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  • Wake up: Code & Coffee tomorrow morning

    Fellow SDS’er @derekhubbard and his buddy @cschroll have been hosting a weekly Tuesday morning Code & Coffee gathering at Caribou Coffee at The Greene in Kettering, OH.  Tomorrow, Sept 22nd at 7:15am, we continue the SOLID principles.  It...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 09-21-2009
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  • Injecting a WCF Channel as Dependency via Windsor

    When working within a closed system which uses WCF and an IoC container you will often find the following pattern:   What happens is the SomeAppService is often, but not always, a very thin wrapper over the WCF Service.  If you own both ends...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 08-18-2009
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  • 1 reason to stick with Windows Virtual PC

    For those who aren’t aware, Windows 7 (which I absolutely love) has the ability to mount and run native Virtual PC VHD’s.  This is huge, but it isn’t exactly a cake walk .  That is until now!  DevHawk has provided a PowerShell script to...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-09-2009

  • Property Undo/Redo Support

    Undo/Redo support is one of those golden features that really differentiate a client app from many web apps.  There have been a number of methods/techniques to provide this support that I’ve run across from brute force, to the memento pattern , but...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-04-2009
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  • Cin-Day Nerd Dinner Reminder

    This is just a quick reminder that tomorrow (April 2nd) we will be having our first Cin-Day Nerd Dinner .  If you are planning on coming, but haven’t RSVP’ed please do so here so that I can warn Dewey’s Pizza in West Chester of the raucous crowd...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 04-01-2009
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  • Action(Of T) Lambdas in VB

    Until VB catches up with C# in the lambda support realm, here is how you can accomplish those Moq or Rhino.Mocks style verifications in VB: dim someSub as Action( Of double ) = AddressOf mockObject.SomeSub Rhino.Mocks.Expect. Call ( someSub) It’s very...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 03-30-2009
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  • Outlook 2007 Huge Performance Improvement

    If you use Outlook 2007 go get this hotfix ( download here ) now.  It’s crazy faster after this update.   Hurry!
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 03-26-2009

  • Cin-Day Nerd Dinner

    I’m jumping on the bandwagon and you’re all invited to follow. I’ve scheduled a Nerd Dinner at Dewey’s Pizza in West Chester on April 2nd. It’s just off the Tylersville exit on I75. I’ll have both the Dayton and Cincinnati User Groups announce the event...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 03-14-2009

  • Scaling ItemsControl Items for Explicit Visible Items in WPF

    Another part of the overall solution we were trying to come up with in conjunction my previous post on Scrolling Multiple Content Areas , we also needed to come up with a way to only show X number of items in the visible region of an ItemsControl wrapped...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 03-12-2009
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  • Scrolling Multiple Content Areas with a single ScrollBar in WPF

    I struggled to solve a UI dilemma while at my current client.  For various reasons, we came across a situation in which we needed to scroll two areas of the view based on a single Scrollbar.  You can see what we were attempting and finally achieved...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 03-11-2009
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  • STUFF & FOR XML PATH

    On the get the job done front, my client had a question today that, while it makes me cringe a little to answer the way I did, it got him moving again. [Thanks to Mike Levy for pointing me in the right direction] My client has a small administrative utility...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 03-02-2009
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  • The WPF Mindset

    WPF is awesome, but it requires the developer to make a pretty big shift in their thinking of UI.  I’ve had a hard time explaining this to people, but last week, I had an opportunity to work through an example with Steve Gentile .  That’s the...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 11-03-2008
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  • Why VMWare over Virtual PC

    I just found the reason why I’m going to slap down almost $200 bucks for VMWare Workstation over Virtual PC: Unity.  I am using a coworkers VM to help on a project he’s been working on, but he uses VMWare and I use Virtual PC.  Instead of buy...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 10-21-2008

  • Gates/Seinfeld Commercial

    So everyone is hating on the new Gates/Seinfeld commercial (you can see it on Windows.com ). Maybe I like Seinfeld humor too much, but I think it's hilarious. It doesn't inundate me with Windows or Vista glare, it's not over the top, it's...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 09-05-2008

