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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/10
It is good to see the cross breeding effect works:
Last week, the Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools added Quick Access Extension, which is the Visual Studio equivalent of the Delphi RAD Studio IDE Insight.
It is a keyboard shortcut (Delphi: F6 or Ctrl-.; Visual Studio: Ctrl+3) to search and execute things defined by the environment:
Delphi has a few options that Visual Studio hasn’t and vice versa, but it comes really close.
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, Delphi, Development, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio and tools | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/27
Like Keith Barrows, each time I see a message like below, I’m reminded that I forgot to change my Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 to disable these kinds of MDA messages:
ContextSwitchDeadlock was detected Message: The CLR has been unable to transition from COM context 0x1a7728 to COM context 0x1a75b8 for 60 seconds. The thread that owns the destination context/apartment is most likely either doing a non pumping wait or processing a very long running operation without pumping Windows messages. This situation generally has a negative performance impact and may even lead to the application becoming non responsive or memory usage accumulating continually over time. To avoid this problem, all single threaded apartment (STA) threads should use pumping wait primitives (such as CoWaitForMultipleHandles) and routinely pump messages during long running operations.
Steps to get rid of these messages:
Maybe I won’t forget this next time :>
–jeroen
Via: Keith Barrows : ContextSwitchDeadlock was detected Message.
Posted in .NET, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio and tools | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/17
When you do some maintenance on old projects, you sometimes bump into things you have completely forgotten about.
This time it is in Visual Studio 2005, with a WPF app, and messages about App.xml.
Since there are few threads covering this problem, so I’m not sure how many people bump into this.
I know that the problem does not limit itself to C#; I have seen people in VB.NET and Delphi.net bump into this as well.
This problem is not limited to Visual Studio 2005, some people also have it in Visual Studio 2010.
Some people also have it with other objects than App.xaml (like Windows1.xaml, etc).
If you get this error, the solution is simple:
This trick has worked for me every time I bumped into it. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in .NET, C#, Delphi, Development, Prism, Software Development, Visual Studio and tools, WPF | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/04
Recently I had to do some work in Visual Studio 2005 and TFS 2005.
I missed the “Folder Compare” feature on one of my machines, and I was sure it was on one of my others.
This feature is standard in Visual Studio 2008. A very handy feature indeed :-)
Then this post reminded me to install the Team Foundation System Power Tools. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in .NET, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio and tools | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/05/21
Scott Dorman udpated his macro to change the target framework version for all projects in a solution to Visual Studio 2010 and published the new macro on CodeProject.
His new macro now supports these target frameworks:
Notes:
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, Delphi, Development, Prism, Software Development, Visual Studio and tools | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/22
I usually pick a fresh VM for installing an RTM build, but if you have loads of stuff on your (physical) machine, upgrading RC to RTM can be a real time saver.
Stack Overflow has a nice question Upgrading Visual Studio 2010 RC to RTM answered by Danny Thorpe (yes, two links: blog / wikipedia).
The order is really imporant, so lets repeat that here:
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, C#, C# 4.0, Delphi, Development, Prism, Software Development, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/15
Last week, I posted a C# implementation of the tee filter from Sterling W. “Chip” Camden.
Since then I have modified it slightly.
Not because the implementation is bad, but because some pieces of software play dirty when saving their redirected output.
One of those applications is SubInAcl, otherwise a great tool for showing and modifying ACL and Ownership information of Windows NT objects (files, registry entries, etc).
However, when redirecing output or piping it, it writes a zero byte after each byte of text.
I’m not sure why: it might try to face some Unicode output, or just be buggy.
The new sourcecode is below. You can also download the project and binary as tee.C#.7z (you need the freeware 7zip compression tool to decompress this).
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in .NET, ASCII, C#, C# 2.0, CommandLine, Development, Encoding, Software Development, Unicode, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/14
Every major release of software will bring great new stuff, but the price of upgrading from a previous version is that some stuff will break.
.NET 4.0 brings a lot of nice stuff as well, but there are a few things that break.
There is a nice Breaking changes in .NET 4.0 – Stack Overflow article on this.
The article is now a community wiki, and refers to these pages:
Since the article is a community wiki, expect it to be updated over time.
I wonder what these changes will bring (and break) in the upcoming Delphi Prism release (the datasheet is out now, the product should be out before the end of may).
–jeroen
PS:
If you do not have an MSDN subscription, but still want to see if things break for you, try one of these:
Scott Guthrie has a nice post on the bells and whistles of VS2010.
Posted in .NET, ASP.NET, C#, C# 4.0, Delphi, Development, Prism, Software Development, Visual Studio and tools, Web Development | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/12
For MSDN subscribers:
Visual Studio 2010 RTM will be available on MSDN around these times:
Other time zones: see this Worlclock link.
Sources:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/07
The usage of tee - image courtesey of Wikipedia
The tee command stems from a *nix background.
It is a command-line filter that allows you to deviate a stream from the regular stdout/stdin redirected pipeline into a file.
Recently, I needed this in a Windows Embedded Stadard (a.k.a. WES) system for logging purposes.
This way, a post-install-script (similar to the Windows Post-Install Wizard, but command-line based) could log to both the console and a log-file at the same time.
WES is the successor Windows XP Embedded (a.k.a. XPe), which is a modularized version of Windows XP.
Se WES usually means that you don’t have the luxury of everything that Windows XP has.
This in turn means that you need to be careful when selecting external tools: a lot of stuff that works on plain Windows XP won’t work.
There are various Win32 ports of tee available.
This time however, I needed a Unicode implementation, so I searched for a .NET based implementation.
Windows PowerShell 2.0 does contain a tee implementation, but:
Luckily Sterling W. “Chip” Camden started with such a .NET implementation of tee – in Visual C++ – back in 2005.
Though his TEE page indicates it is based on .NET 1.1, his current implementation is done in Visual Studio 2008 using C++.
Now that is a problem for the targeted WES image: that image is based on .NET 2.0.
But when using Visual C++ in .NET, you need additional run-time libraries (for instance the ones for Visual C++ 2005, or the ones for Visual C++ 2008).
If you don’t have these installed, tee.exe does not start, and you get error messages like this on the command-line:
K:\Post-Install-Scripts>tee
The system cannot execute the specified program.
and entries like this in the Eventlog:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: SideBySide
Event Category: None
Event ID: 59
Date: 01/04/2010
Time: 19:09:22
User: N/A
Computer: MYMACHINE
Description:
Generate Activation Context failed for K:\Post-Install-Scripts\tee.exe. Reference error message: The operation completed successfully.
The odd thing in this error message is “The operation completed successfully”: it didn’t :-)
Anyway: translating the underlying C++ code to C# is pretty straightforward, so:
I did change a few things, none of them major:
The implementation is pretty straightforward:
This is the C# code:
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections.Generic;
// Sends standard input to standard output and to all files in command line.
// C# implementation april 4th, 2010 by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers (https://wiert.wordpress.com),
// based on tee Chip Camden, Camden Software Consulting, November 2005
// ... and Anonymous Cowards everywhere!
//
// TEE [-a | --append] [-i | --ignore] [--help | /?] [-f] [file1] [...]
// Example:
// tee --append file0.txt -f --help file2.txt
// will append to file0.txt, --help, and file2.txt
//
// -a | --append Appends files instead of overwriting
// (setting is per tee instance)
// -i | --ignore Ignore cancel Ctrl+C keypress: see UnixUtils tee
// /? | --help Displays this message and immediately quits
// -f Stop recognizing flags, force all following filenames literally
//
// Duplicate filenames are quietly ignored.
// Press Ctrl+Z (End of File character) then Enter to abort.
