Archive for August, 2006

Hawkeye

Posted on August 31st, 2006 by aaron
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I just installed Hawkeye, and I’m pretty impressed!
What is Hawkeye? From the website:
“Hawkeye is the only .Net tool that allows you to view, edit, analyze and invoke (almost) any object from a .Net application. Whenever you try to debug, test, change or understand an application, Hawkeye can help.”
I haven’t put it through any sort of [...]

A few good links

Posted on August 31st, 2006 by aaron
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I found a few good links from the blogosphere today:
A .NET RSS implementation. It may conform to the spec, but I don’t think it’s created to handle reading other people’s crappy (read: incorrect) RSS feeds well.
Partake in a WPF contest – Might be a good way to dive in and start learning the technology.
Jack Gudenkauf [...]

My team is hiring!

Posted on August 25th, 2006 by aaron
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My team is looking for a driven, passionate Application developer (specializing in User Interfaces). We are working on some very cool technology and creating some kick-ass client applications (our CEO’s words). If you’re a .NET developer who excels at delivering an amazing user experience, drop me a line. aaron [dot] lerch [at] [...]

MSDN Wiki

Posted on August 25th, 2006 by aaron
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No sooner did I post saying that MSDN docs are incomplete than I remembered that there’s an effort at Microsoft to allow the community to add comments.
Check out the wiki at http://msdnwiki.microsoft.com/
I already went through and added the comments I felt were appropriate for HttpListenerResponse.SendChunked and HttpListenerResponse.ContentLength64.
Good for you, MSDN!

MSDN documentation can be incomplete.

Posted on August 23rd, 2006 by aaron
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Well, incomplete in my opinion anyway.
A co-worker was having a problem with his in-process HTTP server written using the very cool HttpListener class available in .NET 2.0 (on Win2k3 and WinXP SP2 only). In his code he was attempting to enable chunking of the response by setting the HttpListenerResponse.SendChunked property to true. Great! [...]

IDesign

Posted on August 22nd, 2006 by aaron
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I’m sure that this is a well known resource to all by now, but in case someone out there doesn’t know, IDesign has some fantastic free downloads of code/design samples for C#/WCF.

The extra five percent

Posted on August 11th, 2006 by aaron
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Software developers at my company are, naturally, grouped into teams that tackle (or “own”) respective portions of the platform we produce. I’m on the client team which means we are responsible for most of the applications that users use to interface with the system. I say most because some specific server-focused teams still [...]