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Getting started with Windows Azure

spgennard — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:12:14 +0000

As someone has been working with Windows Azure since its early days I understand how much effort it takes to get started with the platform. Luckily over the last couple of Windows Azure SDK releases the documentation is started to …

A good new years gift…

spgennard — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:44:08 +0000

My day job keeps me housed in Visual Studio 2010/Windows, so for my out of hours development I feel I need a change, so for many years I have been a home mac and/or linux user; anyway I have used …

SQLCLR – Drop Assembly + Dependancies

spgennard — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:53:20 +0000

Recently I have had the pleasure of working on SQL Server 2008 R2 using the SQLCLR support. Which I must admit it is quite nice to use, though a couple of things have anoyed me while using… one of which …

spgennard — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:13:22 +0000

Last week I replied to a post about exceptions, it made me think those programming .Net daily take for granted the etiquette of using Exceptions. So I thought I would share some of my thoughts… well it is a sort …

Method Chaining

spgennard — Thu, 27 May 2010 23:50:09 +0000

Creating objects with a complex constructor can be a bit of a pain in any language. One technique I have used is method chaining. It is not applicable to every type of class but it can be useful. Method chain …

Reflection and COBOL

spgennard — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:56:01 +0000

For the last couple of months I have working on Visual Studio 2010 and this include Microsoft CLR v4 and I was recently asked how to write a test that determines at runtime which CLR is being used and what …

Base Class Library, Arrays, Queues and Stacks

spgennard — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:41:27 +0000

Continuing the series of blogs about COBOL and the .Net base class library… The .Net base class library has a wealth classes and an huge of amount of methods/properties. The .Net base class library has a key handy namespace that …

Detecting the use Mono CLR dynamically

spgennard — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:25:16 +0000

While developing something that could be used on Mono on Windows, Mono on Unix and on Windows with Microsoft’s CLR, I needed to be sensitive to the environment but didn’t want to conditionally compile my code different. So I put …

Too Iterate or not…

spgennard — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:51:06 +0000

Over the next couple of weeks, I will explore some of the reasons why I think managed environments are good for COBOL. So.. lets the show on the road… Setting up arrays/occurs items in COBOL and manipulating them can be …