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Sequence Diagram Generator

posted Tuesday, April 17, 2007 9:29 AM by mitchell
I don't know about you...but I absolutely dislike drawing out this documentation by hand. So, let me tell you that I was pleasantly surprised to see this Sequence Diagram Generator from Nauman Leghari's blog. After waiting an interminable amount of time Read More
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SqlDataSource Bug

posted Monday, January 22, 2007 1:29 PM by mitchell
Ran into this wonderful "feature" this afternoon. That's just special. Read More
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NUnit Order of Test calls

posted Monday, September 25, 2006 1:08 PM by mitchell
Apparently, Nunit runs the tests in alphabetical order by test name. I thought I was being smart by saving off references to the Ids and such. That’s OK, workaround number one: write test functions this way if you want them executed in a defined order: Read More
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#if(debug) coolness (it's the little things in life)

posted Monday, September 25, 2006 9:23 AM by mitchell
I've been playing with some code lately and writing unit tests using NUnit. I wanted to keep my test classes out of my released code, so I decorated the class with the #if (debug) directive (and corresponding #endif or course) and that works Read More
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Typed DataSets and Connection Strings

posted Monday, August 21, 2006 12:07 PM by mitchell
I'm playing with the Typed DataSets in VS2005, and the more I dig into them the more I find that I like. I did, however, run into an immediate problem when I took the typed dataset out of the main project and placed it into it's own project: I could Read More
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RSS Toolkit

posted Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:10 AM by mitchell
Read about the RSS Toolkit Dmitry has just released on his blog. Allows for consumption and production of RSS feeds as well as caching options. It is also both ASP.NET and Forms usable. Read More
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Creating Your Own Application Block: Brian Button in St. Louis

posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:26 PM by mitchell
I recently watched an MSDN Event webcast on creating your own Application Block by Brian Button (blog) and Tom Hollander. Now, Brian's giving that same talk in St. Louis to the C# User's Group. It was a great talk with plenty of code samples; be there Read More
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Debugging Tips and Tricks

posted Monday, January 30, 2006 9:11 AM by mitchell
A nice series of posts by Jim Griesmer on debugging in VS 2005 with special emphasis on the UI. Read More
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XML Editing

posted Monday, December 19, 2005 11:31 AM by mitchell
I've been working on creating an XSD for one of our business partners. I started it out in XMLSpy using a base XML document and generated a schema from that. However, upon diving into working with the document and editing it, I've actually found that Read More
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Security in .NET

posted Monday, December 19, 2005 7:19 AM by mitchell
Well, since del.icio.us seems to be down...again...(selling to Yahoo was a good thing, right?), I'll post this link here. It's a list of links to security related articles concerning .NET 2.0 from J.D. Meier's Blog. Read More
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Anders Interview on C#

posted Monday, October 24, 2005 6:28 PM by mitchell
Here's an interesting interview with Anders Hejlsberg (C# architect). I extracted one of the more fascinating quotes below: So queries just turn into method calls that are strung together, but the query syntax makes it easier to read, even though Read More
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Security: Java vs. .NET

posted Monday, August 29, 2005 7:39 AM by mitchell
Slashdot has a blurb pointing to a "comparative study of security in Java and .NET." The conclusion: .NET was built more secure from the ground up, not by necessarily being better but by being newer. Read More
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.NET Delivery book review

posted Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:27 AM by mitchell
Excellent review of Expert .NET Delivery Using NAnt and CruiseControl.NET, by Marc Holmes on Slashdot. Looks like an excellent buy. Just before getting deployed I was exploring the need for creating an automated build, debug, deploy scenario, and this Read More
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Never Using IndexOf Again

posted Saturday, May 08, 2004 10:10 AM by mitchell
We rolled our own bulk email SMPT engine. Part of rolling that was processing Undeliverables and Unsubscribes. Well, what we did was set up our mailboxes to accept the incoming emailaddress as “undeliverable_123456790-AT-pop3.com”. The 1234567890 Read More
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Microsoft Central Region Architect's Forum

posted Monday, April 12, 2004 9:33 PM by mitchell
Just finished attending the “meet and greet” for the Architect's Forum in Chicago. We're staying at the Westin (same place the conference is at). Here's the view from our hotel room. So far, all we've done is checked into the hotel, had some Read More
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