Archive for May, 2009

Spooks

-I’ll stick to what we’ve agreed. -To tell the truth… -…the whole truth and nothing but the truth. -The truth is a highly elastic concept. -No, we make it elastic. Manipulating the truth, breaking law, making life or death decisions is the daily business for “Section D” at MI-5. The team led by Harry Pearce [...]

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Depoy a ClickOnce-App from a Build-Server

ClickOnce (Wikipedia, MSDN) is an easy way to deploy and update your .NET-application. Its also easy to set it up in Visual Studio and run it from there. It increments the version-number, compiles and deploys the application in one and simple step. But I really don’t want to publish software with my IDE on a [...]

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Being Human

Annie is talking exited with the pizza-delivery-boy who just brought her pizza, but the pizza-guy doesn’t share Annies enthusiasm for small-talk. After the chat Annie closes the door and returns to her flat, which is covered with cups of tea and coffee. Annie is relieved that finally ordinary people can see her… George has a [...]

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Mocks for internal interfaces

Maybe you’ve already seen an exception like this: Castle.DynamicProxy.Generators.GeneratorException: Type is not public, so a proxy cannot be generated. Type: SpielWiese.IReportSender …stack-trace… at SpielWiese.TestSomething.ExpectReportsSend() in Program.cs: line 64 What I’ve tried is to create a mock-object with Rhino-Mock. Since this interface is only intended for usage within the assembly it’s declared as internal interface. So [...]

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Dollhouse

- Hello Echo, how are you feeling? – Did I fall asleep? – For a little while. Routine conversation when Echo, an ‘active’ in the Dollhouse (IMDb, Wikpedia), just got her memory wiped out. In her Dollhouse state, Echo and the other ‘actives’ are like ‘dolls’, vulnerable, helpless and without any idea what the real [...]

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Lang.NET Symposium 2009

The videos of the Lang.NET are online. Again wonderful  geeky talks about programming-languages and other programming-related stuff: http://www.langnetsymposium.com/2009/talks.aspx One of the best talks is again from Erik Meijer. He explains his LINQ-to-Events stuff with coins and his talk is really fun to watch. Sadly the video only includes the slides: Silverlight, WMV Additionally there are [...]

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