Jean Hibbert's Blog

Useful resources on Wix & MSBuild

jean — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:46:00 GMT

Rob Mensching's Blog http://robmensching.com/blog/posts Wix Edit on Sourceforge http://wixedit.sourceforge.net/ General forum for Wix users http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/ Primary tutorial for Wix development http:/...(read more)

Adventures with Wix 3.5, Visual Studio 2010 & Team foundation build 2008

jean — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:48:00 GMT

Lately I have been having a look at the Microsoft Open Source project named Wix. The goal of this project is to provide an Xml DSL that allows the user to build deployment packages that are wrapped up in a Windows Installer package or ".Msi"...(read more)

Interesting Finds - 04/07/2010

jean — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:42:00 GMT

New features in MVC2 http://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers/what-is-new-in-aspnet-mvc ASP.Net MVC architecture Video by Rob Connery http://www.asp.net/mvc/videos/what-is-aspnet-mvc-80-minute-technical-video-for-developers-building-nerddinner DevExpress...(read more)

WCF NetTcpBinding ProtectionLevel security performance test

jean — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:43:00 GMT

Normally within 3 Tier applications that leverage the NetTcpBinding behind a firewall within an intranet environment I prefer to switch off security altogether since this is a trusted network zone and performace should be maximised in this case. There...(read more)

Using Rx for Event subscription

jean — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:39:00 GMT

I thought I would have a quick look to determine wether Rx would create a strong reference under the hood or not when one object subscribed to another objects events. In this case the Consumer object subscribes to the SampleData objects's SampleDataChanged...(read more)

The enemy within. A bleak view into the lack of regulation in the IT industry.

jean — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:37:00 GMT

“I value simplicity over everything; I always look for simplicity.” Anders Hejlsberg quote As a programmer I love writing code. Make no mistake. I love flexing my mind and seeing if I can find a short and elegant route to the solution required to resolve...(read more)

Interesting finds - 24 May 2010

jean — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:26:00 GMT

Great Ildasm.exe tutorial from MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa309387(v=VS.71).aspx Rx Extensions - Good blog post by Haacked. http://haacked.com/archive/2010/03/26/enumerating-future.aspx Eugene Prystupa's Blog: - Short simple and...(read more)

Loading and executing .Net code from an external file dynamically

jean — Thu, 20 May 2010 23:21:00 GMT

I've recently been tasked with writing a service which will allow me to dynamically load code from a file and inject it into an assembly at run-time for execution. The injected code will need to implement the IXmlQueryService interface. The input...(read more)

Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) : Resources

jean — Sun, 09 May 2010 22:35:00 GMT

I have recently started playing with the new Rx Extension Libraries for .net. These extensions provide the programmer with a new model for event subscription where by we can write a linq statement to query a future set of events. The power from this model...(read more)

Interesting Finds - 9 May 2010

jean — Sun, 09 May 2010 21:05:00 GMT

OData - The official team blog http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2010/03/16/announcing-the-odata-sdk.aspx Great channel 9 video on WPF development / Southridge starterkit download information (Datagrid / WPF Ribbon) http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008...(read more)

Global Visas UK - Fraud

jean — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:30:00 GMT

I have recently had a bad experience with a company called Global Visas here in the UK. My fiance and I approached Global Visas hoping to learn what it would entail to obtain a particular Visa. The following set of events occurred: 1) I phoned global...(read more)

Find a user's Active Directory groups.

jean — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:19:00 GMT

I like simple solutions. Fortunately the .Net Framework API's are slowly evolving to make life simpler for the architect and programmer. One new .Net 3.5 framework library which I am very happy with is System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement. Have...(read more)

Interesting finds - 15 April 2010

jean — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:13:00 GMT

Security: Some great security code examples entailing encrypting and decrypting messages and files compliments of Channel 9. http://channel9.msdn.com/Wiki/SecurityWiki/CodeExamples/ Euler: Depth First Search Algorithm for Tree Data structures http://en...(read more)

Interesting finds - 8 April 2010

jean — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:38:00 GMT

I sometimes find that surfing the internet results in information overload. I end up with 20 open tabs in Chrome, a double Latte at my side and not enough time to investigate all my "interesting finds". So I've decided to post my finds in...(read more)

Superman's alter ego - Quintin Tarantino's analogy

jean — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:47:00 GMT

Here is a small section of the Kill Bill script that I enjoyed very much. In true Tarantino story telling style, Tarantino analyses superman's alter ego and makes a few interesting deductions. "...l'm quite keen on comic books. Especially...(read more)