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Linq, Lambda, and Extensions: Hawke's Bay Dot Net Users Group

This posting is just a bit different from some of my other postings. This posting is the Online version of the Talk that I will give gave on Thursday 30 April 2009.  You can download the source for my examples from here: I had previously done a ta ...[Read More]

Published: Apr-29-09 | 1 Comment | 43 Links to this post

Windows 7 RC date official, XP mode unveiled

Read about it here The most important thing here (and a game changer I believe for Microsoft) is Windows XP Mode (XPM…) … in short, is a "Virtual PC-based virtual environment" which houses a fully licensed edition of Windows XP SP3 well- ...[Read More]

Published: Apr-26-09 | 1 Comment | 10 Links to this post

The Imaginative Universal - What kind of consultant are you?

  The Imaginative Universal - What kind of consultant are you? Nothing more really needs to be said except maybe, I judge myself to be a House type of consultant, wonder what other people will judge me to be?  make your entries below. Technorati Ta ...[Read More]

Published: Apr-18-09 | 1 Comment | 94 Links to this post

Dynamic Context Menus for Tree Node items (Routing the Mouse Click Correctly)

  So as you can see above I’m making a UI that looks and feels like an MMC Snap-In (eventually I will make it an actually MMC Snap-In, but that’s a different blog for a different day).  And just like a Snap-In, I want to make Dynamic Menus that chan ...[Read More]

Published: Apr-15-09 | 1 Comment | 34 Links to this post

Extending CopyHelper using Extension Methods » Alteridem Consulting

  Extending CopyHelper using Extension Methods » Alteridem Consulting I started down the path of wanting to make something that used Reflection to copy properties from one object to another object of a different type, as long as the property names a ...[Read More]

Published: Apr-11-09 | 0 Comments | 19 Links to this post

CodeProject: A Task Scheduler Class Library for .NET.

  CodeProject: A New Task Scheduler Class Library for .NET. The article title says it’s “new” but don’t be fooled, this thing is Very Old (originally created circa 2000), but in this case old doesn’t necessarily mean out of date. My client’s projec ...[Read More]

Published: Apr-10-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Configuring Application Poll Ping Settings for Debug

Here I am still working on the WCF stuff, and now I’m trying to debug an issue (that shouldn’t exist, hence why its a bug), and as I’m in the middle of tracking it down in the design environment, I get the following helpful message from Visual Studi ...[Read More]

Published: Apr-08-09 | 0 Comments | 48 Links to this post

A Blog Entry Per Work Day

When I started up this second attempt at a dev blog, I committed myself to at least on blog entry for every day of work for the first 90 days.  That has turned out to be harder then I thought.  By the numbers I’m ok, because I’ve been making entries ...[Read More]

Published: Apr-07-09 | 0 Comments | 14 Links to this post

WCF, Simple HTTP, Unhelpful Errors: EndpointNotFoundException, ProtocolException

As you may know from these entries here and here, I’m working with WCF and hating its configuration, I love WCF, administering it on the other hand… .  And for the past two days, I totally wasted my time and my client’s time because of the poor abil ...[Read More]

Published: Apr-05-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Exactly How Did I Program Prior to LINQ?

LINQ.  Four little letters that have totally changed the way I program, heck its even changed the way I think about programming!  Language Integrated Natural Query, four beautiful words! So what brought this up today?  Well for the past couple of we ...[Read More]

Published: Apr-01-09 | 1 Comment | 15 Links to this post