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Syntax highlighting with MGrammar

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:18:32 GMT

Lars discusses his findings in the System.Dataflow assembly, so that he was able to create a syntax highlighter that takes a compiled MGrammar and source code as input and outputs HTML.

Parsing the command line with MGrammar - Part 1

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:41:01 GMT

In this first installment of a blog series on MGrammar, Lars goes through the grammar of a small DSL that can be used to parse the command line.

Certificate Generation Made Easy

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:57:47 GMT

Here is a HTA script that automates the generation of a self signed CA and a machine certificate. This helps achieve the advantage of a Root CA without the need to actually build a server to act as a Certificate Authority. Screen shots give you an example of the functionality.

Configurable PrincipalPermission attribute

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:58:17 GMT

This blog post and sample code shows how you can create a clone of the System.Security.Permissions.PrincipalPermissionAttribute and configure it from the {app|web}.config.

Codename "Velocity" WF/WCF Persistence Provider

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:14:24 GMT

Lars shows how you can use Microsoft's upcoming distributed cache engine dubbed "Velocity" as a backing store for instance persistence when handling durable/long-running services in Windows Workflow Foundation and/or Windows Communication Foundation. Code is provided under the Apache License 2.0.

Tinyject - IoC in an Afternoon

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:32:45 GMT

Oh, not another IoC/DI container, you might think. Well, this one is tiny, and can be a good source for newbies to read code and understand how a container works.

Windows Strata: Microsoft's Cloud OS?

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:01:02 GMT

Microsoft PDC session lists hints at the name of the new Cloud OS

WCF Test Client - Extended!

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:29:44 GMT

This blog post and the accompanying source code shows you have you can wrap the WcfTestClient.exe that is a part of the Visual Studio 2008 installation, so that you can save & load the test data you enter.

Controlling WebHttpBinding output format - Custom WebContentTypeMapper

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:27:05 GMT

How to implement a custom WebContentTypeMapper and set up a customBinding that enables it. The customBinding contains the channels that is needed for doing "REST" style communication ( webHttpBinding equivalent).

How to resolve a "... cannot be processed at the receiver, due to an A

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:56:13 GMT

If you experience strange fault messages about AddressFilter and EndpointDispatchers when doing .NET 3.5 / WCF WebHttpBinding development - the answer is most likely described here.

Upgrade a classic class library to enable the WCF Test Client

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:55:57 GMT

If you have an existing class library containing a WCF Service, and you want to use the new WCF Test Client in Visual Studio 2008, take a look here.

Microsoft eScrum for Team Foundation Server: Ouch!

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:53:55 GMT

Useful information about the installation of the new Scrum Process Template + Web Site for Team Foundation Server.

WPF Wikipedia Explorer Released

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:01:02 GMT

The guys at DotNet Solutions have created a brilliant application that provides totally new interface to Wikipedia using the visual capability of Windows Presentation Foundation. It deals with and displays the relationships between the articles in a linked and 3D explorer mode.

Value Types vs Primitive Types

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:31:02 GMT

Questions of the day 1. Is there any difference between Primitive Types & Value Types ? 2. Are all Value Types primitive types and vise versa ? 3. Is there any difference between string & System.String ?

Enabling unsigned IFilters for Full-Text indexing in SQL Server 2005

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:01:02 GMT

Explains how to enable loading of unsigned IFilter-based COM-components in SQL Server 2005 - to enable full-text indexing of file types like CHM, PDF etc.

Tipping TDD

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:01:01 GMT

In this post I share some thoughts on how to increase the chance of an organization adopting TDD.

Composite UI Application Block

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 03:33:00 GMT

This application block is a reusable, source code-based component based on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. It provides proven practices to build complex smart client user interfaces based on well known design patterns such as the Composite pattern, in which simple user interface parts can be combined to create complex solutions, but at the same time allowing these parts to be independently developed, tested, and deployed.

Flexible and Plug-in-based .NET Application using Provider Pattern

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:01:00 GMT

This paper demonstrates creating a flexible, extensible, plug-in-based .NET application (JOM - Smart Job Manager). JOM is an asynchronous job processing engine built using the MS Provider design pattern and the .NET technology available today.