Category Archives: .Net

How to rewrite System.Configuration.CommaDelimitedStringCollection wrong.

We produce data in comma delimited strings. So as part of a tool we are writing, I wrote a simple loop to output a list of objects with commas between items. Which we found today would fail when called like … Continue reading

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SleepyQueue

I discovered in my Curse of the Azure Bonds port that I was handling system interrupts related to keyboard input incorrectly. What I needed was a blocking getKey function when keys were buffered. So I wrote some code to solve this … Continue reading

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Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is out…

From Darryl I learnt Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is out. Damn it, I had only just gotten Beta 1 installed and working how I liked in my VPC at work. Well I’m excited really about the new version, but … Continue reading

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Started playing with Castle Windsor Container

And all I have done so far is spill blood, trying to add Windsor to a working DCOM service. So I’m going to try go back to square one, get the basic examples working, and progress from there… Update: So … Continue reading

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System.BitConverter

I have been writing a layer around our DCOM interface of the last few days, and today I needed to convert a double to 8 byte stream. Low and behold a new .Net 2.0 helper class System.BitConverter, very useful. I … Continue reading

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