There's a first time for everything. Today, I got to use the attribute that prevents a method from being inlined. There's a good post, including a bit of a warning, on the MSDN forums regarding the issue and solution. In my case, I was looking at the call stack to get the current method, so... Continue Reading →
LinqKit and Dynamically building arbitrarily complex Linq Queries
In some cases, I need to be able to build a query that has a variable set of OR conditions. This is not simple with the default language constructs and extension methods. It’s simple to dynamically build an expression that includes AND parameters, because that is what the WHERE() extension method does. Not so easy for... Continue Reading →
Use Fiddler to view traffic when running locally…
If you haven’t used Fiddler, you should check it out. It shows you the HTTP traffic that is flowing over the wire. This can be a huge help when diagnosing issues. One small challenge is using Fiddler to view traffic that stays on the local machine. By default, fiddler cannot see data sent to http://localhost/... Continue Reading →
Share a Keyboard, Mouse and Clipboard without a KVM switch…
One of the “Desert Island” picks from a recent “This Week on Channel9” episode mentioned a pretty cool utility that lets you share a keyboard and mouse between two computers without using a KVM switch. It’s a software based solution that you run on the primary and any other computers that you’re sharing. You can... Continue Reading →
Being in the user’s shoes…
This past weekend was my son's cub scout pinewood derby race. I was point person on the committee that organized the event. My main task happened to be running the score board which was written in Excel. I found it quite interesting to be in a position where I was very dependent on the computer... Continue Reading →
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