Designing Out Loud in the .NET Space

PowerPoint Slides for my Code Camp Talk on Reactive Extensions

jons — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:41:00 GMT

See the attached file. It is a zip file to keep my blogging server happy. Source code was just posted in a post earlier today....(read more)

Source Code for Reactive Extensions Code Camp Talk

jons — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:34:00 GMT

I have attached the source code from my Code Camp talk as a zip file. You will have to download and install the Reactive Extensions from the following web page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/ee794896.aspx There are different versions based upon...(read more)

How to get MSTest to Deploy a Subdirectory for Testing (Revised)

jons — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:26:15 GMT

I am working on a project that uses MSTest for unit (and integration) testing. In the main project (Win Forms) there is a subdirectory that holds some data files that are needed by the program and several of the unit tests. Remember that MsTest...(read more)

Problems in Switching a Virtual Machine from VirtualPC to Hyper-V

jons — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:55:57 GMT

I do a lot of development using VirtualPC images. It keeps my base laptop relatively clean and allows my VPC images to join client domains. Recently, I rolled on to a project that had a very large VHD file. The file was too large to...(read more)

Test Post after Update to Windows 7

jons — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:52:45 GMT

See above....(read more)

Spring 2009 Code Camp Software Solution

jons — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:24:00 GMT

More than a bit late but this has been a very busy time for me: this is the zip file containing the actual code as a VS2008 Solution....(read more)

Spring 2009 Code Camp Presentation

jons — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:15:00 GMT

More than a bit late but this has been a very busy time for me: this is the zip file containing the presentation....(read more)

More on the Virtual PC Install Issues

jons — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:15:00 GMT

Yesterday, I was able to install one of the packages that was trapped in an endless “disk resources” loop using the following sequence: Un-install Virtual Machine Additions. Install package 1. Re-install virtual Machine Additions. Realize...(read more)

Software Installation Problems on Virtual PC Running Windows Server 2008

jons — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:36:28 GMT

I am working at a client that requires the consultants to work on a PC that is a member of their domain. I and the other consultants do not what to join our physical laptops to their domain. Enter Virtual PC 2007 SP1. Most of us have...(read more)

T4 Parameter Passing: Redemption, Sweet Redemption

jons — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:54:00 GMT

In the play and subsequent movie , A Streetcar Named Desire, the playwright Tennessee Williams has the character Blanche DuBois say, “I've always depended on the kindness of strangers.” That is also quite applicable to the technical community....(read more)

T4 Parameter Passing: Problem Isolation

jons — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:03:22 GMT

I have been tracking down why I could not get my custom host for T4 to work. I now know the specific condition that causes the failure and that knowledge leads to a short-term work around. This is the question that I posted on the MSDN forums...(read more)

T4 Parameter Passing: Hacking Text Transformation

jons — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:14:28 GMT

In my last post, T4 Parameter Passing: You Can’t There from Here , I complained that the TextTransformation class did not have direct knowledge of the host. I tried a couple of ways to get around this. Before I do that, I need to list some...(read more)

T4 Parameter Passing: You Can’t There from Here

jons — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:51:08 GMT

The inheritance from TextTransformation is not going to work, at least not directly. The TextTransformation class has no knowledge of the template location or the host. I suppose that I could force the template to use the hostspecific="True"...(read more)

T4 Parameter Passing: Withdrawal

jons — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:14:59 GMT

I found an article about T4: Extending the Generated Template Class by Mike Pagel . I want to see if this works. If it does, I can use this approach for the moment while I take a long-term poke at the custom “host” approach. Technorati tags:...(read more)

T4 Parameter Passing: Retrospective

jons — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:41:56 GMT

I have banged my nose on trying to build a custom tool that does the same thing as the TextTemplatingFileGenerator custom tool that drives the T4 code generation process but is smart about how to find the XML files that I am using to drive my code generation...(read more)