  • TFS Screencasts - Part 2 - Scrum For Team System Features

    One of the things we are using here at SDS for our TFS installation and projects is the Scrum for Team System which provides a new Sharepoint Portal layout, Reporting Services reports and graphs, Work Item Templates, and an awesome Process Guidance reference...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 09-04-2008
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  • TFS Screencasts - Part 1 - Create a Team Project

    One of the projects I'm working on for my company, Strategic Data Systems , is our internal Team Foundation Server 2008 solution. I'm working with some of the guys who head up our Agile Development Center to make sure things fit well with what...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 08-27-2008
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  • Outlook 2007 does the little things

    People give Microsoft Outlook a lot of crap, but if you're willing to think outside the box, you'll realize they did all the little things that make life easy. For instance, I rarely use the calendar popup for creating new appointments. No, if...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 08-26-2008
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  • SQL Server 2000 vs 2005 Lazy XML Validation

    Someone was looking to do quick-and-dirty validation of an Xml document inside a SQL Server procedure today. I assumed, and regretted, that he meant 2005, which would have looked like this: declare @xml1 xml declare @xml2 xml set @xml1 = '<Node1><Node2...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 08-19-2008
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  • Installation Guides

    This evening I completed my first split-server (or dual server as it's called in the guide) installation of Team Foundation Server 2008. I've installed TFS a few times now in single-server mode which is pretty crazy easy when you consider what...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 08-05-2008

  • Reason #29 for using Virtual Machines

    Today I blew up a server. Couldn't figure something out so I pushed every button I could find, flipped every switch and changed every setting. Nothing. So you know what I did, I deleted it, copied over a new Sysprepped Hard Drive and had a clean slate...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 08-05-2008
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  • Why Plain Old LINQ is so powerful

    Ian Griffiths posted a great example of how powerful and cool LINQ is when used in everyday code (it's not all about databases people). If you haven't started to learn how to incorporate this awesome toolset into your daily coding life, you're...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-31-2008
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  • Roadblock to Mocking Unit Tests

    I've been a faithful unit tester for a few years now. I may not do everything by the book (I think end-to-end unit tests are helpful), but I do get good coverage most of the time. That said, I've found myself unable to use any of the Mock frameworks...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-15-2008
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  • Video Conferencing Code of Conduct

    My team uses ooVoo for video conferencing our Daily Scrum. It's been great and very reliable. My only complaint is a lack of whiteboard or desktop sharing, but we've overcome these obstacles with other tools (see SharedView ). Over the months...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-07-2008

  • Setting up a Virtual PC Domain

    I do a lot of demos and Virtual PC 2007 is a mainstay in my arsenal for those demos. I've used VMWare Server (the free one) and it is very nice, but I run an x64 OS and VMWare had neglected to sign certain emulation drives which caused me enough headache...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-07-2008
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  • Did you know? Screenshots of Virtual PC Instances

    If you are running a VPC instance and you'd like to take a screenshot of something on the VPC, did you know you can do that without any photo editing hassle? Simply make sure you aren't "in" the VPC (hit the right Alt key if you are...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-07-2008
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  • Why WPF? This is why...

    http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=115 Just awesome! I didn't see anything far fetched other than they must have a great designer on staff. I wonder if the designer was doing the Blend work?
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-02-2008
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  • Visitor Pattern with Anonymous Methods

    I don't often have the need to implement the Visitor Pattern , but today I was that day. I looked around really quick for an example of how to do this with Lambda Expressions and Anonymous Methods , which seemed like they were the way to go. It may...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-02-2008
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  • Virtual Property C# Code Snippet

    For those of you who use NHibernate you may find this convenient, if you don't already have your own. Below is a C# code snippet for creating a public virtual property (code and file are both there). Just put it in your <Visual Studio 2005/2008>...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-01-2008
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  • Backup Your Site

    So last night I was restructuring my hosting infrastructure (read: moving folders around) and managed to delete the folder that hosts most of my sites. I got that nasty sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. I was able to get things back up, but my...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-01-2008

  • Jing

    http://jing.cromwellhaus.com/2008-07-01_1427.swf
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-01-2008
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  • NHibernate Thinks Your Enum is Dirty

