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Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Getting error message with XSD MSBuild task

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Lately I've been getting the error message : error MSB4018: Microsoft.Build.Shared.InternalErrorException: MSB0001: Internal MSBuild E...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Debugging multiple processes and following the children in Eclipse Juno

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I guess Eclipse has made it much easier in recent versions of Eclipse and CDT to debug multiple processes and have the debugger follow child...
Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Using key gestures with parameterized Commands in WPF is "broken"

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Ok, it's not actually broken, it just doesn't work the way I wanted (or expected). Apparently, there's a very good article on w...
Friday, February 01, 2013

Getting the proper Includes to show up in the project explorer in Eclipse with CDT with a cross-compiling project

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I finally learned how, and it's thanks to an awesome question posted on stackoverflow.com  .
Thursday, January 24, 2013

"Network is unreachable" on an embedded box

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We've been working extensively with embedded boxes lately trying to migrate our platform over. One of the programs we've been trying...
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Friday, January 18, 2013

Synchronizing with a remote SVN repository

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We recently had a double hard-drive failure on our RAID 5 on our main server at work, and we lost our stuff. Our primary backup method of th...

Cross-compiling libexpat (and other libraries)

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So, lately I've been trying to cross-compile libexpat for a new board with a different architecture from what we typically use at work, ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Journey to robust Windows Services

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Because I have the need for it in several projects, I'm going to be working with Windows Services implemented with .NET quite a bit in t...

Adding the Network Service account to the permissions for a file/folder/registry key etc

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I'm currently developing a Windows Service that's to be run under the Network Service account (owing to the fact that it requires su...
Sunday, January 06, 2013

Wpf2WinRT: Bindings are not the same!

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I've just learned something new about the bindings system in WinRT: they're not the same as Bindings in WPF. Check out the MSDN page...

Migrating from WPF to Windows 8

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As part of the ongoing development efforts at my company, I'm always researching the latest technologies and developments. My latest en...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Finding the public key and public key token of an assembly for use with InternalsVisibleTo

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It seems like one of the most common problems out there when it comes to testing and dealing with strongly-named assemblies is getting the p...

Changing the default URI of a WCF web service

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I recently returned to one of my previous employers since they lured me away with a better employment offer than I was currently receiving. ...
Sunday, September 16, 2012

Previews with a DataContext in WPF

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Both the company I currently work for and the previous company I worked for use WPF extensively in some of their products. I recently ran ac...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Deleting more Subversion folders

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Further to my previous post on deleting subversion folders with powershell, I recently had the need to do the same in bash on linux. Here...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Determining what ports Tomcat is running on

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I've recently had problems connecting to a Tomcat server setup by another developer. In order to troubleshoot these problems, I wanted ...
Friday, October 01, 2010

Event models in Silverlight vs WPF

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To really understand the event model in Microsoft's Silverlight / WPF frameworks, you need to start off with a proper mental model. You...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

Holy crap, a Windows ramdisk program that works

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In the past, I've had a bit of experience trying to install and run ramdisks in Windows XP, but I never found anything really good. Mic...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Editing your file system mappings for TFS paths

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So, as you may or may not know, when using Microsoft Team Foundation Server for version control, TFS maps remote project paths into local fi...

Starting a new job ... and a new philosophy

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Ok, so I've left my previous employer and started at a new job. This means new domains of knowledge, new tools, and new people. My new...
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