A Blog About Random Computer Subjects
Summary I’ve done quite a few posts on unit testing in the past. I keep a list of subjects that I would like to blog about so I have a ready list to choose from. My list of unit testing subjects is getting large and it’s time to clear the spindle. So in this post … Read moreDependency Injection and IOC Containers
Introduction One of the problems with administering a Direct server is that you must find and install anchors for any destinations you want to transmit messages to. One place to find anchors is the DirectTrust site. I’ll show a quick and dirty method of getting these anchors into your system. Trust Bundles A trust bundle … Read moreThe Direct Project – Trust Bundles
Summary The Direct Project is an encrypted email package that can be setup and configured to allow doctors to send protected health information (PHI) from one system to another over the Internet. For those who work in the health software industry, this system is necessary in order to meet Meaningful Use Stage 2 (MU2) certification. … Read moreThe Direct Project – Introduction
Summary The Stack Exchange Redis client for C# is fast and reliable. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to find quality information on the details of this client. In this blog post I’m going to demonstrate how to setup a Redis connection in C# using the Stack Exchange Redis client. This connection technique will reuse connections instead of … Read moreStack Exchange Redis Connection Pooling
In this post, I’m going to give you, the potential Computer Scientist, the information you’ll need to get through that first computer programming class. This is not an infomercial and I’m not selling anything. My goal is to try and help students who are not learning the material because their class size is astronomical or … Read moreSo You Want to Build Software For a Living (Your First Programming Class)
Summary Let’s do something different. I’m going to install the latest version of MySQL, which is version 5.7, which is advertised to be 3x faster. I’m going to compare some basic database operations between the 32 bit version of MySQL, with the 64 bit version of Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (unfortunately, the MySQL msi is … Read moreMySQL
Summary In this blog post I’m going to demonstrate how to generate an error that is difficult to find. The Error The error message that I’m going to show can be caused by a lot of different things. The cause of this error will be the use of an “&” symbol inside the app.config file. … Read moreSide by Side Error
Summary In this blog post I’m going to talk about some tricky problems with serializing and deserializing data. In particular, I’m going to demonstrate a problem with the BinaryFormatter used in C# to turn an object into a byte array of data. Using the BinaryFormatter Serializer If you are serializing an object inside your project … Read moreSerializing Data
Summary In this post I’m going to talk a little about strong naming a dll and some of the gotchas associated with strong naming. About Strong Names If you’ve written .Net programs as long as I have, you’ve run into a problem where a dll does not have a strong name (also known as a … Read moreGiving Your DLL a Strong Name
Summary In previous programming projects, I have used the ISessionStateItemCollection object to override the session state collection object built into HttpContext.Current. In this blog post I’m going to demo a bug in Microsoft’s sample code used to show how to create a custom SessionStateItemCollection. Where to Find the Sample Code Microsoft provides a lot of … Read moreISessionStateItemCollection interface