by David | Jun 26, 2011 | Development
I just loaded my Visual Studio instance and got the most bizarre test run error. In addition, I found no answers on google. Now that´s surprising! I found the error by pressing the blue link here: Which displayed to me this: Error 2011-06-13 10:20:42 The...
by David | Jun 24, 2011 | Development
Perhaps nobody uses xps-files? Well, I do. Not because they´re neat or nice or good or anything but because they´re there and Microsoft actually has support for them. I use xps-s for previewing office documents since they can be opened in wpf and Office standard...
by David | Jun 23, 2011 | Development
I recently tried out the JustCompile .Net decompiler from Telerik and I have previously been using both the RedGate Reflector and JetBrains DotPeek. First up, neither DotPeek or JustCompile compares to previously free Reflector but this is mainly because they´re both...
by David | Jun 11, 2011 | Development
Ever tried to put together a neat little XML document with the XDocument -class? Its quite nice but when not working together with IO (in other words, not actually writing the XML to disk) you´re sure to experience the BOM. BOM is an abbreviation for Byte Order Mark,...
by David | Jun 10, 2011 | Development
I loves reflection. I loves reflection all day long 🙂 Just now I found another nice usage of the not-even-real-reflection Object.GetType() method. Say we got a framework that works with plugins implementing an abstract class: public abstract class PluginBase { public...
by David | Jun 7, 2011 | Development
I´ve recently poked about a bit with SharePoint 2007. Trying to avoid using the somewhat costly web services (which is also hard to debug and has kinda crappy interfaces) I´ve been using the possibility to link SharePoint lists to Access databases. However, I found it...