Winterdom

I'm going over some WCF custom transport channels I had worked on recently and noticed something that made me suspicious right away that something was wrong: Using my custom channel listener, only a single message would be processed at a time, even though several messages were being fed to WCF....

Some people, particularly former VB developers, cannot live without Edit & Continue support in the Visual Studio debugger. While I agree that the feature can be useful at times, it can be easy to abuse, but that's not my main problem with it. </p> What I can't stand about Edit...

If you can read this, it means that my WebSite and Weblog migration worked. Hopefully, by now DNS changes have replicated correctly and even FeedBurner is picking up the updated feed from the new site. Now for some minor technical details: </p> For now, I've decided to stick with Wordpress...

Today was the release of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, so I immediately started an in-place upgrade of my Dell D820 laptop. Downloading the packages took forever (the servers where obviously getting hammered pretty badly), but finally completed at the end of the afternoon. After that, actually installing the downloaded packages...

Have you wondered why I haven’t posted in a while? Well, I was away for a couple of weeks on vacation, and plenty busy before that, so there has been little time to sit down and write some meaningful content :-). Hopefully now that I’m back I should be able...

Here’s a downright ugly, but somewhat useful script to generate a ClassificationFormats.xcml file for the Intellipad editor in the Oslo SDK from a *.vssettings file exported from Visual Studio 2008. This should work on a reasonably complete exported Visual Studio color scheme, such as the ones I have posted in...

As you can see, the Intellipad editor that comes with the Oslo SDK can also be customized, including the color scheme used by the editor: The experience right now, however, is… not the best. You have to jump through 2 different hoops: Edit the ClassificationFormats.xcml file that is found in...

I finally put my set of PowerShell script samples for BizTalk Server administration together into a single git repository over at GitHub. As a reference, here are the blog posts covering each of those scripts: Controlling BizTalk Orchestrations with PowerShell BizTalk Ports with PowerShell BTS Suspended Messaging Instances with PowerShell...

The current subtitle in this blog is By daemons be driven. I thought many might recognize where it comes  from, but for those who might stumble on this page and are not metal fans, I should point out that this is a simple play on words.   The line comes...

I love Windows PowerShell, I really do. However, some of its language features drive me crazy sometimes. One of those is propagation of null values on expressions involving the ‘.’ operator for property access. Basically the problem is this: Suppose you have a variable $x, and you reference a property...