mars 2006 - Posts

• The Beauty of yield return

  Today I debugged a bug that started to show up in a component that I developed quite a while ago, but haven't been exploited before. The component is a Windows Forms extension control that performs basic validation; much like the validators in ASP.NET. Read More... Posted den 26 mars 2006 12:59 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0

• Web 2.0 Definition

  I've got some customers asking me about what Web 2.0 is and I haven't been able to give them any good answers. Today I read this blog post from Michael Platt, that links to a wordy version, which he made 5 lines short. Those five lines are short enough Read More... Posted den 20 mars 2006 08:07 by ericqu | 0 Comments

• Dll Base Address

  I've got a feeling that most of us have forgotten the base address for dll:s when .NET arrived. Back in the VB6 days I guess at least some of us did set the base address, but for the same reasons as back then, it's worth setting the base address to something Read More... Posted den 19 mars 2006 20:15 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0

• Team System Unit Test and Multithreading

  With delegates it is quit easy to create a couple of asynchronous method calls and then wait for them all to finish. An alternative is to get a callback when the call finish, but that is not always the best solution. For example, if you have a web service Read More... Posted den 17 mars 2006 14:44 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0, Team System

• Isolated Storage and unit tests

  We've been moving all of our unit tests from NUnit to Team System during the last couples of weeks and when we did I also wanted to improve the performance of some test so I was going to cache some data. I thought that using Isolated Storage (which is Read More... Posted den 13 mars 2006 08:48 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0, Team System

• Tools you can't live without

  Every now and then you find this tools that you can't live without. I've been using SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare for a year now and I can't quantify how many hours of work these tools have saved for me. SQL Compare is a tool that compares SQL Server Read More... Posted den 8 mars 2006 08:11 by ericqu | 1 Comments Filed under: Tools