    Get your head out of the gutter. It's important to look at your mapping files closely when trying to diagnose unexpected results. One of our developers had recently added two properties to our big honkin' CustomerOrder entity. These both happened...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 06-30-2008
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  • SysPrep Your Virtual PC Images

    I create a lot of Virtual PC images, be they for demos, testing, or actual work. If you haven't started using Virtual PC all the time, start. When you do, start syspreping your machines and you'll save yourself a ton of time and find Virtual PC...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 06-13-2008
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  • MiniMVC for WPF

    Tonight I presented for the Dayton .Net Developers Group on WPF. Unlike my previous Lap Around WPF @ CONDG which was meant as a beginners guide to WPF, this time we were skipping the basics and plunging into a framework I've dubbed MiniMVC. MiniMVC...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 04-23-2008
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  • Quicky Visual Studio Projects you can Toss to the Curb

    When I'm trying to explain things to people or just want to try something out really quick I'll often create myself a temporary Visual Studio projects that I don't intend to keep around. In fact, I have an entire Temp folder full of them....
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 04-11-2008
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  • Virtual PC and Network Places

    I use Virtual PC a lot, especially for development. I try to emulate a mini-infrastructure of how I'll be deploying my solutions, so no SQL Server on my box, no IIS on my box, etc. To support this I use Virtual PC Guy's steps for enabling communication...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 03-21-2008
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  • So What's Your Windows Experience Score?

    I realize this isn't the MiniMVC post I promised, but that one is a monster and I wanted to feel like I accomplished something this evening. Last week I was forced to replace a dying video card which was a piece-of-junk when I bought it, but, well...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 03-20-2008
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  • IIS 7 is so cool

    I'm so behind on IIS 7 it makes me sad. I love HttpModules and HttpHandlers in ASP.Net ( Speedy Rewards transaction processing is based on one I wrote), but this just takes the cake. Up Next: MiniMVC
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 03-20-2008
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  • New Year Indeed

    It has been quite a New Year so far. As of today, Monday January 14th 2008, I have left Speedway and the Speedy Rewards™ team and found new employment with SDS Consulting and I have new eyes courtesy of Lasik Plus of Dayton . I'd say that's a...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 01-14-2008
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  • ASP.Net MVC Checkbox/boolean Value Mapping

    In my quest to get my wpfstyle.com site written in the new ASP.Net MVC framework (day 3) I've run across a little issue that I'm sure will come up again. In my world, a checkbox always seemed to imply true/false or yes/no. In reality, it can mean...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 12-19-2007
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  • ASP.Net MVC and Forms Authentication

    So last weekend I picked up the new ASP.Net 3.5 Extensions Preview CTP (and MVC Toolkit ) from the ASP.Net team and I'm loving the MVC bits. I never could get in to MonoRail mainly because I'm a developer diva. I need intellisense, syntax highlighting...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 12-18-2007
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  • NHibernate Query Generator Installer for Visual Studio 2008

    I posted recently a manual .reg file for adding the NHibernate Query Generator custom tool to Visual Studio 2008. I just sent Ayende an update to the .Setup Product.wxs, a WiX file, which adds a new fixture specifically for 2008. If you are interested...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 12-06-2007
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  • NHibernate Query Generator with Visual Studio 2008

    I've been using Ayende's NHibernate Query Generator (NHQG) to help type-ify my NHibernate repository queries. One of the great +1's of his tool is that you can apply it as a Custom Tool for your NHibernate mapping files right within Visual...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 11-19-2007
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  • Strangest Support Call... EVER

    Here at Speedway our Speedy Rewards team rotates a support phone for any serious problems. Usually it's an Oracle Split-Brain , though we have that under some control. Today it was a little different. I received a call from one of our business clients...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 11-03-2007
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  • PerformanceHelper.cs Update: Perfmon, Console, and Debug Output options

    I've updated my PerformanceHelper class that I'll throw around certain code blocks to help trend or monitor performance. Before it was merely a PerformanceCounter wrapper with a few metrics, but now you can specify Console, Debug and/or Perfmon...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 10-26-2007
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  • WPF Controls TabIndex: Moving to the First Input Control

