Gendarme Rule based CIL validation - Building your own rules

  • Posted by Jakob Andersen on April 8, 2009
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Gendarme is a tool for analyzing and finding problems in code in ECMA CIL format (For MS only people out there that is the specification of which MSIL is an implementation). The tool itself comes with a boatload of useful rules to find problems in your code, one example of a rule is ProvideCorrectAr... [More]

BlogEngine.NET - Urlrewriting

  • Posted by Jakob Andersen on May 8, 2008
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So the first thing I usually do when reviewing web projects is to find the default entry page that the user would see. When doing this with BlogEngine.NET you find the default.aspx (obviously in most cases). The first thing in the Page_Load of this is the following code: if (Request.RawUrl.ToLowerI... [More]

Tray icon annoyance

  • Posted by Jakob Andersen on March 29, 2008
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I have two wonderful tools that produce icons in tray. Last.fm allows me to hear music that is exactly my taste and TeamCity tray notifier monitors failed builds on TeamCity. However I wish that the icon for a failed build wouldn't be so much like the icon Last.fm produces: Its failed build on t... [More]

Tool recommendation: Doing support remote

  • Posted by Jakob Andersen on November 23, 2007
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Today i had to guide a customer through testing an application on his machine, as the application is supposed to run as a service no UI was made, so he had to interact with the application for testing copying some files around and specifying some parameters on the commandline. However this was a n... [More]