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Cryptic IBM Filenames

I've been a user of the Rational Purify product on Windows for a while and recently downloaded a Linux version to play with....

June 30, 2006
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Regex Fail All

I'm currently writing a small utility which takes a snapshot of the state of a Windows system and reports back to base as to the system state....

June 26, 2006
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Triplet

Yesterday's post was just a quick test of the csharpformat web page kindly provided by Jean-Claude Manoli on his web site....

June 24, 2006
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csharpformat test

This is just a test post of source code using the functionality. I also changed the blogger template used since the last templated didn't show source code too well given the available pixel width....

csharp blogging code-quality
June 23, 2006
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ADO.NET Black Helicopters

Oren Eini may have been right about the black helicopters! An ADO.NET V3.0 related video appears to have been pulled for unknown reasons. Check out this forum thread for more info....

May 25, 2006
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VSS 2005 Add Files

The Add Files dialog in Visual Source Safe 2005 changed from a specific VSS version to the more common file selection dialog....

version-control development-tools
May 25, 2006
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ADO.NET Video Followup

Yesterday's post contained an excerpt from the What's coming in ADO.NET video that I thought was great. In particular it was the thought that SOA is great technology but in the end is just plumbing....

ado-net soa object-oriented video database
May 12, 2006
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What's coming in ADO.NET Video

Here's a great excerpt from the What's coming in ADO.NET video on channel 9. Tim Mallalieu was speaking and it's around 41:50 into the video: Well actually that was exactly the point I was trying to...

May 11, 2006
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Pinvoke Convenience

I had to investigate a support query related to the lack of sound for a MacroView operations session running via remote desktop to a Windows Server 2003 server....

March 28, 2006
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WPF/E and IL Code

When I first heard about WPF/E (WPF/Everywhere) it sounded like a waste of time. My interpretation was that it was just a XAML display engine with no support for .NET code....

wpf silverlight dotnet clr xbox
March 27, 2006
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