Category Archives: Software

Understanding Canvas Transformations http://jsfiddle.net/LJLpZ/1/ Test your understanding. WAP (write a program) to display circular text: http://jsfiddle.net/Keuy6/ http://jsfiddle.net/3cKN3/ Draw text along a curved path: http://jsfiddle.net/ymrdb/ Problems: 1. The characters are not equidistant. This is because the points on the polyline are … Continue reading →

This is an exception that I dread and that has cost me countless hours of debugging. If this exception is happening in context of a web app, and your web app is 64 bit application, check that Enable 32 bit … Continue reading →

Download EfGen.exe is a command line tool to automate the EDM Wizard in Visual Studio. While working with Entity Framework, I consider it a best practice to create a stand-alone dll that contains all the code Entity Framework (EF) generates … Continue reading →

Use .rsp file to pass command line arguments to msbuild from a file (similar to the way .config files work) PropertyGroup contains properties. A property is a key-value pair. The value is a scalar. Properties are referenced using the $(PropertyName) … Continue reading →

References: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2012/03/10/team-foundation-version-control-client-api-example-for-tfs-2010-and-newer.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj553516.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj883959.aspx Common Tasks: Download all files under a directory: Check if a file exists in TFS: Enumerate all the workspaces:

Summary: FaultExceptions don’t fault the channel. All other unhandled exceptions fault the channel. It doesn’t matter what is there in the FaultContract, or if there is even one. When you are doing development, set includeExceptionDetailInFaults equal to true on server. … Continue reading →

on service: service host: client: client: I have to say for a long time I couldn’t figure out how to tidy the formatting of my code. Finally I discovered how to do it: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/

Installation: install python 2.7 Get it from here: https://code.google.com/p/pythonxy/wiki/Downloads?tm=2 install app engine sdk. get it from https://developers.google.com/appengine/downloads download gdata from https://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/downloads/list install git for windows from http://git-scm.com/download/win install unittest2 from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2 (to install: python.exe setup.py install) install python tools for … Continue reading →

Breaking into external code: http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2007/08/31/tip-set-breakpoints-without-source-code-in-visual-studio-2005/ except that I tried, and it didn’t work. If you don’t see the Unhandled column under Debug->Exceptions, its because Enable Just My Code is unchecked To debug .net code, see this link: http://weblogs.asp.net/rajbk/archive/2010/04/21/setting-up-visual-studio-2010-to-step-into-microsoft-net-source-code.aspx Check Debug->Options … Continue reading →

To push to github once repository is setup: git push origin master