Peters pattern

Generate generic factories with Autofac

Peter — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:07:07 +0000

With Autofac, factory delegates can be generated based on delegate signatures. This article shows how this is done and also shows a solution to using generic delegates with Autofac

Plugin mashup in FogBugz 7

Peter — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:11:33 +0000

With the advent of FogBugz 7 and the new plugin system, new possibilities arise for us FogBugz users. Here is a tip on how to extend cases in this brilliant system with a custom field and add some functionality to it. Similar to the Related Cases feature, my scenario was that I wanted to connect cases

Windows 7 and booting a virtual hard drive

Peter — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:52:36 +0000

Having isolated environments for doing development, testing or just trying out new stuff, is extremely valuable. I for one have several environments, one for each client I work for, and a couple for working with internal projects. In the early stone age we had to make do with multiple computers to achieve such isolated environments. Then

Using screen scraping to expose legacy web pages in RSS

Peter — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:01:17 +0000

As part of my (almost) daily drive to and from one of my clients I pass through the sub-sea Oslofjord tunnel (Oslofjordtunnelen). Now what has driving got to do with screen scraping and RSS, you say? Hang on, I’m getting there. Below is a map extract that shows part of my route. The topmost pin is where

Going to Microsoft PDC 2009!

Peter — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:19:34 +0000

Only one year after the most successful PDC 08, I find myself (and my company) going to Los Angeles once more. PDC 09 looks promising with sessions covering the .Net Framework 4, Visual Studio and Team System 2010, Windows Azure, DirectX 11, Silverlight 3, and much more.

Moving Peter’s Pattern

Peter — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:52:48 +0000

The time have come for the trusty Eternia server to let go of my blog. I’m giving it this new home (presumably faster and more stable), with, as you probably think too, a more befitting name. Now, for those of us that didn’t realize the value of services like FeedBurner when setting up a

Team Build and drop location share permissions

Peter — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:02:00 +0000

I’ve recently banged my head against a simple, yet annoying problem with Team Build and the way build result files are published to the so-called drop location. In my case, this location is a share on our file server. Knowingly, the build service executes under a TFSBUILD account which I have given Co-Owner permission level

ASP.Net Profile performance or lack thereof

Peter — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:39:00 +0000

In a customer solution I’ve been working on we use ASP.Net Membership and Profile to store information about users. We use profile data extensively in various reports and listings throughout the solution. Putting the solution under some regular user activity though, showed some really poor performance when producing reports. Some of these are large reports mind

Sql Server, WMI and PowerShell

Peter — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:59:00 +0000

So I started out on a quest: a quest for the overview of installed SQL Server instances on my machine. With previous versions we had to crawl the tangled forest of the Registry to get this information. Knowing that with SQL Server 2005 there is now a WMI namespace that can be queried, and with

Heroes happened here

Peter — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:46:00 +0000

Congratulations to MSDN Guru of the Year, Anders and Geek of the Year, Sondre!