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Comment on Moving a Repository from SVN to Mercurial With Full History by Christoph Juengling

Christoph Juengling — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:22:47 +0000

Sometimes things can be soooo easy Thanks for the tip!

Comment on Moving a Repository from SVN to Mercurial With Full History by Kevin Twidle

Kevin Twidle — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:50:11 +0000

Thank you so much for the instructions they were very useful. I have just moved my SVN repositories to HG and your instructions were the best. I also fond that https: would not work well and had to disable the authentication. Hg convert worked for me whereas hgconvert from the hgsvn code failed halfway through.

You said “Now at this point for me the push worked fine but my local repository had no files in it – despite insisting it was up to date. This may be my lack of knowledge on Mercurial, or it might be a bug, but deleting the myproject directory locally and cloning the remote repo again sorted things out.”

This happened to me to but then I realised that what you have done is populate your version of the repository not your working directory. All you have to do is hg update and all your files will appear.

Comment on Why is Add Reference Still Horribly Broken in VS2010? by fdsa

fdsa — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:50:17 +0000

Do you ever find that your credibilty is ruined somewhat by your use of comic sans in screen mock-ups?

Comment on Nancy v0.8.0 – Best Laid Plans.. by tatabánya gyermek angol

tatabánya gyermek angol — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:28:36 +0000

I have to say, my first tought was about nancy that “oh god, yet another…?” – but after reading some posts I realized that’s a great thing. So thank you and do not forget the good marketing:)

Comment on Switching from Cygwin to MSysGit – Git Thinks Everything Has Been Modified :-( by sabgenton

sabgenton — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:20:15 +0000

One question.
Why go to msysgit if Cygwin is so full featured?

Comment on Switching from Cygwin to MSysGit – Git Thinks Everything Has Been Modified :-( by anand

anand — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:46:31 +0000

Thank you so much for this post. You saved my day!

Comment on Nancy v0.8.0 – Best Laid Plans.. by Kevin Kuebler

Kevin Kuebler — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:37:15 +0000

I’m just getting started with Nancy and really like what I see so far. This new version tripped me up a bit last night though. I had previously cloned the main repo from Github a couple weeks ago (so I guess that must have been the 0.7 codebase). But just last night I created a new empty web project and added Nancy, Nancy.Hosting.Aspnet and Nancy.Viewengines.Razor via nuget.

One of the first things I tried to do was reference some static files from a Razor template, following the same pattern shown in the demos. For example I had Get routes setup like this:
[Get["/style/{file}"] = x => { return Reponse.AsCss(“Content/” + (string)x.file); };

But with Nancy 0.8 that seems to always return a 404, even though I could set a breakpoint and see the route being hit with the right file name. When I saw your post, I updated my copy of the main repo and saw the updated examples just directly referencing the static files.

I was wondering though, is there a reason the old method doesn’t work anymore? Are the AsCss, AsJs, AsImage methods deprecated now? Thanks!

Comment on Nancy v0.8.0 – Best Laid Plans.. by The Morning Brew - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #951

The Morning Brew - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #951 — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 07:57:07 +0000

[...] Nancy v0.8.0 – Best Laid Plans.. – Steven Robbins announces the release of Nancy v0.8.0, a .NET framework similar to Sinatra. This new release brings a significant number of new features along side bugfixes and tweaks. This release has taken the team longer than planned, mainly due to the strong community uptake [...]

Comment on Announcing: TinyIoC – An Easy to Use, Hassle Free, Inversion of Control Container by Steven Robbins

Steven Robbins — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:09:50 +0000

If it’s overflowing the stack then you have a cyclic dependency issue.

Comment on Announcing: TinyIoC – An Easy to Use, Hassle Free, Inversion of Control Container by ES

ES — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:58:05 +0000

Why is it stripping out my templates in my code examples?

It should be .Register with two template types Interface and Concrete
.Resolve with one template type of Interface

Comment on Announcing: TinyIoC – An Easy to Use, Hassle Free, Inversion of Control Container by ES

ES — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:56:34 +0000

So I have determined that tiny ioc is blowing the stack by infinitely recursing while trying to resolve.

My last code was not quite sufficient. Should look like this:

var container = TinyIoCContainer.Current;
container.Register();
var v = container.Resolve();

// Infinite recursion in ‘Resolve’ and blows up.

Thoughts?

