Basically it parses the XML output into something manageable.
Via Matthijs ter Woord.
–jeroen
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KirillOsenkov/MSBuildStructuredLog: A logger for MSBuild that records a structured representation of executed targets, tasks, property and item values
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/31
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MiloszKrajewski/LibZ: the alternative to ILMerge (Resolve instead of merge assemblies)
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/30
ILMerge has all sorts of drawbacks with things like XAML, WPF, NHibernate, dynamically loaded assemblies and reflection.
Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #2 from CLR via C#, Third Edition | Microsoft Press blog has an interesting approach based on adding a callback to the AppDomain’s ResolveAssembly event with some steps so you can embed assemblies as resources which you then – unlike ILmerge- dynamically resolve.
Those steps require a bit of manual labour which is taken away by MiloszKrajewski/LibZ: LibZ, the alternative to ILMerge.
The repository on github even compresses your assembly resources.
–jeroen
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Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction | Seth Juarez | Channel 9
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/18
One of those “must watch” videos if you are remotely or more interested in how compilers influence our day to day coding activities.
The Red Dragon Book, first edition: Compilers. Principles, Techniques and Tools.
It starts out with referring to the Dragon Book (well, actually the first edition of the Red Dragon Book, as there are three) describing the compilers as having front-ends consisting of a Lexer, Parser and Type Checker and back-ends consisting of Code Generator and Emitter. A full compilation is going through all five stages and there is an increasing cost using these traditional stages when going from syntax highlighting via collapsible regions to red squiggles and code completion will need to go further along those stages taking an increasing time – like seconds or even longer – whereas the user experience requires responses in ~ 100 milliseconds where his code might not even compile in the first place.
Then Anders goes on describing Roslyn, TypeScript and Compiler API JSON interfaces to them so you can run them as a service and keep compiler state, rebuilding just enough of the state on source code changes. He goes on talking about how Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Command-Line Compiler, Sublime Text and other tools (can) use these APIs to interact with the compiler so it keeps state of slowly evolving code of which the tools than can emit what they need.
Anders explains this much better and much more visually than I do: so it’s a highly recommended video.
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[CMake] choose 32bit or 64bit in visual studio
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/03
This might be obvious for CMake regulars, but given the help, I would never have guessed this.
Generate x64:
cmake .. -G"Visual Studio 14 Win64"
Generate x86 is just leaving out the platform away:
cmake .. -G"Visual Studio 14"
In this case they are for Visual Studio 2015 (internally named 14).
The help:
The following generators are available on this platform:
Visual Studio 14 2015 [arch] = Generates Visual Studio 2015 project files.
Optional [arch] can be "Win64" or "ARM".
Visual Studio 12 2013 [arch] = Generates Visual Studio 2013 project files.
Optional [arch] can be "Win64" or "ARM".
Visual Studio 11 2012 [arch] = Generates Visual Studio 2012 project files.
Optional [arch] can be "Win64" or "ARM".
Visual Studio 10 2010 [arch] = Generates Visual Studio 2010 project files.
Optional [arch] can be "Win64" or "IA64".
Visual Studio 9 2008 [arch] = Generates Visual Studio 2008 project files.
Optional [arch] can be "Win64" or "IA64".
Visual Studio 8 2005 [arch] = Generates Visual Studio 2005 project files.
Optional [arch] can be "Win64".
Visual Studio 7 .NET 2003 = Deprecated. Generates Visual Studio .NET
2003 project files.
–jeroen
Adopted from: [CMake] choose 32bit or 64bit in visual studio
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instead of x86, msbuild is creating an x64 solution configuration via sln.metaproj – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/02
Sometimes msbuild will throw an error like this for an x86 project:
"C:\Users\Developer\Versioned\libssh2\build\libssh2.sln" (default target) (1) ->
(ValidateSolutionConfiguration target) ->
C:\Users\Developer\Versioned\libssh2\build\libssh2.sln.metaproj : error MSB4126: The specified solution configuration "Debug|X64" is invalid. Please specify a valid solution configuration using the Configuration and Platform properties
form="Any CPU") or leave those properties blank to use the default solution configuration. [C:\Users\Developer\Versioned\libssh2\build\libssh2.sln]
Cause:
vsvars64.bat will set the environment variable Platform=x64 but vsvars32.bat will not empty this environment variable.
