The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

Jeroen W. Pluimers on .NET, C#, Delphi, databases, and personal interests

  • My badges

  • Twitter Updates

  • My Flickr Stream

  • Pages

  • All categories

  • Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

    Join 1,854 other subscribers

Archive for 2015

IlMerge is on NuGet.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/19

IlMerge is a great way to merge multiple .NET assemblies into one, and I use it most often to combine assemblies with console applications so I end up with one executable..

However getting the latest version always was a hassle as the ilmerge download link was unclear about the version number.

Until I found out that IlMerge is on NuGet.

To get started with NuGet, either download the NuGet GUI or command-line version, then use either of these entry points to work with NuGet packages:

There is much more to the Package Manager Console and the Package Manager Dialog.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

How to move your Google Code project to GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/18

Thanks David Millington for pointing me to How to move your Google Code project to GitHub.

A small quote from it:

By the end of this article, you will have:

  • Moved the repository, including commit history, from the Google Code project to a new GitHub project
  • Updated the Google Code project to redirect to the new project location
  • Updated the Google Code repository so users updating will find out they need to use the new project location
  • Set up some basic project settings in your new GitHub project.

–jeroen

via: How to move your Google Code project to GitHub.

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, GitHub, Google, GoogleCode, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »

WPF Tutorial | Dependency Properties

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/17

Thanks to the answers for .net – What is a dependency property? – Stack Overflow, I came across this really nice WPF Tutorial | Dependency Properties.

It has one of the best explanations on Dependency Properties I’ve ever seen, and it is available online for free (:

And yes, this post is also tagged Delphi, as DSharp provides http://delphisorcery.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Source/Core/DSharp.Core.DependencyProperty.pas.

So Dependency Properties are not just .NET any more (:

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, Delphi, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Patch soon and be careful: A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: Attack of the week: FREAK (or ‘factoring the NSA for fun and profit’)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/16

Hmm, I missed this earlier. So: watch your TLS stack (OpenSSL and others), then

Patch soon and be careful.

After that read A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: Attack of the week: FREAK (or ‘factoring the NSA for fun and profit’).

Thanks Kristian Köhntopp for sharing.

–jeroen

Posted in OpenSSL, Power User, Security | Leave a Comment »

[NL] Redjepakketje.com – Hiermee komt uw pakketje wanneer ú dat wilt – AMSTERDAM – PAROOL

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/15

[NL] Intressant Redjepakketje.com: voor EUR 4,5 per zending, nooit meer wachten op een pakje. Hiermee komt uw pakketje wanneer ú dat wilt – AMSTERDAM – PAROOL.

Posted in LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »

For those doing dates in M/D/Y format: happy Pi Day

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/14

I’m more a Pi Approximation Day person.

But for the few that insist on M/D/Y date format: happy Pi Day.

Jan Wildeboer on G+:

“The American date format I invented”, master Yoda exclaimed, “Pi day they now have! But knowing its power they do not.”

–jeroen

Posted in Fun | Leave a Comment »

Add an account to use Google Play on your device: can take a while to show up.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/13

It might look simple to Add an account to use Google Play on your device – Google Play Help.

But it can take quite a while for your device to show up so you can add My Android Apps – Google Play to it: accounts – My new Android device not showing up in Google Play – Android Enthusiasts Stack Exchange.

–jeroen

Posted in Android Devices, Power User | Leave a Comment »

OData: a few notes

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/12

You can’t keep track of the whole world, so every now and then I bump into something and think “boy I wish I had known about this years ago”.

The OData (Open Data Protocol) standard by Microsoft is such a thing. It allows to communicate data over the internet in a RESTful way using either JSON or AtomPub based XML, standardized by OASIS who has it’s roots in the SGML world (SGML is one of the predecessors of XML).

There is a rich Ecosystem of implementations in many platforms (including .NET, Delphi, Java, PHP, JavaScript, etc) with public reachable Example Services to test with (not surprising there is a NorthWind service).

Here are a few links of stuff I want to dig deeper into it to grasp it better: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Communications Development, Database Development, Development, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, OData, REST, Software Development, TCP | Leave a Comment »

Interesting presentation at EKON 16: MSBuild Inside the Microsoft Build Engine from Sebastian Gingter

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/11

I missed EKON 16 as both they and we moved outside the regular conference season.

So I missed this session: EKON 16: MSBuild // Speaker Deck that has these GitHub source examples: gingters/EKON16_MSBuild.

Thanks Sebastian Gingter for pointing me at this!

msbuild is used by both Visual Studio and Delphi for building projects, and this session gave me some good ideas to improve the Continuous Integration projects I already had into place.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, Continuous Integration, Delphi, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Development, msbuild, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Some notes on OpenSSL, S/MIME, email, various RFC standards and their relations.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/10

Stuff I found out myself:

Some links I found useful: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Delphi, Development, OpenSSL, Power User, Security, Software Development | 3 Comments »