Archive for November, 2008

Exception Handling, Queuing, and UI Synchronization for WCF Services Using the CCR

Monday, November 17th, 2008 Posted in Programming | No Comments »

This weekend I wanted to throw together a nice sample illustrating some ideas that I was playing around with this summer. While I was out at Microsoft Research, I got ... Read more..

Extracting Raw Data From an Image in MATLAB

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 Posted in Random | 1 Comment »

I was going through some old code and ran across this little gem of a MATLAB script, so I thought I'd post it here for posterity.  The script lets ... Read more..

Microsoft Embraces AMQP Messaging Standard

Thursday, November 6th, 2008 Posted in Programming | 5 Comments »

I just ran across this article by Jeff Gould explaining that Microsoft has joined the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) working group. This is really exciting because AMQP is an ... Read more..

Using the Microsoft Charting Library from F#

Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in Programming | 2 Comments »

Since Microsoft released the charting controls used in SQL Server 2008 reporting as a standalone product, I decided to try them out from F#. This makes a lot of sense ... Read more..

F# Tip: Show a Form In Both Compiled and Interactive Mode

Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in Programming | 1 Comment »

Lately I've FINALLY been getting back into some F# after a brief hiatus.  I love the way that it keeps stretching my brain.  Things have changed quite a bit with ... Read more..

Microsoft Chart Controls Released

Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in Programming | 1 Comment »

Doing any kind of graph charting or data visualization in managed code has always required either expensive 3rd-party software (e.g. Dundas, etc) or feature-incomplete open source projects (ZedGraph and NPlot ... Read more..

Getting Started with Subversion - VisualSVN and TortoiseSVN

Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in Programming | 2 Comments »

Recently a couple friends have asked me how to get started using Subversion to manage their files, so here's a step-by-step guide to get everything up and running. Why use ... Read more..

ScottGu: No plans to drop LINQ to SQL

Saturday, November 1st, 2008 Posted in News | 1 Comment »

There certainly have been a lot of rumors flying around the blogosphere the last 48 hours regarding LINQ to SQL.  I saw three stories on the front page of DotNetKicks ... Read more..