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16 Ways To Create IObservables without implementing IObservable

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:43:26 GMT

The Reactive Extensions for .Net offers plenty of ways to create IObservables

CEP Style Sliding windows in the RX

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:06:23 GMT

A step-by-step implementation of CEP style sliding windows in the Reactive Framework

Creating high performance WCF services

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:27:07 GMT

"I had a WCF service where I wanted to be able to support over a hundred concurrent users, and while most of the service methods had small payloads which returned quickly, the startup sequence needed to pull down 200,000 records. The out of the box WCF service had no ability to support this scenario, but with some effort I was able to squeeze orders of magnitude performance increases out of the service and hit the performance goal."

DIY Stream Processing in C# with Events, Lambdas, DataTables, and Stop

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:59:21 GMT

an attempt at provding a Linq like solution for streaming data sources

Scheduling PowerShell tasks without a console window

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:11:01 GMT

Have you every wanted to use Windows Task Scheduler to run a PowerShell script on a frequent schedule, but hated how the console window would flash on the screen every time the script ran? Yeah, me too

The WPF ah-ha Moment

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:31:04 GMT

In nearly every bit of WPF training material or weblog there is some reference to the "ah-ha" moment. The point at which all the new concepts you've been learning gel into a cohesive unit. For me, that moment was one or two months after I started developing WPF in earnest (by which I mean for users other than myself). The task was to display two different indicators of a business metric, a green up arrow and a red down arrow.

op 5 Secrets of .Net Desktop Deployment Wizards

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:56:43 GMT

To install to the desktop, use ClickOnce. ClickOnce support for URLs and multiple envs

Dealing with the Configuration Nightmare

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:31:12 GMT

How to manage config files and multiple environments

Fuzzy Task List in WPF released to CodePlex

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:19:03 GMT

Fuzzy task lists are useful for kinds of tasks that don't have fixed times, such as: getting a hair cut scheduling your dentist appointment keeping in touch with old friends Unlike the actual appointment for the dentist - 4:45pm on Tuesday, the reminder to schedule the appointment doesn't really work for these kind of activities. There's no impact if you miss the date by a few days and often there are more important things to do. The fuzzy task list solves that problem. Code released to codeplex

Static analysis to win business and influence others

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:16:01 GMT

How static analysis tools can give a crucial competitive advantage

Driving Powershell adoption at the workplace

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:31:01 GMT

How to encourage a development team to adopt powershell