth? What did I learn and did it prompt me to extend my...
View ArticleRPC Method Call Crashed COM+ Application – But Which Call Was That?
Recently, while testing our COM+ application it started crashing with c0000005 – Access violation. This is VB6 COM+ called from C# application. The funny thing is, dllhost.exe crashes due to the error...
View ArticleTechEd Europe 2013 Retrospective
I was on TechEd Europe this year. It was held between 25th and 28th June 2013 in Madrid. So this is a slightly belated retrospective. The conference was not really developer centric, which was a bit of...
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