The answer is 42 dear Watson.

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2/7/2020

A collection of posts made in the hope that they will be useful for a tired wayward traveler in search of a solution. Of course, the ultimate answer is 42.

The Parent-Container-Child Pattern

This is an interesting problem that I come across often. There are three types involved in this...

Author: VijaiKalyan Date: 02/09/2010

Generating All Partitions of A Set – C# Implementation

The following is the C# implementation of the Fortran algorithm posted in the previous post for...

Author: VijaiKalyan Date: 12/18/2009

Generating All Partitions Of A Set - Fortran 95 Implementation

Note that the following implementation is a faithful reproduction of the NEXEQU algorithm in the...

Author: VijaiKalyan Date: 12/15/2009

Generating All Permutations - C# Enumerator Implementation

The following code shows the implementation of the all permutations generation algorithm that was...

Author: VijaiKalyan Date: 12/14/2009

Generating All Permutations - Fortran 95 Implementation

Note that the following implementation is a faithful reproduction of the NEXPER algorithm in the...

Author: VijaiKalyan Date: 12/13/2009

How do I retrieve a list of all web services on a machine?

If I have a machine say FOO and I want to retrieve all web services on that machine how do I do it?...

Author: VijaiKalyan Date: 10/27/2009

Redirecting Standard Error & Output For A Child Process

If your application or library wants to kick off a child process C and you want to redirect standard...

Author: VijaiKalyan Date: 10/05/2009

Debuggee Process Terminated Abruptly

I have been getting this error lately when trying to debug a test. I would be stepping over line by...

Author: VijaiKalyan Date: 10/02/2009

IGNORE_DUP_KEY, LINQ & Deadlocks

I am working on a project. The idea is to persist stack trace information for each test failure in a...

Author: VijaiKalyan Date: 11/11/2008

Implementing a Custom Test Type - Part 3 (Dissecting the MyTest Sample - 1)

This post deals with the MyTest sample. I will start at the beginning of time. Pre Requisites I...

Author: VijaiKalyan Date: 09/19/2008

Implementing a Custom Test Type - Part 2

I have been investigating this topic for the past couple of days. Not much progress, but some...

Author: VijaiKalyan Date: 09/16/2008

How To Get Native Processor Architecture

As anyone who has been looking at my blog knows, I have been mostly working on VS integration of the...

Author: VijaiKalyan Date: 08/20/2008

Implementing a Custom Test Type - Part 1

Introduction This and the next few blog posts will be focussed on implementing a custom test type...

Author: VijaiKalyan Date: 08/01/2008

Ideas For The Next Generation Of Programming Languages

This blog post deals with a vareity of things I feel would be nice to have features in the next...

Author: VijaiKalyan Date: 05/28/2008

Duh! InitializeShapeFields is only invoked once!

Beware!!! The method InitializeShapeFields appears in each shape class that is generated by the DSL...

Author: VijaiKalyan Date: 05/28/2008

Auto Layout Diagram

In the DSL project I am working on, I am performing layout for the model diagram myself. This...

Author: VijaiKalyan Date: 05/26/2008

64 Bits and DSL Tools

The DSL projects created by the DSL package wizard are configured to target AnyCPU.However, if you...

Author: VijaiKalyan Date: 05/21/2008

DTE Events Are Different

As I learned today, DTE events are different. Event handlers that are local are marked for garbage...

Author: VijaiKalyan Date: 04/30/2008

I was trying to implement an AddIn that modified the context menu for project items. Specifically,...