Comment on Announcing: TinyIoC – An Easy to Use, Hassle Free, Inversion of Control Container by ES

ES — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:55:14 +0000

What am I doing wrong? I am using MonoTouch

var container = TinyIoCContainer.Current;
container.Register();
var v = container.Resolve();

// Simulator crashes, no exception, no callstack

Comment on Strange Problem – Unable to Connect to the ASP.Net WebServer on Localhost by phil winkel

phil winkel — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 05:57:15 +0000

also… sometimes if you have things set up to use HTTPS / SSL (think [RequireHttps] in ASP MVC), and attempt to run the website locally without HTTPS, you will likely experience this issue as well.

Comment on Why is Add Reference Still Horribly Broken in VS2010? by LordOnlyKnows

LordOnlyKnows — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:35:21 +0000

Another slight annoyance comes when I add a new project to my solution and it’s using a different Target Framework by default then the rest of my solution. Instead of an error message saying something like “Target Framework 4.0 referenced project not compatible with Target Framework 3.5 project” it instead allows me to add the reference and gives me the oh-so-clever “The type or namespace name ‘Foo’ does not exist in the namespace ‘Goo’ (are you missing an assembly reference?)” I know, shame on me for not checking this, but the fix always eludes me for 2-3 minutes: right click on the new project->properties->change the target framework to what the other projects are using.

Comment on Localising WPF Applications Using RESX Files and Standard Data Binding (Without a MarkupExtension) by Shara Owoc

Shara Owoc — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:14:32 +0000

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Comment on Passing Parameters using LoadControl() by Burr

Burr — Fri, 27 May 2011 06:48:38 +0000

Hi everyone I am developing a data entry form with different questions for different users. how can i dynamicaly add the different questions on page load in vb.net? i’m still learning vb.net.any ideas

Comment on Locating Network Services on the iPhone/iPad with MonoTouch by Waescher

Waescher — Thu, 05 May 2011 13:48:55 +0000

Currently it’s not possible to use Bonjour/Zeroconf with an x64 assembly in .NET. So I’m switching to udp broadcasting, too.
This article looks very helpful, thank you very much!

Comment on Stack Overflow – Share Your Flair – Now in PNG! by Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:18:43 +0000

I realize it’s been a while since this thread was actively discussed, but I just found a problematic “echo” statement in your function “get_gravatar_url” — this breaks the image in some cases, and I think it causes your code to fail to display the image the first time it’s loaded. (The second and subsequent times it is loaded from the cache, so get_gravatar_url is never fired and the image is displayed just fine.)

Comment on Announcing: TinyIoC – An Easy to Use, Hassle Free, Inversion of Control Container by Ivan Pavlović

Ivan Pavlović — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:47:11 +0000

Great! I always missed simple IoC for my introductionary O-O programming sessions

Comment on Passing Parameters using LoadControl() by Neil

Neil — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:58:11 +0000

Very cool, thanks!

Comment on Stack Overflow WordPress Widget by Aiham

Aiham — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:33:41 +0000

Hey,

I found a typo in your code. There was a missing greater-than in the HTML which was breaking my design. I just modified line 95 in /wp-content/plugins/stack-overflow-gamertag-widget/sowidget.php and it looks like it’s working properly now.

Cheers,
Aiham

Comment on System.OutOfMemoryException Gotcha Using Clipboard.GetData in WPF by Anders

Anders — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:12:32 +0000

Hi Stephen,
Thanks for sharing – it had me puzzled for quite a while!

Comment on “Thread safe” Dictionary(TKey,TValue) by Steven Robbins

Steven Robbins — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:52:57 +0000

Yes, that would probably be a better approach in the real world. I was actually thinking of switching TinyIoC over to use ReaderWriterLockSlim last week, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet

Comment on “Thread safe” Dictionary(TKey,TValue) by Myles

Myles — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:34:37 +0000

Hello Steve

Would it not be better in this particular example to use a ReadWriterLockSlim in the SafeDictionary thus enabling concurrent reads?

Thanks
Myles

Comment on Taking WPF “Screenshots” by Keith

Keith — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:03:55 +0000

Great post! I was really hoping it would help me with what I am trying to do, but it doesn’t work. I am trying to use the code to get a screenshot of the contents of a wpf WebBrowser control. All I am getting is a black image. I was hoping to use the screenshot in an Image control because the WebBrowser control does not allow any other control to overlay it.