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Well, time to get things done. I’ve a product to build and I need a sensible environment to build it in. I’m going to run some VMs on my Mac Pro for the less exciting parts of the environment. So … Continue reading →

I’m guessing this is obvious to most of you, but it would be good to get some comments. Most IOC examples I have seen tend to be kind of trivial, it’s easy to expose the required dependent as a property … Continue reading →

I had a project with a .EDMX in it. I had matching classes and stuff in another project that had started out as a code first development. I copied the .EDMX to the new project and lo there was the … Continue reading →

Just to make the day complete, part of the system we were updating had a bug raised against it by another team. The module in question imports data from excel spreadsheet files that are based on a standard template. The … Continue reading →

This was an odd one. A very simple piece of code failed on the server, but as usual works on our machines. The c# code in question looked a bit like this: void GetComToDoStuff() { comObjectInterop.Event += MyCallBack; comInterop.StartDoingStuff(); _manualResetEvent.Wait(); … Continue reading →

The problem was an odd visual studio 2010 solution that shared some code between a silverlight front end and a full fat .Net server. The silverlight project with the shared code contained the shared code as references to the files … Continue reading →

I’ve a been working on the plan to add cheat sheets for the major technologies I work with. I think it would be worth adding example code and projects. Rather than hosting the code on my site I’m going to … Continue reading →

So that was a little odd. I’ve been working as a permi for a bit. My wife and I moved back to Scotland, mostly to be nearer to friends and family. I couldn’t get any contract work up here and … Continue reading →

What a sad alphabet soup of acronyms this post has for a title… Just a quick note on using Json ajax requests with asp.net mvc 3. Adding a hnadler for a json request to a controller is easy, the return … Continue reading →