Winterdom

I use the excellent ps1.vim script originally written by Peter Provost to provide syntax highlighting for PowerShell scripts in Vim, and I’ve been very happy with it in general. However, PowerShell V2 is coming with a few extra syntax enhancements and there were always a couple minor issues that bugged...

I’ve been working a lot with low-level contracts in Windows Communication Foundation that send and receive raw System.ServiceModel.Channels.Message objects. These are fairly flexible, though the API can be a bit confusing. One of the things I was doing was making sure I was doing proper streaming of large messages, which...

While working on a custom WCF transport channel implementation I ran into a problem that baffled me for a while. As usual, the problem ended being caused by my own fault, but it was hard to figure what was actually going wrong :-). The problem revolved around a the ChannelListener...

As I commented back in December, I “fixed” the hibernate functionality in Ubuntu 8.10 on my Dell Latitude D820 by making sure there was an active swap partition configured for the resume functionality. This wasn’t quite true, however. Hibernate seemed to work. but occasionally (about 33% of the time), it...

I’ve been working the past week on some custom WCF transport channels. It’s been pretty instructive, though it can be a bit of a frustrating experience at times. The past couple of days, I’ve been busy getting metadata/policy export/import working correctly, and ran into an error when using SvcUtil.exe to...

ViEmu is a Vi/Vim emulator add-in for Visual Studio that is the only one I consider a must-have in my Visual Studio arsenal: I love it. I’ve mentioned ViEmu on this blog in the past, and I still consider ViEmu a wonderful addition to make Visual Studio usable for us...

This is another one of those pesky Vim posts I do from time to time. Today’s one is about a feature that I rarely paid much attention to, until it started driving me crazy: Swap files. Vim’s swap files are, by default, created with the .swp extension right next to...

I’ve been working this week on implementing some custom WCF transport channels. The one I was working on initially is a two-way send channel, so, naturally, I decided to begin by having my channel implement the IRequestChannel shape. This was working fine until I decided to try a one-way operation...

When I’m doing development, I tend to open several PowerShell windows at the same time. For example: I will have one window on my code directory to use run git/svn commands, another in my code generation or build directory to rebuild the code as necessary, another where I run commands...

Last week I spent some time working on a new minor release of my PipelineTesting library for BizTalk Server 2006/R2. The new release is available in the usual places: Binary and Source Snapshot, and the Source Repository at GitHub. The new release includes some minor documentation updates, a couple of...