Archive for November, 2005
Friday, November 18th, 2005
Scooby owners, don’t assume your MAF sensor is working just because it looks brand new…
So, enough about C#, today we are on to cars.
My year 2000 Scooby (Subaru Impreza) has been suffering from the symptoms that I seems that most of them have at some point in their lives. The symptons are inconsitent delivery of power, with flat spots in acceleration (feels like you have stepped off of the [...]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2005
Dealing with “class doesn’t support automation” with ASP Classic and .NET COM interop
I had a problem today when trying to call a C# component from Classic ASP. When I called a method in the C# component I got the error “class doesn’t support automation”.
This was very puzzling because I had already prototyped this to make sure that I could sucessfully call C# from Classic ASP (using both [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Programming by andy
Thursday, November 10th, 2005
Don’t try and create circular project/assembly references in VS.NET
I ran into a problem today, with VS.NET and references between projects. In the development project that I am working on at the moment we have two main C# classes that are called by various classic ASP pages and client side code.
Because both of the classes have attendant helper classes and they are logically separate [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Programming by andy
Friday, November 4th, 2005
Where are all the Mac OS X USB WiFi adapters?
Why are there no USB based WiFi adapters that work with Mac OX S?
No Comments » - Posted in Toys by andy
Friday, November 4th, 2005
Avoid passing .NET XmlDocument objects to methods
I have decided that when using the .NET framework’s XML classes it is a bad idea to pass XmlDocument objects to methods. It is a much better idea to pass the document’s root XmlNode object instead.
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
Reviewed: Effective C# by Bill Wagner
Effective C# is a great book.
If like me you have be coding C# for a while (in my case nearly two years) and are beginning to feel that you have C# completely sussed then this is the perfect book for you.
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
What’s this all about?
So, I’ve finally joined the rest of the world and setup a blog.
Why ?
I’m planning on using this mainly as a personal notepad, to record things that I do and stuff that I might like to remember. I don’t expect anyone else will be interested in reading it, though there might be the occasional review [...]