December 28, 2011 – 21:08
So you have this WCF service with a typical HTTP binding on it. When you try to use it with a client, or when you simply open up the .svc file link in your browser, it throws an error message telling you your MSMQ binding is incorrect. MSMQ! Contract requires TwoWay (either request-reply or duplex), [...]
Getting a new computer is awesome. Installing all your most frequently used and essential bits of Windows software on it isn’t. So I searched the web for something that could do this boring task for me. Computers are usually good at that. I remember using something called AppSnap in the past, but that hasn’t been [...]
Ran into this annoying bugger of a problem with Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7 where every time I saved a file (any file, no matter how large or small it was) the GUI started reacting extremely slow on me. Menu’s didn’t react, keystrokes didn’t appear, scrolling didn’t work. It acted like a whole bunch [...]
I installed my PC initially with a separate C drive dedicated for Windows and system specific files. Unfortunately it turned out that I picked that drive too small as I didn’t foresee that there is plenty of software out there that simply won’t allow you to install to a different location than C:\Program Files. To [...]
A few weeks ago I was in the lion’s den at Schiphol watching a presentation of the new to come Microsoft Windows Phone 7. It was supposed to be Windows Phone development thing, but it turned out to be more of a marketing rant than a geeky app development preview. Bummer. But hey, since we [...]
LINQ to SQL is a pretty cool way to work with data from a relational database when you’re programming with .NET. One of the big advantages of LINQ is that it makes writing SQL statements a thing of the past. So you don’t have to remember which SQL statement does or doesn’t work on what [...]
Did you see the puke commercial Microsoft has running to promote IE8? They pulled it already on their own site but it’s on Youtube now so it’s gonna stay out there for now. But the thing is that they are throwing some big bucks at it to promote their latest IE release which bring us [...]
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