XSLT and Microsoft.NET
While working on XML serializers I wandered into the XSLT land. It turned out that XSLT support in .NET is not stellar. Well, you may already know that, but it […]
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Researching XML Serializers for .NET – work in progress
After a little discussion at work on which XML serializer for .NET to use, I decided to do a little research. The candidates were the regular XmlSerializer, the XAML serializer […]
Scripting .NET Apps
What are the options? This is what I found so far: * Dynamically compile C# or VB.NET code into an assembly and execute it – I used this route before […]
Automating .NET Executables Using COM
In one of my projects I needed to script a class inside a .NET executable. .NET has very good support for in-proc COM components: you create a class library, add […]
WCF Configuration: Thou Shalt Not Hard Code
WCF comes with a very handy configuration language that allows you to define bindings, end point properties and the like. Doing the same in code is a) tedious, b) inflexible: […]
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 […]
WCF Configuration
Thoughts from one of my last projects. It is difficult to create a well-isolated component that uses a WCF client under the covers. WCF reads end-point configuration settings from the […]
Is .NET a Java clone?
One of my friends said that he admires Microsoft marketing genius for creating a Java clone and bringing it to commercial success. But is .NET really a Java clone? On […]
Quirks of .NET DateTime type
It looks like subtracting dates in .NET is done purely mechanically, ignoring such subtleties as time zones or daylight savings time. In particular, the UTC flag is ignored when subtracting […]
.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 […]