Category Archives: Programming

Code Contracts

By Jonathan Dickinson | Published: January 25, 2010
I recently started using CodeContracts and have a few tips.
Also posted in Best Practices, C#, Short, XMPP Server 2010 | Leave a comment

Code Block Toggler

By Jonathan Dickinson | Published: December 29, 2009
Handy snippet to switch between two code blocks.
Also posted in Top Hacks, Tricks | Leave a comment

Automatically Wrap BeginInvoke (dispatch)

By Jonathan Dickinson | Published: December 14, 2009
Easily handle multi-threaded events in .Net WinForms.
Also posted in C#, Tricks | Leave a comment

SSRS Timeout on SSL 443 – Resolved

By Jonathan Dickinson | Published: October 6, 2009
If you are getting either a 'The underlying connection was closed' or 'The operation has timed-out' error when deploying reports manually (add reference to web service) to SSRS via SSL on port 443 this fix may work for you.
Also posted in C#, SSRS | 2 Comments

Direct to MSDN Chrome Search Tag

By Jonathan Dickinson | Published: August 3, 2009
lo-band and high-band views easy in chrome.
Also posted in Chrome, Short, Tricks | 2 Comments

XLinQ Serialization

By Jonathan Dickinson | Published: August 3, 2009
XmlSerializer suprisingly supports List.
Also posted in C#, Short | 1 Comment

TFS Server 2008 – Fail

By Jonathan Dickinson | Published: July 22, 2009
Installing TFS Server 2008 is far more difficult than it should be. What a waste.
Also posted in Fail, K2, Software, TFS Server | Leave a comment

Websites for IDIOTS

By Jonathan Dickinson | Published: July 17, 2009
A website builder that anyone can use.
Also posted in Software | Leave a comment

Remove System Menu Icon in WPF

By Jonathan Dickinson | Published: July 16, 2009
Howto remove the caption bar in WPF.
Also posted in C#, Code 7 Contest, Top Hacks | 1 Comment

The hunt for the error in the Workflow.Targets

By Jonathan Dickinson | Published: June 3, 2009
How to get more helpful messages with K2 builds.
Also posted in K2, Top Hacks | Leave a comment