Testing an SDK for Async/Await SynchronizationContext Deadlocks
The purpose of this post is to explain how to write unit and/or integration tests that ensure you don’t have synchronization context deadlocks in an SDK. A v...
.NET Framework
Create A Self-Signed SSL Certificate In .NET
A problem that I have commonly run into is trying to secure communications using SSL or other encryption for a intranet application. In this scenario, it is ...
Monitoring a WCF Service Host
One problem I’ve been running into is my ServiceHosts failing out in my long running background services. I’ve written the following class to help monitor th...
Using Enumerations For Columns With LINQ
One of the great features of LINQ that DataSets didn’t support well is the ability to use enumerations for your columns instead of integers. It can make writ...
Event Handlers That Do Thread-Safe Invokes
I recently ran into a scenario where I wanted to write a class to do a low-level serial interface to a barcode scanner. When the barcode is scanned I wanted ...
Forcing 32-bit Execution in .NET
Sometimes when developing .NET applications it becomes necessary to force an application to run in 32-bit mode, even on a 64-bit processor. One scenario that...
Odd WSHttpBinding Scenario
I was having lots of trouble recently with a WCF WSHttpBinding scenario on a server. It had been working, and the only thing I had changed recently was to th...
Using Transactions With DataSets
One of the major shortcomings of the ADO.NET dataset system, in my opinion, is the lack of support for transactions. In .NET 2.0 this situation was somewhat ...