Field Notes Of An Enterprise Software Consultant

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FAST ESP : Deleting all documents in a collection

A typical FAST ESP solution has multiple collections. For example, there might be a collection for...

Date: 09/24/2010

Codeplex.comdlr is now setup to receive regular source updates

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Date: 12/04/2008

DLR v0.9 beta released in CodePlex

We are happy to announce the release of the DLR Project in Codeplex. This beta of the v0.9 of the...

Date: 11/26/2008

Using LINQ and the DLR in the same application

The recent beta release of the DLR allows the usage of LINQ and other CSharp 3.0 features in an...

Date: 09/19/2008

DLR Hosting API : How to create a ScriptRuntime object without using App.Config files using language specific hosting API

This previous post demonstrates the use of App.Config files to create script runtimes to host...

Date: 09/14/2008

DLR Hosting Sample : Simple dlr host using the new App.Config based ScriptRuntime creation

Due to the recent changes to the DLR Hosting API, dlr hosts now have to use the App.Config file to...

Date: 09/11/2008

DLR Hosting API : latest version of the spec is available online (includes changes to runtime initialization)

The latest version of the Hosting API spec is available here. The most recent source code drop to...

Date: 09/07/2008

DLR Hosting API : How to create ScriptScopes using backing symbol dictionaries to implement dynamic variable lookup

The factory methods used to create a ScriptScope object have overloads that take a...

Date: 08/15/2008

Quick notes on ScriptScope

ScriptScope is one of the key types available in the DLR Hosting API. They act as a context in which...

Date: 08/06/2008

IronPython 2.0 beta 4 released

IronPython 2.0 Beta 4 has been released here. Since the DLR and Hosting API components ship with...

Date: 08/06/2008

4 different ways to execute IronPython code using the DLR Hosting API

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Date: 07/28/2008

How to create IronPython objects of types defined in C#

The DLR Hosting API lets the hosted script instantiate objects of types defined in the hosting C# /...

Date: 07/23/2008

IronEditor - Editor for IronPython, IronRuby and other DLR languages

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Date: 07/22/2008

DLR Hosting Sample : QikScript - Handle Visual Studio 2008 extensibility events in IronPython

The DLR Hosting API offers a well defined interface for managed applications to host and utilize the...

Date: 07/17/2008

Using the 'Find' box in VS to do some cool stuff

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Date: 07/12/2008

How to redirect output from python using the DLR Hosting API

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Date: 07/08/2008

How to invoke a IronPython function from C# using the DLR Hosting API

Like I wrote in my previous post, the Hosting API lets you do some very interesting and powerful...

Date: 06/30/2008

How to write a simple DLR host in C# using Hosting API

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Date: 06/24/2008

Beta1 of Visual Studio 'Orcas' available for download now

Here is the announcement from Soma. This provides a good backdrop for me to update my personal...

Date: 04/20/2007

Visual Studio.Net 2003 SP1

The long wait is over. the Visual Studio.Net 2003 is available in microsoft.com. Use this link to...

Date: 08/17/2006

MiniMSFT Vs MSDN blogs

The number of blogs in MSDN (at the time of writing this entry) is 3146. It's pretty safe to assume...

Date: 08/14/2006

Weird LNK 2019 on a VS 2005 ported dll

1>stdafx.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "void * __cdecl operator new[](unsigned...

Date: 08/08/2006

WSOD - Sony Ericsson W550i

I bought a Sony Ericsson W550i 2 months back. Its a great phone and gives excellent value for its...

Date: 08/03/2006

Microsoft and the Scoble phenomenon

I feel sad that Robert scoble is moving out of MSFT. Ironically the news came exactly on the day I...

Date: 06/14/2006

Here's .NET framework 3.0

WinFX will hence be called .NET Framework 3.0. Read more about this at Soma's blog and find answers...

Date: 06/09/2006

Power Toys - Develop Applications for .NET Framework 1.1 using Visual Studio 2005

I had earlier blogged about not being able to develop applications for .NET Framework 1.1 using...

Date: 06/09/2006

Inside PSS - Part I

I've been with the Developer Support group in PSS for about 18 months now. These have probably been...

Date: 06/08/2006

System.FormatException while parsing a string containing valid integer values

Trying to convert a value to an integer using the Parse function might throw a...

Date: 03/09/2006

Application runtime compatibility - Visual studio.NET 2003, 2005 & .NET Framework 1.1, 2.0

With the release of .Net 2.0 and VS.NET 2005 there are lot of questions on compatibility and...

Date: 02/24/2006

Auto increment the build number in the 'AssemblyVersion'

Q) How to auto-increment the build number of the ‘AssemblyVersion’ in a managed application? A)...

Date: 12/20/2005

Visual Studio 2005 RTM installation has Merge modules from Beta2?

Visual Studio 2005 installs merge modules during its installation in the 'C:\Program Files\Common...

Date: 11/04/2005

Serializing an object of the KeyValuePair Generic class

Consider the following piece of C# code running in .NET framework 2.0 static void Main(string[]...

Date: 11/02/2005

Distribution of 64 bit SDK for VS 2003 stopped

With the launch of VS2005 on November 7th 2005, distribution of VC++ 64bit SDK for VS2003 will be...

Date: 11/02/2005

MSVCR80D.dll not found

I ran in to this couple of days back.Visual Studio 2005 threw up the following error message when i...

Date: 10/30/2005

getaddrinfo() breaks applications migrated from Visual Studio 6.0

Here’s a problem CoolSoft Inc faced when migrating CoolApp - their flagship product.CoolApp is an...

Date: 10/21/2005

5 quick questions on Custom Attributes

  1. What are custom attributes? Attributes are instances of a Type. Attributes are just like any...

Date: 10/19/2005