    Here's one of those real-world situations that no one bothers to demo. If you are building a form or have some sort of input your gathering from the user, you'll likely want the first input control Focused initially. You have a few ways to do...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 10-24-2007
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  • Lap Around WPF @ CONDG

    This evening the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group was nice enough to let me present on WPF. Everything went fairly well, though it was more a test of my efficiency in WPF development than I had planned; I managed to leave behind the external hard drive...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 09-28-2007
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  • Awesome Tool of the Day: WorkRave

    I found this tool about 5 years ago and then lost it during a job move. I've been looking for it ever since and finally found it through StumbleUpon today. Most will find it a little annoying and kind of stupid, but it was great when I stuck with...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 09-26-2007
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  • Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, Team Explorer, and Codeplex

    If you happen to use CodePlex as I do, I hope you found Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2005 to be a huge productivity boost. With Visual Studio 2008 it wasn't entirely obvious to me how to replicate this setup. It turns out that Team Explorer can...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 08-07-2007
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  • Exporting Adobe Illustrator resources to WPF

    There are a lot of sites out there with great vector resources provided in Adobe Illustrator files. A few have taken a stab at creating exporters or converts, including Mike Swanson and a CodePlex.com project called XamlXporter . I tried out Mike's...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 08-03-2007
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  • XamlXporter COMException Fix

    There is a pretty cool, but curiously quiet, CodePlex project called XamlXporter that allows you to export Adobe Illustrator files/resources to WPF files. This is a great thing since WPF is young and there are a lot of free resources and tutorials for...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 08-03-2007
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  • Awesome Tool of the Day: StumbleUpon Firefox Add-On

    The other day I happened upon the Firefox Add-On page and decided to give the recommended Add-On a try. I've been infatuated ever since. Though there's an inordinate number of buttons on the default toolbar layout, StumbleUpon is pretty simple...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 08-01-2007
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  • "This problem is being researched"

    I'm a big fan of the Vista Problem Reports and Solutions feature. I'd say it's had a satisfactory solution to real problems +50% of the time, which is better than I can say for any Support FAQ or Help file I can recall. Today, though, I've...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-31-2007

  • Binding to an Image Byte[] in WPF

    Use NHibernate to depersist an Image from SQL Server Image field into a Byte[] property and binding that class byte array Property to a WPF Image control....
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 07-25-2007
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  • WPF ScaleTransform Direction

    The key to scaling your WPF elements in a specific direction other than down and to the right are the CenterX and CenterY properties of the ScaleTransform . It's easy enough to set these manually, but that's just lazy and asking for long term...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 06-28-2007
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  • PowerShell Profile on Roaming Profile

    NOTE: Impatience just leads to frustration. When I first starting playing with PowerShell here at the office, I was all excited to start adding little cmdlets to my personal profile and add to my stellar productivity (tongue firmly planted in check)....
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 06-27-2007
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  • Bind to Method within a DataTemplate

    One of my play projects with WPF is a photo viewer for the pictures we put out on http://cromwellhaus.com . One of the views is a montage of the latest photos with a random RotateTransform Angle applied to each image's RenderTransform. Getting the...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 06-12-2007
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  • Google Gears

    I'm not entirely sure what to think of Google Gears . It seems most people are focusing on the Database portion of the stack, but it's the LocalServer portion that has me confused. Does this not reek of complexity and severe duplication? After...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 05-31-2007
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  • Classic Web 1.0...

    You know you need to reevaluate your web site when you see the following:
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 05-25-2007

  • Awesome Tool of the Day: Baretail

    Every now and again I find a tool that changes my life. Baretail is just such a tool. I don't know what I did before, but it couldn't have been good. Baretail is a log file reader/watcher that trails the end of your log files. This may not be...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 05-15-2007
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  • Vista Sidebar Gadget Developer Experience

    Vista Sidebar Gadgets can be cool, but the developer experience out of the box is severely lacking. Microsoft doesn't provide a Visual Studio project template, so Tim Heuer was nice enough to provide one for us. He does so via a Web Site template...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 05-01-2007
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  • Silverlight: .Net for the masses

