In the past few days I was moved to analyze some legacy code from a huge web application written by a company I work with. I have to write some new modules to integrate in this application; but while I was reviewing the code to ‘learn’ the styl...

This entry was posted on Thursday, 29 October, 2009 and is filed under .Net  Tips  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

These days I’m working on a custom application updater for our products and I had the need to Close the main Application process from the Updater process. My first implementation involved getting the main application process ID and then use som...

This entry was posted on Monday, 26 October, 2009 and is filed under .Net  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

Some days ago my good friend Gian Maria Ricci showed on his blog Alkampfer’s Place a nice way to integrate twitter and TFS showing how you can have tweets related to TFS actions. The idea was pretty cool, I actually do not a have a TFS up and ...

This entry was posted on Friday, 10 July, 2009 and is filed under NUnit  .Net  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

One of the major problems when it comes to NUnit extensibility is the limitation that you must deploy your Addins in a subfolder (named ‘addins’) under the installation (or run) path of NUnit, so if you build some customization and extension an...

This entry was posted on Monday, 06 July, 2009 and is filed under .Net  NUnit  Visual Studio  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

These days I’m heavily working on NUnit to build some extensions to the testing framework we need on our projects. We need a simple way to launch our tests inside visual studio while developing. Our first solution was to use TestDriven.NET or t...

This entry was posted on Friday, 26 June, 2009 and is filed under Visual Studio  NUnit  .Net  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

Sooner or later everyone face the problem of having to deal with paginated data in WPF, paginating a collection is quite easy and you can refer to one of my previous posts too (http://www.primordialcode.com/index.php/2008/09/08/silverlight-a-ge...

This entry was posted on Thursday, 18 June, 2009 and is filed under .Net  WPF  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

In one of my previous posts I demonstrated how you can build a Castle Windsor facility to create WCF Proxy classes given the interface of the service (Castle Windsor WCF Services Resolution Facility). For my WPF/Silverlight application framewor...

This entry was posted on Monday, 08 June, 2009 and is filed under WCF  Unity  .Net  IoC  Silverlight  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

During the last days I had to put my hands on an hold project written for .NET Framework 1.1 and convert his database from Access to SQL Express 2005, the conversion was quite easy but then the deployment phase stepped in.We had the requirement...

This entry was posted on Thursday, 29 January, 2009 and is filed under .Net  SQL  Visual Studio  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

Here’s the first deploy of Structura, this project is related to our User Group DotNetMarche and will be part of a set of application frameworks and open source solutions we develop as community projects. Structura will be in our mind an applic...

This entry was posted on Tuesday, 16 December, 2008 and is filed under WPF  .Net  Silverlight  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

Actually I’m working on a multi-target framework for Silverlight and WPF and I have developed a base to be used by any entity and DTO class that can also be sent back and forth through WCF or WebServices; a deriver class supports a generic clon...

This entry was posted on Thursday, 04 December, 2008 and is filed under Silverlight  .Net  WPF  Tips  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.