Having recently surpassed the 100 million licenses sold mark for Windows 8, Brandon LeBlanc talks to Tami Reller to provide an update on the progress since the launch of Windows 8. Then, on February 27, the General Availability date for Office 365 was reached, ending the preview period. The good news is…
When I started programming as a career, I did so in VB.NET. It was my preferred language of choice and I never thought of trying C#. When I changed jobs back in 2007, I forced myself to take a leap of faith and use C# exclusively. (more…)
Today a colleague asked me how to export SQL Query Results to a CSV file. This got me thinking that it would be a nice exercise to do this from a C# application. So to start off, I downloaded the correct AdventureWorks database for my version of SQL from the…
Okay, so I don’t have a specific series for this and seeing as this is more of a programming tip, I’ll leave it out of the Visual Studio 2012 Tips series. Caller Information Attributes are a very useful and probably underutilized feature implemented in the C#5.0 Compiler. Caller Information Attributes allow you to see how your method was called. So forget having to sift through the stack trace in order to achieve diagnostic level logging, use Caller Information Attributes instead. (more…)
Debugging Windows Services – I love writing them. In fact, to encompass a unit of functionality in a self contained bit of code is incredibly powerful. That is, if it is written correctly. I think it is something we as programmers take a bit for granted. One thing I know, is that debugging a Windows Service is one of the most painful things ever. Give it a try… Create a Windows Service in Visual Studio (I’m using Visual Studio Ultimate 2012), start it in debug mode and take a gander at the error message you get.
South African ID Number Validation - There are many reasons a developer in South Africa would need to validate a South African ID number. They might need to validate the input on an Online order form. They might need it as a form of identification for a loan etc. How exactly…
Okay, you probably all know this, but somewhere someone doesn’t. And I thought it might be a nice article to post. Have you created a Windows Service Timer that isn’t working? The reason for this is because you probably added a Windows Forms Timer to your Service instead of a System Timer. So for future reference, this is what I did: