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• Upgrading all projects to .NET 3.5

  A simple macro to change the Target Framework for a project from .NET 2.0 to .NET 3.5, hacked together in a few minutes. This will fail for C++/CLI projects, and possibly VB.NET projects (haven't checked). Works fine for regular C# projects, as well... Posted May 25 2008, 04:56 AM by Miscellaneous Debris Filed under: .NET, C#, Visual Studio, CodeSnippets, C++/CLI

• System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntry and the non-equal Equals.

  Just a quick heads-up in case you're stumped with this problem, or just passing by: The System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntry class implements the Equals method to check if two entries are identical, even if they're not the same instance. However,... Posted Nov 25 2007, 01:12 PM by Miscellaneous Debris Filed under: .NET, C#, CodeSnippets

• Displaying live log file contents

  I'm writing some benchmarking code, which involves a Console application calling a COM+ hosted process and measuring performance. I want to constantly display results on my active console, but since some of my code is running out-of-process, I can't... Posted Nov 21 2007, 09:12 AM by Miscellaneous Debris Filed under: .NET, C#, CodeSnippets

• Another minor C#/C++ difference - adding existing files

  Another minor detail that bit me for a few minutes today. I'm posting this so I'll see it and remember, and possibly lodge it in other people's consciousness. Using Visual Studio 2005, adding an existing .cs file to a C# project will cause... Posted Oct 28 2007, 10:35 AM by Miscellaneous Debris Filed under: C#, Visual Studio, C++/CLI

• Dynamically creating a Sharepoint Web-Service proxy instance

  In my current code, I find myself accessing many Sharepoint web services. In one run of code I can access 5-6 different web services on dozens of different sites, not necessarily even on the same server. Given that I find myself writing a lot of boilerplate... Posted Sep 03 2007, 12:55 PM by Miscellaneous Debris Filed under: SharePoint, .NET, C#, CodeSnippets, Generics

• Wrong constructor called in COM+: sneaky, sneaky bug

  Here's another nasty one that tried to bite me today. Let's say I have the following classes: public class COMPlusClass : ServicedComponent { public COMPlusClass() { // Default initialization. } public COMPlusClass (string data) { // Parameterized... Posted Aug 30 2007, 10:35 AM by Miscellaneous Debris Filed under: .NET, C#, COM+

• More Tales from the Unmanaged Side - System.String -> char*

  Today, I had a very tight deadline to achieve a very simple task: pass a managed .NET string to an API function that expects a null-terminated char*. Trivial, you would expect? Unfortunately it wasn't. My first though was to do the pinning trick that... Posted Aug 28 2007, 12:08 PM by Miscellaneous Debris Filed under: .NET, C#, C++/CLI