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Developer blog of Brian Lambert
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For the last 4 months, Matt Augustine and myself, along with Raman Narayanan, Richard Speyer, and...
Author: x11mnt Date: 04/23/2010
HRESULT=D0000033 When calling CloudDrive.Mount
I’ve been working with Azure’s new CloudDrive capability, and today I ran into a problem with...
Author: x11mnt Date: 03/11/2010
Moving to Redmond!
Well, it’s official -- I am moving to Redmond to work for Microsoft. I’m very excited about...
Author: x11mnt Date: 03/09/2010
Entity Group Transactions and Development Storage
Have you gotten the error: InvalidInput One of the request inputs is not valid when performing an...
Author: x11mnt Date: 01/06/2010
Extending the int type to have a For method
It’s been months since I had anything interesting to blog about. Mostly because I was working...
Author: x11mnt Date: 01/06/2010
Are you a Maker or a Manager?
Paul Graham writes very useful stuff. I respect his mind. Read his Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s...
Author: x11mnt Date: 07/30/2009
Stopwatch on Interlocked.Increment(ref x) vs. lock (y) { x++; }
Given 10 million iterations: object y = new object(); const int iterations = 10000000; Which is...
Author: x11mnt Date: 07/24/2009
A simple and totally thread-safe implementation of IDisposable
A simple and totally thread-safe implementation of IDisposable, with improved semantics over the...
Author: x11mnt Date: 07/24/2009
An invariant version of the same…
An invariant version of the same… /// <summary> /// Extends StringBuilder so that it has an...
Author: x11mnt Date: 07/21/2009
A missing method from StringBuilder…
StringBuilder is so useful. Does it all. But it’s missing a method. Here it is:...
Author: x11mnt Date: 07/20/2009
Useful extension method for the object type…
Here’s a useful extension method for the object type: /// <summary> /// Extends object to have...
Author: x11mnt Date: 07/20/2009
I’ve been BUSY!
I’ve been BUSY! I travelled to New York to take some training (Jeffrey Richter, C# Threading), to...
Author: x11mnt Date: 06/12/2009
blambert/azure - Windows Azure ASP.MVC Web Roles - Thinking Outside The Box
Azure Ninja Part 2! (空色の忍者) In my last posting I showed you how to run an Azure Worker Role outside...
Author: x11mnt Date: 03/10/2009
blambert/azure – Windows Azure Worker Roles – Thinking Outside The Box
In this posting I am going to show you how to run an Azure Worker Role outside the Development...
Author: x11mnt Date: 03/07/2009
blambert/learnings – Don’t Base64 encode PartitionKey and RowKey values in Azure Table Storage.
Azure Table Storage is a “typeless” entity storage system. If you’re an RDBMS person, and learned...
Author: x11mnt Date: 02/27/2009
blambert/codesnip – Better copy public properties between two objects implementing the same interface, CACHED.
You have some interface, IFoo. It is implemented by two concrete classes: Foo : IFoo (what you...
Author: x11mnt Date: 02/27/2009
blambert/bugreport - ADO.NET Data Services Client URL encoding bug.
Today I was working with the ADO.NET Data Services Client, performing queries against Azure Table...
Author: x11mnt Date: 02/26/2009
blambert/codesnip – Copy public properties between two objects implementing the same interface.
You have some interface, IFoo. It is implemented by two concrete classes: Foo : IFoo (what you...
Author: x11mnt Date: 02/26/2009
blambert/codesnip – Faster byte array to hex string conversion.
Got a tight loop where you convert an array of bytes into a hex string? Here’s an updated...
Author: x11mnt Date: 02/23/2009
blambert/codesnip – string extension method for validating that a string parameter is not null or empty.
I love extension methods. Here’s a simple little string extension method: /// <summary>...
Author: x11mnt Date: 02/22/2009
blambert/codesnip – Fast byte array to hex string conversion.
Got a tight loop where you convert an array of bytes into a hex string? Here’s a...
Author: x11mnt Date: 02/22/2009
I’m a PC…
I’m a PC!!!
Author: x11mnt Date: 02/18/2009
langster…
So I bike everywhere. Most places, in fact. My current weapon of choice is my Specialized Langster....
Author: x11mnt Date: 02/18/2009
More Azure ASP.NET MVC…
In my previous two posts I showed how to setup your system for Azure and ASP.NET MVC Development and...
Author: x11mnt Date: 02/17/2009
Creating an Azure ASP.NET MVC Project
You've installed all the software you need to build an ASP.NET MVC application and run it on Azure....
Author: x11mnt Date: 02/13/2009
How to enable IIS7/ASP.NET and WCF HTTP Activation
Windows Vista From the Start menu, choose Settings | Control Panel | Programs | Programs and...
Author: x11mnt Date: 02/13/2009
First Azure project using ASP.NET MVC -UPDATED for RC2
I've started working on an Azure cloud application using ASP.NET MVC, and I'm going to blog about it...
Author: x11mnt Date: 02/13/2009
Stitching the web development pieces together...
Since creating this blog, I have been working on all sorts of things, but none if it was bloggable...
Author: x11mnt Date: 10/13/2008
First post!
Hi. Just created this blog, and this is my first post. Here's me at a local watering hole: Brian
Author: x11mnt Date: 08/16/2008