When building Web APIs it's often required to provide client adapters between various programming stacks and raw HTTP REST APIs. These 'clients' can be built manually but it's often a rather tedious task and it adds to your development efforts as you need to keep the clients in sync with... »
Every so often when I need to run some code that communicates with remote components over HTTPS in my development environment with a test or self-signed cert I run into an error saying that the certificate validation failed. I remember there is a way to override the check in .NET by subsribing to an event but it always takes me »
I lost some time today… No, I’ve lost shit load of time today figuring out why my fresh installation of TeamCity doesn’t respect the time zone setting on my server. The server is configured for my local time zone (Minsk) as any other machine in our network but TeamCity kept insisting that the server time zone was America/Caracas (eek!). Well »
Why? Visual Studio has been providing an API that allowed 3rd party source control tools to build their SCC providers in order to integrate with it and give users a possibility to work with those tools right from IDE. It turns out to be pretty convenient especially when you and your peers use the same source control system. You can »
I have just completely reinstalled my laptop and was going to work on a project when suddenly I found out it woudn't build. For every assembly I was getting the following error: »
I wanted to create a WPF resource dictionary and put it in a separate assembly for a certain purpose. I started up by creating a regular class library and was about to add a new item to it when I was puzzled – I couldn’t find a proper template anywhere in the UI the Visual Studio provided to me. »
One day I got really annoyed by my laptop performing sluggishly. It was strange and annoying and wasn’t fun and I had no idea what was causing it. I have a lot of stuff installed for my development needs but no shitware and other pop-up-tray-assistance-wizards. And I have SQL Server Express that I use as a repository for Vault and »
If you’re a web developer you’re probably familiar with <code>System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer</code> that's heavily used by ASP.NET AJAX framework and of course you can use it to convert managed objects to JSON so it can be consumed by JavaScript. »
So you see this message about a first chance exception in your debugger’s output window, your brows rise, you glance through the code back and forth and can’t see a thing. What’s more, your application runs just fine and the exception doesn’t manifest itself in any way rather than this annoying debugging output. You shrug and… Stop! You got a »
I was in the middle of refactoring of the core component of my Power Video Player when I hit this error during a test run. It said the following: »