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Seeking advice - strong names and config files
I'll use my blog for a bit of fishing for advice and guidance on an issue that's been bugging me. We've been moving towards using strong names on all of our assemblies. The benefits are obvious, and it's a must before we deploy to clients out in the wild...

Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:48 PM by Avner Kashtan | 4 comment(s)

Windows Services, services.msc and the "This Service is marked for deletion" error.
In my current project, we have a windows service that we are developing and debugging, which involves a lot of installing/uninstalling the service. One common problem when uninstalling a service is that while the uninstallation is successful, you still...

Posted Wednesday, September 05, 2007 12:14 PM by Avner Kashtan | 5 comment(s)

Dependency Injection and a new version of RhinoMocks
I'm a relative latecomer to the unit-testing business, and only got to play with Mocking frameworks in my last project. After testing several frameworks, we opted on RhinoMocks for emulating our classes during testing. This, coupled with a lot of IOC...

Posted Friday, April 06, 2007 12:49 AM by Avner Kashtan | 1 comment(s)

Screencasts vs. Whitepapers
A few weeks ago, Lawrence Liu (a senior technical PM and community lead for Sharepoint at Microsoft) linked to a few screencasts for learning how to use various features in MOSS2007. In that entry, he mentioned how screecasts are more effective and efficient...

Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 4:10 PM by Avner Kashtan | 3 comment(s)

Outlook Calendar as your Windows Desktop
In a Channel 9 conversation, user Dr. Herbie expressed his long-standing desire to see his Outlook calendar as a desktop wallpaper. This, I admit, has never once occured to me. The nice thing about it is that it's so amazingly simple to implement...

Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 4:29 PM by Avner Kashtan | 5 comment(s)

UI Usability - case studies and recommendations?
Doing work on our WinForm application, we find ourselves having to make choices - too many choices - about the UI. We don't have access to professional UI engineers, unfortunately, and we make uneducated guesses on too many issues - should we use...

Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 6:24 PM by AvnerK | 7 comment(s)

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