Microsoft Moles seems pretty cool, so I’ve decided to set it up and play with it. However, because it’s a research project, the documentation isn’t exactly thorough. I found some videos and various tutorials but nevertheless had a lot of digging in order to get it working. I’m going to document some of the hurdles…
One of the things that’s always surprised me about WPF is the lack of any kind of out-of-the-box file/directory browser dialog. It seems as though every time this comes up, I poke around the internet, hoping that it’s been added in some kind of update somewhere, but it never is. At least, it never is…
I’ve been working on a side project for a while, and today I uploaded it to Source Forge. The project is a tool that takes XML results generated by MS Test runs and turns them into HTML-based reports. I believe that TFS will do this for you if you have fully Microsoft-integrated everything, but, in…
Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Structural Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Relatively simple Up Front Definitions There are no special definitions that I’ll use here not defined inline. The Problem In keeping with the vehicle theme from the previous post, let’s say that we have an application that models vehicle operation….
Introduction This is going to be the first post in a new series that I’m doing on design patterns. Now, I’m certainly not the first person to post a taxonomy of design patterns and explain them, but I would like to put a different spin on the usual. Normally, I see postings that contain a…