Easiest is to run set Platform= then run vsvars32.bat.
Adopted from MSBuild creating an x64 solution configuration via sln.metaproj – Stack Overflow [WayBack]:
If you are running this in the Visual Studio x64 command window it will set an environment variable Platform=x64 that will be used by msbuild. You can verify this by running echo in the command prompt you are using.
echo %platform%So you will need to override the default when using x64 cmd, or run from the x86 cmd.
–jeroen
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How to secure memory? – Medo’s Home Page
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/15
Sometime you might want to protect your data in memory – the greatest example is when dealing with anything related to passwords. It is simply not smart to keep that data around in a plain-text. In .NET there are multiple methods you can use for this purpose, starting with SecureString, ProtectedMemory, and my favorite ProtectedData.…
Source: How to secure memory? – Medo’s Home Page
via: Found this via +Ilya S a post from +Josip Medved – Stuff like this should be way built into an OS, and RTL’s should have a secureMalloc()… – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
–jeroen
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Some links on deciding if and storing your timestamps as UTC and time zone handling
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/08
Some links:
- c# – Storing date/times as UTC in database – Stack Overflow
- date – Is it always a good idea to store time in UTC or is this the case where storing in local time is better? – Stack Overflow
- timezone – Difference between UTC and GMT Standard Time in .NET – Stack Overflow
- datetime – Daylight saving time and time zone best practices – Stack Overflow
- localization – date / time conversion from user’s local time to UTC on website – Stack Overflow
- More fun with DateTime | Jon Skeet’s coding blog
And a great library: nodatime/nodatime: A better date and time API for .NET
--jeroen
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Windows 10 – language neutral batch file to start Windows Update
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/22
A while ago, I bitched that Microsoft moved away the Windows Update out of the Control panel into a language depended place (in Windows 10 1511 update broke the Hyper-V networking – Fix network connection issues).
Since then I had to maintain too many locales running Windows 10. So here is the batch file:
for /f "delims=" %%A in ('PowerShell -Command "(Get-Culture).Name"') do explorer "%LocalAppData%\Packages\windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Indexed\Settings\%%A\AAA_SystemSettings_MusUpdate_UpdateActionButton.settingcontent-ms"
It uses these tricks:
- Set output of a command as a variable (in this case a for loop variable)
- Execute PowerShell script in a .bat file
- PowerShell Get-Culture (which gets a .NET CultureInfo instance)
- CultureInfo.Name property (which has the nl-NL, en-US, etc codes in it)
It replaced this simple batch-file which has worked for like 10 years:
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler wuapp.exe
–jeroen
via: Windows Update Shortcut – Create in Windows 10 – Windows 10 Forums
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Delphi and stuff: The strange limitation of 64 threads
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/21
… there’s no need to use WaitForMultipleObjects in Step 2. It’s fairly easy to keep a counter of active threads in the pool (interlocked-incremented when a thread starts, interlocked-decremented when a thread is finished). When the counter reaches zero (no more active threads), signal an event. With only one event to wait for, you can use WaitForSingleObject…
So no more 64-thread (MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS) limits for pools…
Source: Delphi and stuff: The strange limitation of 64 threads
–jeroen
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HashLib4Pascal is a Delphi/FPC compatible library that provides an easy to use interface for computing hashes and checksums of strings (with a specified encoding), files, streams, byte arrays and untyped data to mention but a few.
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/15
One day I will need lots of hashing in Delphi: Xor-el/HashLib4Pascal: HashLib4Pascal is a Delphi/FPC compatible library that provides an easy to use interface for computing hashes and checksums of strings (with a specified encoding), files, streams, byte arrays and untyped data to mention but a few. [WayBack]
via: Hello all,I made a port of “HashLib” (http://hashlib.codeplex.com/) “with some fixes, additions and modifications” for Delphi (2010 ( I hope ) and above)… – Ugochukwu Mmaduekwe – Google+ [WayBack]
It’s a port of the C# HashLib – Home [WayBack]
Another fork is at https://github.com/bonesoul/HashLib
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 