Generate sequence diagrams with Visual studio 2010 09 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, VS2010 Cool! I’ve just discovered this new feature in Visual Studio 2010 (Beta 2) where you can generate a sequence diagram from your code. This should take the hard bit out of generating documentation from your code :) Here’s a screen shot: The only thing you need to to is to point to the method you ... [More]
Installing VS2010 Beta 2 09 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development So I’ve installed VS2010 today. Installation went quite well but you might want to uninstall the Silverlight 3 SDK because that gave an issue on my machine. The VS logo has changed colors: Usual license stuff… 5.6 Gb on disk required… And there we go… This took about half an hour on my ... [More]
who is going to teched in Berlin? 09 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot I am looking forward going to TechEd in Berlin this year. Not only because of TechEd, but also because of the celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. If you’re also going, I hope to see you there! U2U, the company I work for, will give a free TechEd ticket to the first two bookers of a new trai... [More]
Problem running the WCF 4 DiscoveryProxy sample 08 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot WCF Today I was playing around with managed WS-discovery with WCF 4. To try a couple of things I used the WCF sample DiscoveryProxy. However running the sample gave me this error: {"A TCP error (10013: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions) occurred w... [More]
Strange but true: using a keyword as a variable 04 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development Can you use a keyword as an argument, or any other kind of local variable? Why would you want to do that? That aside: how? Easy! Just use the @ in front of any keyword and you can now use it as a variable. For example: class Program { static void UsingKeywordArg(string @string) ... [More]
Renaming a Workflow foundation 4 service 02 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot Workflow Foundation allows you to create a workflow as a service using WCF. You can do this by choosing a “Declarative Sequential Service Library” project from the WCF tab: This will (as usual) create a new project with the service declared in Service1.xamlx. Opening this file will open the work... [More]
Silverlight deployment: deploying to multiple environments 29 September 2009 Peter-Himschoot WPF/Silverlight Today I got an interesting question, namely they were using services in their silverlight application, but each time they needed to deploy they unzipped the .xap file to change the ServiceReferences.ClientConfig configuration to use their production server. of course this meant re-zipping back to .x... [More]
Using T4 to automatically generate your entities 26 September 2009 Peter-Himschoot *** This is a repost of a previous post because of moving to a new blog engine in which some formatting was lost *** Today I discovered something very interesting, namely how to automatically generate my entity classes (classes that also implement the INotifyPropertyChanged and IDataErrorInfo inter... [More]
Serializing Cyclic Graphs of objects with WCF 23 September 2009 Peter-Himschoot *** This is a repost of a previous post because of moving to a new blog engine in which some formatting was lost *** Abstract In this blog post I will be discussing how the serialize cyclic graphs of objects using WCF, including data contracts and POCO’s ( Plain Old CLR Objects). Introduction WC... [More]
Welcome to our new blog engine!! 21 September 2009 Peter-Himschoot Stuff Look at this great new blog engine built by my good colleagues Lieven Iliano and Kevin DeRudder. Even more reason to keep up blogging! Great work! Now let’s hope Lieven will start bloggin’ too!