Hi Community, Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2015 were successfully launched a few days ago, and with them a bunch of new features were introduced, being Universal Windows Apps one of the most exciting and expected features; so what I’ve done is to compile a table that contains links to useful resources and even offers […]
Instrumenting SharePoint code via Performance Counters
Instrumentation is an important and integral part of every system because it allows (among some other things) to monitor the health of the system and/or components of it. On a recent engagement, I had to architect a SharePoint solution that integrates with a core LOB system. The SharePoint solution comprises a few workflows that in […]
Dynamically add event handlers to controls in a custom .NET control with C#
A few years back I came up with something called “FRF” (Forms Rendering Framework) which allowed me to render any UI (whether they are Web or Windows based) based on a template definition (Yes, this was long before Microsoft released XAML). Anyways, on one of my personal projects I had a requirement to dynamically create […]
Pass information to .NET control from Native Code with Visual C++
As a follow up to this post on interoperability between .NET and native code, this post describes how we can host a .NET user control from an ActiveX control, but more importantly set properties that drive or change the behaviour of the .NET user control. First of all, we need to define an interface with […]
Unit testing our Visual C++ code with Microsoft Unit Testing Framework
One of the things I love about unit testing (besides all of the well-known benefits) is the ability to test code without writing a tester or test harness application, but I can pretty much leverage what Microsoft have already built for us. Image below depicts an unit test I’ve written for this JNI .NET bridge or […]
Some tools that every Visual C++ / .NET developer should have in their toolbox
Hi Community, This post is about some of the tools I use when building stuff or diagnosing misbehaving applications, so I thought it’d come handy to have them, or learn about them [in case you don’t know them] Process Explorer Process Monitor Visual SOS Extension – It’s also documented here DebugView Autoruns WinDBG PerfView DebugDiag […]
.NET Crash Dump and live process analysis via clrmd
Application debugging and analysis can be a daunting task, even more when source code neither symbols are not available. Visual Studio provides developers with powerful debugging capabilities, but the problem many times faced by developers is that Visual Studio is not installed on the target computer which is fair enough if it is a production […]
NDepend 5.3
I have always considered software development as an art and a science at the same time, in which developers translate business requirements into computer instructions, therefore creativity, innovation and technology are amalgamated into one, but the road from an idea’s inception to design then development is long and amazingly not perfect, hence we developers sometimes […]
Presentation material “Developing Microsoft Azure Apps”
Hi community, Please find below the presentation material from Today’s session. Regards, Angel [office src=”https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid=2FE1291768841ACE&resid=2FE1291768841ACE%215468&authkey=AGy7DK9bJRUrSpA” width=”98″ height=”120″”]
Read XML config files with Visual C++
Hi Community, I am currently working on an add-in for Visual Studio to expose some functionality available in the “Debugger Engine and Extension APIs”. The development is in the very early stages, but I have completed already one feature required by the Add-in, which is the ability to read XML configuration files similarly to how […]