Archive for the ‘.NET’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/09
Like there was never an Office 13.0, there was no Visual Studio 13.0: see the below table from Microsoft Visual Studio – Wikipedia: History
This influences tooling that searches for specific versions of Visual Studio or MSBuild (which has been available since Visual Studio 8.0 and up: MSBuild – Wikipedia: History).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/30
Visual Studio Community 2017 needs a license renewal every ~30 days with a Microsoft account: [WayBack] Visual Studio Community 2017 is a 30 day trial? – Stack Overflow.
This means it is not a trial, but it does not a Microsoft account, and communicate with it every ~30 days which you can get at [WayBack] Microsoft account | Sign In or Create Your Account Today.
Messages you can get:
- “We could not download a license. Please check your network connection or proxy settings” – meaning: sign in with a Microsoft account by clicking “Add an account…”
- “We could not download a license, Please ensure your accounts are authenticated.” – meaning you have to click “Reenter your credentials”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/10
By now this
should be out of [WayBack] Draft – .NET Glossary Diagram – Scott Hanselman: a list of common terms to describe various parts of the .NET ecosystem.
He has a nice list of sentences where each term is used.
I’ll try to use them myself as well, so I gave it a start at paulcbetts/refit: The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/04
I have seen this happen in various environments: people wanting to detect if their debugger is present, but trying to detect their IDE, or vice versa.
Similar reasoning is for detecting for being running on a console, or your project having been built to run on a console.
People use these decisions, for instance to determine if their application should behave as a service, or as a regular process.
Ways to determine the various permutation points:
- Running inside a debugger: use the [WayBack]
IsDebuggerPresent function (which can be true, even if Delphi DebugHook stays zero).
- Check for the IDE: tricky; as IDEs have different behaviour over time. For Delphi, check for any
TAppBuilder Window class with the [WayBack] FindWindow function.
- Compiled for console: for Delphi check
IsConsole, for .NET I could not find good information.
- Running on a console: check if you can allocate a handle to stdout
- Running as a service: check the hosting assembly or hosting process
Related links:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/03
This is so cool: [WayBack] paulcbetts/refit: The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET. It’s inspired by Square’s [WayBack] Retrofit library which does the same for Java.
They basically allow you to use attributes on interfaces to define a type-safe wrapper around any REST interface, then instantiate a connection to it for making calls.
No more manual HttpClient fiddling!
Since it requires only .NET 1.4, you can basically run it on any platform as it’s supported covered by the implementations .NET Core, Mono and the full .NET Framework.
Quite a lot of projects already use it; I got there via the first link:
–jeroen
Via: [WayBack] Exploring refit, an automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Standard https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ExploringRefit… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/27
The list below is based on a G+ discussion in a single language, but has way broader aspects.
It’s on value types, mutability, parameterless constructors and expectations of compiled code.
I’ve bitten myself in the foot with mutable types in too many languages too often, so I started advocating this years ago at clients, and now in this blog-post.
TL;DR:
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