April 2009 - Posts

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Depend On Patterns and Practices by HernanDL

I just found a nice article on P&P guidelines named " You Can Depend On Patterns and Practices " that Alex Homer wrote on MSDN Magazine - May Edition . There you may find some of the core Architecture concepts descibed in the good " patterns &...
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Nice to have for Enterprise Library 5.0 by HernanDL

This community call is a bit old (Jan 09) but just in case you never noticed, here are the posts/links to cast your vote on the new feature you may want to have in the next version of EntLib. http://blogs.msdn.com/agile/archive/2009/01/26/enterprise-library...
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Hands-on Labs for Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1 and Unity 1.2 by HernanDL

In case you didn't notice yet, there are new HOLs for EntLib 4.1 and Unity 1.2. Included in this release are three new hands-on labs covering: - Interception (with Policy Injection Application Block and Unity ) - Dependency Injection with Unity - Validation...
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Run as different user in Vista by HernanDL

Very useful script for adding this feature back to Windows Vista in case the "Run as Administrator" may not fit your needs :) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc300361.aspx
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Broken or missing project templates in Visual Studio 2008 or 2005 by HernanDL

After my last system restore, I got this annoying issue when I opened a VS soultion with test projects and some other project types. This is basically becasue of the "broken templates" issue. I came across this post that describes the problem and solution...
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DSL model gradient background by HernanDL

In one of my recent DSL projects I was looking a way to get that nice gradient background that you can find in the Visual Studio DSL designer like the figure below: As we can see, there is a gradient background along with a title "Classes and Relationships...
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X509 Certificate validation by HernanDL

Some time ago I was looking for some way to validate an X509 certificate and for my surprise I couldn't find any good method to do this pretty common task. I know that the X509Certificate2 class has a Verify method but is rather limited in terms of validation...
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