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Never ever catch System.Exception...

posted Friday, June 29, 2007 3:06 PM by rrinaldi
…except when you should. :) Patrick Cauldwell wrote a great post on how to handle exceptions and I agree with everything he says except for this: "If you find yourself arguing for catching Exception, you probably have a design problem." In most cases Read More
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MS is killing J#

posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 8:09 AM by rrinaldi
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vjsharp/default.aspx So that’s awesome… Read More
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TFS and name changes

posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:36 AM by rrinaldi
One of my fellow developers on my team just had her name change.  We figured there would be a few issues when her login name changed and TFS pretty much puked on it.  It seems that TFS stores some workspace mapping info locally and part of that Read More
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Who needs the GAC?

posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:43 PM by rrinaldi
I certainly don't.  Most of the time. Lately I've been spending time working with Team Build to automate the builds of a few of our applications and I've discovered that way too many apps deploy themselves into the GAC.  Discovered isn't Read More
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Using Web Application Projects with Team Build?

posted Monday, August 14, 2006 4:05 PM by rrinaldi
Are you using Web Application Projects with Team Build? Did you upgrade from WAP RC1 to 1.0? Can you not find your Web Application Project under the _PublishedWebsites directory in your drop location? I couldn’t, and after much googling I found Read More
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System.Net.Mail doc error

posted Tuesday, January 03, 2006 3:15 PM by rrinaldi
UPDATE: So I'm slow.  There is a static method on AlternateView called CreateAltenateViewFromString() that will take a string and a ContentType and return an AlternateView instance for you.  Next time I will read the rest of the docs (as long Read More
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Another post about Vista DB

posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 5:29 PM by rrinaldi
Heard about this via everybody on the freakin’ earth:   VistaDB 2.1 database for .NET has been releasedThis 2.1 update includes over 60 improvements, including new support for .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio .NET 2005. VistaDB is a small-footprint, Read More
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Introducing vsInk

posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 3:58 PM by rrinaldi
I saw this post by the Incremental Blogger explaining some ideas for integrating ink with Visual Studio.  After reading the post, I thought “Gotta have it!  Must have it!  Where’s the install?”.  After realizing that his post was just Read More
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So Ryan, where you been?

posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 3:57 PM by rrinaldi
Good question mister anonymous blog reader guy. On the work front I’ve been heads down cranking out the next generation of our super secret internal mega apps.  The technologies I’ve been digging into the last 6 months or so include Read More
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Invoke this, Invoke that

posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 2:43 PM by rrinaldi
I’m posting this more as a reminder to myself than anything else but I figure a lot of people would be interested in reading it: WinForms UI Thread Invokes: An In-Depth Review of Invoke/BeginInvoke/InvokeRequred   Read More
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Tell the Assembly Loader where to ....

posted Wednesday, July 06, 2005 10:38 AM by rrinaldi
…shove find it. I’m working on a project right now that has me doing a lot of dynamic loading of assemblies.  To make things easier on me, I wanted to place all of the assemblies I will be loading dynamically in a plugins directory that is above Read More
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A quick build event tip

posted Tuesday, July 05, 2005 7:13 PM by rrinaldi
Don’t care what the result of your build pre or post build event is? Want Visual Studio to coast on like it didn’t even run it? Don’t want to know whether it fails or not? Type this little magic phrase at the end of your build event: “exit 0” You’re Read More
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A quick observation

posted Wednesday, June 15, 2005 7:22 PM by rrinaldi
Too many apps try to do to much when you tell them to exit.  When an app takes more than 30 seconds to close, it’s quite aggravating. Read More
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Pervasive SQL and Platinum

posted Thursday, June 02, 2005 6:38 PM by rrinaldi
For the past couple days I’ve been working on an integration project with Platinum for Windows.  Platinum uses a file based database engine called Pervasive.  Before this project I’ve never really heard of it before, except Read More
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System.Diagnostics.Debug.Writeline not doing anything for you?

posted Monday, May 23, 2005 1:12 PM by rrinaldi
Just found out that if you add a new project to a solution using the “New Project In Existing Folder” option of Visual Studio.NET 2003 the project doesn’t define the DEBUG (or TRACE for that matter) compile directive, which is required Read More
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