Richard Blewett's wanderings around .NET
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Published on 10 Jan 2005
Chris Lyon has just posted on a .NET newsgroup that you can enable the server GC by using a config file in .NET 1.1 SP1 not just Whidbey. I posted the Whidbey detail about this here Note that the element should be gcServer (note casing) WAHOO!!!!
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Published on 07 Jan 2005
Recently, my blog has been getting more and more besieged by referrer spam. I finally decided to do something about this and have written an HttpModule that processes a list of spam referrers and all in that list get returned an HTTP 404 error, without my blog ever seeing the request. The list of s
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Published on 06 Jan 2005
Well I just had to take the test and I must admit I'm quite releieved I was a way off King Nerd (let alone King Nerd God)
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Published on 06 Jan 2005
Another question on the BizTalk Orchestration newsgroup has prompted me to write another sample. This one implements an adder webservice using a request/response receive port and a map to perform the processing. You can get it here. You will need to run the web service publishing wizard on the asse
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Published on 05 Jan 2005
I've just taken delivery of a new 250 Gb LaCie d2 Extreme external hard drive to run my VPCs off. The nice thing about this is it has a USB2, FireWire and FireWire 800 interface (for when I get around to getting a FireWire 800 card for my laptop). Its awesomely fast and my BizTalk VPC is just flying
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Published on 04 Jan 2005
In a recent post on a BizTalk newsgroup, someone was asking how they combine three messages into one. Although you can do this with a map it can be messy. A message assignment shape is much more flexible. You can pass the messages to a .NET method as XmlDocument references and return the combined m
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Published on 03 Jan 2005
I've just heard that I've been awarded MVP status for C#. This is a great way to start the New Year and I'd like to thank both Microsoft and whoever nominated me - its very flattering. Hopefully I'll be able to keep up the same level of involvement in the community during 2005, its been a blast.
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Published on 22 Dec 2004
A question came up on a Microsoft BizTalk newsgroup asking how you call the XMethods Currency Exchange Rate web service. I knocked up this demo to show how to do it.
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Published on 21 Dec 2004
A while back I was bemoaning the fact that generics were not CLS compliant. However, its just been announced that they will be by Whidbey beta 2. Hooray!
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Published on 20 Dec 2004
During a thread on the Microsoft C# newsgroups someone was asking about whether they could use a Monitor for cross process synchronization. I replied stating that a Monitor was AppDomain specific and so no. Willy Denoyette (do you have a blog Willy?) replied and said “If you take a lock on a domain
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Published on 16 Jan 2005
I was teaching Essential BizTalk 2004 in LA this week and I promised my students I'd post some useful website and blogs on my blog. So I quickly knocked up a web page with stuff I find useful. I'll add to it as time goes on. You can see it here.
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Published on 19 Jan 2005
I've just stumbled across Jeff Lynch's Blog. Great stuff - subscribed.
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Published on 13 Feb 2005
I've just read on Jeff Lynch's blog that the WSE 2.0 adapter has been released - wahoo! At last we get fully fledged security with BizTalk web service integration
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Published on 13 Feb 2005
I just got back off vacation in Florida where I did my PADI Advanced Open Water certification. I took it with Ocean Divers who are a great, very professional, outfit. My "Deep Dive" was on the Spiegel Grove which was an absolutely stunning dive. That ship is huge and its sheer size is quite overwhel
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Published on 16 Feb 2005
This may be a big deal Bruce Schnier reports that the SHA-1 algorithm which IIRC correctly is used in the assembly signing infrastructure, by default, has been broken by a group of Chinese researchers
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Published on 22 Feb 2005
I caught the end of a thread on the microsoft C# newsgroup (catching up after vacation and a teaching gig with limited connectivity). Something smells in the value type initialization world (somewhere where I seem destined to spend a large amount of time.Consider the following code: we have a class
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Published on 01 Apr 2005
Many readers will remember the incredible richness and ease of development when writing COM IDL. Microsoft quite high handedly decided to dispatch it to the sidelines of history with this .NET *thing*. Well some of use have decided to try to get IDL reinstated as a first class development language -
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Published on 29 Apr 2005
Under .NET 1.x there was always an issue with changing webservices and value types. The problem being that if a the server side added a new value type parameter and the client didn't update, the client wouldn't send the extra information in the soap request. This meant that the web service received
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Published on 27 May 2005
I am a Gauntlet Adventurer. I strive to improve my living conditions by hoarding gold, food, and sometimes keys and potions. I love adventure, fighting, and particularly winning - especially when there's a prize at stake. I occasionally get lost inside buildings and can't find the exit. I need food
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Published on 27 May 2005
I'm going to be at Tech*Ed 2005 in Amsterdam on the Ask The Experts booths. Drop by and say hello if your passing
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Published on 09 Jun 2005
As part of my investigations into Indigo I was checking out how session management was implemented (see InstanceMode). However, as much as I really like tcpTrace as a tracing tool - trying to wade though the mire of SOAP headers was just too painful as tcpTrace doesn't have any awareness of SOAP. S
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Published on 24 Jun 2005
In my Indigo work at the moment, I seem to be spending as much time in an XML editor as in a code editor (if not more sometimes). I went to a part of a config that I wanted to comment out and out of habit pressed Ctrl-K Ctrl-C ... Wow! it worked! As in fact does Ctrl-K Ctrl-U Hey, I don;t know this
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Published on 11 Sep 2005
I've just seen this post from Sam so I thought I'd cheer him up by saying I'm going to PDC too! Come and drop by the DevelopMentor stand and say hello we'll have some neat stuff to talk about during the week.
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Published on 17 Sep 2005
Well the PDC has ended and so I guess its time to reflect on stuff that has been going on this week. I guess the big news for me that I can talk about is that I'm co-authoring DevelopMentor's Guerrilla WinFX course with Jon Flanders, Dominick Baier, Pierre Nallet and Brock Allen. The first run will
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Published on 24 Sep 2005
So Microsoft call it dogfooding. I guess I had to take the plunge on a number of fronts. I've installed Vista on my laptop - yes, not in a VPC. Not only that I have now abandonned by .NET 1.1 dev environment (theres a major repave on the way if I get a 1.1 consulting gig ;-) ). I decided, as we are
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