Dev Blog - Johan Danforth

We're (my family that is) off to see the Nemo movie together with some friends. The few scenes I've seen from it looks really cool. Gonna watch the dubbed version (in Swedish) so the kids can understand it better. I'll buy the original on DVD later on.

I'm sure you've all seen this picture, but I love it :)

Bah, I've just downloaded the Visual Studio .NET 2003 Documentation Update, but the exe refuse to work properly. I get a "... is not a valid Win32 application." in my face. Guess I'll have to try another download :/

UPDATE: I cleaned the IE temporary files and went to the download page and downloaded the file again. Now it works fine :)

Download page is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a3334aed-4803-4495-8817-c8637ae902dc&languageid=f49e8428-7071-4979-8a67-3cffcb0c2524&displaylang=en

I'm a fan of Martin Fowler and of refactoring. I've used rafactoring add-ins for different Java-editors the last years, and was very happy to read about the rafactoring support in the upcoming Whidbey. Until then, I'm using using the C# Refactoring tool from Xtreme Simplicity, which has refactoring support for the following methods:

Extract Method 
Change Method Signature 
Decompose Conditional 
Extract Variable 
Extract Superclass 
Extract Interface 
Copy Class 
Push Up Members 
Rename Type 
Rename Member 
Rename Parameter 
Rename Local Variable 
Find References 
Tidy Imports 
Encapsulate Field 

I've only tried a couple of them yet, like the "Extract Method", "Tidy Imports" and "Rename Xxx" and they work great. Pity there isn't support for VB.NET, since I use that alot too.

I'm looking at adding a few features to the Exception Management Application Block for .NET. First, I'm adding support to write an Event ID to the BaseApplicationException type and to the actual event written to the event log. Looks pretty good so far.

After that I think I'm gonna create a publisher that publishes extra information for ASP.NET exceptions. Like dumping the server variables, referrer and so on.

I've had problems getting through the http proxy where I work at the moment, but I got excellent help from Luke Hutteman, the author of the RSS Aggregator SharpReader. It all works fine now:

...

Dim webReq As HttpWebRequest = CType(WebRequest.Create(url), HttpWebRequest)

Dim newProxy As WebProxy = New WebProxy(host,port)

If username.Length = 0 Then

Else

   Dim cred As New NetworkCredential(username, password)

   Dim credCache As New CredentialCache

   credCache.Add(newProxy.Address, "Basic", cred)

   credCache.Add(newProxy.Address, "Digest", cred)

End If

newProxy.BypassProxyOnLocal = True

'some proxys need this too

Dim objResponse As WebResponse = webReq.GetResponse

...

Something like that :)

Some people thought that my post about Emotional Query Language was fun, except for this guy calling himself "Satan"...duh. I had no idea that the son of a bitch was surfing the Internet, thought he was too busy making real life a hell for people ;) Needless to say, I removed his comment.

I read a Swedish article about the soon to be released "Two Towers" extended DVD. They've added 45 minutes to it! Yay!