    While up in Redmond for the WPF Bootcamp , we had a short time to work with some of the WPF/E, now Silverlight , team members. At the time Silverlight didn't make a whole lot of sense in our strategy. That said, I hope everyone sees the great potential...
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  • Signing your Powershell Profile Scripts

    Running with Set-ExecutionPolicy as AllSigned or Restricted with a roaming profile? Here's a cmdlet pair that will sign all the scripts in your profile directory. Makes life easier on me as I include a number of scripts into my main profile for readability...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 04-23-2007
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  • Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1

    The last few weeks I've felt like a little intern again. With the WPF Bootcamp and the early stages WCF integration into the Speedy Rewards messaging infrastructure (I'll be posting on this soon), I've had lots of time to play with .Net 3...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 04-19-2007
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  • PerformanceHelper for easy PerformanceCounter integration

    In the Speedy Rewards team here we use custom PerformanceCounters quite extensively to monitor and trend our host systems. You may not know, but our rewards program implements real-time host integration for transactions that are Id'ed as a SpeedyRewards...
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  • Vacation at your own peril!

    A co-worker of mine recently went on vacation for a week. Here's what he returned to: We went with a "Little Tikes" theme. Rickie is quite the artist. We wanted Rick to feel special, so we gave him his very own POS! Meetings are going to...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 04-16-2007
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  • XSL Transforms applied to XML namespaces

    I'm pretty sure I have run across this in the past, but apparently I've avoided complex XSL transforms successfully for long enough that my mind was purged of how namespaces impact your transforms. Today I was working on our .Net 2.0 build process...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 04-04-2007

  • Microsoft Expression Blend available to from MSDN

    One of the cool tools we had a chance to use while up at the WPF Bootcamp in Redmond was Expression Blend . While there I became pretty engrossed in the ease with which you could create fairly cool animations without an intimate knowledge of Xaml. This...
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  • WPF Bootcamp Day 2 - Blend

    [Update: These are being posted due to the ftp access restrictions at the Microsoft Campus] Today has been pretty intense which has kept me away from blogging "live". Today started with Kevin Moore , Program Manager for WPF/Blend(?), and a lightning...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 03-31-2007
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  • Powershell

    Yesterday I had a had a chance to have dinner and drinks with another group here for a Technology Summit hosted by Microsoft. They get a bunch of representatives from parallel and alternate technology groups such as PHP, Linux, Java, Python, etc together...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 03-28-2007

  • WPF Bootcamp Day 3 - Hardware capability

    To avoid disappointing users after they've gotten as far as running your application on their 1997 300mhz Pentium II, determine their capabilities using the RenderCapability.Tier value before hand and notifying them that they'll need to joing...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 03-28-2007
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  • WPF Bootcamp Day 3 - FTP Problems from the Technology Center

    You may have noticed there were not many blog entries for Day 2. It turns out there's no way to ftp stuff out of the technology center. It's hindering my ability to post with pictures/screen captures. I've got a bunch of posts for you as soon...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 03-28-2007
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  • Bringing down an Oracle 9i on Windows instance

    The Speedy Rewards program is backed by two pretty hefty Oracle 9i RAC instances. One is for the OLTP and the other for data-warehousing analytics. Since it's inception we've pretty impressive success with the uptime and performance, though one...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 03-27-2007
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  • WPF Bootcamp Day 1 - Expression

    For those who don't already know, I want to make it perfectly clear that I am the last person you would ask to design an appealling interface. Messaging, thread syncronization, etc I'm your guy, but pretty pictures I am not.
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  • WPF Bootcamp Day 1 - Visual Studio "Orcas" Demo

    We moved past the introductions quickly and are getting down and dirty. Rob Relyea took us through the basics of WPF from the latest Visual Studio Orcas perspective. Starting simple by creating a button via Xaml and a duplicate example using purely C#...
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  • WPF Bootcamp Day 1

    My co-worker Steve and I are here in Redmond this week for a WPF Bootcamp training session. We started off by meeting the WPF Product Unit Manager, Ian Ellison-Tayler, and Lead Program Manager, Rob Relyea. Ian ran through some existing WPF applications...
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  • The multilingual family...

