Archive for September, 2008

Generating GUIDs for WiX with a Visual Studio Macro

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Posted in Programming | 1 Comment »

Lately I've been doing some work with WiX (Windows Installer XML) and have needed to generate fresh GUIDs frequently. For those infrequent uses, the online UUID Generator worked great, ... Read more..

Abusing XAML for Application Configuration

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Programming | No Comments »

Background Lately I've been working on a small library for easily managing a number of AppDomains.  I've been doing a lot of integration testing with WCF and found it ... Read more..

"Using" ReaderWriterLockSlim

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Programming | 4 Comments »

Disclaimer: Steven pointed out in the comments that a very subtle race condition exists that can lead to deadlocks. Use with caution :) When writing multi-threaded applications, it is ... Read more..

Back to Normal

Monday, September 22nd, 2008 Posted in Personal | 1 Comment »

Wow, these last few weeks have been a blur. Quite a bit has happened. Intern at Microsoft 3 weeks ago I was finishing up the last week of ... Read more..