Archives
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IL Editor
Want the most from your .NET applications? You want absolute control at the IL level? Then why not develop directly in IL... :)
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Virtual PC Network Problems
I picked up an extra 512MB of RAM a couple of weeks ago to bring my development system up to 1GB of RAM. Now I've got a decent amount to play around with VS 2005 via Virtual PC. Last night, I created a VPC image with Windows Server 2003 but couldn't get it to talk to my network. I played around with this for close to an hour until I remembered that I have MAC Address filtering enabled on my DLink router. Only the MAC addresses I list can talk to the router. Once I added the MAC address from the VPC image to the list I was all set. Hopefully this will save someone else an hour! :)
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Running in the IDE?
I was reviewing some old code samples I had laying around (cleaning off the hard drive so my backup set will fit onto a single 4GB DVD) and came across one about determing if you're running inside the VS.NET IDE. Well, VS.NET is a debugger, so you can use System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached.
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Congrats to the Connecticut .NET Developers Group
Kudos to the Connecticut .NET Developers Group on their new DotNetNuke-based website. They contacted us about some DotNetNuke information and we were glad to help them get it going.
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VB6, ByRef, ByVal and Interop
While COM Interop may have some drawbacks, many times it is a necessary step (budget constraints, time constraints, etc...). If you're currently developing VB6 objects that may some day be used in .NET via interop then now is the time to get your ByRef's and ByVal's cleared up. It will make your interop experience much more enjoyable.
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Unit Testing is not difficult
Josh Holmes posts another article about his experiences with unit testing -- this time concentrating on the rather painless process of developing your unit tests with nUnit.
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Static Cling? No, Static Wierdness.
I thought this was a little odd. As you may or may not know, static (Shared in VB.NET) members are not inherited. Since static members are members of the class, not an instance of the class, this makes sense. When you create a subclass, you're creating a new class so you don't get the static methods.
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Another Unit Testing convert.
Josh Holmes discusses his recent experiences with unit testing and how he's now a firm believer in automated unit tests:
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Refreshing the project failed.
While working on an ASP.NET project over the weekend, I suddenly got an error message when opening my solution file: