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Microsoft BUILD Conference

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Bob

Wow — talk about drinking from a fire hose. BUILD Conference news and opinions are everywhere. Windows 8 WinRT  (no more Win32!) Metro Style Apps Death of Silverlight/Flash (?) Visual Studio 11 Fun stuff. It’s going to take a while to digest … Continue reading →

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Binary Waveform Data in SQL Server 2008

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Bob

As Shahid points out in Consider MySQL ‘Archive’ storage engine to store large amounts of med device structured or waveform data, saving physiologic waveform data from a medical device in a MySQL database for archive purposes is a reasonable alternative … Continue reading →

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A .NET Application that Never Dies

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Bob

Jeremy’s Graceful Shutdown Braindump should really include another use case. How do you create a .NET application that never shuts down? Ever! This  is a common scenario for closed systems that only allow the user to interact with a predefined … Continue reading →

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Exploring Cloud Computing Development

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Bob

It’s not easy getting your arms around this one. The term Cloud Computing has become a catch-all for a number of related technologies that have been used in enterprise-class systems for many years (e.g. grid computing, SOA, virtualization, etc.). One … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Spaghetti Code

Posted on August 19, 2008 by Bob

Is a picture of a computer program really worth a 1000 words? HP seems to think so. Making Sense of Spaghetti Code discusses the visual representation of source code as a marketing tool for their consulting services.  Being from California, … Continue reading →

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Loading Individual Designer Default Values into Visual Studio .NET Settings

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Bob

The VS.NET Settings designer creates an ApplicationSettingsBase Settings class in Settings.Designer.cs (and optionally Settings.cs).  The default values from the designer are saved in app.config and are loaded into the Settings.Default singleton at runtime. So, now you have a button on … Continue reading →

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.NET Console.Writeline Performance Issues

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Bob

We ran into an interesting problem recently that I have not been able to find documented anywhere. We’re doing real-time USB data acquisition with .NET 2.0. The data bandwidth and processing isn’t overwhelming. Specifically, we expect data packets at 50 … Continue reading →

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ALT.NET for the Rest of Us

Posted on May 4, 2008 by Bob

If you follow Microsoft comings and goings, one of the more interesting developments (at least to me) over the last 8 months has been the formation of a community that calls themselves ALT.NET. As explained in What is ALT .NET?, … Continue reading →

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Selecting a MVC/MVP Implementation for a Winforms Project

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Bob

I’m not a computer scientist. I’m also not one of the many über programmers that create and analyze software frameworks and techniques. I simply design and develop software that attempts to meet my customer’s needs. To that end I’m always … Continue reading →

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Connected Systems and BizTalk

Posted on November 14, 2007 by Bob

Last night I went to the launch of the San Diego Connected Systems SIG (and here). Brian (along with Chris Romp) gave a great overview of BizTalk Server 2006 R2. I have never used BizTalk and had little knowledge of … Continue reading →

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