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Reflection by example with Powershell
A coworker swung by a few days ago to ask some questions about using Reflection. I learn really well by example so I decided to use Powershell to show using Reflection. Below is the session I used and later emailed to him. You can see a few spots at the bottom of the example where I was unsure of the syntax on passing an empty parameter array, but I figured it out.
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Simple tutorial on System.Threading.Mutex for dummies (like me)
(Warning - this post is both a rant against the Mutex as well as a guide for its usage. Also, don’t blindly copy code, only the bottom code snippet works. :-) )
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Powershell script to print diff output in color
Here is a simple script I wrote which was inspired by this post on terminal color highlighting and by ColorDiff that does essentially the same thing.
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Gmail down?!? Oh noes!
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FSDNUG Meeting with Chris Koenig on Silverlight
Just a reminder to anyone in the Fort Smith area - we’ll be meeting next Monday night at 6:00 to hear Chris Koenig talk about Silverlight. Chris is a Microsoft Developer Evangelist located out of Dallas. I got to meet Chris last year for a grand total of about 5 minutes when I went down for the .NET Roadshow that was hosted at Microsoft’s office in Dallas. Chris got to escort me and the others between floors on the elevator :-)
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NDepend - Static analysis on steroids
If you’ve been working with the .NET Framework for a while, you’re hopefully already using some form of static analysis to help you catch problems with your code. One of the most well known is Microsoft’s FxCop, which is now integrated as the Code Analysis feature in Visual Studio 2005 [1] and up. If you’re not already using this tool, then please start because it can help you find problem areas like potential NullReferenceExceptions as well as globalization and security issues.
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Joel was right, browser commenters have no idea what they're talking about
If you haven’t already read Joel’s commentary on the current situation with browsers, specifically the Internet Explorer 8 beta, you should check it out1. As always, read the opposing viewpoint as well. I would say that some of the comments to that post might provide more value than the sarcasm in the post, specifically this comment from Mark himself.
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Did you know that the Immediate window in Visual Studio lets you create temporary variables?!?
I am a huge fan of the immediate window in Visual Studio. I say forget the watch window - I’d rather use code to check values. In case you didn’t know, you can get values in the Immediate window by typing “?” and the variable name. Like so:
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FSDNUG Meeting with Raymond Lewallen on Behavior Driven Design
Last night kicked out the Fort Smith .NET User Group’s first meeting. It went great! I would guess that we had at least 20 or 30 people show up.
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