March 2008 Entries

.Net based SVN client library

As an exercise to figure out socket programming I have been messing around with creating an SVN client library to use with DevExamples.com, well actually a generic SC client library that would allow me to change what repository site I was working against, SVN just seemed like the simplest of them at the moment. However, after thinking about it, I think it would be better to use one that is already built if possible. I just have not been able to find a pure .Net client library. It is also seems rare for a source control library to work without...

A few simple MVC control suggestions

I finally got around to updating the website to the MVC preview 2, and ran into a couple of things. TagBuilder being internal. While the implementation of it CreateInputTag, CreateTag and CreateAttributeList. The removal of .ToAttributeList() was actually what made me go looking for this. The HtmlExtensionUtility extension methods would have been nice to have also. I guess a better way to say it is it would be nice not to have to reimplement the functionality that CreateAttributeList and ConvertObjectToAttributeList already implement. It would be nice if SimpleForm inherited from a class, that could be subclassed to make...

ABCs scare me

I had a whole post about this, in my mind, but as I was typing, I kept poking holes in my points as to why I hope that in the end IHttpContext stays around. However, since am trying get into the habit of actually sleeping at night I'm just going to put a couple of sentences in. In Abstract Base Classes Have Versioning Problems Too Haacked gave an example that of a problem with ABCs, that at some point later a virtual method would be added, and throw a not implemented exception. This in itself seems to be a breaking...

I wish WMP would leave my USB drives alone

For some stupid reason, needing to have   sitting on my flash drive to not have Windows Media Player (WMP) not try to sync with it annoys me. And any time I delete it (compulsively) this pop up when I connect the USB flash drive to my computer again.   Even worse, it keeps wanting to put its grubby fingers in my XV6800, which sync center already knows is Outlooks.   I have searched around, and have yet to find a way to completely disable WMP syncing with anything. So far the only thing that has actually worked, it using it with Vista...

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