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Tag Archives: .net
XNA Studio 3.0 under Parallels
Still no joy with the new beta. Any VMWare Fusion peeps have any luck?
Future Values With Castle’s DynamicProxy
.NET has lots of support for asynchronous processing, which ASP.NET packages up very nicely in PageAsyncTasks. And yet I almost always find an excuse not to use them – they’re hard to test, it’s not instantly obvious what the logic … Continue reading
Perfidy: Performance Testing In NUnit
Unsatisfied with calling QueryPerformanceCounter and being done with it, I spent today coming up with a fluent interface for performance testing in NUnit: using (At.Most(5).Seconds) { // Stuff that should take under 5 seconds } using (At.Most(1).Minute.GiveOrTake(10).Seconds) { // Stuff … Continue reading
NHibernate-friendly Types
It’s probably a combination of laziness and plain bad form to try and map too many BCL types to your database, but if you’re interested, I’ve gone through a few important assemblies and compiled a list of classes that: Are … Continue reading
ObjectSpaces Xml Documentation
Does anyone else have System.Data.ObjectSpaces.xml in their Frameworkv2.0.50727 directory? I’ve never had the ObjectSpaces bits on this machine, so I assume this is just a standard bit of cruft that comes with the framework. Anyhow, I know Paul Wilson drew … Continue reading
We Don’t Sell Software, We Sell Experiences! (Currently in Beta)
Amidst all the excitement, it’s easy to forget that anybody in Microsoft’s vast, sprawling EMEA Region won’t be able to get Beta 2 until April 25th. Unless you have an MSDN Universal subscription, of course. Which most of you do, … Continue reading
Dispatch .NET And Ajax To Bring Back His Body
Ajax.NET looks fun, but he who wishes to share code only with partners must obfuscate his work.