Software Development, Programming
Download ReflectionTest.zip There are already many good guides out there illustrating how to construct a weakly coupled system that dynamically loads in modules as needed. In .Net, this can be accomplished using reflection.
Sometimes it is necessary for a main program to invoke other executables during runtime.
Download readfileviareflection.zip In .Net, an XML file or even a CSV file can easily be mapped to an object using proper attributes. Using the reflected object type, such XML or CSV files can easily be deserialized into the corresponding object.
If you have used System.IO.File.Exists in ASP.Net, you probably have found out that unless the account under which ASP.Net is running (e.g. ASPNET for Windows XP and IIS_WPG for Windows 2003 Server, etc) has access to a networked location (either…
I have a FreeBSD 6.2 box at home mainly for developing some UNIX/Linux based applications.
In a post (Hyper-Threading and Dual Core Performance Comparison for Computational Intensive Applications) I wrote at the end of last year, I compared multi-threaded scientific application performance of a Pentium 4 processor with hyper-threading enabled and a Pentium D processor,…
Over the past few months, I have been tempted to convert the current version of dasBlog to run under Mono (Note, there is a much older version that runs on Linux/Mono http://www.go-mono.com/ports/).
I have created quite a few customized pages (e.g. http://www.kerrywong.com/cmsg ) on my blog site.
Today I was discussing how to convert date strings MMddyyyy (e.g. 03282007) or ddMMyyyy (e.g. 28032007) back to DateTime object.
In production environment, it is not always possible to step through the compiled code using a debugger and thus we rely on error logs to provide insights into the potential causes of bugs.
In yesterday’s post, I gave an example of how simple command prompt recursion can bring Windows (XP and Vista) down to its knees.
Today, both Windows and Linux systems are robust and secure enough for daily uses.
A couple of days ago, I ran into a mysterious problem when trying to build a web project using MSBuild.
Background In .Net, distributed computing can be done in a number of ways.
A recent post by independent blogger Richard Stiennon on ZDNet http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=311 on the system calls involved when viewing a simple html page has generated much heated debate over which operating system is more secure (Windows vs. Linux).