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April 2008 - Willem Meints

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  • Customizing Windows PowerShell – Part 3

    In this third part I'm going to show a demo of a powershell provider I created in dead moment on a Thursday evening (grin). This post is part of a series consisting of currently four parts (not all published, but that doesn't matter). The first...
    Published 28-04-2008 19:00 by willemm
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  • using implicit typing in C# 3.0

    There's a lively discussion going on at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jean-paul_boodhoo/archive/2008/04/22/got-var.aspx about whether or not you should use implicit typed variables in your codebase. Personally I think that using implicit typed variables...
    Published 25-04-2008 8:25 by willemm

  • Customizing Windows PowerShell - Part 2

    This is the second part of the series on customizing Windows PowerShell. This time I'm going to explain how to create your own commandlets. Commandlets are a very powerful way to extend the functionality of Windows PowerShell, it's also one of the most...
    Published 14-04-2008 8:05 by willemm
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  • Customizing Windows PowerShell – Part 1

    9 April A colleague and I held a presentation about Windows PowerShell. We discussed how to use it and how you can customize PowerShell. I didn’t quite have enough time to explain the whole deal on customization, so I’m going to do that in...
    Published 14-04-2008 8:03 by willemm
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  • Validation framework for WPF

    Introduction WPF offers some rather good stuff when it comes to applying validation to binding expressions. However it isn't complete in my opinion and could use some kind of extension to make it even easier and more effective to use in an application...
    Published 12-04-2008 22:00 by willemm
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  • Modifying data-access in CSLA

    In my previous post I referred to the fact that the data-access code in CSLA is mangled in with the rest of the business logic. In this post I'd like to explain a bit on how I solved this. The general code pattern makes use of a DataPortal which in...
    Published 06-04-2008 19:52 by willemm
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  • A peek at CSLA

    Again I have too much time on my hands so I started looking for new frameworks to take a peek at. Normally I turn to Microsoft for new frameworks. However I thought that it would be a good idea to look for a different kind of challenge this time. CSLA...
    Published 01-04-2008 19:13 by willemm
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  • IT-terms at the office

    We all have them, job specific language. At least I have :) Here's a short-list: Component-based coffee deployment (Also known as a separate spoon and sugar lump) Stack overflow exception (Otherwise known as foam going over the edge of a glass of cola...
    Published 01-04-2008 18:51 by willemm
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