One more time about TFS
Every day when I open my solution in Visual Studio I get this message box: After that Visual Studio checks out my solution file and a number of project files, […]
Hacker’s diary
WPF: Cannot Combine Bindings and Other Text
It is not a big deal, but still unpleasant. It is not possible to do something like <TextBlock Text=”Speed: {Binding Path=Speed} mph” /> The text in the squiggles appears verbatim […]
WPF: Pack URIs: what's the point of all the commas?
WPF uses “pack” URI schema to point to resources. An absolute pack URI looks like this: pack://application:,,,/ResourceFile.xaml The schema is described in this MSDN article and they claim the URIs […]
Trying NHibernate
I was recently doing and small research project and got kinda tired of mechanically spitting out all those boring chants like using (var cmd = new SqlCommand(“SELECT foo, bar FROM […]
How I lost name resolution
One not so bright day I connected my laptop to the home network and discovered that I lost name resolution. I.e., I could ping other computers by IP address, but […]
Merging Configs (WCF and otherwise)
Following up on the WCF config theme. Back in April I wrote a config merger for our CAB application. General scenario was as follows: we had a central “shell” application […]
Sun Java update – WTF?
I had a “Java update available” icon on my task bar for a while. Finally I decided to install it. I thought it would be something like a service pack […]
Original XP install CD does not understand SP2 NTFS partition
My computer crashed today and would not reboot. I.e. windows starts booting and then says it cannot find c:windowssystem32configsystem file. It suggested to boot from the install CD and use […]
Windows Server 2008 Backup: a True Masterpiece of Absurdity
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worseMurphy’s Law I was looking for a backup solution for a new computer with Windows 2008 Server. Naturally, first I […]
.NET: no trace TextWriter…
I wanted to create a logger that writes either to a file, or to the System.Diagnostics.Trace. To my astonishment, I found that .NET class library does not have a TextWriter […]