Contents tagged with General Software Development
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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 … more
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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 … more
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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 … more
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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, … more
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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 … more
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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 … more