If you are like me and are developing a visual studio solution which consists of multiple projects and you want to share the connection strings between them (for example – you may want to share a connection string between your MVC app and a unit test class library for integration tests ) without duplicating it, [...]
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May 22 2013
A simple image carousel prototype using Asp.net webforms and SignalR
If you are like and you were give a “scenario” where you had to design an online carousel which would show some images stored on the application server then you might find this demo useful . There are many different ways to create such an application and a typical method that comes to mind [...]
May 21 2012
How I diagnosed High CPU usage using Windbg
If you are like me and you have deployed a windows service onto a production server and the CPU on the server spikes randomly then, this post may be helpful in finding the root cause of the problem. Generally speaking, high CPU usage is indicative of the fact that one or more thread(s) in [...]
Mar 20 2012
Simple logging with NLog Application logger
If you are like me and you rely on trace information generated by your programs to diagnose production issues then you might like NLog. NLog is a lightweight open source logging library which has worked well for me in the last couple of projects that I have shipped. Amongst many different configuration options that NLog [...]
Jan 12 2012
SVN Externals – Share common assembly code between solutions
If you are like me and you have a similar problem of having to share common in-house library code between various Visual studio solutions and you are using SVN for your source code control, then SVN Externals might be a good option to consider. In my scenario, I had a class library which contains a [...]
Oct 15 2011
WCF service NETBIOS name resolution woes
If you are like me and you’ve: Created a WCF service that is hosted within a windows process. Configured the WCF service in code, instead of a config file. Exposed this service via the internet to a 3rd party (via router port forwarding for initial testing) Used basic http binding. It all works fine, if [...]
Oct 02 2011
Simple async in .net 2.0 & Winforms for “laydevs”
If you are like me (a lay-dev) and you swing back and forth between writing .net 4 and .net 2 apps. You are also asked to write simple winform applications from time to time, then this might help just a tad bit. Like the rest of the world I’m in love with lambdas, extension methods, [...]
Sep 30 2011
Clean sources Plus
If you are like me and you develop a lot of small Visual Studio Solutions that need to be checked into SVN then you’ll love this tool. I found it on Jeff Attwood’s site a while ago. Basically, the tool gets the crap out of your solution folder, makes it ideal for you to check [...]
Sep 14 2011
Setting up Git on Windows 7 (64-bit) & Visual Studio 2010
If you are like me and you need to set up this environment on your machine then this is what you could potentially do:
Aug 28 2011
Console 2 – A tabbed console window
If you are like me and hate having four console window icons pinned to your taskbar then you’ll like Console-2. The four console windows are: Normal DOS Shell (cmd.exe). Visual Studio 2008 Command prompt. Visual Studio 2010 Command prompt. Git Bash The first tab when i run the program is the Windows Command shell with [...]