    One of the things we have decided we really want to try with Little Ryan is Baby Sign Language . I've read a number of great first hand accounts and I'm really excited. Beyond the suggestions that family's who've adopted baby sign language...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 03-07-2007

  • WMI and the Win32_Product Class

    Our build process is pretty seamless all the way through to an Integration environment which sits right between Development (laptop/workstation) and Certification (keep your muddy paws off land). With this automation and continuous integration in general...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 05-31-2006
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  • SQL Reporting Services Unattended Install Documentation Bug

    For those that are trying to package and deploy the SQL Reporting Services 2000 Designer tools, there is a little bug in the documentation. It states that in order to include the Reporting Service Books Online feature, you should use the setting RS_BooksOnline_...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 03-06-2006
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  • Free March Madness Video Feeds? I'm so there!

    I don't understand how more media content providers don't see the benefit of a free test drive. I'll be all over CBS Sportsline for the March Madness On Demand live video feeds free for the first three rounds and I'm sure I'll get sucked into paying for...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 03-06-2006
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  • Windows Live Messenger Beta Update

    This week the Windows Live group released an update to the Windows Live Messenger Beta (MSN Messenger 8.0). There were a couple of major things with the initial release that I reported and they seem to have been resolved. If you'd like to give it...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 03-05-2006
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  • Rehearsal Dinner at Claddagh Pub

    We booked the Claddagh Pub in Mason for the rehearsal dinner. If you haven't been there, it's amazing. They actually brought Irish builders over to design and show the construction crews how to make the place look like an authentic Irish Pub. And the...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 02-22-2006

  • Dayton-Cincinnati Code Camp reflection...

    Well the Dayton-Cincinnati Code Camp and my presentation have both come and gone. In all, the day was a success, but I was a little disappoint in my session. Nothing in-particular went wrong, but I just never felt we got into a good flow. I feel exhaustion...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 01-23-2006
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  • Windows Live Mail (Hotmail Kahuna) a work in progress.

    As I mentioned yesterday, I received my Windows Live Mail beta invitation and I've begun using it full time. It's definitely a functional beta and I must say it's much quicker than it's predecessor, but I'm very glad this is not a completely open beta...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 01-17-2006
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  • Windows Live Mail (Hotmail Kahuna) is here!

    I received my invitation to Windows LIve Mail ( Hotmail Kahuna ) today! This on top of the Windows Live Messenger invite I received last week make me believe this first quarter is going to be an exciting one to watch. I have yet to really dig into this...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 01-16-2006
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  • Windows Live Messenger Beta Invites

    I have 3 invites left for Windows Live Messenger and so I'll follow the lead from which I receive my invite. First 3 emails in the comments will receive an invite. I'll remove your emails shortly there after so you don't get harvested.
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 01-12-2006
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  • Windows Live Messenger Beta

    I recently got in on the Windows Live Messenger Beta courtesy of Jan Tielen's and I've got to say, I'm a little sceptical. The real difference is in the interface, not the functionality (how much can you really do with text based chat?). They have tried...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 01-12-2006
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  • Mono hits the road

    It looks like Mono will finally be a valid option for deploying applications. Red Hat has announced that it will include Mono in its Fedora Core 5. Does that mean it will be in Red Hat as well? I couldn't tell you since I don't follow the Linux distributions...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 01-11-2006
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  • Community Server and w.Bloggar Settings

    This is really just for my future reference, but since I had a hard time finding out here are the settings I used for w.Bloggar and Community Server 2.0 API Section Blog Tool/API: (Custom) Account Alias: Ryan @ CromwellHaus.com Ping: Weblogs.com API Server...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 01-06-2006

  • New Year Goals refresh...

    Many moons ago I realized I was not a naturally directed individual. That is, I do not organize well without putting forth a deliberate effort. If and when I fail at something I can most often trace it to a lack of task management on my part. I have found...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 01-05-2006
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  • Dayton-Cincinnati Code Camp

    The final schedule for the Dayton-Cincinnati Code Camp to be held January 21st has been released. I'm really looking forward to Jim Weirich's session on Ruby on Rails and the especially interesting Developing for Windows Media Center (with Xbox 360!)...
    Posted to Ryan Cromwell by cromwellryan on 12-27-2005
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