January 2004 - Posts

• CVSNT and VS.Net

  Finally got decided to switch source control to CVSNT http://www.cvsnt.org , I have been using VSS for a long time now, but my project requires some advanced branching and release management. I evaluated Perforce, which looks like the best, although it is free for 2 users it costs 750$ per user for more, so I decided to give CVS a shot. I have moved my Solution into CVS using the CVS Proxy from http://www.pushok.com which looks pretty good and is reasonably priced at 19$. I have also installed WinCVS and TortoiseCVS. Went through the manuals yesterday, today its test time for some branching, Lets see how it works out. Posted Jan 30 2004, 06:20 PM by Sijin Joseph with no comments

• MSBuild on MSDN TV - Thoughts

  So I watched the MSBuild Episode of MSDN TV  http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20040122VSNETAK/manifest.xml For he first 10 minutes I was thinking, well they might as well have names it MSNAnt J …. But later when he got around to how easy it was to add tasks to the build process I was impressed. The ITaskItem interface looks neat. Also the ouput item properties and conditionals on every tag looked pretty good. I think the ability to customize the entire Studio build process is great for people who have to manage huge builds. Well there was nothing groundbreaking actually, just a MS standardization of what is available. Posted Jan 26 2004, 04:09 PM by Sijin Joseph with no comments

• Joel on How to get your resume read

  http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ResumeRead.html While I was reading this line, in the above article “OK, this one really bugs me. Learn where spaces go in relation to other punctuation. Attention, the entire population of India: whenever you have a comma, there is always exactly one space and it's always after the comma and never before it. Thank you. “ It got me thinking, I am from India, in school we were never taught about how many spaces are supposed to be there after or before a comma. The first time I came across that was when I was using MS Word and it put green lines under my text, since then I have been infact using one space after comma rule, if only to just get rid of the green lines J Anyways does someone know if there is a rule somewhere about this?   Posted Jan 26 2004, 03:55 PM by Sijin Joseph with 5 comment(s)

• Bug or Feature

  A strange thing happened today, I was implementing a small security package for my app. The project file was called Security and it created a Security.Dll file as output. I compiled and ran and BOOM no connection to the database!!! … I am thinking how can adding a new module totally unrelated lead to DB connectivity problems…So I do the usual checks, network connectivity, name resolution, I can connect thru enterprise manager, I can connect using SQL authentication. It seems that when I try to connect using SSPI I get the exception “Cannot initialize SSPI package”….Oh Boy…I am thinking corrupt memory, hard disk what could have happened, is my .Net installation corrupt?...So as any good windows user would do..i reboot…no help…problem persists. Its been an hour and I have only allocated 30 mins…someone suggests trying an earlier build….i think..well let’s give it a try..Viola it works…Light goes on…it has to be the security module, because that is the only change….i change the name of the project output to XXXSecurity.Dll and it works. Problem solved!! What a rush…Ahhh the joys of fixing problems. Then I start to think, if .Net chooses the Security.Dll in my folder then couldn’t someone else just put a fake Security.Dll in an application folder and override all Code Access Security!! I seriously hope this is a gap in my understanding rather than a bug in my beloved framework. Posted Jan 22 2004, 10:02 PM by Sijin Joseph with 7 comment(s)