namespace tee
{
class Program
{
static void help()
{
Console.Error.WriteLine("Sends standard input to standard output and to all files in command line.");
Console.Error.WriteLine("C# implementation april 4th, 2010 by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers (https://wiert.wordpress.com),");
Console.Error.WriteLine("Chip Camden, Camden Software Consulting, November 2005");
Console.Error.WriteLine(" ... and Anonymous Cowards everywhere!");
Console.Error.WriteLine("http://www.camdensoftware.com");
Console.Error.WriteLine("http://chipstips.com/?tag=cpptee");
Console.Error.WriteLine("");
Console.Error.WriteLine("tee [-a | --append] [-i | --ignore] [--help | /?] [-f] [file1] [...]");
Console.Error.WriteLine(" Example:");
Console.Error.WriteLine(" tee --append file0.txt -f --help file2.txt");
Console.Error.WriteLine(" will append to file0.txt, --help, and file2.txt");
Console.Error.WriteLine("");
Console.Error.WriteLine("-a | --append Appends files instead of overwriting");
Console.Error.WriteLine(" (setting is per tee instance)");
Console.Error.WriteLine("-i | --ignore Ignore cancel Ctrl+C keypress: see UnixUtils tee");
Console.Error.WriteLine("/? | --help Displays this message and immediately quits");
Console.Error.WriteLine("-f Stop recognizing flags, force all following filenames literally");
Console.Error.WriteLine("");
Console.Error.WriteLine("Duplicate filenames are quietly ignored.");
Console.Error.WriteLine("Press Ctrl+Z (End of File character) then Enter to abort.");
}
static void OnCancelKeyPressed(Object sender, ConsoleCancelEventArgs args)
{
// Set the Cancel property to true to prevent the process from
// terminating.
args.Cancel = true;
}
static List<String> filenames = new List<String>();
static void addFilename(string value)
{
if (-1 == filenames.IndexOf(value))
filenames.Add(value);
}
static int Main(string[] args)
{
try
{
bool appendToFiles = false;
bool stopInterpretingFlags = false;
bool ignoreCtrlC = false;
foreach (string arg in args)
{
//Since we're already parsing.... might as well check for flags:
if (stopInterpretingFlags) //Stop interpreting flags, assume is filename
{
addFilename(arg);
}
else if (arg.Equals("/?") || arg.Equals("-h") || arg.Equals("--help"))
{
help();
return 1; //Quit immediately
}
else if (arg.Equals("-a") || arg.Equals("--append"))
{
appendToFiles = true;
}
else if (arg.Equals("-i") || arg.Equals("--ignore"))
{
ignoreCtrlC = true;
}
else if (arg.Equals("-f"))
{
stopInterpretingFlags = true;
}
else
{ //If it isn't any of the above, it's a filename
addFilename(arg);
}
//Add more flags as necessary, just remember to SKIP adding them to the file processing stream!
}
if (ignoreCtrlC) //Implement the Ctrl+C fix selectively (mirror UnixUtils tee behavior)
Console.CancelKeyPress += new ConsoleCancelEventHandler(OnCancelKeyPressed);
List<BinaryWriter> binaryWriters = new List<BinaryWriter>(filenames.Count); //Add only as many streams as there are distinct files
try
{
foreach (String filename in filenames)
{
binaryWriters.Add(new BinaryWriter(appendToFiles ?
File.AppendText(filename).BaseStream :
File.Create(filename))); // Open the files specified as arguments
}
using (BinaryReader stdin = new BinaryReader(Console.OpenStandardInput()))
{
using (BinaryWriter stdout = new BinaryWriter(Console.OpenStandardOutput()))
{
Byte b;
while (true)
{
try
{
b = stdin.ReadByte(); // Read standard in
}
catch (EndOfStreamException)
{
break;
}
// The actual tee:
stdout.Write(b); // Write standard out
foreach (BinaryWriter binaryWriter in binaryWriters)
{
binaryWriter.Write(b); // Write to each file
}
}
}
}
}
finally
{
foreach (BinaryWriter binaryWriter in binaryWriters)
{
binaryWriter.Flush(); // Flush and close each file
binaryWriter.Close();
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.Error.WriteLine(String.Concat("tee: ", ex.Message)); // Send error messages to stderr
}
return 0;
}
}
}
Some alternatives that might (or might not) support unicode:
http://www.commandline.co.uk/mtee/
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ (cannot be downloaded any more – pitty, as they were pretty good)
–jeroen
Update: 201009041030 – Syntax highlighting didn’t work, so changed
sourcecode language=”C#“
into
sourcecode language=”csharp“
Posted in .NET, C#, C# 2.0, CommandLine, Development, Encoding, Power User, Software Development, Unicode, UTF-8, Visual Studio and tools, XP-embedded | 13 Comments »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 